If Trump tries to weaponize the DOJ and the FBI do you think the GOP will try to stop him?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Using the legal system of a nation to punish one's political opponents is a fixture of every dictatorship.

[Maven]

1. No, I think they'll enable him so he goes along w/ their awful legislative agenda.

As long as they get to fuck over the sick, poor, and elderly, and everyone else who isn't a straight white multimillionaire or billionaire, they'll let him play with his toys.

[underthematrix]

2. Not until he turns it on them and it will happen.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Thankfully we have a jury system. That is our firewall.

Unless he suspends habeas corpus.

[onecaliberal]

4. No. that ship had already sailed.

[unblock]

5. "no" is not the right answer. the correct answer is

*fuck* no!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Even Nixon rarely went there, except when he went after Daniel Ellsburg.

That is my biggest fear.

[unblock]

8. problem is, republicans learned well from watergate.

do it big, deny everything, and stay united.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Trump is scarier than Nixon.

[unblock]

11. agreed. worse, there are virtually no protections against him.

republicans control the media and all branches of government.

remember when donnie said he could get away with shooting someone on fifth avenue?

seriously, he probably could. republican hacks would insist any video that surfaced was photoshopped, the media would buy it eagerly, donnie would sue his accusers of slander, and then the only media story would be the great debate about whether a sitting president can sue individuals, etc.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. It is unlikely Nixon would have been impeached if the GOP controlled the House.

Checks and balances fails when one party controls all the levers of power. I do believe our jury system can serve as a final check, as long as Trump doesn't suspend habeas corpus.

I do think an unofficial check is the power of the markets and consumers... If Trump goes crazy people will expect the worse, stop spending and investing, and will start making bank runs.

Our flawed system works as long as differences are papered over. He is maximizing them.

[unblock]

14. the market solution depends on what the problem is.

if donnie is sucking the treasury dry, then yeah, the economy would collapse.

but if it's just "personal" stuff, like murdering someone on fifth avenue, the economy wouldn't react much. people would be horrified, but they'd still work and shop.

and the jury system? that may work in terms of keeping donnie from jailing people (though if they can manipulate evidence, that's another story), but we need a willing prosecutor to send donnie to jail. that may be hard to find.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. What if there is a terrorist attack and he interns Muslims?

What if he follows through on his deportation force?

[unblock]

17. that sort of thing would certainly have an impact on the markets and the economy.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. President Obama seems to have ISIS on the run.

If there is a terrorist attack in the U S it will likely be executed by a homegrown terrorist.

[unblock]

22. false flag operation, reichstag fire.

yeah, whether coordinated with white house and/or republican leadership, or just some "rogue" right-wingers, all kinds of dangerous hell could be unleashed if donnie is handed the political capital republicans somehow always get after things like 9/11.

i'm very wary of a repeat scenario -- incompetent republican enters oval office losing the popular vote but winning a controversial election, major terrorist attack, then the media tells us mr. incompetent suddenly has 90% approval and congress and the president claim all kinds of intrusive powers, etc.

more pointless wars, more trashing of the economy, ugh.

[davekriss]

7. Nope. FBI is already weaponized.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Comey hurt Clinton more than Putin. That's for sure. His behavior was deplorable.

[workinclasszero]

21. Yeah by mother Russia

[lanlady]

12. A couple of geezers like McCain will murmur a few words of protest

Just to grab the headlines for a day or two, then they'll fall right into line.

[msongs]

16. the german government bureaucracy did nothing to stop hitler and went along with everything.

same thing will happen here after jan 21-17

[LonePirate]

18. Ha ha! That's funny. The GOP in DC trying to stop Trump from doing anything? LOL!

[jalan48]

19. And if the Democrat's get caught using a foreign government to help them in 2020,

Trump will keep the intel quiet because he won't want to get smeared.

[LanternWaste]

23. Yup... Trump's sub-literate and idiot absolutism will be his undoing.

Yup... Trump's sub-literate and idiot absolutism will be his undoing. He's a dull little fella who uses bumper stickers and Twitter one-liners to communicate, and then pretends it's dialog.

He lacks nuance and context, instead relying on simplistic either-or fallacies as it seems to be the best he's capable of. Place an idiot half-wit like that in a position of authority and power, and he becomes dangerous.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. When disrespecting someone have the intestinal fortitude to do it forthrightly

When disrespecting someone the person should have the intestinal fortitude to do it forthrightly:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8369156

All the highfalutin rhetoric in the world can't hide some people's paucity of it, no matter what levels they go to conceal it.

MUAH