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The Trump Presidency: Part 17

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Trump had done the impossible:He has made me ashamed to be an American.
The man is corrupt and evil, He and the GOP must be removed from power if the US is to survive as a democracy.
Hopefully at the ballot box,but if that fails by any means necessary. Yes, I am talking about armed resistence.
I know a lot you think I am crazy, but If Trump gets in again I won't sound so crazy....
 
Molinaro said:
With Televangelist Pat Robertson criticizing Trump's decision to abandon Kurdish allies and his response to the Jamal Khashoggi killing, is Trump dumb enough to counter attack and start insulting one of the heads of his evangelical base?
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Yes. Trump always seems to counterpunch without regard to the cost to him.
 
dudalb said:
Trump had done the impossible:He has made me ashamed to be an American.
The man is corrupt and evil, He and the GOP must be removed from power if the US is to survive as a democracy.
Hopefully at the ballot box,but if that fails by any means necessary. Yes, I am talking about armed resistence.
I know a lot you think I am crazy, but If Trump gets in again I won't sound so crazy....
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Whoa, easy there tiger. What is the democratic process that would authorize armed Rebellion? In our Revolution, the colonial assemblies voted and sent delegates to the Continental Congress. However flawed that body and process were, there was a democratic underpinning to out rebellion. How is armed rebellion without a democratic mandate in anyway going to restore democracy?
 
Ho hum... another day, another incident of groping.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...mar-a-lago-barry-levine-monique-el-faizy-book
A book excerpt published by Esquire on Wednesday contains a new accusation of sexual assault against President Donald Trump. The excerpt, part of Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy’s forthcoming book All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator, contains an account from a woman named Karen Johnson who says Trump groped her and forcibly kissed her at a Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party in the early 2000s.

So, 2 questions:

- Will we end up getting a rage-tweet from Trump. "Levine... so unfair! SAD"

- Does Trump have some sort of frequent molester card? With ever 25 gropes you get a free weekend at Epstien's island?

Maybe we can make up a sort of 'bingo' card... or a board game like Clue... "Trump... at mar-a-lago, by the pussy".
 
Trump Tweets

So pathetic to see Sleepy Joe Biden, who with his son, Hunter, and to the detriment of the American Taxpayer, has ripped off at least two countries for millions of dollars, calling for my impeachment - and I did nothing wrong. Joe’s Failing Campaign gave him no other choice!
 
Craig4 said:
Whoa, easy there tiger. What is the democratic process that would authorize armed Rebellion? In our Revolution, the colonial assemblies voted and sent delegates to the Continental Congress. However flawed that body and process were, there was a democratic underpinning to out rebellion. How is armed rebellion without a democratic mandate in anyway going to restore democracy?
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And if it comes to a choice of fight or submit to a dictatorship?
 
So, about those tax cuts...

From: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/09/trump-tax-cuts-helped-billionaires-pay-less
In 2018 the richest 400 families in the US paid an average effective tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of American households paid a rate of 24.2%, University of California at Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman calculate...Trump’s tax cuts – his most significant legislative victory – proved a tipping point. Thanks to the controversial tax package the top 0.1% of US households were granted a 2.5% tax cut that pushed their rate below that of the lower 50% of US earners.

(Note that their calculations include both federal and state taxes.)
 
dudalb said:
And if it comes to a choice of fight or submit to a dictatorship?
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Considering the amount of people speaking out against Trump, it is very far from a dictatorship. In fact, as seen from abroad, he seems almost powerless, confined to ramble on Twitter. Stop reading Twitter, and it is almost as if he doesn't exist.

Hans
 
MRC_Hans said:
Considering the amount of people speaking out against Trump, it is very far from a dictatorship. In fact, as seen from abroad, he seems almost powerless, confined to ramble on Twitter. Stop reading Twitter, and it is almost as if he doesn't exist.

Hans
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I wish I could believe that. I just can't.
And I am sick of people..GOPers in particular, criticizing Trump but then taking no action.
ANyway I stated armed resistence as a last case scenario, if it's clear that the GOP has turned the US into a banana republic with meaningless fixed elections.
 
MRC_Hans said:
Considering the amount of people speaking out against Trump, it is very far from a dictatorship. In fact, as seen from abroad, he seems almost powerless, confined to ramble on Twitter. Stop reading Twitter, and it is almost as if he doesn't exist.
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Sure. Except for the fact that he is nominating judges that will probably end up rolling back things like voting and reproductive rights.

And that he signed a tax bill that resulted in rich people paying a lower tax rate than poor people, with the added bonus of a huge spike in the deficit.

And except for the fact that he is likely speeding up the next recession, and making it harder for future governments to dig themselves out of trouble through his tariffs and other financial mess-ups.

But apart from that? Its like he's not there. Or a figurehead.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

So why is someone a good or great President if they needed to Spy on someone else’s Campaign in order to win (that didn’t work out so well), and if they were unable to fill 142 important Federal Judgeships (a record by far), handing them all to me to choose. Will have 182 soon!

Only 25 percent want the President Impeached, which is pretty low considering the volume of Fake News coverage, but pretty high considering the fact that I did NOTHING wrong. It is all just a continuation of the greatest Scam and Witch Hunt in the history of our Country!
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I would assume that under normal circumstances, this percentage would be much lower. 1/4 of the entire population? And he thinks that's a "low" number? I can see disagreeing with his policies or even hating him, but even that shouldn't be pushing people to call for his impeachment.

His crimes, on the other hand...
 
Apathia said:
I shared this on FB and sadly, predictably got this reply from a "Conservative" (actually Populist) friend:

“Still. Trump IS, without question, undeniably unfit for the Presidency. The only way to remove him from office is through the ballot box. Wait 13 months, you'll get your chance."
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As disheartening as the rest of this FB post is, at the end the poster says Trump is “undeniably unfit.” Is this some tidbit that is supposed to throw Dems off the impeachment track, or is it a sincere sentiment? Because if it’s sincere, it’s a pretty big concession to make.

Fake meme? If so it’s kind of brilliant.
 
Craig4 said:
Whoa, easy there tiger. What is the democratic process that would authorize armed Rebellion? In our Revolution, the colonial assemblies voted and sent delegates to the Continental Congress. However flawed that body and process were, there was a democratic underpinning to out rebellion. How is armed rebellion without a democratic mandate in anyway going to restore democracy?
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Avoiding armed rebellion is the primary reason that democracy is a superior political system, but it has to be functional. If, hypothetically, our democracy was no longer functioning as specified by the Constitution because corrupt power had taken over our means to enforce compliance, then it's gonna be a case of either taking it back again, forcefully, or living under a dictatorship.
 
Craig4 said:
Whoa, easy there tiger. What is the democratic process that would authorize armed Rebellion? In our Revolution, the colonial assemblies voted and sent delegates to the Continental Congress. However flawed that body and process were, there was a democratic underpinning to out rebellion. How is armed rebellion without a democratic mandate in anyway going to restore democracy?
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The indisputable fact that the democratic process is being destroyed by the Executive branch, a majority of the senate , a large part of the House, and hundreds of Federal Judges.

It’s past time for these corpses to be swinging in gibbets in front of state houses to warn what happens when a party does such a thing.
 
Dear President Trump,

Thank you for MAGA! And for getting rid of those mud people with leprosy!

As your humble admirer and an ordinary citizen who will never know the pleasure of sucking your enormous balls, may I be so brash as to offer advice?

The next time you decide to leave strategic "allies" at the mercy of a "brutal thug", maybe you should finesse the timing. Did the Turks really need to go in the next day? This gives ammo to the lamestream media and to the deep state. To realize the art of the deal, couldn't the Turks have waited a few days before storming in?

Your humble admirer,
 
GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn

It's from The Onion, it must be true!

WASHINGTON—Opting to take more of a wait-and-see approach instead of rushing to pass judgment, Republican lawmakers reportedly looked on in silence Tuesday as President Trump worked his way through each of their families and, one by one, strangled all their loved ones to death. “After I watched the president slowly and methodically squeeze the life out of my wife’s body as she gasped, futilely, for breath, he gave me his personal assurance that he was not responsible for her death, so I continue to stand by this administration,” said Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who along with every Republican in both the House and Senate stated that while killing off their families in cold blood might not be entirely proper, it was certainly not an impeachable offense, no matter how the media tried to spin it. “Now, this is not an action I would have taken myself. I personally would not have wrapped my hands around my 5-year-old son’s neck and crushed his windpipe. But if Donald Trump’s approach to governing is sometimes a bit outside the ordinary, that’s because Donald Trump is no ordinary president. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing.” Later, with his beloved sister’s face turning purple as the commander-in-chief asphyxiated her with a length of barbed wire, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on several television news networks and said impeaching the president for her imminent death would be “insane.”
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