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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn impeachable offense per day...
No normal or rational person can keep up with them.
While you were sleeping, he was scheming. "How do I make more money today? What diversion can I use to monopolize the "fake news"? Who do I sue for damages? Who do I charge with crimes against me? What Democrat can I attack today? How can I manipulate the stock market? "
Every day is a new con job.
Every day our laws are broken. Bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, threats of violence, defamation, you name it.
Impeach for what? For insider trading? clearly a violation of his oath of office and the laws of our land.
For starting a war without notifying anyone in Congress? Clearly impeachable.
For wrecking our Justice system?
Unless one has a criminal mind, there is simply no way to keep up with all the criminal acts.
We are all imprisoned by the inaction of Republicans to even accept what is directly under their noses.
OLDMDDEM
(3,278 posts)KS Toronado
(23,862 posts)toward elected Rs willingness to allow Gropenfuhrer to ruin our economy, tear down the East Wing,
start wars, etc etc while they sit on their hands and do nothing to stop him from breaking our laws.
AZJonnie
(4,016 posts)Even with all the freaking gerrymandering and attempts to make voting more arduous, if Democrats can't find a way to leverage everything that is WRONG with this criminal administration and hang it around the necks of the do-nothing GQP people in Congress and win a sweeping victory, something is very, very wrong with the party leadership (and of course the citizens of this country).
bucolic_frolic
(55,808 posts)His crimes seem so petty now ....
Dan
(5,291 posts)Yet the difference was that we had a functional Republican Party that actually cared about the Nation, the Constitution and the rule of law. Today we have an ass-kissing cult that claims to represent some (white) people.
TimeToGo
(1,451 posts)Certainly compared to this guy, everything seems petty. But Nixon and his administration did lots and lots of crime.
Dave Bowman
(7,452 posts)Ocelot II
(131,217 posts)Bettie
(19,872 posts)but as a Republican he's immune to such things....a president from our side would be LONG gone by now, but they love him and the corruption.
They revel in his corruption and his encouragement for them to be equally, if not more, corrupt.
Kid Berwyn
(25,073 posts)
"You need a million dollar computer to understand this."
popsdenver
(2,628 posts)although he has the greatest opportunities......It is his "personal CABAL, including all of his Spawn and Jared.
It is also the entire "Republican Party's CABAL" and the countless Politicians they have quite literally bought, all going for all the corrupt money that they can since Nov 24. No question that hey ABSOLUTELY have the best politicians that money can buy.
Follow the money that put the Republican Politicians in power...............it ends up being the U.S. Corporations thx to "Citizens United".......which should have truly been named........."Corporations United". The top 1% (who basically represent the Corporations) spent a fortune putting these Republian Politicians in office........the 2016 financing of the Republican Party, was also tremendously assisted by the Russian Oligarchs, funneling an un-fathomable amount of money through the NRA here in the USA......
I suspect in the future, the United States of America, will be renamed by them: THE UNITED CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA.
Since 1980's corrupt election guided by HWBush's CABAL, that installed a pawn named Reagan in office, they have been playing a long game to reach this point.......
The Repubs have been playing three dimensional Chess, for over 46+ years, while the Dems still haven't learned even the basic game of checkers.......
WASF
dave99
(265 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,916 posts)It's us against the money.
No More Millionaires and Billionaires!
calimary
(90,775 posts)But Republicans wont hear you. Theyre too busy worshipping their golden calf.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,465 posts)Our Founders foresaw a maniacal leader...hell, they had just thrown off one. They made provisions in The Constitution for it. What they did not foresee was a gutless, compliant party willing to let said leader do whatever he wanted to tear down Democracy if they thought it would keep them in power. Trump is a problem...a damned serious one. But one that could have been handled and, for want of a better word, neutered by a functioning Congress. The reason Nixon resigned is because back then we had Republicans that took their oath to the Constitution seriously. Barry Goldwater told Nixon he simply didn't have the votes in the Senate to avoid impeachment, and the bastard resigned the next day. Even more pathetic is that we would need what? A total of around 10 between the House and the Senate to stand up to him. We just don't have Republicans today who have the morality to do the right thing...as far as they're concerned, their oath is to Trump. Every one of them needs to go.
wnylib
(26,455 posts)If the investigations into Nixon had continued, there were worse things than Watergate that might have been uncovered regarding the R party. They wanted Nixon to resign to protect the party, not the nation.
slightlv
(7,943 posts)but as much as I detest(ed) Nixon, he could feel shame and embarrassment like a normal person. He was a true repug, through and through... but what made him go 'off' was when he thought people were laughing at him, or if they caught him red-handed at something illegal (as they did).
trump has no ethical compass at all. He's what I'd qualify as a true psychopath. These people can't feel any negative emotions like you or I would suffer. It's always someone else's fault, never his own. Therefore, there's nothing for him to "own up to." All he needs to do...he thinks...is ruin or kill the scapegoat. Unfortunately for us, he considers everyone inside the US as his personal scapegoats, and the more we suffer because of him, the more carnally ecstatic he becomes. Never did I ever think we had such horribly evil persons in this country that could do this to all of us as a nation, and each to his neighbor, personally. It's just beyond me. I have no scale nor way of understanding these people like him. I only know we're surrounded by them. It gives me pause to consider the emotions of ordinary Russians back in the old days... and even now, living through Putin. Such hopelessness and despondency, that suicide feels like a release rather than giving up. You could see it in their faces through the old photographs of breadlines... coming soon to a neighborhood near you, I fear.
SupportSanity
(1,598 posts)I don't know what it will be, but if we make it in the mid terms, we have to come up with a better way.
Should they win it again, game over.
travelingthrulife
(5,572 posts)Like Fetterman actually calling us anti-American. Too cowardly to face what Trump's mob is blackmailing him with.
gordianot
(15,796 posts)The sheer volume staggers the mind. He is a walking talking crime against the nation and humanity.
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