18th May 2017, 6:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 19th May 2017, 2:42 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Well the past few days sure have been interesting! It looks more and more likely every day that Trump will end up either resigning, removed under the 25th amendment, or impeached. Most Republicans still are on his side, so this will probably not be a quick thing, but between dismissing Comey after trying to get him to drop the Flynn investigation, having Rosenstein appoint a Special Counsel who is seemingly pretty solid choice, and more, it's looking bad for Trump and that's fantastic.
Again he won't be removed anytime soon unless he resigns because of that support from most Republicans, though. So, here's the question: when is the best time for Trump to go? I mean, for the most part, sooner would be better. Resign tomorrow or something! Save the world from the danger of having that troubled idiot in charge if there was a real crisis -- this is definitely a serious concern! But... if he leaves long before the midterms, the Republican Party will have time to rebuild before the vote, yes? I mean, I know they'll stay damaged for some time, but most peoples' attention spans are very short, so if he leaves before the 2018 elections (and I still would not guess he will, since unless he quits I have a hard time seeing almost any way of getting to 67 votes for removal, with how crazy most of the Republican party and base is now!) the more time they have post-Trump before an election the more time they will have to get people to forget about the whole thing and vote Republican despite what happened. Maybe the pro-Trump parts of their base would be so angry over Trump going that they would fail at that, but it could go either way yes?
Now, despite the gravity of the new revelations, I still doubt that he will go so quickly for that to be an issue since Trump may hate this job and be stunningly incompetent at every single major element of it, but he is stubborn and will not go easily. And again getting the House and 19 Senate Republicans to vote for removal to get rid of him with the 25th or an impeachment is hard to imagie, they're way too far right. And the Republican base is mostly loyal, while right-wing media outlets are still obsessed over hating the Clintons, not looking at any of Trump's bad actions.
So, best case: He really needs to go. Now, resign or something, Trump. So he does. Then let the continuing investigations and prosecutions continue for years, to keep people from being able to forget the whole thing anytime soon.
On another note... do you think Trump only has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or do you think he has additional mental health issues on top of that? It's quite plausible. Or does he have dementia or alzheimers' or something... sure, he could just be a very unintelligent man, but his rambling sentences, the way he loses track of what he's saying mid-paragraph... it really does not sound good. And then you've got the insane stress levels this job gives you on top of that, which he clearly can't handle. "I thought this job would be easy"? "Why did the Civil War happen? People don't ask that question."? Those are not statements that any mentally healthy American would ever say, because they are both completely insane, and are the exact opposite of what everyone knows about those issues -- the presidency is, as basically the whole world knows, the hardest job on Earth, and the Civil War is of course the most-covered issue in all of American history. Trump started that Civil War-related quote sanely, talking about Andrew Jackson and how he defended the Union and such, but just a couple of sentences later he completely lost track of what he was saying and said maybe the stupidest thing ever said about American history. It's just bizarre stuff.
Again he won't be removed anytime soon unless he resigns because of that support from most Republicans, though. So, here's the question: when is the best time for Trump to go? I mean, for the most part, sooner would be better. Resign tomorrow or something! Save the world from the danger of having that troubled idiot in charge if there was a real crisis -- this is definitely a serious concern! But... if he leaves long before the midterms, the Republican Party will have time to rebuild before the vote, yes? I mean, I know they'll stay damaged for some time, but most peoples' attention spans are very short, so if he leaves before the 2018 elections (and I still would not guess he will, since unless he quits I have a hard time seeing almost any way of getting to 67 votes for removal, with how crazy most of the Republican party and base is now!) the more time they have post-Trump before an election the more time they will have to get people to forget about the whole thing and vote Republican despite what happened. Maybe the pro-Trump parts of their base would be so angry over Trump going that they would fail at that, but it could go either way yes?
Now, despite the gravity of the new revelations, I still doubt that he will go so quickly for that to be an issue since Trump may hate this job and be stunningly incompetent at every single major element of it, but he is stubborn and will not go easily. And again getting the House and 19 Senate Republicans to vote for removal to get rid of him with the 25th or an impeachment is hard to imagie, they're way too far right. And the Republican base is mostly loyal, while right-wing media outlets are still obsessed over hating the Clintons, not looking at any of Trump's bad actions.
So, best case: He really needs to go. Now, resign or something, Trump. So he does. Then let the continuing investigations and prosecutions continue for years, to keep people from being able to forget the whole thing anytime soon.
On another note... do you think Trump only has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or do you think he has additional mental health issues on top of that? It's quite plausible. Or does he have dementia or alzheimers' or something... sure, he could just be a very unintelligent man, but his rambling sentences, the way he loses track of what he's saying mid-paragraph... it really does not sound good. And then you've got the insane stress levels this job gives you on top of that, which he clearly can't handle. "I thought this job would be easy"? "Why did the Civil War happen? People don't ask that question."? Those are not statements that any mentally healthy American would ever say, because they are both completely insane, and are the exact opposite of what everyone knows about those issues -- the presidency is, as basically the whole world knows, the hardest job on Earth, and the Civil War is of course the most-covered issue in all of American history. Trump started that Civil War-related quote sanely, talking about Andrew Jackson and how he defended the Union and such, but just a couple of sentences later he completely lost track of what he was saying and said maybe the stupidest thing ever said about American history. It's just bizarre stuff.