'Theyll pull the trigger': Rob't Reich explains how the GOP is playing Trump till they can dump him

[DonViejo]

‘They’ll pull the trigger’: Robert Reich explains how the GOP is playing Trump till they can dump him

TOM BOGGIONI
21 JAN 2017 AT 11:20 ET

Writing on Facebook, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich relayed a conversation with a former GOP member of Congress who claims current members of the House are playing along with President Donald Trump for now but will dump him at the first possible moment.

According to Reich, he recently had breakfast with a Republican friend who claimed he held his fire over his misgivings about Trump during the election, saying, “You kidding? I was surrounded by Trump voters. I’d have been shot.”

That was when the conversation took an interesting turn when Reich asked his friend what the GOP will do now that Trump is president.

“They’ll play along for a while,” the unidentified friend said. “They’ll get as much as they want – tax cuts galore, deregulation, military buildup, slash all those poverty programs, and then get to work on Social Security and Medicare – and blame him. And he’s such a fool he’ll want to take credit for everything.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/theyll-pull-the-trigger-robert-reich-explains-how-the-gop-is-playing-trump-till-they-can-dump-him/

[LisaM]

1. Well, Mr. Trump, you just show them.

Don't do it!

[Raster]

2. "And hes such a fool hell want to take credit for everything."

Love it... Mr. Player getting PLAYED!

[mopinko]

3. no shit sherlock.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Yes, it is important to understand that everything we have paid for and fought for

our entire lives is gone.

The question is do we know how to really fight when they actually do take our Medicare and social security, because they are going to take them and soon.

[catbyte]

28. No shit. I turn 62 in June and plan on collecting early SS. I'll theoretically get about $400/mo

less, but the way it's going, I'd better get what I can NOW. $1,300/mo is better than nothing. With the $3,000/mo I'm currently getting from my retirement pension, I can avoid eating cat food for awhile.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Why would they dump the ignoramus they can use for cover, and

Risk pissing off his voters even more? They need Trump more than he needs them.

[Hugin]

11. He'll eventually weigh himself down with his own baggage and become a liability.

They will cut him adrift when that happens. Until then, he's a useful moran.

After the spectacle of non-attendance for his Ignorination yesterday. I think the support he claims in "followers" and "voters" is vastly overstated.

There's the trouble with a stolen election... No mandate. Maybe, the Ryanists are catching on to this.

[Jacob Boehme]

6. Ahhh, ain't our American politics just grand?

Clueless 45th Prez says:....we're all jacked up as a country, and only he can make us "great again"

Congress says: We got ours, we're going to give our rich donors even more, and just fuck the rest of you.

Lobbyists say: Congressman Shitbird, we'll write all the bills we want introduced this session; do it or you'll never see another dime.

Political Action Committee's say: Congressman Shitbird, here's your agenda for the next 2 years.

Special Interests say: President #45 and Congress, we bought and paid for you, enact the bills we tell you to or lose your political heads.

Foreign Interests say: Give us more of your money or we'll start another war.

We The People Say: Who the hell is allowing this to happen? What about open and honest government for the people, by the people?

[ancianita]

19. Nice summary. Now, who's running those groups. Let's name them.

[coco22]

23. Start marching on these groups too.

[Hugin]

7. Yep... I realized this was the game when the revelation that all of Trumpuses policy had been...

Outsourced to the Heritage Foundation.

So, now we can see the GrOPers long game... Not that our long is the same duration as their long.

Trump and Dump, it is. So, it would seem.

Thanks to whoever it was who made the Heritage Trump connection this morning. My hat is off to ya!

[melman]

8. Seems like nonsense to me

I mean really, Republicans impeaching Trump? They'll never do it.

[Kennah]

46. Agreed! Even if Pence was their ideal, an impeachment would be toxic to the GOOP (n/t)

[ebbie15644]

9. This isn't anything I didn't know

I told this to my mother and niece right after the election

[NewJeffCT]

10. The GOP won't have the guts to dump Trump

Sure, some of them will whine off the record, but they fear Trump's supporters, too

[Mariana]

14. They're thinking Trump's supporters will turn on him

after he signs and takes credit for a bunch of harmful legislation. I don't think that's going to happen. Those people are absolutely delusional.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Makes sense to me. They will get him to sign off on everything they have ever wanted,

get rid of him and then blame him when the shit hits the fan and say he was never a "real republican" anyway. Therefore, they have saved their brand and managed to get every evil policy pushed through without having to own it.

[Txbluedog]

24. BINGO!!!!

The republicans are smart enough to realize that the deplorables will turn on them when they loose their social safety net and there are no jobs forthcoming. They will blame Trump and get rid of him, thus "saving" 'mericuh and earning the deplorables eternal gratitude

[bagelsforbreakfast]

13. The question is will they pay him off...

to abdicate and "spend more time with my family" and leave things to Pence or... will Trump have to hire a "taster" before his meals.

[uponit7771]

15. ***** TIE BENEDICT DONALD AROUND THE NECKS OF EVERY KGOP AGENT !!!! *******

[Jake Stern]

16. Possibly they'll threaten him with impeachment

to prod him to pull a Nixon and resign making Pence president.

[tanyev]

17. I'm sure that's their plan, but I don't think they're prepared for how vindictive he is.

I'm prepared, though.

[ancianita]

18. Reich shouldn't believe a word any Republican tells him, friend or not.

[nolabear]

20. I believe this. He's so corrupt that they're lining up to blackmail him.

There must be a word for what he is, the one so self absorbed that he can't see his actions are fodder for every predator that comes along. Right now he's Fool in Chief.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Putin is playing tRump too. He'll release the tapes when he is done with him. . . nt

[cstanleytech]

22. I have been thinking they were going to use him as the fall guy to take heat for their actions.

After all while Trump can ask for something like a new law or a reduced spending bill its ultimately in Congresses hands (in this case its entirely the Republicans hands since they control both Houses) and they can even override a President so ya I think they will go after Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and try to shift the blame for their decisions to Trump and if he resists they will just impeach him and install their backup plan which is Pence.
If Trump wants to survive in the whitehouse his best bet is to pull his head out of ass, divest his assets into a blind trust and apologize to the many people he has mocked, insulted, threatened, cheated and ridiculed and then ally with the Democrats otherwise hes going to be blamed for everything the Republicans do.

[Txbluedog]

26. Never gonna happen

Cheeto Jesus ain't smart 'nuff

[cstanleytech]

35. Oh I agree with you there. nt

[elleng]

25. I suspect R. Reich is correct, given the speech.

*President Trump’s Inaugural Address on Friday was a scalding repudiation of the Washington establishment. The question left hanging after this angry jeremiad: How will the new commander in chief be able to work with these people to govern the country?

Uncompromising in tone and entirely in keeping with his insurgent campaign, Mr. Trump dispensed with appeals to unity or attempts to build bridges to his opponents. He tarred the nation’s political class, arrayed behind him on the West Front of the Capitol, as faithless and corrupt.

“Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs,” he said. “And while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.”

“That all changes,” a grim-faced Mr. Trump declared, “starting right here, and right now.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/us/politics/trump-presidency.html?

[Ilsa]

29. And hopefully the Trump voters will turn on their

GOP representatives when they realize that "their guy" got ousted by the gop.

[vlyons]

30. I've said all along that the GOP

will dump Traitor Trump as soon as he starts vetoing their bills. As long as he is the GOP rubber stamp they'll keep him.

[Lanius]

31. I don't get it

“They’ll play along for a while,” the unidentified friend said. “They’ll get as much as they want – tax cuts galore, deregulation, military buildup, slash all those poverty programs, and then get to work on Social Security and Medicare – and blame him. And he’s such a fool he’ll want to take credit for everything."

Can someone tell me what the Republicans' ultimate aim is? Is it really that they just don't want to pay taxes, so they're willing to cut social welfare programs (or almost everything except military spending) to the bone? Or do they really believe private industry would take care of people better than government? I'd think if the latter were true the advanced Western countries would already have such a system in place. However, the opposite (a robust social welfare system) is what's true in much of the world.

[cstanleytech]

36. One aim could be to deliberately disrupt the economy to cash in on it via

privately owned equity companies as well as offshore companies and have them buy as much real estate as they can as you force the people into filing bankruptcy which would happen if they gut programs like social security, medicare and medicaid.

[forjusticethunders]

42. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

but not just that, slashing all that reduces the ability of the workers to fight the system. They're betting that this time, if the proletariat gets too uppity they can use modern technology (drones, etc) to keep the unrest down. That's a bet they'll imo lose, but I'd rather not let us get to that point.

[Locrian]

45. read Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine"

yes - it really is about money and power. they WORSHIP it and think that it is the defining activity of the human race.

[ffr]

32. Fact is, they hold the cards on this fool.

Turn Faux News and their M$M machine against him, while portraying themselves as patriots...?

He's done. They're already conspiring.

"...he’s such a fool he’ll want to take credit for everything."

[HockeyMom]

33. We all know they really prefer President Pence

Just look at how many high profile Republicans came out publicly and said they would not vote for Trump? Trump is only the means to the end; President Pence and control of Congress.

[jodymarie aimee]

34. I keep telling you guys Trump isn't President, Paul Ryan is

and we have the dirtiest Rs here in Wisconsin.

[MrModerate]

37. If not dump, at least hamstring him. n/t

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

38. Well ya - anybody who's watched cop shows knows that theives often work in pairs - one to distract

the store clerk or whoever, the other to make off with the loot.

Have to stay vigilant and not get too distracted by the nonsense.

[MountCleaners]

39. That's the plan

The Christian Right can't get one of their own elected, so they piggyback on Trump. It just shows how mean-spirited, racist, hypocritical and greedy they are that they cynically make this alliance just so they can get their policies enacted. They know he's vulnerable, they won't take the heat when he fails and they'll get as much theocracy imposed as they can until they get voted out.

It's important to not just focus on Trump, you have to look at groups like the Heritage Foundation and all of the nutty Dominionists and other religious fanatics who are trying to run the country.

[Nitram]

40. Doesn't sound beneficial to the country. They'll use Trump to fuck us over and then...

fuck us over further by themselves. If they succeed, we are in big trouble. W've got to get rid of Trump before this agenda has time to play out. Democrats in congress will help by blocking every move as long as possible until a case is built against Trump to kick him out of office.

[grantcart]

41. I am shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on here

Your winnings, sir.

[lark]

43. Fucking deceitful repugs.

They have been trying to undo Medicare, SS and Medicaid for decades. Now they think they have a plan to do it and blame it on drumpf. Unfortunately for them, they will propose the law and vote yes on it and they will be blamed. Trying to pawn it off on drumpf, while a good ploy, won't work for them if they propose and vote yes on the law and Ryan's had this in his budget proposals forever. It won't work, they will be blamed, as they should be.

[Locrian]

44. yep - he's a perfect diversion

it's not TRUMP (shithead he may be) it's the GOP and the ones that are now going to RAPE this country. and then feed trump to the lions.