Resistance!

[devifemme]

From today's WPost: "...History will judge poorly business leaders who retain positions on Trump administration advisory boards because they hope to be in a position to cut favorable deals. Elon Musk of Tesla and Robert Iger of Disney have taken the correct and principled stand by resigning their presidential appointments. More should follow

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[anais_pf]

"He's no Dick Nixon." Dick Nixon was a crook, but he was an intelligent and savvy crook.

[devifemme]

Dear Anais: yeah, you and I are ALMOST old enough to remember Watergate. And Trump is NO Nixon; his psychological failings and his excesses of EVERY sort (except booze, oddly!) will make him more vulnerable by the day.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is going to assemble an irresistible case against Trump and his minions. Getting the fucking Republicans in Congress to back him may be hard, but their contrariness will drag them down in next year's elections. No Congressman is going to want to defend Trump on his campaign trail; and, unless they've stood up against the asshole in the coming months, they won't escape the blame

[devifemme]

Dear Flame -- of course, you are totally correct. Trumpsky is an utter embarrassment to the majority of Americans.

Yesterday's Senate hearings (Comey, for all his faults last year, did a persuasive job) were watched live (on a workday) by 18 million people -- more than watched the pro-basketball playoffs that same evening!

The testimony set the tone for the work of special counsel Robert Mueller. Comey noted that he personally turned over to Mueller all his reports and detailed notes -- which will take his investigation directly into Trumpsky's disgraceful efforts to subvert the FBI investigation. (That had not been a specific charge in his original Russian-meddling task.)

I think impeachment is now very likely, and within a year. That, in turn, will shape the 2018 midterm Congressional elections. It won't be fucking pretty, but it will be irresistible.