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RockRaven

(14,950 posts)
4. Prediction: Some GOPers will grow a spine and defy Trump... after Kavanaugh is confirmed.
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 12:31 AM
Sep 2018

Kavanaugh's confirmation locks in the gain of the "stolen" SCOTUS appointment (they've got a majority now, and no reason to believe a right wing justice will need replacing during the rest of Trump's time in office).

Now they can put their finger up into the air and see how the wind is blowing to best save their re-election and thereby influence/importance/relevance/power... without jeopardizing the right wing SCOTUS majority their paymasters (i.e. their billionaire bribe-masters) have demanded.

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)
5. when there is critical mass of outpouring from the citizenry...
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 12:54 AM
Sep 2018

.....then Congress will be forced to respond. Those opposed to Trump are the MAJORITY and we have the POWER if we will exercise it.

Kablooie

(18,619 posts)
8. I expect that this is the government system Republicans really want.
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 01:34 AM
Sep 2018

They hate regulations and that includes legal limitations on doing whatever they want.
They hate the rule of law and Constitutional restrictions.

They want Trump to overthrow the Democratic government so that the country can live under a conservative, Christian, white totalitarian rule forever.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
10. He's corrupted with putin
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:01 AM
Sep 2018

The party of now the KGOP , where putin has them over a barrel after they found out illegal election fraud , and probably more to make them compromised and forced to do nothing now , or be exposed. Follow their money and I'd bet some prominent people have taken putin's money for themselves and their campaigns. Follow also Cambridge Analytica, people that received their help and more ties of involvement with putin and russians fixing elections here. Those people are in deep , deep trouble when they become exposed . Justice will prevail before its all over, and all those involved, and that has protected trump , putin , and mob bosses will regret what they've done .

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)
11. No one he listens to has the courage or desire to stand up and...
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:06 AM
Sep 2018

tell him his actions probably will either end his presidency and/or totally crash his personal empire.

I suspect there's several people he would listen to and maybe change his ways (or at least shut the hell up):
* a select number of international figures such as Putin and Netanyahu.
* a few characters in right-wing media such as Hannity or Ingraham,
* a few of the billionaires that support him such as Mercer, Murdoch or Adelson,
* numerous members of Congress, none of which have a spine, and possibly

* a few porn stars, golf champions, the tooth fairy and a guy at the McDonald's drive-through.

It's obvious to me that all of these people's loyalty is only to themselves, not to Trump or America.

Why so many people are either afraid of or enamored by this buffoon, I'll never understand..... ........

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