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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat the hell are we waiting for???
This orange-faced, tiny-handed pussy-grabber is going to nuke North Korea if we don't get him the fuck out of office! He is infusing the entire world with hatred and resentment toward America and its citizens, and he is quite busy enriching himself and his close "friends" using the power of the office he neither won fairly, nor deserves, nor even understands.
And finally, he is taking all of his cues from murderous, kleptocratic dictator Vladimir Putin, and defunding or underfunding important areas of government while shoveling money into the already bursting coffers of defense contractors, Wall Street bankers, and CEO's of massive corporations that happily deprive this country of its natural resources and the health and welfare of its citizens.
So, what the hell are we waiting for?!
Why haven't we--at the very least--impeached this bloviating ignoramus!? And yes, I know that impeachment is not enough.
What is needed is a whole-sale removal of his administration, and a methodical undoing of everything he has "accomplished" in the short, stolen, national nightmare of his tenure as president.
It will be necessary to adjust our way of thinking, to think outside the box that is our Constitution. We are in crisis! Constitutional crisis! And so, we must find the solution not within our laws nor even our customs, but within our own ethics and morality. (And unfortunately, at least in my case, shoving his golf clubs directly up his ass doesn't exactly constitute ethical behavior.)
But what are we waiting for!? We have the proof of his treasonous collaboration with Russia! We have the proof of his constant self-dealing at the expense of American taxpayers! And we have almost daily evidence of his scary, sometimes deadly, incompetence in foreign affairs, as well as his narcissistic "the buck stops with somebody else--anybody else" attitude in virtually everything!
THIS HAS TO STOP! We must stop pretending that this is simply the new normal.
Every American of good conscience MUST ACT to prevent further damage to our nation and to the world. "Act how?" you ask. I wish I could tell you. I wish I could direct people in this effort, and for all of my exhortations you might think that I would jump at the opportunity to do just that. But unlike the Narcissist-in-Chief I am well aware of my capabilities and my failings.
But what I can and will do is continue to urge, encourage, and even plead with my friends and neighbors and anyone reading this, to recognize your own power, your own talents, your own positions, and use them to help free us from our corrupt, fraudulent, and criminal government.
And we have to act BEFORE he nukes North Korea, which I am convinced he will do, and he will sleep well that night. I won't.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)We lost that when we failed to turn out in large enough numbers to prevent Trump from gaining office. At this point, we have almost no power to affect Trump in any way, really.
Even collectively, we cannot remove him from office, as long as Republicans have control of Congress, and they're not going to begin impeachment right now. Even if they did, that process would take months, if not years.
There are a very few people who actually could change the course of history in this case, but none of us on DU are in that group, which may number under half a dozen.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Facts or what they are,and you listed them for all to see and read. So screwed!
kag
(4,079 posts)And, BTW, I am a fan of your writing.
I was mostly venting.
However, I do believe we are in a unique situation, one that the U.S. has never faced before. That is, having a president in office who is guilty of treason, both in his campaign for office, and in his actions since he assumed office. So, I guess in some ways I'm hoping we can come up with a unique solution--not one that is illegal according to our Constitution, but one that we have perhaps never tried, nor possibly even thought of.
I guess I can hope.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)No legal ones, at least. We are bound by the document that established this country with regard to removing a President.
You can hope, but you'll need to hope for something out of the normal range, I'm afraid.
kag
(4,079 posts)That is an awfully defeatist attitude. I'm not asking for miracles here. I just don't accept that having a thieving, narcissistic, incompetent, and down-right stupid president is the new normal.
I understand that when Obama was in office the right-wing racists and bigots felt similarly to the way I do now. And they might not have impeached him, but they did succeed, even when they were mostly powerless (i.e. Dems held the House and Senate) they succeeded in thwarting a hell of a lot of his agenda. They used the filibuster in unprecedented ways, they used procedural stalling, and they used their constituents by lying to them and riling them up to try to justify their own actions.
I'm not saying I want us to follow the lead of a bunch of bigots, but I do want to use our imaginations to try to thwart this administration's agenda, and possibly even remove the man himself from power.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Sadly, I believe you are engaging in some sort of wishful thinking. I am afraid that your wishes will not come true.
kag
(4,079 posts)I don't just think wishfully, I'll leave that to you. I prefer to at least TRY to do something...protest, write, teach...rather than just sit around watching CSI or whatever I can Netflix, just waiting for him to nuke North Korea off the planet and sell our country off bit by bit to Russian Oligarchs.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)We all take our own approaches to things. For myself, television isn't something I bother with very much, so you aren't describing me in your post. Good luck to you.
kentuck
(111,085 posts)Do not surrender to apathy and resignation.
RESIST !
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Impotent raving is just that.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)I wish that were not so, but it is the truth.
What is most frustrating to me is that we could have prevented this situation we now find ourselves in. That we did not do that may be one of the worst mistakes we have ever made, politically speaking.
I'm trying to maintain some optimism, but it's getting more and more difficult.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)These are trying times.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)We lost BIG in 2016. We lost the presidency and all branches of government. There's simply nothing to do but enjoy the ride until 2018, and hope Trump doesn't start WW3 somehow.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Hundreds of thousands (millions?) of South Koreans and North Koreans will die horrible deaths. There will be irradiated and deadly large areas on the Korean peninsula for many, many years.
Most of our military now stationed in SK will probably die in the opening minutes of Trump's Big Adventure. Mainland Japan might also receive some hits and I'm sure the evil dictator of NK will lob some missiles our way as well. Whether their tech is good enough to deliver a payload on a missile to the continental US is conjecture.
Maybe they will just put a nuke in a random cargo vessel that looks like it belongs to a friendly nation and sail into the port of LA or New York harbor and...
Oh and the radioactive dirt that is blasted into the atmosphere will circle the globe so all people can get a good whiff of it in their lungs, ain't nukes grand?
But I guarantee the reich wing republicans will attempt to silence all opposition to this massive loss of life.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)drumph is hell bent on distracting from the Russian Cyber War in which he took part along with many GOP accomplices like McConnell and Ryan. So many others it seems.
They are now trying every stalling tactic (during so called investigations) and limiting funding for such.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The ultimate distraction, no?
yodermon
(6,143 posts)They had ~4-5% of the population in the streets for week(end)s on end.
If we had a sustained 15 million protesters in the street week after week,
plus a general strike,
plus a tax strike,
plus massive acts of peaceful civil disobedience, then maybe we would see something.
It won't happen unless conditions get really bad for most ordinary Americans who aren't really plugged in to "politics".
In fact I thought about S. Korea when I was writing the OP and almost mentioned it.
It sucks that it will probably take something truly horrible for people to get up out of their recliners to go protest and raise hell, but we seriously need some hell-raising.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)Impeachment, via constitutionally-specified standards of being unable to competently and effectively serve, due to mental instability.
Now.
kag
(4,079 posts)NOW!