What’s Il Douche to do? Well, hold rallies, of course! I can hardly wait.
And the future Fox and Frauds headline:
Senate Names Trump to President Emeritus!
"Today, by unanimous vote, the Senate has elevated Donald Trump to be America’s first President Emeritus. The President Emeritus will abstain from the mundane and trivial everyday duties of President to allow him more time for glorious and transcendent incandescence. In a rare gesture of graciousness, President Trump has insisted that Vice-President Pence be officially “inaugurated” as President.
Due to an upsurge in violent deranged hippie college radicals, preparations are under way to move PE Trump to a secure location in Leavenworth, Kansas…"
If impeachment fails on the 1st try, then attempting it up again and again would be perceived as a political ploy. It would be perceived as being more about partisanship than about genuine impeachment.
And while I think Trump has already done a lot that is deserving of impeachment, does anyone else get this impression that…some people support impeachment just because they think it would be “interesting?”
There are two new heavy straws on this camel’s back. I think one more will just about do it. Sadly, the only way to impeachment from his base’s disapproval would prob be to let Ryan’s healthcare agenda pass and then just wait.
Well, shit, that WAS his idea all along. Don’t you remember Jarod interviewing Pence and being quoted as asking Pence if he’d like to the “most powerful VP in history, in charge of foreign and domestic matters”? Pence reported asked what Trump would be in charge of, and the answer was “making America great again!” (paraphrasing from memory).
I think one thing that helps Trump a lot is the level of vociferous Democratic opposition.
If Trump would have been treated well by Democrats and liberals prior to the actions that are being treated as impeachment material, and then in response to these actions there began a move to impeach him, it would have more credibility. But there’s been extreme opposition even before all of this (particularly over the Russia issue, which so far has been all smoke and no fire), and this leads many people - especially Trump supporters - to discount any and all opposition to Trump as being just more of the same.
I read an interesting article recently which attributed Trump’s election victory (at least in part) to late night comedians mocking him. The writer felt that their constant mocking of Trump helped him, in that it promoted a partisan backlash by viewers who identified with Trump’s positions and felt that they themselves were being mocked too.
Had Kasich taken the deal it’s extremely unlikely that Trump would have stuck to it after the election.
He’s also thinking he can beat Pence for the 2020 nomination, based on his backtracking from his earlier statement that he’s never running for office again.
Pence took the job because it was the only way he could get out of Indiana without tar and feathers.
It is hilarious when non-liberals talk about a “liberal bubble.” The actual research that has ever been done on this shows that by any reasonable measure liberals are not bubbled, as a whole, while conservatives are.
The more Democrats oppose Trump, the more the GOP rank and file will demand that the GOP help Trump *withstand *impeachment. Better for Democrats to be quiet for a few months and let the GOP do the loud vocal criticism of Trump and impeaching of Trump, with the Dems only showing up to cast votes on Impeachment Day.
