lol @ the false premise. The whole point is that he can violate a **** ton of norms without becoming a liability for the GOP. He can violate norms TO entrench his and their power.

Not quite true, due to Sessions recusing himself.

yea that's kinda the problem and is the main reason that congress hasnt turned on him yet

basically we have to wait til ossoff and others start shipping elections

Agree that the Congresscritters are mostly interested in themselves, but right now, they are better off with Trump than without by a pretty good margin.

I was about to tease you for posting a tautology and then I see two Phd's disagreeing with it.

If they had only waited til Wednesday to annouce this. It's Donny's bday.


https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/874462577069363201

so how did republicans do after nixon stepped down? Did they win a bunch of elections for doing the right thing, or did they become a congressional minority for like 20 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_...tes_Congresses

Looks like Dems gained 5 senate seats and almost 50 house seats the election after Nixon resigned.

LOL at anyone who thinks impeaching Trump will ever be in the self-interest of Republicans

God, you're dumb. I literally pointed out it was a truism.

The GOP is in a no win situation. They are basically gambling that at some point, the Dems, media, and #Resistance give up and stop trying. It might work, but I doubt it. Look at how much crap has happened since January. We have another year of this **** before the 2018 election starts becoming a big part of the news cycle.

Look at all the chaos going on now. Trump hasn't even had a crisis yet. What's he going to do if there's a major earthquake or a hurricane? He denied 99% aid to North Carolina (A state that voted for him!) for Hurricane Matthew. Imagine a Katrina or Sandy situation and Trump refusing to release federal dollars to help.

He is literally going to **** over millions of people at some point. The GOP can ignore it but they are tied to Trump whether they like it or not.

I was going to write a post line yours a week ago, but then I thought about what Trump would do in a crisis.
Obviously if it's a terrorist attack, he's going to blame Obama/ Democrats.
In case of a Natural disaster he's going to do a photo op thing of helping people and we'd still have to rely on the media to break the cult.
Maybe of the disaster happens in a red state, some Rs in congress will turn on him, but if a disaster happens in a blue state, nothing's going to change.

Not sure the dem winning seats after nixons impeachment proves it was the impeachment itself that lead to the loss. I don't see the midterms going well for republicans at the rate things are going either way and firing mueller coupled with the **** storm that'll follow might even be worse for them than a controversial impeachment for obstruction.

He's on the brink of going from plausible deniability into "yea i did it, so what, you ain't gonna prove nothin".

On the brink? He's basically OJ writing a book called "If I obstructed justice..."

Of course it doesn't prove that, but do you think the current crop of Trump-ball lickers who call themselves the GOP realize there's a difference between causation and correlation?

If you even said those words around them they'd probably have you arrested.

Some do some don't. What percent of them do you think are genuine ball lickers though, and how many of the ones who appear to be so are just doing it to save face because they see no clear way out?

If disapproval ratings continue on the path they're going there'll be more to gain from being the guy who made the principled vote for impeachment than there will be for being the guy who stayed loyal to a president that nobody trusts/likes.

People are fickle and our human nature shows that. If Trump's rating continue to be in the toilet, those that are "on the fence" will turn on him. They want to be on the winning team, and if things aren't getting better, they will jump off the bandwagon. Trump touting coal mining jobs in PA may appeal to the mouth breathers but no one is going to give a **** if they continue to lose jobs.

Trump is not a popular guy. He's just not. He lost the election by millions of votes, has a 36% approval rating, and he is creating chaos everywhere he goes.

If this package was delivered to my door, I would ****ing shoot it.

Any natural disaster victims will be made coal miners.

Easy peasy

We might have reasonably fair-ish sort of elections in 2020 if you ignore the inevitable rampant voter suppression/paramilitary groups harassing minorities, Trump using government money to campaign, using his Justice Department to intimidate political opponents with threats of jail, bullying the media into covering him positively and his opponents negatively, and other sundry predictable nonsense. Hard to say though.

Don't forget death threats keeping people from running on the Democratic side. Three so far.

Indiana voter registration group, employees charged with falsifying applications
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.553f380c490a

and if we fade all this bs, we still have to overcome the gerrymandering disadvantage.

More official statements!



https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...78159676665857

It would be interesting to see which republicans offered support to Nixon (because it took a lot of republicans a long time to figure out that ship was sinking, right?) and how they faired in their following elections.

I think that image should be posted on the "Fox and Friends, fans" Facebook page.