Donald Trump is an existential threat to the United States

[Stinky The Clown]

Those ten words, in my view, sum up everything that's going on.

He has cheapened the office of the President.

He is undermining the very Rule of Law.

He is working to eliminate Congressional decorum, tradition, deliberative activity.

He is working in support of a foreign power that was, and in many ways still is, our mortal enemy.

In virtually every cabinet appointment, he has placed in power people intent on destroying the agencies they now head.

The nation lacks ambassadors in most countries after he fired all the incumbents but failed to appoint replacements.

And so much more.

He has, truly, not done even one small thing for the betterment of We The People.







For all the drama, he is being VERY effective at working toward the destruction of our county.

I hope the legislators we hired soon enough get to doing the work necessary to SAVE THE UNITED STATES. What is happening is quickly putting us on a road we do not want to follow.

[flamingdem]

1. I wonder if they're cooking up some disaster

to solidify their power.

[RKP5637]

2. ... been wondering the same, like NK. And a military WH chief of staff! n/t

[flamingdem]

6. Yes, he'll be trotted out in case of an action because no one wants to

see Orange Fuhrer when it gets scary.

[barbtries]

12. it's damned unfortunate

that NK is run by a crazy person which makes his country a very attractive target. now they've launched a bomb that appears capable of hitting the continental USA. i can imagine trump's men rubbing their hands together and cackling over this turn of events, playing right into their hands, giving them credible impetus to extend their endless warmaking.

[RKP5637]

17. And the MIC sees big profits! I have no idea what will happen, except that it will probably be bad.

[dalton99a]

3. To ensure the cruelty is permanent, he's filling the judiciary with right-wing crackpots

[barbtries]

15. this can't be coming from him

he's taking the advice of right wing crackpots and throwing these picks out without any thought whatsoever to the consequences. or he really believes they will assist him in being dictator for life or something.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Yes

There is no guarantee Democracy survives in America. I'd put it at about 10% it doesn't right now and that number is rising.

Best case scenario is our Democracy is damaged severely.

[malaise]

5. This deserves 500 recs

Great post

[sharedvalues]

7. Yes. Destroy democracy, with billionaire GOP donors

The president wants to damage democracy to install an autocracy where he can enrich himself via continued self-dealing and corruption.

Billionaire GOP donors want to damage the government so they can pay lower taxes and avoid helping others.

The real threat to America comes when the president and he GOP work together to damage America. That is why the past few months have been scary.

We can only hope the president is serious about fighting the GOP. If they fight each other, America wins.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

8. Right you are...

Personally I think if he is found to be colluding with Russia all his appointments should be nullified.

Won't happen but sometimes when you throw a Hail Mary ya get a touchdown

[Stonepounder]

10. Hell, Mueller reports out all the felonies, including using the White House for personal profit,

money laundering, colluding with the Russians, and so on.

The GOP is aghast, there will be 'Hell to pay!'. 'This the beginning of the end of the Trump Presidency!' Then they pass a Motion of Censure against Trump and go on licking his boots.

[Jim__]

9. He also has access to our nuclear arsenal. - n/t

[barbtries]

11. i agree.

it's either gonna be him, or the country, maybe even the world. with his cult as large as it is i don't know how it all turns out. that to me is the scariest part.

i posted this once before but will again. it must have been 1992, because my son, who told me this joke, was 8 or maybe had just turned 9. the joke is, if Bush, Perot, and Clinton are all on a plane and it crashes, who will survive?

the answer is the country. i don't have that confidence anymore that the country can survive this presidency.

[tanyev]

13. Basically he is an enemy, both foreign and domestic.

[BSdetect]

14. If he attacks NK that will create massive patriotic fervor - again

Like the lies about Iraq and WMDs.

The US has been sucked into BS wars before.

Then he can attack Mueller etc

[Doug the Dem]

16. A&R

Amen and Rec!

[Grammy23]

18. Yes! You have nailed it, Stinky.

We have watched this sh*t show for too long not to have gotten the gist of the plot. Sadly, many of his most devoted fans were brainwashed or duped into believing tRump was the answer to the ills of this country. We had problems in many sectors and thanks to his mismanagement, we are worse off in just six months of his so-called leadership.

Of course, he didn't accomplish all of his misconceived deeds alone. He has had much help inside and outside of the Oval Office. A deep sickness has descended upon our governing bodies and the Executive branch is suffering with a raging, untreated infection. The people are waking up and realizing how deep the doo doo is and all of us are hip deep in it.

Let us continue putting pressure on the ones with the power to start treatment at the Executive branch. tRump must go. Serious consideration must be made for ousting every appointment he made. His cabinet has to be dismissed. Pence is suspect, too, since he was on the ticket. His hands are not clean and I will never believe they kept him out of the loop on the Russian involvement.

Having said that, I understand what a crisis that would bring on our governing bodies. But infection left untreated keeps growing. Any Bacteria left festering in the body regrows and finally overwhelms the body and causes death. So we face some scary times ahead. But there is no easy way out. The exorcism must begin or we are doomed to see the destruction of the USA as we know it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Possibly existential, but America and the American people are very robust. . . . nt

[RandomAccess]

28. I have been awed and gratified

on those occasions when I've seen the brilliance of our Constitution with its system of checks and balances help keep Trump in check.

And depressed as all get out about those parts that aren't performing up to par: vz., our Republican-controlled Congress.

BUT, happily, in the past week or so I've seen a few signs of life in even that torpid body.

[lastlib]

20. He Never intended to do anything for the People.....

It was all about enriching and glorifying Donald J. Drumpfeuhrer.

[Ligyron]

22. and the rubes fell for it.

bigtime.

[sandensea]

21. The whole GOP, really.

Since Reagan anyway.

[zentrum]

23. It's a coup.

I'm not sure our legislators are up to the task of undoing it.

[Initech]

24. I'd take it a step further and say that about the whole republican party.

They literally do nothing but demonize liberals who are trying to help.

Their policies are completely destructive to anyone who isn't a straight white middle class male.

And when said destructive policies fail, guess what? They take no responsibility for their own actions and blame the other guy.

[FigTree]

25. The biological metaphor

The individual is an external symptom of a systemic infection of the fungal type. Fungi develop in the vacuum left by a weakened immune system or by the damage caused by heavy doses of antibiotics. The causes of this infection is therefore systemic and rather complex if the metaphor were to be applied to sociology, I personally think that the rampant dictatorship of religion in this country accounts for most of the damage due to the deficit in knowledge it invariably needs to survive.
I found this metaphor so apt that a few weeks after the individual announced he would run for office, I named him the "Candida Albicans", a play on the words candida(te) and albi (white).
The danger faced by this country is also contained in the metaphor. It is literally infected on a deeper, albeit less spectacular, level than the pustules, rash and other unpleasant external manifestations it displays. The prognosis is not very good either. When the infection is deep and due to systemic problems, the treatment can last a very long time. In some cases, the rest of the patient’s life...

[cilla4progress]

26. And don't forget -

To the entire rest of the world!

[CrispyQ]

27. Everyday the scourge sits in the People's House I'm more alarmed.

I have little confidence that we will come back from this. I have zero confidence of the dems regaining any significant influence any time soon, if ever. Certainly not in time to do anything about this daily disaster. The voting irregularities will only get worse the next few years, not better. If the redistricting after the 2020 census goes as badly for the dems as the 2010 one did, they will lose the House for a second decade in a row. I have friends who vote, but are not engage politically any other time. They were all buzzed after the election & inauguration, but already I can see them disengage, as Trump-fatigue sets in.