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Nitram

(22,765 posts)
4. DDSiegs, the real White House is not actually imploding. The Trump Administration is, and
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 12:51 PM
Jul 2017

their disorganization and ineffectuality will leave them defenseless when Mueller brings evidence for treason that will implicate Trump. Pence, and all of his top staff.

DDySiegs

(253 posts)
5. Nitram, you misunderstood the point of my post
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 02:24 PM
Jul 2017

The White House is only a building. So that is not the issue. The cartoon (crumbling White House) symbolizes the potential destruction of the constitutional democracy that has been the United States of America. In fact I think your comment shows a rather over-optimistic view of the future. There is nothing - nothing - inevitable about the scenario you have posited. (I wish it were inevitable, but it is not!) There is a set of other scenarios (horrifying ones) that collectively are at least as likely as the one you posit. So no I am not a "chicken little", despite my pessimistic post.

Nitram

(22,765 posts)
6. I think I got your point and maybe you missed mine. I am suggesting that the institution of
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 08:48 AM
Jul 2017

democracy isn't being destroyed, it is the Trump administration that is being destroyed.

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