According to the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Hugh Shelton, Clinton mislaid his laminated code card, nicknamed the “Biscuit,” for several months in 2000.
In the moments before Reagan was wheeled into the operating theater, he was stripped of his clothes and other possessions. The Biscuit was later found abandoned, unceremoniously dumped in a hospital plastic bag.
On the down side, it does have an E-Z menu.
The Football also provides the commander in chief with a simplified menu of nuclear strike options—allowing him to decide, for example, whether to destroy all of America’s enemies in one fell swoop or to limit himself to obliterating only Moscow or Pyongyang or Beijing.
The biggest reason this has seemingly no traction is that the Congress, and especially the house, are held by the president’s party. There’s basically no chance of impeachment proceedings so the story has no legs. If congress flips in the fall like some are predicting the situation could change drastically.
I’m not even talking about impeachment right now, I’m talking about how “Hillary Clinton paid to cover up her affair with a PORN STAR” would basically be the only story in the news for months and she’d have been pressured to resign by her own party. For Trump it’s just one more scandal to throw on the pile.
I’m sure it will come up on MSNBC quite a bit. You are right that the “liberal” media in the US doesn’t propagandize nearly to the extent that the conservative media does. Hell, Fox commentators still angry about Chappaquiddick. No left leaning news organization could hope to keep that in the news nearly 50 years later.
Perhaps not. The DNC would do a very political calculation for 2020: Would they rather run against Donny Caligula, or President Pence, who would look like the Second Coming after Trump?
Gerald Ford didn’t exactly cruise to victory in '76, in large part because he couldn’t adequately distance himself from his disgraced predecessor. If the Dems don’t at least try for impeachment then they’ll alienate their base even further.
Definitely want to run against Pence. Other than his weird sexual hangups he’s incredibly boring. Trump has the charisma to fire up the base and get them to the polls, especially in rural communities. In modern politics the “swing voters” basically don’t matter. What matters is how enthusiastic your base is.
Also, yes, I’m firmly in the “Bernie would have won” camp.
I’m going to facepalm real hard in 2020 when the Dems try to run some ultra-boring Washington insider candidate yet again and ask their base to hold their nose.
This sickens me beyond belief. Why are Democrats so disorganized and tone deaf? We on the left are the ones holding the line culturally, scientifically and morally, so how could we let it happen that the biggest name on the left is the shoddiest group of shysters in the country? I mean COME ON. I’m facepalming now, every goddamn day.
Angry people vote, and I’m sure the right would be frothing angry if Trump were removed, and since nothing bad about Trump seems to stick with them, there’d be a shameless lack of disgrace.
The timing would matter too. Nothing could start until January 2019, and then how long would impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate take?
What the DNC might settle for is impeachment without following through on removal, thus forcing the Republicans to put Trump down themselves in a messy fight for the 2020 primaries. (Impeachment isn’t a bar from running again, right? Edit: It seems to be a separate vote for disqualification, but that would be a trip to the courts for a ruling.)
Personally, I think they should drive the stake in when they get the chance, because no disgrace will slow Trump down. He could be caught with a dead boy in his bed, and he’d go on and on about how unfair it was.
I don’t want Trump removed soon because that would give Pence time to look presidential. Incumbents have an advantage.
The Right WOULD be mad if Trump were removed, but I don’t think there’s enough of them (Trump supporters) to really matter IF the Dems run a good candidate.
I want Trump to lose in the biggest landslide ever. Sure, he an his supporters would claim it was the illegals, or space aliens, but they would know, as we do, that Trump screwed up big time.
If the Dems take the House, they can counter some of what Trump might try to do.
I agree with you. Impeachment would just make Trump a right-wing martyr.
I’d rather the Dems take the house in the fall and hamstring Trump at every turn. Turn Trump into a 2 year lame-duck president. He’ll still be able to do many bad things but they should tie him up with investigations and committees so hard that his monumental failures will be finally put on public display. If he decides to run again in 2020 he would be assured the biggly-est loss in modern history. He would be forced to finally tuck tail and slink away and this horrible nightmare will end.
No party has yet managed to retain control of the White House in an election following impeachment proceedings against a President of said party. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were followed by Republicans and Gerald Ford lost the first post-Watergate election to a Democrat.
Even setting election strategy aside, if Trump has committed acts worthy of impeachment we have a collective duty to carry out the process.
I am wondering…if the orange Cheeto’s lawyer proposed and wrote the NDA and Stormy Daniels did sign and return, does the other side need to sign it? I recall learning that the initiating party of a contract need not sign because it’s all their idea and of course they agree or they wouldn’t have made the proposal. But this cannot be that cut and dry, can it? Her lawyers wouldn’t move ahead with something so obviously incorrect, would they?
Well, Cheeto’s story is that the lawyer paid her without Cheeto’s knowledge. If he’s going to stick to that, the judge might conclude that the lawyer might have drawn up the NDA without his knowledge, so his signature would be necessary. Of course, I am not a lawyer.
