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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't get your hopes up trump will be gone anytime soon.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's going to take something catastrophic to happen to his base for trump to be gone. It will have to affect them personally.
trump, congress, and right-wing states have free rein now, and they are going to take advantage of that to the nth degree. Their response to investigations, charges of illegal activities, treason, sedition, fraud and lying is, "Blow me, motherfuckers... we're in power now, we're not going to investigate our own - you can't make us even though ethically we should, and our heavily-armed base of delusional, knuckle-dragging libtard haters have our backs and are willing to open fire at trumps orders. Again, blow me."
So, please - don't get all hopeful and breathless every time someone says trump is going down... as most of us have several times now.
His base must also want his removal for him to be gone... and I don't see that happening any time soon, if at all.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Give them a chance!
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)say that last night on the news (they are not too smart), "give him a chance" ??????????????? what to fucking destroy everything??????
Repigs have too much at stake, I am waiting till they jump ship or of course scapegoat someone.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)and they start trying to privatize Social Security and Medicare.
That'll do it.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Most are as insane and racist is he is.
George the lll had his supporters to, so did Adolph,
The constitution lays out a path to impeachment.
High crimes and misdemeanors, now at some point the adults are going to have
to make donnie put away his toys and go to bed.
They will be forced to.
No matter how many hairy, smelly hillbillies voted for him.
Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)Might be when republicans have completed their fuckery and are done w/trump.
But I still don't see republican leadership helping to throw trump out. It would be like saying to millions of their base, "You were all full of shit." I don't see that happening.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)pissing off Trumpys base. And not a moment sooner.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)aides have as well. He directed Mike Phlegm to call Russia and they talked sanctions. This is just what we know and there is much much much more that we don't....YET.
Afromania
(2,771 posts)people are willing to grasp at straws, but it keeps people awake and ready for action. I'm concerned that once Pence gets in there he'll keep all the bullshit on the DL and make like he's not a evil headed bastard. The Republicans will still do ALL of the garbage Trump is trying to do but they'll have their ducks in a row doing it. Trump isn't going to be much of a distraction because he keeps all eyes on himself and them as a byproduct of his idiocy.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)We are talking Trillions of Dollars being transferred Tax Codes and other Schemes to the top 1 %. We are talking about perpetual War, and a Police State enforced by the Police and National Guards.
These Deportations are just Dry Runs for what is to come my friends.
starshine00
(531 posts)congress matters, the GOP bosses matter. My feeling is they want Pence, and they do not consider Trump's base to be their base, and I know this because when Fox news, the mouthpiece of the GOP, is being critical of Trump, then something is amiss. Do people really believe that suddenly GOP shills have seen the error of their ways and become patriots...um no. They have their marching orders, as they have ALWAYS had.
The one thing the GOP doesn't tolerate, being the authoritarians they are, is disobedience. Pence will kiss their rings. Trump doesn't have the mental stability to even fake that kind of subservience. All republican presidents are puppets and Trump is a narcissist which means his ego is averse to falling in line to his big bosses. Putin is his only real boss, and that is not going to be good enough. I don't know if they will manage to keep the mess under wraps for the length of t he first term, but it sure is fun to watch them try. The fact that there is already some sign of the rats jumping ship via the shills decrying Trump on tv doesn't bode well for him remaining around for too long.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Nor do I have any hopes that rump will depart stage right any time soon. I seek the bigger prize. He is the train wreck every Republican encouraged. Eat poop or eat crow that is the question.
spanone
(135,874 posts)eom
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 18, 2017, 07:02 PM - Edit history (1)
I don't have any confidence in impeachment and I am an extremely optimistic and positive person normally. This is going to be agonizing and drawn out. I still have to believe that the resistance will overcome.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)Meanwhile, Caligula's antics will provide a smokescreen across what Congress is up to, dismantling every civil and consumer protection we've been able to get since 1900.