What should my 7,000th LGM post be about?

That’s this post right here, so I’m going to wait until 3:45 EDT to determine the post’s topic, as chosen by LGM’s erudite and discerning readers, and also the rest of you as well. Whichever nominated topic gets the most upvotes inspires my muse will produce a 100% human-generated text regarding it. So vote early and often.

. . . The votes have been counted, and the winner is:

Topic 1: Will you abandon the Bears if they abandon Chicago?

Topic 2: Lay the odds on Impeachment III and a conviction for Trump after the midterms.

Topic 1 is easy because I’ve never been a Bears fan so I can’t abandon them, though I do find the general topic of billionaire owners shaking down municipalities with threats of relocation interesting. Relocating to Hammond seems like relatively small potatoes though, as Hammond is just a few dozen miles from downtown Chicago along the Indiana turnpike, in an area of abandoned steel mills that could probably inspire three new Bruce Springsteen albums if he were to drive on through.

Topic 2: Hmmm, I haven’t given this much thought, which makes it an ideal topic for some definitive pronouncements. My off the cuff take is . . . damn, I just don’t know. On the one hand you would think the white hot rage in the Democratic base would absolutely require an impeachment, given that Trump has probably produced twenty or thirty independent grounds for such a thing in the past 17 months. On the other, Hakeem Jeffries . . . I guess if I HAD to wager on it, I do think Trump will be impeached, even if the Democrats have only a small majority in the House.

As for conviction in the Senate, that just seems inconceivable under current political circumstances. Such a thing would require, in a very much best case scenario, something like 15 Republican senators to vote for it, and I think there’s almost literally nothing that Trump could do that would produce such a result. I can more easily see him having the kind of smearing shit on the walls of the White House frank mental breakdown that could lead to a successful invocation of the 25th amendment — yes I realize that’s even harder procedurally — just because I can barely imagine Republicans voting to remove an unambiguously and dangerously insane Trump as opposed to a merely criminal and treasonous Trump. But I can’t really even imagine that. So, short of the celebration of Trumpentod, I think we’re stuck for another 31 months (good lord).

Thanks to everyone for participating, now and every day. I’m looking forward to the next 7,000 posts and I hope we passed the audition.