Why is Trump trying to undermine the credibility of the Mueller report that he says exonerates him? Why is he still trying to find the DNC server? Because if he can blame the hacking on someone other than the Russians, then he can lift the sanctions that were imposed because of that.
Sounds about right. He's been trying to find a pretext to end the sanctions since before Day 1.
That's really insane.
Can Barr be impeached as well?
Fairly certainly. He's also shown that he deserves it soooooo much. A fair bit of jail time might also be warranted.
it's hard for me to imagine that Barr isn't ******* his pants that Trump is implicating him in unethical activities in at least 3 countries. Pompeo, he's already chosen his hill to die on and Giuliani can't be impeached. IMO it's only a matter of time before Trump starts implicating Pence as well. Although maybe whoever is writing Trump's tweets will try to leave Pence out of it trying to salvage him so he can still be held out as the GOP's go-to guy if they decide Trump is radioactive. If I were a Republican Senate candidate I'd be begging Trump and Pence not to campaign for me just now.
His base may not realize how bad these tweets are for his Cabinet members but those members probably aren't that naive. Barr especially must realize his balls are caught in a vise. I can't articulate all the reasons now, but if he cares about his law license, let alone his job, thing aren't looking great for him. I don't think it's overstatement to say his best option may be to resign immediately.
Hmm... honestly, he might well already be in much too deep for resigning to shield him from criminal prosecution. Like Trump, his best remaining bet may well be to stay in a position where he can shield himself for as long as possible.
You know what would be neat?
If we taught critical thinking in schools.
That would be neat.
It would!
Back in 2012, the Republican Party of Texas called for
critical thinking to be removed from schools because it has "the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
Thank you for saving me the time. It was actually rather sad at the time, though. I brought it up to Republican friends and family and all of them immediately jumped to the unevidenced assumption that it was just opposing some nebulous and nefarious Democratic plot.
I had always thought it was religious folks who didn’t want their kids evaluating evidence as they considered the veracity of the Bible.
It's pretty much anyone who relies solely on authoritarian argument and blind faith. Religious folk are very strongly represented in that group, but are certainly not the whole group.
Yes. On the other hand, if Trump actually were cut off from his easy means to cause stochastic terrorism, imperil national security, and bring out the worst in all of us, that would also be doing all of us a favor, too.
I've been getting them for at least a year or so now. It stopped for a while but I just got a couple more the past couple of months.
Didn't they do this before?
They've been doing it for years. As noted, it's apparently barely legal, but... extremely unethical, to be kind.
Scary stuff but they would be wiped out in a HOT minute by the police, FBI, and/or National Guard and whatever all those other Homeland Security organizations are. Sad if they start a guerrilla war before they are stopped. But someone needs to remind them, the military is not with them.
Doesn't change that it's quite endangering just about everyone in the US, on top of being a pretty clear threat to anyone who wants to remove him. "If you remove me, I will tell my insane followers to murder and destroy - and you KNOW that they WILL do it."
Trump has now been Tweeting that this is a coup. He's just plain nuts.
He and his Republican sycophants have been saying that about all kinds of crap at least since he was elected. Wouldn't remotely surprise me if they started before the election, though.
Dude!
What you just said! WTF?
I've had multiple Republicans flat out tell me that people who cross the border illegally should be shot. What he said isn't even remotely a stretch.
