Trump’s presidency has so far improved my opinion of America as a nation. I basically thought he was going to come in and do whatever he wanted and people were going to be like, “Well, that’s democracy!” Turns out American democracy is more robust that I gave it credit. The media isn’t submitting, the people are taking direct action, the judicial branch is doing its job (and the executive seems to be too nervous to directly deny their legitimacy).
I felt like American had taken so much shit from their own government that they were going to continue on that direction. But it appears instead we’ve passed some kind of breaking point.
Y’know, I don’t take that as an insult; I grok it completely.
As horrifically bad as 45 is, (and he isfucking awful) the recent political clusterfuck has served to wake great masses of people up in a way that I’ve never seen in my entire lifetime, and that is a good thing.
You’d think so, but given that impeachment proceedings were begun against a President on the basis of a blowjob,
But that’s not actually true. He wasn’t impeached for the BJ, he was impeached for lying about it under oath in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. I was always surprised that the Republicans dropped the ball (so to speak) and chased the salacious gossip and not the perjury.
What I keep reminding myself of is that Trump lost the popular vote. He started in a hole and has shown that he doesn’t know how to do anything but dig.
It gives me some hope that the majority of people looked at Trump and Pence and said, “We don’t want an incompetent bigot who wrecks everything he touches in the White House…and putting Trump in there seems like a bad idea too.”
As of now there is no AfD Bundeskanzler and there won’t be, thanks to proportional representation and more than two parties to vote for. The presidential election in France is in April.
Trump IS president though.
I hope you’re right, but then everyone was sure there wouldn’t be a vote in favour of Brexit or a vote for the Orange Goon. I agree about Germany, but what’s going on in France makes me very nervous.
The audience for that is expanding. It’s not news to you, but it’s news to a lot of people. You were an early adopter of the facts. Stand true and encourage evidence gathering and daylight.
I’m so frustrated that it’s taken this long - and so much is still unacknowledged or not fully investigated (e.g. Trump being more or less owned by Russian mobsters these days). This should have happened before the election. Now, I’m just impatient that there isn’t a tsunami of the utterly devastating revelations being splashed across front pages.
No, it seemed like what she did was exactly what other people in that job had done, and which members of congress routinely do, without incident. Because it was. Not a great idea by any stretch of the imagination, but there was no evidence it was any bigger a deal in her case. Because it wasn’t. Republicans might have tried to turn it into a major scandal, but it was never such.
I find myself heartened by the response, but when Trump first became a viable Republican candidate, that totally destroyed what faith I had left in the US - that this shitgibbon could rally any amount of support in the first place said something unspeakably terrible about a big chunk of the American population. And that was when I was sure he was going to handily lose.
Yeah, I’m starting to have a terrible fear that the Trump presidency will implode quite quickly, Pence will take over the presidency as the bland white theocrat (aka the Anti-Bowie), but because it’s not Trump, everyone will relax, political movements that could have done some good will lose their steam, no one will show up for mid-term elections, Republicans will continue dismantling democracy…
