Not a tRump twit but this is a slightly different take of the fallout of his presidency:
Can Donald Trump unite the world (Against himself)?
Kinda makes me feel a bit warm and fuzzy.
As do I, and even if the Orange Bastard runs 2 complete terms (help us jeebus), on his final day I will raise a glass in encouragement to Railer! So you got that going for you, which is nice.
He’s not exactly a strapping young man leading a stress-free life.
Perhaps a coast-to-coast Dopers party would be in order on that Glorious Day.
I can’t help suspecting that the GOP Establishment really expected to only have to put up with him for a few months before Satan called him home.
I was thinking something more excretory in nature. Let’s compromise - both!
We can plan ahead. Think of this as the rehearsal dinner.
Hopefully about 10 years away though. He needs to die of old age in prison. Nothing else is acceptable.
I was referring to the day that he leaves the Oval Office. Better yet if he goes directly to jail.
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I suspect that’s what Melania was hoping for, too…
It takes alot to be rejected by Satan -
“Get thee behind me, Trump”
Different prices for just dancing on it and peeing on it (hey, he likes it!).
Drill Sergeant: I bet you hate my guts. I bet when I die you’ll piss on my grave.
Boot: No, sir.
Drill Sergeant: Why not?
Boot: Because when I get out of the Army, I don’t ever want to stand in line again.
More to the point, IIRC the reaction to Nixon’s resignation was more relief than jubilation. It may be much the same with CFSG, though jubilation would certainly be understandable: whatever Nixon did to the body politic, he never managed to damage the country as a whole the way the current malAdministration is.
Think “revised ending of Return of the Jedi” -sized celebrations. Possibly with Yub-nub.
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More to the point, IIRC the reaction to Nixon’s resignation was more relief than jubilation. It may be much the same with CFSG, though jubilation would certainly be understandable: whatever Nixon did to the body politic, he never managed to damage the country as a whole the way the current malAdministration is.[/QUOTE]
I was only 12 at the time but I thought it was a little more on the dancing in the streets side. I remember one of my high school teachers telling the story of actually partying in the streets of DC after Nixon resigned. For some reason I recall that he said he had the plastic ring of a six pack beer holder through his belt. Did they have those plastic things then?
That made me search out the Washington Post
story of that day.
I find it interesting reading a contemporaneous account of that time. Compare it to today. Nixon was bad but I don’t see any accounts of him flinging shit everywhere he went. We have sunk so low. I despair for this country when 88% of Republicans still support a buffoon like Trump.
On a lighter note and FWIW, at least on that day, the Post reports that " It was an orderly crowd, resigned and curious, watching newsmen come and go and being a part of a dramatic moment in the life of the nation."
The number of Republicans is declining, which explains why his popularity among self-identified Republicans only gets stronger. It’s only those who have a strong enough stomach who can remain Republicans. The remaining 12% are probably those who are like Kasich, deluded and holding out hope that they can reclaim their party’s name. They cannot. The Republicans have put all their chips in on the crazy train, and they’re going to ride it over the cliff.
There will be an awakening, a point at which even some conservatives finally wake up and say they’ve had enough. The question is what damage will have been inflicted by that point. I’m guessing it’ll be considerable.
I was 25 when Nixon resigned. I watched the Watergate hearings every day. The overwhelming feeling was relief. And especially, relief that Gerald Ford was an honest man.
But Nixon’s evil and corruption were contained, like a tumor (as it were), that could be cut out whole. Thump is more of a metastatic situation. His evil and corruption permeate his businesses, his family, his staff, and and he has brought all of that into the White House and shit all over the USA’s standing in the world. Congress’ lack of response to his lies and his behavior shows THEM to be in *collusion *with his corruption. Also, the unwavering support of thump’s hardest-core deplorables reveals the racism and bitterness that are still present in the country.
This wasn’t the case with Nixon and Watergate. There wasn’t a groundswell of support for him or public outrage that he was driven from office. Just relief. Nixon was intelligent, a grownup, and even a statesman, but he was not a *personally *popular individual. And, of course, back then mass media wasn’t what it is today. You didn’t know every single thing that everyone was thinking about the instant they thought it.
Whenever I re-watch All the President’s Men (which I’ve done at least eight times since DJT was elected), I amazed at the old-fashioned, nuts & bolts, shoes-on-the-pavement reporting that went on-- that HAD to go on-- to put that story together. Ironically, blatant evidence of thump’s lies and just plain evil behavior (pussy-grabbing, anyone?) is well-documented and yet his people STILL refuse to see it. Crazy times.
Well, well…American Mussolini is at it again.
I guess nobody told him that the FBI is still investigating the Clinton Foundation - or at least they were earlier this year.
For some reason, I still clearly remember the National Lampoon’s response to Nixon’s resignation. They found a picture of Nixon playing the piano, and the caption was a parody of an album and song by The Band:
Music from Big White
The Night They Drove Ol’ Dickie Down
And the people were cheering
The night they drove ol’ Dickie down
And the press was jeering
They went nyaaah, nyaah nyah nyaah nyaah nyah