I’ll keep this very simple: Trump is a mob boss and this mythical wall is his protection racket.
“Nice country you got there. Would be a shame if someone broke it.”
His MO is to take something away, and then demand payment in order to return it. That’s what he’s doing now with the federal government.
The only way to communicate with him is to speak his own language: power. Start impeaching him on any of the many, many good reasons that exist.
Impeachment is, by design, immune to veto. It cannot be ignored and no temper tantrum or extortion attempt can silence it. It’s how you call the big baby’s bluff.
Essentially, this would dare the Republican politicians to go on record in support of allowing Trump to starve the country. It’s political suicide for them if they stand by their con man.
It’s national suicide to allow Trump to get his way, because it’s not just about a few billion dollars thrown away on a boondoggle. It’s about Trump flexing his power to overcome the checks and balances designed to prevent autocracy.
Letting Trump bully the country ensures a future of bullying, a further drift away from democracy and towards fascism.
The problem with impeachment is: if you impeach without possibility of conviction, it is unlikely you can impeach again without new charges and evidence. Right now there is no possibility of conviction. Now if Cohen has a John Dean moment Feb 7, 2019 while testifying to Congress, that could change!
Yes, if he gets impeached but not convicted, he’ll spin this as proof that he’s innocent, as opposed to simply a sign of how complicit the Republicans in the Senate are. Having said that, the process of impeachment can be dragged out, hopefully long enough for the painful shutdown and then the Mueller report to force the Republican’s hands.
I say that, the moment he tries to declare a state of emergency, we should move to impeach.
I have to agree. It is imperative to let Mueller do his job… but also they could definitely start the process of impeachment to be prepared. Assuring paperwork is ready and a committee at the ready. There is no way the two-thirds of the senate/Republicans are going to agree to it, so it is a moot point until there is assurance they will, and also Pence in the wings is a threat in itself. What if he is a target?
Pence has not as far as we know, been questioned and being he was THE PERSON who vetted the incoming administration, he is complicit. At the very least, Mueller should have questioned him. The only reason they might not is he is VP… and a target (I am not a lawyer or investigator, but it rings true given the past targets)
Patience (I have little as well, but…be patience we must)
I will let a fellow Canadian remind you as well… as we want you to succeed when you go for it.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4748295/impeaching-donald-trump-democrats/
Remember, Mueller’s method is the same one used for crime lords: first, you “interview” (read: interrogate) the lieutenants and get them to flip. The fact that the FBI is holding off on talking to some people means that they intend to convict them, not use them to convict someone else.
Re: Patience — humans are ill-adapted to longer time scales. Perhaps our biggest failing.