*TRUMP IS WEIGHING RESIGNATION*

[wordpix]

Hopefully it's true

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/03/31/republican-insiders-just-revealed-trump-weighing-resignation/?utm_content=buffer546f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Occupy Democrats

Republican Insiders Just Revealed Trump Is Weighing Resignation
Now that Flynn is ratting him out, Trump is running scared.

[milestogo]

1. I always knew he and Palin were soulmates.

[BainsBane]

2. This game of telephone is getting more distorted by the minute.

People need to quit posting crap from those unreliable sites.

[elleng]

3. Thanks for this good news on Friday,

day before April Fools' day!

I'm sure he hates the job, and flynn's as good an excuse as any!

[mikeysnot]

35. it would be apropos if he did resign

on April Fools day.

[Warpy]

4. It's a rumor, take it with a pound of salt

I think he's going to start to shed other people around him first, hoping throwing them to the sharks will keep his own ass safe.

I do know he's disappointed in the job. Too many people get to tell him "no." He doesn't like being told no.

[calimary]

36. I saw that, too. And it could be just a rumor.

HOWEVER... it's good that stuff like this is starting to circulate on the internet. People are gonna see it, talk about it, refer to it, and spread it. That's good stuff. Remember that lesson that LBJ is said to have taught political people everywhere. When he was just starting his political career in Texas, in an early campaign he said his opponent slept with pigs. And he knew it wasn't true. He was asked about it. Being true or false wasn't the point. The point was "make him deny it."

It can be an advantage to have that meme starting to circulate. The press will inevitably pick up on it, and ask about it. Which means it'll wind up among the punditry, kicking it around every chance they get. And the more exposure it gets with the public, the more it becomes "a thing." That may start growing legs. It plants the idea in more people's heads and helps make it more of a credible concept. People who wouldn't have thought of that suddenly consider it. It enters the realm of possibility that way, and MAN does it put the target on the defensive! You don't want that kind of talk starting to grow legs around you. THAT'S not what you want people talking about. AT ALL. Particularly if your "presidency" is all surface image with nothing of substance or value behind it.

[Warpy]

42. Oh, I lived through Watergate, part of the time in DC

so I know the power of a good rumor mill. What has astonished me in recent years is how much of the stuff we speculated about was confirmed when Nixon's WH tapes were finally declassified. He was exactly as bad as we all thought he was.

[calimary]

75. Yeah, me too.

I remember when the rumor mill was going nuts. You had to know it was really screwing with White House staff morale. Screwed with GOP collective morale, too.

Destabilize the enemy. Then they start screwing up. They lose track of stuff - like keeping their facts straight. Hard to do that when you're covering for the truth and lyong about it and embroidering lots of complex "explanations" that make no sense. That perks up the ears of the press. And what they report just adds to the pressure and stress.

When you're stressed, you get tired more easily. And then you toss 'n' turn in bed at night and don't get any sleep. Which, in turn, adds to your fatigue, promotes fights and arguments at work because EVERYBODY'S on edge, worried about their jobs and in some cases worried about legal problems and having to lawyer up. And THAT will certainly lead to more stress. I don't know how many of the "extended family" would easily becable to afford to lawyer up.

Conditions like those can beget all kinds of ancillary misery (divorce, sell the house, hit the bottle, file for bankruptcy, and more, not to mention the need to look for other employment).

[Alice11111]

76. Would that it were true, but I fear he is like the cockroach,

and he thrives on toxins, feces, filth and such that kill off other species.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. In the end, how soon he resigns will depend on...

... how soon he can 1) dream up some "reason" to blame it on somebody else, and 2) convince himself that his resignation would be a "victory" for him in some twisted fashion which only he would understand.

[Initech]

16. I can see it now.

The blame is already being placed on Bernie Bros for buying into fake news. Then the assholes will blame the Democratic Party for giving us Hillary and saying that Trump wouldn't be president of the democrats had got somebody else to run. They're nothing if not predictable.

[Initech]

6. The sooner this nightmare is over the better!

Although if Trump is going down, he must take Bannon, Pence, McConnell, Ryan and Gorsuch with him!

[notdarkyet]

33. And sessions.

[Plucketeer]

41. YES!

Especially since THEY are the ones "running things" and he's just their hand puppet with a pen.

[sarah FAILIN]

7. I'm going to save the celebration

I want to see him gone before I believe it.

[Ligyron]

57. Well, maybe it will give him an idea...

But that site is a bit over the top.

[Alice11111]

80. I wish his WEIGHT would be added to that side of the scale

[gratuitous]

8. I'm content to wait and see

The obvious question is where is President Trump spending the weekend? Is the heat sufficiently on that he needs to stay close to the White House, or is he flouncing off to Mar-A-Lago for another "intense" weekend of "work"?

Curious thing I noticed: The MSN home page has nothing in their rotating headlines directly about President Trump. There's one small story about the White House finally complying with ethics rules (they're supposed to do it within 30 days) and promising to release financial information about high-ranking officials (which doesn't include the President and Vice President).

[Scarsdale]

59. Pension

Would he get a lifetime pension if he resigns? After all the $$$ he has cost taxpayers, he should just slink off empty handed.

[onenote]

9. Smells like BS

[SCantiGOP]

46. Agree, major BS

[womanofthehills]

78. I don't think so - he has to be thinking about this because he doesn't know what's coming out next

[Angry Dragon]

10. I call wishful thinking and bullshit

[spanone]

11. i ain't buying it.

[LenaBaby61]

54. "I ain't buying it."

Neither am I.

He's far too narcissistic and his ego is far too big for him to ever admit that he's done anybody wrong, so a resignation is not in the cards. GOD, I'd love to be proven wrong, but I won't be. Of course in his tiny brain-damaged mind, everybody's done HIM wrong and damaged HIM though. Disgraced former NSA thug Flynn may eventually flip on him, but tRumputin's not going to be arrested, hauled out or perp-walked into jail in a giant orange jump suit. Yet, he HATES the way things are going with the slow-rolling, administration implosion happening right before his beady eyes. Also, he owes putin too much, and he knows that if he makes putin too angry, putin will do a number on HIM IE: make sure his taxes and other damaging things get out there.

Also, he's in debt to putin whose been working with and coaching him for a while. putin wants to drill over in the Arctic caps, for him to help break up the EU, get rid of NATO and destabilize and turn THIS country into a Banana Republic where we're all fighting over HERE, and where this country goes into massive debt. tRumputin's in debt up to his beady eyeballs to the russian oligarchs, and he dare not stiff THEM. What role will our intelligence agencies play in this, and more importantly, what will their criminal investigation yield as it relates to tRumputin/russia collusion into our past elections. Who'll be punished and how? tRumputin is an illegitimate president, but what's the remedy to that? pence? I have the feeling that he's more involved in this whole ressia-gate thing then we're talking about.

And finally, since he's not a real billionaire he's taking every opportunity as installed president of the currently richest country in the world, to get his billionaire deplorables, organized crime buddies, putin, himself and his thieving, money-grubbing, grifting on steroids family in a position to "Grab That Dough." tRumputin wants to become the kind of rich authoritarian his buddy putin is over there with his Kleptocracy. tRumputin, like his buddy putin doesn't give a DAMN about their country nor about it's peoples. BOTH of them want to steal, lie and grift. tRumputin though wants to have the presidency on his resume and to make everybody's life--except HIS own worthless life, miserable. Oh, and to help the ruskies "Be GREAT," help them spread mass information, lies, fake news, distortions via ruskie bots, blogs, Sputnik, RT television etc. Where will ass these investigations go? Where anything leads to and ends in the short term with tRumputin and this whole russia-gate situation, who knows. We're in an extremely DARK & murky time right now where every road leads to russia.

[spanone]

61. 👍🏼

[Coventina]

12. Even if true, brings little comfort. Pence is sane, and in many ways, more dangerous.

He is the epitome of the Christian Taliban.

If he becomes president, it will be out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Especially if you are LGBT, or any religion other than Christian.

[Different Drummer]

67. This. n/t

[gordianot]

13. He should consider resignation.

It would save him a lot of grief and I would have to pay up with a party when Trump leaves.

[RedWedge]

14. Occupy Democrats, always reporting third-hand info as if it's God's truth.

[sunonmars]

15. if anything, he'll go under "serious health issue" rather than look like a quitter.

[RKP5637]

23. If he does resign, I agree, it will be some excuse like a "serious health issue." n/t

[Marie Marie]

40. He wants to spend more time with his family.

To which Melania mumbled, "Oh Crap!"

[RKP5637]

70. Yeah, I think she realizes she made a mistake! n/t

[tinrobot]

44. Wait... wasn't he the healthiest man ever to run for President?

This guy said so!

[Foamfollower]

17. Is there a legitimate source for this?

Occupy Democrats has never been right in my experience.

[BainsBane]

24. The original sources is a tweet

a tweet in which someone said he heard that Trump was considering resignation. It's a rumor, not news.

[womanofthehills]

64. Actually - a few tweets

Jester tweeted:




Jester has been right on. Last night he tweeted that a casino in Saigon was being raided by the FBI for possible money laundering - and then - 45 minutes later it's in the news.

Louise Mensch backs Jester up.

[Oneironaut]

74. Jester Actual is bull crap, and a fake news spreader.

He's been right before, but he's also been wrong. Remember that sometimes rumors turn out to be true, and sometimes they're made up. Jester Actual has spread true and fake stories. He's not a valid source of news (nor is Twitter).

[womanofthehills]

79. Jester is "food for thought" - I like him - I believe he was in intelligence

Jester and Louise Mensch seem to have very good intelligence connections and great hacking skills.

[Oneironaut]

86. I like Jester Actual too, and as much as I want this to be true, I'm highly skeptical.

Sorry for a pointless tautology, but Jester may or may not be telling the truth. His "intelligence sources" could be pure fiction. I like the "food for thought" description - he's an unknown, but possibly a good source of stories if you're willing to take them with a grain of salt until they're verified.

[womanofthehills]

83. Actually - you are very wrong about Jester

Meet the vigilante who hacks jihadists

Anonymous isn't doing anything new by hacking Islamic extremist websites. A mysterious figure known as "The Jester" has been at it for five years.

Jester has single-handedly taken down dozens of websites that, he deems, support jihadist propaganda and recruitment efforts. He stopped counting at 179.

To some, he's an Internet superhero. Think Batman, with all the vengeance-laden moral qualms of vigilantism included.

"I realized something needed to be done about online radicalization and 'grooming' of wannabe jihadis, and we didn't have mechanisms to deal with it," Jester said in an interview with CNNMoney. "I decided to start disrupting them."

Little is actually known about Jester, other than his public persona on Twitter as @th3j35t3r: He is unapologetic, unabashedly pro-America and full of military jargon.

Jester first appeared on Twitter on Dec. 19, 2009. Since then, he's used his computer hacking skills to shut down, deface or expose anything he considers threatening to the United States -- especially if it endangers soldiers. If a legitimate company is hosting the site, it usually gets a brief warning before he attacks.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/16/technology/security/jester-hacker-vigilante/

[Oneironaut]

85. I have no doubt Jester has good technological skills. However,

his track record as a source is bad. This is one such example. I'm glad that Jester Actual is taking out the bad guys, but I wouldn't trust any news he posts without heavily verifying with other sources.

[caroldansen]

18. I heard that too. Its happening.

[Lucky Luciano]

50. Definitely. nt

[gibraltar72]

19. You won't

have Trump to lick around anymore!

[FDRsGhost]

22. "Lick around"? Oh my....

[FDRsGhost]

20. Yay then we can have the guy who wants to electrocute gays. Fun! /sarcasm

[hvn_nbr_2]

21. He can't resign.

Putin and the Russian mobsters won't let him, and they have him by the balls.

He'd probably like to resign, just go back to playing golf and groping women, but the Russians would leave him bankrupt. I took the attack on the Freedumb Cacas to be a plea for help: "Please, Republicans, get so disgusted with me that you impeach me and get me outta here!" His only way out is if it looks beyond his control.

[RKP5637]

27. He never did want the job. Probably figured he would sit on the sidelines and bark at Hillary like

the consistent asshole he is.

[hvn_nbr_2]

29. Yep. In retrospect, that would explain why during the campaign...

...he did so many things that seemed like trying to lose. For him the whole campaign was an approach-avoidance conflict: ego fluff vs. balls in Putin's vise. Decisions, decisions!!?! Ego fluff, balls in vise, ego fluff, balls in vise?

[RKP5637]

30. I could see the shock in his eyes the night he won when he was sitting next to Obama, like he

was thinking WTF just happened. IMO he wanted the fanfare, but never the job.

[NightWatcher]

25. He's filed bankruptcy 4-6 times, so he's not above quitting when it's advantageous

[Vinca]

26. Don't toy with us.

[Honeycombe8]

65. LOL. "Don't toy with me, you saucy wench!" nt

[C_U_L8R]

28. What took so long?

[samnsara]

31. then we can start working on getting pence out!

[Dustlawyer]

32. If Trump resigns we need to march in the streets against Pence and Ryan!

We need a do over!!!!

[beachbum bob]

34. sounds like fake news to make democrats look like idiots in repeating it

[Perseus]

37. Trump is not enough

the whole team has to go...Pence is as evil, just very quiet, doesn't make so much noise but dog that doesn't bark usually has a bigger bite.

[notdarkyet]

38. I keep thinking that if the election is found to be seriously tampered with by Russians

And there was collusion from the trump campaign, then the whole election, including Pence, is illegitimate and we need to start over. It should make every cabinet appointment and every signing statement null and void. Why should Americans be stuck with the swamp cruds. We want a clean house.

[onenote]

49. not going to happen

there are only three ways Trump leaves office before his term is over:

1. Resignation
2. Impeachment and conviction
3. 25th Amendment

Nothing else is authorized by the Constitution.

[mahina]

84. That's what my Mom keeps saying, and I see the sense in it too.

Just because this hasn't happened before doesn't mean we have to sit in a burning house.

[Chakaconcarne]

39. Can we not post this kind of BS

That would be awesome.

[bucolic_frolic]

43. He should force everyone he's appointed to resign beforehand

ROYAL FLUSH!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. Lots of wild rumors at times like these. Post this one 15 times a month and it will be true.

At some point 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, a year from now, 2 years, ... tRump will resign. I do not think he will serve a full term. He will either be impeached and resign or be about to be impeached and resign (like Nixon) or flat out resign even before the Republicons start to think seriously about impeaching him.

So a rumor like this will eventually come true.

Absent some solid credible indication, these kinds of rumors are a waste of energy and emotion. (Regardless that we will all celebrate when the time comes.)

[NCjack]

47. I suspect that it will take SWAT to remove #45 and Bannon

and take them to a lock-up.

[Equinox Moon]

48. Sorry. I don't believe it.

trump with never willingly leave that position.

[get the red out]

52. Saw that earlier

I saw that earlier on twitter and I don't buy it either, it is way too early in the investigation, and I doubt Trump would resign anyway. I wonder if this is some kind of disinformation?

[Eliot Rosewater]

51. Could be only rumor, one thing is certain, if he gets the slightest hint

he will for the first time in his life have to be brought to justice for a lifetime of crime, he will run like the little chickenshit we all know he is.

[sarisataka]

53. I'm still waiting

For him to drop out of the election... I've been assured he is running as a joke and does not want to be President

[Quixote1818]

55. I just want to see this guys face the moment he hears about this

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[HopeAgain]

56. I'll believe it when the NYT or WaPo reports it

I'm tired of questionable news...

[nycbos]

58. I don't buy it

[Lebam in LA]

60. I will wait on this one

I got sucked in on the "Flynn in FBI custody" story. Not this time, but wouldn't it be great if true

[lunasun]

62. OD Fake news . Don't celebrate yet

[warmfeet]

63. I won't celebrate yet.

I can dream though. It sure would be nice.

[Pathwalker]

66. Bullshit! Last week: "Flynn has rolled on Trump".

Now we know that was bullshit.
This week: Trump wants to resign.
FAKE NEWS!

[bagelsforbreakfast]

68. Having seen the New Yorker cover I'd bet Trump weighs more than this RESIGNATION guy... :)

[Honeycombe8]

69. I think if that were true, only his inner circle would know, and they don't talk.

He wouldn't have named Ivanka as a federal employee and advisor with security clearance. He's not the sort to resign.

[coeur_de_lion]

71. Oh please God let it be true

I'll go to church every Sunday, donate more to charity, stop swearing, and call my family every weekend.

I'll say my prayers every night before bed God, if you will just make this happen for me -- us.

[Catherine Vincent]

72. I think it's wishful thinking

[Oneironaut]

73. OccupyDemocrats is a fake news site. I hope the admins ban it.

They're the typical after-the-fact, "Oh, it was just our opinion!" site that pretends to be actual news. Please don't link to this garbage website.

[redstatebluegirl]

77. I think we all need to be careful what we wish for. Pence is terrifying.

What if he makes Ryan his VP the two golden boys of the right?

[Kimchijeon]

81. Early April Fools ...but a nice thought anyway lol

[oberliner]

82. Not a legit source

Not a legit story.