'I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration'

AKA me, and no it will just once more show how disfunctional congress is.

 

Your post reminded me of my grandmother.

When she was a young secretary, she had a boss who would often come back from lunch completely drunk. On occasion he would dictate a letter or three to clients or suppliers. Those letters were angry and abusive and would certainly have resulted in those customers and suppliers being lost to the company. So she typed the letters up and never brought them in for signature. Or if he remembered to ask to sign them, she brought them in but never put them in the mail.

She was protecting the company, which could easily have failed if his letters had gone out. Was that foul and unacceptable behaviour? I don't think so.

Sometimes incompetent people rise to positions of power. Fortunately there are often enough competent people around them to control the damage that they are capable of causing. That's what is happening with this president. Part of me thinks, "unleash him and let all his supporters see just how awful things are capable of becoming". But it isn't just his supporters who would suffer. It would be the whole country. Potentially the whole world.

 

No ... the White House needs to be cleaned by all idiots, fake news kings, idiots, incitement and inept people.

Ooops! Then Donald Trump and his whole troop would have to fly out and new elections would be necessary!

 

Punch back? Don't be silly. Trump is the punch back dreamed of by so many crazy conspiracy theory nuts for so long. Trump is the final head explosion caused by belief in all the stories told by Limbaugh, Hannity, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, AM radio, Fox, the AltRight, and all the other crazy right wing lying liars. He is their final best hope for revenge for all the imagined slights the crazies think they have suffered. When he is finally completely discredited and discarded, most of his followers will wake up like a drunk after a binge, ashamed and regretful of their embarrassing behavior, and vow to never do that again. There will still be differences between the right and left, but I doubt the right will go crazy again any time soon, and chance the inevitable hangover and shame that their recent behavior surely causes.

 

Because it makes sense to inform people about the truth ... which is hardly possible because the government is quick to use the homicidal "National Security" !.

Easy question:
Edward Snowden is indeed in the eyes of the US government and many Americans as traitors. Indisputably he has by his alleged betrayal but the criminal ... according to US laws clearly criminal! ... machinations of the US intelligence services, especially the NSA and the covering US governments Bush and Obama made public.

Would Snowden have had another realistic chance to make these crimes public? No!

 

DJT wrote the OP ED, he is desperate to tickle the hyper fear gene that runs through his sycophant supporters. DJT knows what he has done/doing and who is on it .

 

Its not a sure thing to believe that the lib media is not lying

But the odds are pretty good that they are lying

You operate on blind faith but I want evidence

 

Bunch of nonsense. But I guess it will stop us from introducing a bill to repeal the 22md Amendment until after the midterms. #MAGA

 

Strange tweet by NYT reporter. Maybe it's another Christopher Steele hit piece.

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jodikantor‏Verified account @jodikantor

So basically: Times reporters now must try to unearth the identity of an author that our colleagues in Opinion have sworn to protect with anonymity?

 

You betcha

We need facts not fantasy

Whether the NY Times editors made up a work of fiction based on ther anti trump prejudices or someone did it for them does not matter

If they cant put a nane and a face to it its just lining for the birdcage

 

Actually, section 4 of the 25th Amendment describes a clear and unambiguous method.

It also sets a higher bar than impeachment. Not only does the cabinet have to concur first, but two thirds of BOTH houses of Congress must also, Which sets a higher bar than impeachment.

There is NOTHING in practice or precident that defined "high crimes and misdemeanors" regarding impeachment. There is NO requirement for serious criminal culpability.

I believe that the reality at this point is that impeachment is getting much closer to being on the table than it was even a few weeks ago. I still think it's unlikely. Indeed, I believe that the probable solution will be for the opposition party to take one or both houses of Congress this fall.

Once that happens, Democrats will be in the driver's seat on the potential issue.

The Democrats are not going to make the same mistake the GOP did in 1998. There will be no attempt to impeach without a clear understanding that there are the votes to convict.

And any Republicans who secretly want that to happen now, are equally anxious for the other party to take the lead, so they can hide behind their skirts (which is what happened with the bailout in 2008 after the economic collapse).

In the end, Trump's fate rests in the hands of one man.........Mitch McConnell.

One nod from the turtle, and Trump is gone.

 

You mean the votes of 60 million Amercans are in jeapordy

But don5 worry

McConnel is a swamp rat but not that much of a rat

 

Even if you give a crap on my bad opinion as a foreigner ... and I do not look at you as informed for US things ....

62,979,636 Americans are in jeapordy, because voted for this Donald jerk
65,844,610 Americans are not in this jeapordy, because voted for the other Hillary jerk

Simple like that.

 

It would be 8 years of obama all over again.

 

Is that why the WH is frantically searching for leakers?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html

You must know more than Trump knows.

 

The American people didn't elect him, the electoral college elected him. He lost the popular vote. But to your point, too many people did vote for him....

 

RINO (Republican In Name Only) RINOs politically allied themselves with leftists in order to 'get' Trump by any means possible; both legal and illegal. It's what happens when one's actual political philosophy becomes, 'The End Justifies the Means'. Now you know. No charge for the lesson.

 

Lol...Maybe it was John Barron.

 

Come back when you have something intelligent to say. You sound like a sixth grader.

 

That is Donald Trump's philosophy. Since the day he was born.

 

That would cover the majority of the entire government from the Fed on down.

 

Im betting its Pence, or a speechwriter he uses if this is real-- because of the inclusion of lodestar, which he has included in speeches regularly. Someone should recognize the way the author writes, and maybe some of the ways they express themselves when writing.

 

Trump picked the heads of the departments and agencies the vast majority underneath are career holdovers

 

I know you want to believe in the "deep state" conspiracy theory, but everything points to this being part of Trump's administration.

The Op-Ed says they want his to be a successful presidency - just resist his worst impulses. That doesn't sound like an Obama holdover. It sounds like someone he picked.

 

Becoming President largely through criminal skulduggery and the aid of a hostile foreign power is not a trivial matter. We do not elect a King and must therefore tolerate any degree of misrule including tampering with the electoral process that put him in power in the first place. The Presidency is a very high and prestigious position but in the final analysis he is a manager, nothing more, and if it appears he is managing our ruin as a democratic nation and free country we have a duty to put another in his place. In my lifetime I have seen one President, a man whom was elected by a very large margin and is to this day regarded as among the more competent Presidents we have had in other areas, have to resign due to electoral tampering. Why should this President be any different?