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Honestly his being alive might be a net positive at this point. Republicans have now seen how far they can push the base. Once they get a slightly more competent psychopath in place we'll be five shades more fucked than we are already

Can't wait for the Jake Tapper book to come out later on all this.

I hate how much he reminds me of my late dad. Except my dad was well read and smart. Ah shit that's not fair. My dad was generally well intentioned. But the narcissistic bullying and emotional volatility and the blaming and the gaslighting tho...

The fact that this line appears not to be crossed already is the single most damaging aspect for the US

We can excuse the sexual assault (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the racism (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the child rape (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse hating the poor (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the ableism (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the corruption (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the misogyny (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the ineptitude (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse another pointless Middle East war (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse destroying the social fabrics (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the backstabbing on long standing allies (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse dragging the country into economic turmoil (in fact we encourage it)
We can excuse the violations of the Constitution (in fact we encourage it)

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Problem is most of the congress has empowered Trump too much, so if they step out against him, they are going to be equally implicated.

At this point, it is ride or die for them.

Traitors gonna treason.

Surely that point has long passed?

Literally no, he could start dragging congress people out and shooting them dead in public and the GOP would cover him for it. Say it's too soon to discuss between rounds. Especially if he leaves the GOP for last, at which point the dead are declared RINOs and ignored.

I think January 6 makes his current term illegal.

There is literally no mechanism by which that happens.

Practically speaking, the next President has to go through and undo all of this asshole's changes on paper, by signing new EOs and (in some cases) asking Congress for a law to sign. Most of it is administrative, so easy to undo without Congress.

We can't do anything about anyone he pardoned. They stay pardoned. Can't get around that, Constitutionally.

There was a good bit of complaining (for whatever that was worth) and W's approval rating was in the shitter just like trump's. Along came 9/11 which was definitely just an intelligence failure even though it was the best possible thing that could have happened for Bush.

One of the many forgotten things about November 2000 was that the Supreme Court -- before its final ruling awarding the Presidency to Bush -- issued an injunction stopping the recount in Florida on the grounds that it would call into question the legitimacy of Bush's win.

Is that Dickinson?

Pretty sure it was Trump's body that was inside the child.

And we'll finally figure out cold fusion and faster than light travel and a unified field theory and everyone will get a pony

That would require Dems to do something.

Eventually we'll get his second term declared invalid, and roll back all of his EOs, legislation, etc., including pardons.

Let me fix that for you:

Eventually he'll get his second term declared invalid, and use that as his reason for running for his third term.