He won’t be like Nixon, a man w/plenty of his own mental/emotional problems, but STILL an inherently sane man.
I am just gob smacked by those here who think Trump will resign. Never seen a bigger case of wishful thinking.
I do NOT think Trump will resign because of his sexual assaults. I do NOT think Trump will resign if Mueller finds him and/or his staff guilty of many things. I do NOT think Trump will resign for any reason, including “shooting a person on 5th Avenue.”
This is what happens when you have a crazy man in the White House. And we SO do.
Really, it isn’t even about Trump anymore. It’s about the GOP. And that’s what we have to remember. Trump is such an oversized carnival barker of all that’s wrong with this country, that we can hardly keep up with him, nor can his own party.
But till the elections of 2018, pretty much no matter what Trump does, or what Mueller says, we’re stuck with him.
And NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT. NOTHING. Unless the GOP makes the decision he’s hurting them much more than he’s helping them. And I see NO, ZIP, NADA evidence of that.
We CAN hobble him in the mid terms. How many delicious ways can I put this? We CAN make sure that he doesn’t have a congress of sickeningly sycophantic reps who give us no choices. We CAN make sure of this by winning either house, but both would be nice.
I realize we face a very difficult map, but with all the retirements I would like to get a new look at such a map.
In any case, after two years of Trump as our president, if this country does not rise up to hobble his power, then really, there is no hope for us.
We had one of the best presidents of my lifetime get “shellacked” in his first mid term. A typical response of this country when all the levers of power are held by one party. IF this country can’t rise up to vote against that happening for Trump, with what they’ve seen in this last year, then we are beyond my hopes for us, and I will immediately start looking for my own Walden Pond. Because really, if Americans don’t get this, I no longer trust in Americans.
The Democrats must frame the mid terms as “an election of a lifetime.” That is my marketing in-put. Don’t ever assume mid terms are minor elections, which too many Democrats do. NO. NO. NO. In 2010 we not only got shellacked, we got gerry mandered in ways that have sucked the power out of us for almost 10 YEARS NOW. We need to frame this election as we would a presidential election, and maybe even more.
We need to frame the upcoming mid terms as “the election of a lifetime” and then we need to back that up with EVERY FREAKING REASON WHY. In fact, I submit my idea for the mid terms--- “the election of a lifetime” to the Democratic Party.
Don’t shit me with more bad slogans---can’t even remember the last one to come out of the DNC, but do know it pretty much sucked a big egg. Just say it outright. Takes our chances, pays our money. “DO YOU WANT ANOTHER TWO YEARS OF TRUMP IN POWER? ARE YOU SCARED TO DEATH ABOUT THAT? WELL,YOU SHOULD BE AND HERE’S WHY. Yeah, make it just this crystalline.
Not a hard to come by idea when you look at Trump’s ratings. But one that Democrats always seem to not catch on the wind, when it is so obvious.
Our survival imo, depends on stopping Trump in the mid terms. FLAT FREAKING OUT. IF Mueller of anyone else manages to do it before then, well of course, I’ll cheer, but I'm sure not holding my breath for that, as I think many here are.
I think many of us are all holding our breath here for the wrong saviors. WE must be our saviors. AGAIN, frame the election of 2018 as an election of a lifetime. I’d like to see THAT on some Democratic signs and hats. We have SO MUCH TO BACK THIS UP, so let’s use it.
Because right about now I see a country cowering in the presence of about 30% of us, to be generous. Democrats, BE BOLD, for God’s sake, be BOLD!
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back — concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.“
Attributed to Goethe w/some argument to which I say who cares. The words are brilliant.