Little Donnie shows his ass, bigly

[moonshaz]

Trump Inches The U.S. Closer To Constitutional Crisis

WASHINGTON ― The morning after a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trump did what he often does when faced with a challenge: He launched a personal attack on Twitter at someone he saw as an opponent.

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[moonshaz]

You're Korean, right? (Just want to be sure what country we're talking about here, lol.) At any rate, thanks for posting this. I'm always interested to hear what people in other parts of the world think about the US.

I agree with your compatriots that impeachment is probably going to happen. I know a lot of people here think that the Republicans in Congress will never do anything, but unless he changes drastically (which he's about as likely to do as he is to grow a unicorn horn and start farting rainbows), I think it's bound to happen at some point. I suspect a lot of them are already getting sick of him, even though not many have spoken out publicly. Among other things, they have to be aware that every awful thing he does is going to be used against THEM the next time they run for re-election--which is 2018 for the entire House of Representatives.

Right now, they're still too attached to their dreams of implementing their disgusting agenda to be able to see the forest for the trees, but considering all the heat they've been getting over trying to repeal Obamacare (and knowing how THAT will be used against them in the next election), there's no telling when they may crack. If he decides to defy the court order and reinstate the travel ban, that will push the country into a constitutional crisis, in which case all bets are off!

[jeeelim5]

Yup, Korean :) I think the media here is especially critical of Donnie because we're going through the process of removing a delusional, dictator-like president ourselves. (Like father, like daughter ugh). There's actually quite a lot of mentions about Bannon, more than I'd expected, because the Korean media see him in the same "mastermind controlling the president" capacity as Choi Soon Sil did for Park Geun Hye.

For us, we needed at least 20 congressmen from the leading party (the president's party) to get the "2/3 of the House" requirement to impeach her (so 200 out of 300), and we ended up getting 234 votes for impeachment. A leading factor for that was the constant protests, and the general atmosphere being very "Anti-PGH," even in areas she considers her home ground. Maybe Republicans could be swayed by public opinion, but then again, Korea has much stricter laws about campaign finance so our congressmen rely much more on listening to their constituents than their American counterparts. Fingers crossed though that they realize the costs outweigh the benefits in the long-run and just dump him though.

Interesting (and slightly OT) thing that came out of this though is that in the span of a year, we went from a two-party system to a four-party system. Last year's vote for reps brought the successful rise of a third party, and overthrowing PGH led to the breakup of her party because the anti-PGH people all left and formed their own party.