It’s hard to even pinpoint what it is about this presidency that is the most maddening and infuriating. Today I’m focused on the fact that he has complete disregard for law, consistency, intelligent policy, and what’s best for the country. He runs around making decisions, issuing executive orders, the latest one being on the Keystone Pipeline, and then backs down, changes his mind (using the term loosely), changes it again the next day, and so on, back and forth. For reasons (again, using the term loosely) of his own that often leave even the Pubbies with their jaws hanging open (not that it diminishes their willingness to back him).
Meanwhile, those who **do **value law, consistency, intelligent policy, and what’s best for the country, try to counter him with conventional legal means-- lawsuits, committee hearings, “reports” that will probably never see the light of day, and so on. Take this income tax thing. All modern presidents (and many candidates who were never elected) have voluntarily released their returns. Thump says no. So now Dems are hamstrung by the fact that they abide by lawful means of recourse and thump’s toadies are going through the motions of doing battle when you KNOW they will never give in. Who’s gonna make them? The Dems issued another deadline-- SO WHAT? When you’re dealing with someone-- and that includes Republican leadership-- who don’t give a rat’s ass about law, you can’t win. There is no enforcement unless both sides believe in and support the law. Thump and the Republicans don’t. Thump cannot be stopped by legal means until the next election. And how honest, fair, and legal will the next presidential election be?
Two more years of this? And likely FOUR more after that??
Republicans in congress discovered that throwing a propane tank into a fire will only get the opposition angry. And that our hands our tied as long as they can keep the arsonist in office.
The arsonists supporters cheer the explosion and sparks created even while their own house burns down.
Republicans in congress only care that they keep their jobs, and rake in as much graft before retiring.
Trump supporters/voters only goal is to hurt others. That they also go down in a flaming heap is not important.
The “we litigated this through the election” argument works both ways. I wish Rep. Omar would use it, to say that her constituents decided they don’t really care about 9/11.
But again, we didn’t “litigate this through the election.” During the election he promised to release them. It’s hard to say “people didn’t care” that he wouldn’t do it when he was getting votes by promising he would do it. Perhaps you could say the voters didn’t mind waiting until after the election, but you can’t say the voters didn’t care he wouldn’t release them,*** because he promised to release them.*** Whatever. I 'm in the camp that we won’t learn much from the tax returns.
Not only did we not “litigate this” because people voted on Trump’s promise that he would release his returns, but we did not “litigate this” because only about a quarter of those eligible to vote, voted for Trump.
If those ~63 million people don’t want to look at Trump’s tax returns, then they don’t have to. The other ~190 million of us DO want to see the returns.
(my emphasis in the quote)
I wish tRump and his hangers on would just shut up about Notre Dame. Anytime he or his idiotic children, wife, or vice president say anything about France it probably causes another piece of the cathedral to fall off. I wish he could just shut up for 1 day.
Dang, I believe you’ve unlocked the secret of Trump. It’s blindingly clear that he’s an avid adherent of rules 1, 6, 10, 16, 19, 27, 48, 52, 82, 141, 144, 181, 211, 239, 261 and 266. With that said, maybe not so much the rest, and he seems entirely unaware of 60.
