If Trump gets away with his racist remarks

[orangecrush]

against members of congress with impunity, we are finished.

If this does not enrage our leadership enough to launch an all out do or die effort to remove this cancer of a man from office, our party has lost it's morality, it's decency, it's soul.

[bitterross]

1. "If" Of course he will

No one will hold him accountable.

[mainstreetonce]

3. Every Candidate running for every office

Especially Reps need to be asked to give a specific response to today's tweet.

[superpatriotman]

43. And then pivot to their own policies

Because answering a brat gives the brat power, and allows the brat to frame your message.

[OKNancy]

2. Being a racist is not an impeachable offense unfortunately

We have to win in 2020. This will be our revenge.

( “treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.” are what is in the Constitution)

[orangecrush]

4. How many families have to be terrorized, rounded up, and interned

in the camps before you think it's time to go after him?

Can you give me a number when it's not o.k. anymore?

[OKNancy]

5. I gave you a clearly spelled out reason that he can't be impeached

for the reasons you stated. Going after me and being nasty to me won't change facts.

No doubt Trump is sub-human, but there is no need to fly off the handle to someone who is on your side.

[orangecrush]

7. My intent is not to be nasty to you.

My intent is to emphasize a nasty reality that if not dealt with in a DECISIVE manner is going to become something much worse.

[StarfishSaver]

11. How will impeaching him change or stop his behavior?

[orangecrush]

17. Public impeachment hearings

will take away the rights narrative.

The findings will make headlines daily, eroding his support.

He is a narcissist, the constant negative publicity will cause him to show his true colors in the worst way, which will only lose him more support.

[StarfishSaver]

20. His behavior is already getting headlines daily

He doesn't care. His base doesn't care. and people in the middle who haven't yet made up their minds are tuning out the noise.

He's going to continue doing exactly what he's doing until he's voted out of office.

[watoos]

26. Orangecrush is 100% right,

Trump's skill is controlling the narrative, impeachment hearings will take away that skill, we will control the narrative. I listened to one of the authors of one of his books who knows Trump a lot better than you or I and this author said that impeachment hearings will devastate Trump. One can imagine a daily dose of exposing the Trump crime family's crimes, the effect that would have on a Narcissist.

Trump's base is what it is, it is not going to grow, if anything impeachment will shrink it.

Finally, if there are grounds for impeachment it is not a choice, it is an obligation. In the words of Justin Amash, "the problem isn't that we impeach too often, the problem is that we do not impeach enough which gives the president the sense that he is above the law."

There are no good reasons to not impeach Trump, it is the duty of the House to open impeachment now.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

34. There are good reasons smart Democrats, like Pelosi won't impeach.

Impeachment hearings would not last until the elections. The GOP controlled Senate has already pledged to quickly quash ANY attempt at impeachment. And a failed attempt at impeachment would allow Trump to play victim, thus increasing the voter base for himself and GOP Senators.

[uponit7771]

37. His behavior might not changed but it will make sure to express the wrongness of them

[BannonsLiver]

14. About 18 months if we're lucky.

There’s a number. That’s roughly the time between now and Inauguration Day.

[JI7]

16. in the end it will always be elections. also pelosi realizes more than most how bigoted this

country is. SHE was the target for years.

[Blues Heron]

28. I think it is - officer and a gentleman and all that

unfit for office.

[uponit7771]

36. Yes it is, racism goes against liberal democracies

[Vinca]

6. Why won't he get away with saying them? They're just words . . . he's following through with

actions and he's getting away with it. No one seems to be stopping him. If I hear about one more subpoena being issued rather than court action re the previous subpoena that was ignored, I'll scream.

[orangecrush]

8. The roundups start today.

We are the "good Germans" for allowing this to happen without lifting a finger.

[Vinca]

9. Chilling, but true.

[BigOleDummy]

49. EXACTLY!!!!!

And well said. The more we just sit back and do nothing the worse it will be. I admire Ms. Pelosi , and have for a long time, but I just get the feeling that she's scared of our chump in chief. Why? I have no idea.

[Loge23]

10. It's the worst thing he ever said

..until tomorrow. This is numbing the people, but he's following through with his evil.
What's next?
I just hope everyone in America that still has a functioning brain is aware that we have until November 3, 2020 to save this country...and by then it may even be too late if it isn't already.

[wasupaloopa]

12. He can only be remove by losing the 2020 election.

No matter what he has done Repubs will not convict him.

[watoos]

27. What Senate Republicans do

will be a stain on them.

[uponit7771]

38. Trump let us know there will be no 2020 election he's going to cheat

[customerserviceguy]

13. This is just

another "Birther" scam. He got away with that one, didn't he?

[Initech]

15. Seriously let's use the alert button on this one.

You can report his tweets and today they are especially a violation of Twitter's policy about hate and racism. If enough people report it, they can't ignore it.

[orangecrush]

18. I wish they would ban him

but I doubt they will.

[Initech]

19. No, he can say the most hateful shit he wants and gets nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

[uponit7771]

39. THIS !!!! Why is Twitter allowing Trump's racism?!?!

[Hortensis]

21. Our times are dramatic enough without melodrama.

Trump makes racist remarks almost daily and we're still here.

[uponit7771]

40. Trump's racist remarks are permissive to hurting of certain Americans

Yes we do have to say they are wrong because some people think they are okay

[Hortensis]

44. Oh, that's NEW information of course. I was responding

to your "or we are finished" comment. I'm nowhere near finished and I stand with many tens of millions. You know, we're still the nation that elected Obama twice by large margins.

Don't imagine Trump and those enabling him are more than us. He isn't and they aren't. But this is a huge lesson in the importance of voting, isn't it?

[uponit7771]

45. 👍🏼

[helpisontheway]

22. Of course he will..Teflon Don! Nt

[zentrum]

23. Pelosi should

...be leading the charge in defending these bold, female, millennial POC voices who represent collectively over 2M people. These are not the nobodies" Peloi called them. They are the future of the party.

Defend them against all racist attacks.

Immediately. Loudly.

[watoos]

29. She is bringing a motion to the floor,

condemning Trump's tweets. Republicans will be on record supporting a racist.

We can remind voters come election time that the (R) beside a person's name stands for racist.

[SCVDem]

24. Since our Democracy is dead anyway,

We should have our own Arab Spring!

If our military rises against us, we resort to the tactics of our forefathers. Just as Isis, the Israelis and every militarily over matched people have done. Kinda like Red Dawn.

Is America worth fighting for again or are we overweight lazy slobs who no longer give a shit!

Wolverines! !!

[BigOleDummy]

50. This.

I'm afraid it's going to come down to this anyway. If not us, then who?

[Chemisse]

25. He is keeping human beings in cages under brutal conditions!

A racist comment is nothing compared to this. And yet his presidency goes on, as people suffer, as babies cry for their mothers, as women drink water out of toilets.

How have we fallen so far, so fast?

[watoos]

32. and yet it's too soon for some of us.

I got in trouble here, got a spanking, for just talking about the silence of Democrats.

Anyone see Steny Hoyer?

[Chemisse]

46. What are you talking about? Impeachment?

We would ALL love to impeach him - immediately.

And that would be so satisfying - except Trump would still be in office.

AND he could use it against us very effectively in his reelection campaign.

So do we hold back and win the election or claim the moral victory of impeachment but give Trump four more years?

I'd rather get his ass out of there next year than have a feel-good proceeding that backfires against us later.

[Bettie]

51. Do you think he won't

loudly and regularly proclaim that "Even Nancy Pelosi, realized I was innocent or she would have impeached me, she wanted to, but she couldn't, because I'm innocent!

And each and every time, his comments will be played over and over on every news outlet because he owns the narrative as long as our side does nothing.

[Chemisse]

52. That doesn't have much of a punch to it.

Not like:

The Democrats did everything they could to overturn your votes. They even tried to impeach me! They wasted all your taxpayer dollars going after me and didn't do anything else! They did nothing but go after me! But they couldn't do it! Because I am super awesome and have been persecuted like Jesus on a cross blah blah blah.

And the voters will know that it's true, because that will be what they saw on the news every day - in impeachment hearings today, so and so will testify about this boring detail, etc. When instead they need to hear - every day - what the Democrat House is trying to do to make everybody's lives better, even if they get knocked down in the Senate.

[ecstatic]

54. Good point. For me, the cages & kidnapping situation, which still is occurring

after 1 year, is evidence of the end of this country.

[beachbum bob]

30. I see nothing to come about this, Pelosi is failing our party now and leading to a debacle in 2020

[duforsure]

31. Why did trump do this now?

to incite for his base, and he would rather be known as a racist than a child rapist, and child trafficing promoter with Epstein, all distraction he uses often to change the news cycle, and media again helping him do it.It was for distraction away from his Epstein problems and bad publicity.

[watoos]

33. Yep, the M$M is not our friend,

the 2 people who accused Trump of raping them didn't stay on the front page for very long.

The M$M is complicit with Pedo45.

[uponit7771]

42. +1, the president unfortunately being a racist is still news

[tymorial]

35. There is no if. He already has. What he said is nothing new.

Quite frankly Congress as a whole doesnt care. They may carry individually and I believe many probably do but party is now more important than branch. It's more important than the constitution or even the oath of office. What the democrats want, what the republicans want. That is more important and it's the job of Pelosi and McConnell to ensure it stays that way.

Am I ruffling feathers with that? Yeah probably but it is demonstrably true. If congress actually cared about the constitution and their responsibility to hold the executive branch to account then we would have already had impeachment proceedings. There is more than enough evidence to prove he is unfit. The fact we dont is political, its party. We are burning the country and the constitution for what? To hopefully hold the house? To hopefully win back the presidency? The DOJ is going to allow Russia to fuck our election next year under orders. We hold the house, yeah great. They have zero authority over cabinet positions and judicial appointments. They constantly have to run in order to keep their seats. We cant pass legislation so all we can do is block legislation and engage in these investigations that have amounted to nothing.

And dont give me this 7th dimensional chess, or GO or any other cute analogy to some great scheme. Dont tap the side of your nose. There is no great plan. It's a hope that something will convince the Republicans but again party... just like we haven't moved because party.

This country is screwed.

[Recursion]

41. What does "get away with" mean?

I'm curious what people who keep saying "this time he's clearly gone too far!" expect to happen: the Furies descending from Olympus? The Kraken rising from the deep?

[US4u2]

47. And now the racist prick is saying

that if all these progressive congresswomen want to do is complain about
America then they should just leave...

Funny, isn't that how he got elected in the first place, complaining about the country (and with a little help from his Russian buddies, of course)? You go to any of his rallies and all he does is complain!

And why don't we see him saying the same thing about white supremacists,or Neo-Nazis, or anti-immigration complainers? All they do is complain!

Isn't that like a double standard?

How come no one calls that bloated orange beach-ball on it?

[The Liberal Lion]

48. I appreciate your words

If the leadership is not willing to impeach trump due to his criminality, fraud, or outright treason this will just be another day in D.C..
While what trump said was disgusting, he has committed far worse behaviors that should have already been enough to have him removed (or at least impeached). Yet, nothing; and it's my belief that's how it will continue.

We, the people, must be our own heroes.

[ecstatic]

53. I'm at the point where I don't think anything would happen if he rounded up all his critics

and deported them to Mexico. Who would do anything? Anyone? I don't feel protected. I feel so unsafe in this atmosphere.

[ConnorMarc]

55. Nothing would happen...

Nothing much at least.

And as you can see, that's exactly how it went down.