I'm Not Getting Excited About The Latest Trump Rumors

[TheCowsCameHome]

By all accounts, this guy should never have gotten past the primaries. Everything he did or said in the past was supposed to take him down, but nothing did.

Next week he places his hand on a stack of Russian IOU's and becomes the 45th President of the United States.

Call me when some charges actually stick to him and end the nightmare.

Screw it. I'm burned out.

[Trust Buster]

1. Chill, we have a right to blow off some humorous steam.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. There's no humor in this anymore

This is deadly serious now.

And if Trump is ever removed, look who is waiting to take his place - Pence.

[el_bryanto]

6. Insofar as Pence has political power he'll be very bad

But if the President is removed from power, than the Vice President essentially becomes a lame duck - in fairness that means power will devolve to the House (largely), which isn't much better. But there's little question that removing Trump from power will decrease the power of Republicans and create opportunities for Democrats, if they can capitalize on them.

Bryant

[berksdem]

9. +1

[Vinca]

2. The problem is that even if he goes, Republicans will stay in power and that's not right.

The entire election was illegitimate and it most likely should have been Democrats staying in power. But we'll never know because there is only a remedy for removing the POTUS.

[MoonRiver]

4. What gives me "hope" is that the Repuke PTB really want Pence.

We are screwed with either cretin in charge, but Pence wouldn't blow up the world over a tweet.

[tanyev]

7. Yep. I'm pretty confident Pence wouldn't nuke Los Angeles just because some celebrity

said something mean about him. I'm really not that sure about Trump.

[MoonRiver]

10. Exactly. I guess evil is relative.

Horrific that this is what we're debating.

[tanyev]

11. It just now occurs to me that the GOP's real strategy may be to use Trump to normalize Pence.

Let Trump get so scary that when they impeach him and bring Pence in, we'll all heave a sigh of relief and they can implement their right wing theocratic agenda with much less complaint. But then they would still have to do deal with angry Trump voters. I don't know what's scarier--the idea that this is a strategy, or the idea that they have absolutely no clue what to do.

[MoonRiver]

12. I think they will force him to resign, with no hearings.

Clearly they have enough intel against him to pull it off.

[jaxind]

5. Yes, but...

What if we find out Pence and other rethuglicans knew about the shenanigans between Trump and Putin??!!

[dhill926]

8. sadly agree...

no hard evidence...nothing happens. in fact, poor, persecuted agent orange is strengthened among his supporters. would give anything to be proved wrong.