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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,191 posts)
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:29 AM Oct 2017

There has to be a breaking point here with Trump. There has to be. Right?

Put aside the damage the Trump administration is doing to us all as Americans for just a second.

How long can this internal dysfunction in the White House go unchecked? These things have a way of just deteriorating rapidly.

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There has to be a breaking point here with Trump. There has to be. Right? (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 OP
Not unless he hugs a brown skinned person, then his base and congress would flip on him hard uponit7771 Oct 2017 #1
But he's even managed to alienate horrible people within his own administration at this point. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #5
Those people just know he's an idiot, his base on the other hand love how he hates brown skinned uponit7771 Oct 2017 #9
Does this count? oberliner Oct 2017 #11
Nope, person can't be paid or be a little child who has no choice ... has to be genuine hug uponit7771 Oct 2017 #13
I think there may be a photo of him hugging Ben Carson somewhere oberliner Oct 2017 #14
It was a hand shake, Carson's paid ... something like like this (pic inside) uponit7771 Oct 2017 #16
It's definitely a challenge oberliner Oct 2017 #17
i would have thought a couple of months in....but nooooooooooooo spanone Oct 2017 #2
If he makes a fool of himself in Vegas Watchfoxheadexplodes Oct 2017 #3
He'll fuck that up too but FAUX news will say he was just joking uponit7771 Oct 2017 #12
No way, in couple more years he will forget how to read the Lg text cue cards. Sunlei Oct 2017 #15
I'm wondering what it will take for Kelly to resign. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2017 #4
Nope, your only hope lies within one name. Funtatlaguy Oct 2017 #6
When the indictments drop, the end will come fast and furious. L. Coyote Oct 2017 #7
He comes in handy for the repukes mindem Oct 2017 #8
No. Now with the Republican party enabling him, their patsy will stay until he's evicted. Sunlei Oct 2017 #10
I just don't know how someone could have lived for 71 years, being a raging smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #18
We are at a place we've never been before in modern history DFW Oct 2017 #19
The GOP isn't going to do anything. CrispyQ Oct 2017 #20
This is correct Cosmocat Oct 2017 #21

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,191 posts)
5. But he's even managed to alienate horrible people within his own administration at this point.
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:34 AM
Oct 2017

Sessions, Price, Tillerson--none of them are good guys and yet Trump still creates problems with them.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."--Some old guy from long ago, I forgot his name. I think he had a beard.

uponit7771

(90,359 posts)
9. Those people just know he's an idiot, his base on the other hand love how he hates brown skinned
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:41 AM
Oct 2017

... people or what he's deemed to them as a threat.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,829 posts)
4. I'm wondering what it will take for Kelly to resign.
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:33 AM
Oct 2017

He's had a little success in making the trains run, if not on time, at least without derailing every day. But he has control only over WH staff, not the administration itself, and I expect that at some point he will get sick of watching the chaos.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
7. When the indictments drop, the end will come fast and furious.
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:37 AM
Oct 2017

Even anti-government identity politics won't tolerate criminals in control, too many conservatives are also moral conservatives rather than morally corrupt.

mindem

(1,580 posts)
8. He comes in handy for the repukes
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:39 AM
Oct 2017

I really think there was more press coverage of drumph throwing paper towels and other moronic conduct than any news of the repuke controlled house letting CHIP expire, etc. God knows what horrible things have transpired in the house while president cretin gets all the attention.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
18. I just don't know how someone could have lived for 71 years, being a raging
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 11:56 AM
Oct 2017

asshole the entire time and never receiving any comeuppance. Sooner or later, karma has to bite him in the ass. When it does, I want a front row seat.

DFW

(54,436 posts)
19. We are at a place we've never been before in modern history
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 12:06 PM
Oct 2017

We had a clueless president in W, also, but Cheney realized that during the campaign, which is why he took the VP job for himself--not only to get rich, but also to hold the hand of a president who had no idea what he was doing, and knew it.

Now, once again, we have a president who has no idea what he's doing. But this time, he has no one competent around to help him out, and an ego too large to admit his (and therefore, our) predicament.

CrispyQ

(36,502 posts)
20. The GOP isn't going to do anything.
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 12:13 PM
Oct 2017

Even if they can't get their agenda passed this time, they will not get rid of Trump & risk pissing off his base. I don't think they can win without his base.

Cosmocat

(14,568 posts)
21. This is correct
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 12:18 PM
Oct 2017

the Rs will NOT do anything about him, regardless of how bad it gets or how serious the dirt is on him, cause it is what they now to begin with, but as you noted, they know what would happen to the party if they did (it WOULD splinter).

As long as they go along with it, their association of hatefulness will stick together because however unhappy they may be with each other, they have absolute disgregard for their shared enemy - the liberal boogyman they need to have in order to have something in their minds that is more vile than they are. As long as the liberal is out there, they are justified in all the crazy ass shit they do.

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