Dear Politicians (Republicans and Democrats in particular):
We the people know your hearts. You first and foremost want to get and stay elected and almost nothing else matters. Your Karma aside and whether Jesus will clean up your mess and save your Ass is between you and your brain. I’m just here to give you some unsolicited but free advice.
To the Democrats:
Back off on the ‘hair-on-fire’ Impeachment rhetoric. Bide your time. If you act too soon you will end up with 6 years of Pence and perhaps Ryan as POTUS. Your best interests are served if you stay hard on the resistance, obstruct the lunatics in government and let Trump deplore his way all the way up to the 2018 midterm elections.
If you keep up the tiresome tirade on how horrific Trump is you will probably get him re-elected; his supporters support him all the more and blame you for picking on their racist-in-chief hero. Understand that 1 quarter of the voting population only cares about their racial resentment and Trump is their knight in shining armor and there is nothing you can do to get their votes. They would sooner chew off their own leg to get out of a bear trap than vote for you because you keep helping people of color, the poor, immigrants and our other assets to our Democracy.
You can pick off a good many who support Trump because he promised them jobs & healthcare and couldn’t deliver. Relentlessly target them with evidence that Trump is destroying more potential jobs then he is saving or creating; shouldn’t be hard given the hundreds of thousands of potential jobs in the alternative energy sector that he is trying to destroy.
Your best bet is to harvest the 1-quarter of the voting population who didn’t vote because of voter repression. Your voter working 2 or 3 minimum wage jobs can’t get to the voting booth without you. Get them signed up for absentee ballots. Make election day a nationwide holiday. Convince them that not voting is not an option.
Next you really need to learn proper framing of the issues and stop using the Republican framing language. For example “Freedom”. Republicans frame “Freedom” from the perspective of business; freedom from regulation, freedom to make bigger profits. Why aren’t you singing the praises of Freedom from being poisoned, Freedom from wage slavery by getting educated, Freedom to drink clean water and breath clean air as a basic human right? How about Freedom from billionaires lining their pockets at our expense? Here’s a hint; go read the new version of “Don’t think of an Elephant” by George Lakoff. Work on you own messages so that you don’t suffer a 3rd party challenger; bring those into the fold, or if they are conservative, support them to split the conservative vote. Find, encourage, and support fly-over-America candidates for Congress and make sure they drink this cool-aid.
Here is what this advice will get you. Trump keeps digging his and his Republican politicians’ graves deeper all the way to the midterm elections. The ones talking seriously about impeachment will be Republicans realizing they are about to loose the Congress because of Trump’s illnesses. This way Trumps’ supports won’t be cleaning their guns to come after you. Mueller and the other committees will have sufficient time to collect the necessary evidence to not only impeach and convict Trump but to sufficiently link Pence, Ryan and possibly McConnell to the collusion and cover up crimes they have very likely committed. Get the evidence right and they all fall down.
You win the House and Senate by staying on message (not how terrible Trump is by the way – he’ll take care of that himself), getting out your vote, and picking off Trump’s more depressed supporters. Post election you fire up the investigation committees headed by Democrats and impeach Trump and Pence together.
By the way; pick someone good for Speaker of the House because they will be POTUS by 2019.
To the Republicans:
Get Pence installed as POTUS ASAP. He won’t get himself impeached and will make your Holy Grail of tax cuts for the wealthy and Estate tax repeal much more achievable.
If you don’t want Trump supporters painting targets on your backs, listen closely.
Trump is going to cost you the House and Senate and the sooner he goes the better chance you have of holding onto them. If you want to save Pence, you need to satisfy the investigators by sacrificing Trump. Hopefully Pence’s complicity and collusion with Trump will whether Republican controlled investigation committees after the 2018 midterm elections.
Trump support it way too strong to incur their wrath (and guns) by invoking impeachment and conviction. You must use Amendment 25 without actually using it. If you have to actually use the 25th Amendment you might fail in the Supreme Court but you should start laying the groundwork and get ready to appoint a sympathetic justice should the opportunity arise.
To use the 25th amendment without actually invoking it you need to pay close attention. You need to lock arms with all Republican congressmen and meaningfully threaten hold-outs with being Primaried if they don’t cooperate. You don’t need to publically say why you are going to join Democrats in defeating them in their next Primary, just be convincing that you are serious.
Present Trump with a gilded ultimatum. Hand him a letter signed by all Republicans that lays out his humiliating removal from office vs. upon his tender of resignation, an offer of grandiose standing ovations, good wishes and Obama bashings along with a promise of pardon or commutation of his sentences in the event the criminal justice system still manages to catch up with him in spite of Republicans holding the Executive and House.
Your letter will get leaked so write it craftily and carefully and not like your piece of crap healthcare bill. Trump supporters won’t understand it and will blame Trump for being a wuss for resigning. They might shoot some Liberals anyway but since when would that bother you. The clock is ticking you turdblossoms.
There you have it Politicians, make your beds – and may your Karma catch up with you sooner than later.
Sincerely,
Natoniere