Acquitted but still impeached ... Trump thread 99

[TheClaws]

I’ll tell you a funny story. I’m a member of a very right-wing US politics online discussion group for kicks. The moderator of the group controls - and gets involved in - every discussion. (I should say the membership of this group is over 50K and the number of posts a day is generally 30 or so.) She’s also a typical Trumpian in that she reels off the standard “lamestream mass media” etc lines” and she mutes anyone who disagrees with her.

Anyway, I took her on eventually. She said that the Democratic candidates wanted to get rid of the Constitution. To this, I replied Trump flouts the Constitution on a regular basis. “What? Provide examples!” she replies. “Emoluments clause,” I replied. “That’s just one.”

GUYS. SHE HAD NOT HEARD OF THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE.

She then just spat something about she doesn’t read mass media lies and that’s why she didn’t know and muted me.

AIBU?

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3776378-Happy-Impeachment-Next-step-is-removal-Trump-thread-98

Looking at what's happened since the acquittal it's beginning to look like the start of a non-violent Night of the Long Knives.

Today I'm having one of those stupid 'hopeless' days. DH has gone camping and he's always good at chivvying me out of it. He'll be home this afternoon. Until then and some 'fight song' music will do.

'WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pushed aside his acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, because he was angry that lawmakers were briefed about Russia's plan to interfere in the 2020 election to help Trump, a former intelligence official briefed on the matter told NBC News.

NBC News had previously confirmed that the election briefing by Shelby Pierson, the DNI’s election security czar, angered Trump, but had not confirmed the content of the briefing. The news was first reported by the New York Times.'

www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-anger-cost-joseph-maguire-job-director-national-intelligence-n1140086

Sally Yates
@SallyQYates
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'This is a screaming red siren, but in the daily barrage of crazy, can we hear it?Trump is not only trying to rewrite history of Russia’s intervention in 2016, he is now using the power of the presidency to conceal their 2020 scheme to re-elect him.Dangerous!'

The frustrating infuriating part is that we all know it. Congress Dems know it. Yet we see nothing being done!!! I have to believe that, like the proverbial duck swimming upstream, they appear to be doing nothing but they're paddling like hell underneath the water.

@AcrossthePimd55 what else do you expect the Democrats do? They blew their shot with the impeachment. He was acquitted. The only thing that can be done is him not being re-elected. Unfortunately that won’t happen because the Democrat Party is completely inept. Nancy Pelosi needs to get her ass back to San Francissico and deal with massive problems her constituents are dealing with

I think things are being done Across.

Oh yes.

$28 billion.

americanindependent.com/donald-trump-tariffs-farmers-bailout-money-china-trade-war-economy/

Every cloud...

White House fears coronavirus could shape Trump's 2020 fortunes
Though Trump in public has downplayed the virus, privately he has voiced his own anxieties.
www.politico.com/news/2020/02/21/coronavirus-trump-white-house-116650

And on that note - I'm surprised he's not pulled out from travelling to those pesky furriner countries next week.

I suspect he's just afraid of catching it.

edition.cnn.com/2020/02/20/us/coronavirus-racist-attacks-against-asian-americans/index.html

foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/

'As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic.'

Warren.

newrepublic.com/article/156641/radicalism-warrens-unapologetic-aggression

......distressed confusion...........

Lweji
I suspect he's just afraid of catching it.

Well, if anyone in the USA has to, that would be kinda satisfactory.

Over sixty-five? Check.
Unhealthy? Check.

He might even die. But it would be better if he didn't, just wasn't well enough for a few months to ramp about the place breaking things.

The outbreak will be over by April anyway.

Don't forget his highly qualified personal doctor.

www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-21/twitter-suspends-bloomberg-accounts

Thanks lion.

Facebook quiet as usual?

One can but hope.

India Doesn't Want Monkeys Attacking Trump During Taj Mahal Visit
Police plan to use slingshots during the president's upcoming visit to ward off hundreds of aggressive monkeys living near the centuries-old mausoleum.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-taj-mahal-monkey-attack_n_5e4eb356c5b615cb7bdc0ce3

Am I being evil if I really, really hope that a monkey snatches off his wig, and lots of people capture the moment on camera?

Th eagle didn't take to him, did it?

Am I being evil if I really, really hope that a monkey snatches off his wig, and lots of people capture the moment on camera?

Not more than me willing him to catch COVID-19.

Kyle Griffin (MSNBC)
@kylegriffin1

'When Trump national security adviser Robert O'Brien convenes meetings with NSC officials, he sometimes opens by distributing printouts of Trump's tweets on the subject at hand. Their job is to find ways of justifying, enacting or explaining Trump's policy.'

www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/national-security-council-trump-policy.html?referringSource=articleShare

www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/23/the-lost-constitutional-tool-to-protect-voting-rights-116612

Oh dear. Wall Street.