Trump is toast

[major debacle]

Trump is toast: This week really was the beginning of the end for the President

He is done. Donald Trump will be forced to resign the presidency before November 2020.

It's always looked like this might be where we were heading. But now it is far easier to believe it’s going to happen. The case against Trump has barreled past the tipping point. And there’s nothing he can do to reverse it.

Let’s break it all down.

(click link for the rest - NY Daily News)

[nmgaucho]

1. lulz

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[brush]

3. Hahahahahahahahaha! That is the best. Thanks for that image.

[erronis]

14. If that came out of my toaster it would be flushed down the loo, toot sweet.

[mountain grammy]

29. Hahahaha

[CentralMass]

41. That is the perfect substrate for shit on a shingle.

[LiberalLovinLug]

47. Brilliant! I just had to add his stupid raccoon eyes

[blugbox]

49. STOOOOOOOPPPPPPP!!!

Haha you're ruining my childhood memories of Powdered Toast Man!!

Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!!

[Totally Tunsie]

2. You said it!

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[tanyev]

4. I've had a bottle of this in the refrigerator for several months now.

Looking forward to opening it!

[BlueStater]

5. If the idiot had just stayed out of politics, he wouldn't be going through this nightmare now.

He could have lived the rest of his cushy life with most people unaware of his crimes.

But his ego and need for attention drove him to seek a job where your life is constantly under a microscope and now his corruption is being exposed to the world. His downfall is entirely on himself.

[grantcart]

25. He is Icarus

He would keep taking greater risks going higher and higher until the wings melted.

He openly opined that he could shoot someone and get away with it.

He was addicted to conning people and wanted to see how high he could go.

[elocs]

6. Trump is not toast until he's toast. So don't count your toast until it pops up. n/t

[erronis]

16. But I already smell it burning! Can I push the eject button, please?

[grantcart]

28. Nope.

Let it catch fire and take the entire GOP toaster with him

[Rural_Progressive]

43. Oh he's toast alright

if somehow the feds miss him, the newly elected Attorney General for the state of New York will not. She ran on a platform of bringing him and his crew to justice and was elected by a margin of 62 to 36 percent. She's got the power, the resources, and the will of the people behind her.

His brand is worthless, once he's without power no one will ever lend him a dime, he's the laughing stock of the world. Teflon Don's non-stick surface has been terminally compromised. He's taking the family and the GOP down with him.

You can count on it.

[jcgoldie]

7. Not only that

But I think we've only scratched teh surface. Something tells me when the depth of the russian collusion comes out, noone wills be arguing about campaign finance felonies for paying off porn stars.

[Oneironaut]

8. I disagree. Trump may even be re-elected.

I put his chances at 50% or greater, honestly.

I don’t agree Republicans will care. They’re already justifying his crimes before they were proven. Their response will be a simple “so what?”

There will be too much tribalism to have any meaningful conversation. Trump will use the tribalist atmosphere to claim persecution, and it will work to some extent. He doesn’t need to prove his innocence - he only needs to derail any momentum against impeachment.

His poll numbers will not change. Nothing can change his poll numbers at this point. He has a cult following. His cult followers treat him as the only legitimate news source.

[shockey80]

9. No fucking way, Lol.

[Oneironaut]

17. That people were dumb enough to elect Trump in the first place is proof he could be elected again.

Don't kid yourself - he's not out of it yet. Half of the country either doesn't follow politics or follows him blindly.

[watoos]

30. He won't run, he will cut a deal.

No way he runs for president, he is miserable, and scared shitless. He may even have a nervous breakdown before long, snorting all that Adderall isn't good for you. The Trump criminal enterprise is going to come crashing down.

[Garrett78]

11. I agree with much of what you said there, but I disagree about his chances of being re-elected.

Trump won't pull off a near-sweep of the battleground states like he did last time (look no further than the mid-term results in WI, MI, etc.). He won't be facing a candidate who has been the target of hate for 30 years. No last minute announcement by Comey about a media-embellished investigation into our candidate. Trump is no longer new and is now even more hated than he was 2 years ago. And I'm not sure Russia can have the same amount of impact this next time.

The days of a candidate winning 400+ electoral votes are long gone, but I do think a landslide by today's standards may be in the offing. I won't be surprised if our candidate gets in that 350-370 ballpark the way Obama did in 2008.

[erronis]

18. Agree with your analysis. But please add the other enablers: Kochs, Murdoch, Mercers, criminals.

[Garrett78]

22. Those will remain factors, of course. I was focused on what will be different than last time.

[Oneironaut]

20. I hope so, but I have no faith in the American public to care.

I think most vote for simplistic reasons like the economy. Others vote purely on tribalism / Facebook politics. Most people only follow politics at a superficial level.

[Garrett78]

27. The Republican Party is built on a foundation of racism and sexism.

It ceases to be viable absent those things. I don't think economic conditions have any real impact on Cult45.

I simply think we're going to outnumber the deplorables in enough of the battleground states to win handily in 2020. I think we'll have record-high turnout for Democrats. And I can't imagine Trump winning any of the states Clinton won. Not VA, CO, NV, or any of the rest. MI and PA were blue for 6 straight presidential elections prior to 2016. WI was blue for 7 straight. I think all 3 will come back to their senses in 2020.

[Takket]

45. check out the midterm results in PA, MI and WI

he has no path to victory without the states that he BARELY won in 2016, and the blue wave was a tsunami in those 3 states in 2018

[Vogon_Glory]

51. Texas might also be wobbly in 2020

Democrats did better than they did in Texas in decades, Latinos are a plurality (And some of them are FINALLY realizing that Agent Orange is dissing them), and more people vote in presidential elections. And without the Big Red Capstone State, Republicans don’t get to the White House.

[Quixote1818]

46. These investigations will continue perhaps passed the elections, the economy is getting shakey

and could go into recession. People are jumping ship big time and behind closed doors Republicans are telling the press they are about to jump shit.

There has been no fat lady but this is looking pretty dam bleek for Trump who already has an approval rating around 40%.

[Garrett78]

10. I think there remains a decent chance he'll be on the ballot in 2020.

But I wouldn't wager either way at this point.

[Blue Owl]

12. Burnt Sour D'oh

n/t

[erronis]

19. Cute. I like the painted-on orange color, also.

[Honeycombe8]

13. Goodbye, Trump! We hardly knew ye! (well, we really did).nt

[enid602]

15. Mueller

I think trump is toast because the republicans have a better chance of keeping the White House by running a victorious Mueller as an ‘Eisenhower candidate. Just as Ike saved us from the Nazis, Mueller saved us from Russia. A republican White House will be their best chance of saving their precious Tax Bill. It’s always been about that tax cut for the rich.

[erronis]

23. Wow - that's an incredible tangential tack. Maybe this was all a ruse

to get some other better (R)?

I think not. If anything, Mueller and any sentient (R)s will leave the party of Nixon/Gingrich/Reagan/MacDonnel/Ryan/etc.

[enid602]

52. Tax cut

No, it’s all about keeping the tax cut for the wealthy which, if you look at the recent trajectory of the deficit will make it mathematically impossible to pay SS, Medicare and Medicaid. Biggest redistribution of wealth in US history. All of this other drama merely diverts our attention.

[zentrum]

21. Didn't have Mitch McConnell

...under Nixon. His power will be more determinate of what happens than anything else.

Nixon had not been proactive enough to steal the Supreme Court and to seed all the other courts with with RW oligarch types.

Nixon did not have a rabidly supportive base that has a cult-like fixation of loyalty to Trump.

In other words, we still had a functioning 3-branch government but it's disintegrating now, Not at all sure how this will play out.

[watoos]

33. Mitch better hope that Maria Butina

doesn't have anything to say about him, and other Repugs.

[SpankMe]

24. This is an insult to toast. n/t

[DFW]

26. So are we if Pence takes his place

That will in no way improve our situation. If they don't both go at the same time, our lot will not have improved any. They will forget from one day to the next that there ever was anyone named Donald Trump, and go about their extremist right wing agenda with a fervor that will make the last two years seem like a rehearsal (which they will might tun out to have been).

[Duppers]

50. According to Rachel Maddow, it's provable that Pence

lied and had knowledge of Flynn's lying.

https://www.google.ca/search?client=opera&hs=MuC&ei=F2UAXIbqO62AtgWsl46wCQ&q=maddow+pence+flynn&oq=maddow+pence+flynn&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30l2.17569.18624..18984...0.0..0.119.677.0j6......0....1..gws-wiz.sc4i-90XZPs&gfe_rd=mr&pli=1

I'm hoping that Muller will chase Pence on this, in addition to his knowledge of tRump's wrongdoings and cover-ups.




Hat tip to Soph0571....

[catbyte]

31. Sigh. If there's someone utterly deserving the Medal of Freedom, it's Robert Mueller.

I can just see him now.

[safeinOhio]

32. Hold your horses....

We ain't seen nutting yet....


A new scandal every day, what next?

[watoos]

37. I agree, pretty soon Republicans are going to have to choose

between covering for a money grabbing, traitorous president, or saving our democracy. Why there may even be some Republicans implicated in the conspiracy. I'm especially interested in what Butina has to say.

[safeinOhio]

38. The NRA is broke, but

after their connections to Russian money, their cost for lawyers might bury them.

[Achilleaze]

34. republicans still deplorably submissive to their Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

republicans still turning their backs on truth, Americans, and American democracy. Sad. They will be scorned in the history books for their betrayal of honesty, decency, and the USA.

[Vinca]

35. He won't resign. Being in the office is the only thing keeping him out of jail.

[watoos]

40. Yeah but he is screwed regardless.

The new NY AG is going to put the hurts on the Trump crime family. This could take 10 - 15 years but what money Trump has is going to be a lot less, whether he goes to jail or not. Trump without money would be the same as his being in jail. He can't get a loan from any banks for a reason.

[MyOwnPeace]

36. I truly can see both possibilities...

I certainly agree with the original posting (Trump is toast) but I can also see the lack of faith in the American electorate. After all, they voted this guy in to begin with, didn't they?

Just like the mid-terms, we've REALLY gotta' GOTV and work our asses off to continue this cleansing process - our own country is at stake.

[VOX]

39. Unfortunately, whatever happens to 45 is entirely up to the Republican Party.

Up to this point, the majority of Republicans in office have stuck with Trump and propped him up or turned a blind eye. Including those Rs who’ve done nothing more than remain silent these past two years. None of them have taken any serious steps to speak out against the wall-to-wall blatent lying, corruption, nepotism, profiteering, not to mention mind-boggling mismanagement of funds and a disinformation campaign that would be the envy of Joseph Goebbels.

As long as the Republican Party decides it wants to keep taking it out on America and democracy, Trump will stand right where he is now: embattled and bruised, but to what extent? For the good of the country, the GOP must decide that their “stable genius” should be let go, and let the law of the land take its course. But will they?

For all the take-the-offensive strategies the incoming congressional Democrats might employ, please do whatever’s necessary to convince the GOP to spring the trap-door beneath their delusional, law-breaking figurehead (who’s currently posing as a fascist American president).

[watoos]

42. He will always have the support from the Freedumb caucus in the House.

They are in safe, gerrymandered districts. The Senate is the key. I expect a lot of nasty stuff is going to come out yet from Mueller and from the FBI in numerous states. Republican senators are going to have to make a decision whether clinging to Trump will get them reelected or not. Remember, Senators are elected state wide.

I don't expect Republican senators to do the right thing for the country, I expect they will do the right thing to get them reelected. It will be up to Republicans in the Senate to decide.

[erronis]

53. I agree with all, but I think you meant "repuglcon house members" instead of "senators" in the last

para.

But whatever - the repuglicons are all working to get rid of the people's voice.

[bluestarone]

44. I'd like to turn the toast over

Mc TURTLE has got to be on the other side!!!

[Cha]

48. Well written piece from TNYDNews!

Thank You!