Conventional wisdom is people don’t reelected with less than 50% approval and he’s never broken that number
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No shit - he better get off the fence.
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No disagreement, I was just trying to throw a little cold water on things. We should keep in mind that these times are kind of odd, drumpf won the ec with only 46% in the first place.
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I get all kinds of pushback when I predict or at least try to that trumPP’s not going to win based on everything I’ve heard, read and learned. Statistics, polling, Russia interference, whatever’s available, cynical people point to Dems losing, and oddly enough there’s some joy in making that prediction, like, see how smart I am by rejecting the notion that Dems can win. But still I persist.
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I suspect we’re seeing a lot of orders being issued by the Kremlin behind a face-saving cloud of mostly illusory promises of quid pro quo and the discrete waiving of very real sticks. Putin sees the end coming and intends to wring as much advantage and internal American strife chaos out of Trump as he can.
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I don’t think we’re going to be running against Trump. I really do not. IN fact the way things are going right now, we’ll be running as the incumbents - Nancy Pelosi will be holding down the office
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A careful person suspicious of anyone claiming something to be absolute, I nonetheless find myself coming to the realization that anything this administration denies must without a doubt be absolutely true.
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You think trumPP will be removed one way or another? Oh no, self generated earworm.
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I think he’ll quit. I think Pence stands a very good chance of being forced to resign too. If he is offered any kind of deal he will resign - Mother will see to it, I betcha.
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It’s easier to understand if you realize a percentage of the US population believes everything that they see and hear on TV. “Markus Welby” got hundreds of medical questions every week and there a few that still believe we have “warp drive”. So Fox noise gussied up as ‘news’ is an easy sell.
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I suspect there’s a certain amount of “November 2016 syndrome” in those responses, one that I fall prey to myself. My world was rocked so badly when Trump won, by knowing that enough people in enough states in my country had voted for the man that he actually won, despite polling and news stories (including Russia interference) and his obvious unfitness for office, that I feel sort of like a rat in one of those classical conditioning experiments, afraid to press the lever to get the food for fear of getting an electrical shock. I want the food, very much, but I’m not sure I can afford to believe in it just yet. Not after all the other things that we’ve seen since then as our system of government is being torn to pieces.
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The internal strife is hardly going to end with Trump gone. Putin has to be loving this. He may be egging Trump on to increase the strife as much as anything.
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It’s mind boggling to even consider, however brief, a Pelosi presidency. But for sure, because her dad was mayor of BAL and longtime pal of FDR when he was a Congressman, she’d bring the spirit of FDR with her into the WH.
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From your lips to god’s ears; sure hope it happens.
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Let’s not any of us fall prey to that thinking. It’s not easy remaining an optimist after all the things we’ve seen this prez do, but to let negativism and doom set in is no way to face the next year. The night he won was the second time in my life I had to take a Xanax, first time was losing my beloved golden retriever a few years earlier. Don’t want to do that again.
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I don’t think she’ll hold the office very long but I do think it’s a very distinct possibility that she will hold it.
The way things look today, I’d put good money on it. The corruption is pouring out like lava.
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The irony in this is so thick you could cut it with knife. In PP’s attempts and apparent success in preventing HRC from attaining the presidency, he unwittingly (but that’s redundant) creates an opening for another woman prez. My god. Think of it.
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Pop quiz: How many R senators voted to acquit Clinton, one of whom is still in the Senate. No fair Googling.
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I have more hope that I had a couple of weeks ago. That’s something. I’m not saying it’s all doom, but we’re in the midst of events for which I wouldn’t want to predict any outcome with any confidence whatsoever. Have a little hope, pay attention, and learn–that’s my plan.
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This is probably the most calming path to get on.
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