When Trump Resigned.

[kpete]

Trump resigned the presidency already — if we regard the job as one of moral stewardship, if we assume that an iota of civic concern must joust with self-regard, if we expect a president’s interest in legislation to rise above vacuous theatrics, if we consider a certain baseline of diplomatic etiquette to be part of the equation.

By those measures, it’s arguable that Trump’s presidency never really began. By those measures, it’s indisputable that his presidency ended in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon, when he chose — yes, chose — to litigate rather than lead, to attend to his wounded pride instead of his wounded nation and to debate the supposed fine points of white supremacy.

He abdicated his responsibilities so thoroughly and recklessly that it amounted to a letter of resignation. Then he whored for his Virginia winery on the way out the door.


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I kept coming across variations on the verdict that he had “failed to lead,” and that phraseology is off. “Fail” and “failure” imply that there was an effort, albeit unsuccessful.

Trump made none. He consciously decided that he didn’t care about comforting or inspiring those Americans — a majority of them — who weren’t quick and generous enough with their clapping. He was more interested in justifying himself.

So he picked division over unity, war over peace. And make no mistake: He didn’t merely shortchange the presidency. He left it vacant.

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/sunday/president-trump-resignation.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&mtrref=www.balloon-juice.com&gwh=9F12EB0680AA33297E5BB15AD417FC9E&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

[handmade34]

1. k&R

Trump hasn’t been exercising the duties of his office. He’s been excising them, one by one. The moral forfeiture of the past week was the capper.

[neeksgeek]

2. That was my pullout quote too.

What a spectacle.

[gordianot]

3. We are now in the phase armed militants in our midst can commit murder in support of Trump.

They still get arrested and the precarious survivors of American Justice can and will detain them. Justice and law and order now have sides, Trump is clearly on the side that avoids justice for his many crimes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Yes, it is a worry and care needs to be taken

Some excerpts from the FReaks

Wow. Robert Mueller is in VIOLATION OF THE LAW for his conflict of interest in this matter and.. NO ONE IN THE DOJ OR CONGRESS CARES.

If the DEMONRATS want CIVIL WAR by trying to remove Trump, THEY WILL GET ONE. AND A BIG, BEAUTIFUL AND BLOODY CIVIL WAR.
87 posted on 2017-08-03, 6:02:01 PM by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)

They better pray the don’t succeed in pulling Trump down. If they do I put down my tools and see to the matter personally and immediately. I kid you not.

99 posted on 2017-08-03, 6:10:01 PM by TalBlack

There are more such posts every so often (dark mutterings about lamp posts for example) but even there most of them are not hot-heads even if they have delusions:

"They better pray the don’t succeed in pulling Trump down. If they do I put down my tools and see to the matter personally and immediately. I kid you not."

Bull. We've been watching the systematic loss of freedoms in this country, and even then, people feel there's too much to lose by starting a civil war.

This isn't the 1700s or 1800s.
104 posted on 2017-08-03, 6:13:48 PM by CatOwner

Many are truly totally deluded. From the same thread:

Trump Jr 2024 is a lock now.

Attacked by the Big State on false charges.

118 posted on 2017-08-03, 6:33:42 PM by TheNext (Deep State are Lunatics)

[CrispyQ]

15. "Trump Jr 2024 is a lock now."

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[gademocrat7]

4. K&R

He has never had the intelligence, compassion and dignity to execute the office of the Presidency.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I think there is a lot going on with that Mueller investigation that Trump knows about,

but we don't. I think he knows his time is limited and he is inflicting the most damage.

I can tell you from observing a chaotic mess on the local level that the more complicated they can make it, the harder it is get a majority of the public agreeing on how to fix the problem. And, it is nearly impossible to get our criminal justice agencies to move out of independent, good conscience without public approval.

[Fritz Walter]

7. The correct term is "job abandonment"

Abandonment means the employee failed to show up for work for a number of consecutive days.

Job abandonment occurs for any number of reasons:
1. the employee was too embarrassed and afraid to quit in person; We know that's not the case here
2. the employee was offered more hours at his second, better paying job; Drumpf never quit his second, better paying job or
3. the employee stopped giving a shit about his responsibilities to his employer.

[bearsfootball516]

9. I hope these white supremacist freaks know that

In the event of an actual Civil War Part 2 (which isn't happening), they would be so grossly outnumbered that you could blink and it would be over.

[ElementaryPenguin]

10. You're 100% correct!

[tavernier]

11. When my hubby was in ICU a few months back

the nurse asked him questions to assess his mental status. When she asked him who the president was, he gave her a look and answered, "We don't have one." She laughed and said, "Correct!"

[lastlib]

13. A similar story here:

Nurse asked my dad who the president was. He replied, "Dumbass! That sonofabitch."

(Being anti-politician, he would've said equally crude things about Hillary. He hated Bill Clinton and Obama, too. )

[L. Coyote]

12. But, her e-mails.

Trump is not an absentee president, he is a deconstructionist president who is using propaganda and distraction to break up the USA and steal everything possible.

Link to tweet

[raven mad]

14. It's funny how often us "progressives" on the "left" have

pulled the United States collective ass out of the fire. Because we care. We're human. I think many on the right are Stepford-ized.

We never will be robots.