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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA damaged and dangerous president is feeling his power
by digby......think about what he said there: "I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department."
If the Republican party allows him to do it, he can do it. That's absolutely correct. The power lies with them. Everything depends upon their integrity, their willingness to defend the constitution and rein in a rogue president who becomes an authoritarian.
Do you feel confident about that?
He is an authoritarian thug. He believes he has total power. And as I pointed out above, he does --- as long as his unctuous sycophants in the GOP support him. Together, they actually do have total power. He can fire the entire top layer of the Justice Department until he finds a toady to do his bidding.
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His off-the-cuff comments indicate that he is completely capable of doing such a thing because he's a deranged, delusional egomaniac who is completely unschooled in the constitution and has no respect for its underlying principles anyway.
This next year is going to be a big test. He has not found humility in the office. He is more grandiose than ever and he's feeling his oats. If the Democrats can hold him back for a year, we might be able to stop him with a congressional check on his power in 2019. But that hope is all we have. The Republicans have shown they are not going to stop him.
Fasten your seat belts. 2018 is going to be a very tumultuous year, a make or break year. I'll be here documenting what's going on and I'll try to keep my head, but it won't be easy. This isn't normal, people. It's the biggest test of our system since 1860.
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-damaged-and-dangerous-president-is.html
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)On-line petitions don't do squat except make you feel good about yourself and give the petitioner your email address so they can ask you for money for whatever their cause is. Petitions are worthless; we need to get off our butts and do GOTV.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)What do you have to lose by signing the petition to impeach the fool?
MineralMan
(146,336 posts)So, I'm very careful to check whether a petition has any likelihood of accomplishing anything before signing it.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)MineralMan
(146,336 posts)I get plenty of them already. Bottom line is that no petition will have any effect on any impeachment of a President. We don't impeach via petitions. So, that petition is a waste of time, money and energy. Instead, electing more Democrats to Congress is how an impeachment might happen. That's where my resources go, not to some petition drive.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)MineralMan
(146,336 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)MineralMan
(146,336 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)except for the "privilege" of getting more email asking for donations for something. On-line petitions are useless. You can sign it if it makes you feel like you're doing something, but if you actually believe a petition to impeach Trump will have any impact on the possibility of that happening, you're kidding yourself.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)NEVER
quartz007
(1,216 posts)bdamomma
(63,930 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)bdamomma
(63,930 posts)especially now since they are kissing his a$$ for the tax heist. He has to be blackmailing them. Don't you think??
Didn't he say they love me and I love them?????
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)courtesy of Putin's hackers
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)force here, I wish the Russian people would get his a$$ out.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)A disrupted USA makes greed easier for Putin.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)The translation into Russian probably makes it even more hilarious.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)... to do their bidding by appealing to his vanity and convincing him they were his brilliant ideas in the first place. And, as far as they're concerned, having a dictator who does their bidding is preferable to a democracy.
quartz007
(1,216 posts)Hopefully in November 2018.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)period if Dems win back House and Senate.
Skittles
(153,212 posts)born the right color, the right gender, and wildly rich.......he cannot fathom the idea that his con could be discovered. Fuck him.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I only hope it reaches him soon.
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)junk food maybe he will have a heart issue. Did you hear he was going to have a checkup??? and not by the quack in NY. He probably bully the Dr to say he is in Great shape.