Or in that kind of situation, how easy would it be simply not to come back?

I don’t think he’d resign unless the GOP physically grabbed him and carried him out of the White House.

If he were somewhere overseas, he’s automatically become a flight risk. What would stop him from visiting the nearest Russian embassy? Then technically he’d be on Russian soil and no longer reachable by US law or law enforcers.

I think he’d try to sneak away and beat the rap. He’d never want to lower his royal extra-entitled self to face questioning or charges or any kind of custody. He’s a king and supreme leader and dictator, dontchaknow. Facing charges is like paying taxes. As Leona Helmsley once said, only the little people have to do that.

LOVE it!!!

What a GREAT kid! You raised a true patriot, CTyankee!

And a really wonderful, thoughtful, considerate kid, too.

That works too!

Heaven forbid we EVER drop our guard at the state and local level!!!

Because THAT is where this evil first takes root. At the state level - with majority CONS in place in the state legislatures, and a CON as the state attorney general and/or in the governor’s mansion.

We HAVE TO vote Democrats in there. HAVE TO! Democrats want to expand the access to voting. The GOP wants the opposite.

And don’t kid yourself that they’d stop there. I knew this the fateful moment when I heard that male caller to the Limbaugh show who complained that “this country started going downhill when women got the right to vote.” I’ve learned enough about crowd dynamics and group-think to know that if one person’s saying that, it often means others are thinking that. And that should be a red alert moment.

Just think of it in terms of that Rabbi Niemöller poem...
“First they came for the black voters and I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t black.
Then they came for the Latino voters and I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a Latino.
Then they came for the women voters and I didn’t say anything because I’m not a woman...
And who will be next? Oh, I’d say anyone who doesn’t strictly believe and pray and hate and hold grudges and vote the way they do.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world!

And if we get a good one, trump will not exactly be sittin' on top of the world anymore.

I'm taking another deeper dive through George Lakoff's book

“Don’t Think of an Elephant.” Tremendously illuminating! Describes the mentality of the other side of the aisle. Their worldview is that the whole “stern father” approach - basically a “Do As I Say Until You’re Old Enough To Move Out and Then You’re ON YOUR OWN” philosophy - IS a moral approach for conservatives. As opposed to the opposite, the “nurturing parent” approach that encourages, helps, and offers backup whenever needed - which is what liberals tend to view as moral. The “stern father” approach includes punishing. Not so much for the “nurturing parent” approach.

Lakoff goes on to describe how the “stern father” approach also sees morality in self-interest - whatever’s good for me is good, and if everybody operates that way, it’ll create a trickle down effect in which everybody benefits. On the other hand, the “nurturing parent” approach goes toward a broader interest that prioritizes the common good, not the self-interested “what’s in it for me” preference.

Sure seems to make sense to me. Followers of both approaches see profound morality in their own favorite option because of the underlying philosophy of how they see the world.

Quite fascinating reading! I’ve read pieces of it but not from cover to cover before. Most illuminating, and validates the instincts I’ve had about this stuff for a long time.

Excellent graphic. Definitely a keeper.

Well, if it looks like one, walks like one, talks like one, and quacks like one...

maybe that’s exactly what he is.

This WAS the improvement President Obama built.

This WAS the mess left by the last CON-jobbers (bush/cheney), that President Obama CLEANED UP. Took him eight years to get the deficit AND the unemployment rate AND the number of uninsured DOWN, and the GDP, the stock market, consumer confidence, even corporate profits UP.

trump did NOTHING but try to take credit for all that hard work and heavy lifting over the eight years before him. He’s like the guy at the end of the conveyor belt who puts the last screw in place and then claims that he built the whole thing from the ground up. So trump puts a cherry on top of the sundae and then claims he built the whole ice cream parlor.

Results like you see in this graph might make you wince ONLY when you think how much greater and wider and more broad-based they’d be if the republi-CONS hadn’t done their damnedest to hobble and hamstring and obstruct him every damn step of the damn way.