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SoxIlliniRob wrote:Fanboy For Life wrote:The fucking political hysteria is too much. To be impeached, there has to be EVIDENCE, not a load of bullshit.
Sharpy, your idea of a MILITARY Coup to destroy our form of Government indicates you need a long vacation or have become unhinged.
You are beginning to sound crazier than COACH.
I'm not as alarmist as Tim is on this topic, but Sharpy brings up some decent points. There are some obvious checks and balances in place to keep the president in line, but it appears that most of those checks and balances are run or controlled by the GOP. That doesn't mean Trump would NEVER be impeached, nor does it mean he would NEVER be held in check by SCOTUS or the Senate, but if those checks and balances wanted to, they could effectively give Trump the full run of the place if they wanted to place party over nation. I'm not yet of the belief that none of these bodies of the gov't would hold Trump to proper standards. Most of us are probably still leaning more toward AlohaKev's comments in the past that there's a constitution in place and that Trump can't summarily violate it without catching a raft of legal shit. But still, what if the GOP-controlled bodies don't do their job? Who, aside from the voters, will keep their feet to the fire? What if there ends up being clear evidence of collusion and/or obstruction of justice by the Trump campaign, and if neither the Senate or House acts on it? Then what?
It's not hard to imagine violence, rallies, revolts, etc. I hesitate to use the word "rebellion", but what if the gun nuts start shooting at an anti-Trump rally? What if the military has to get involved to shut it down?
Not predicting a military coup, but it's not hard to imagine things getting really ugly in the next 12 months, and getting ugly enough to necessitate military involvement to quell some kind of revolt. I hope I'm wrong and Tim's wrong. I would fear for my family in those kinds of conditions.
It's astounding how some of these people have to contort their logic to rationalize that the things they're hearing are OK. After Don Jr.'s e-mails were released about the Russia meeting, I turned on Rush, and a caller said that he thinks Don Jr.'s actions are exactly the same as the NY Times Reporter(s) who was about to out him. He said that when Don Jr. was contacted and accepted a meeting, he was acting as a reporter who was merely gathering information and that should he have gotten the information he was researching and it revealed that Hillary was involved in activity that was meant to harm our country, he would have reported it to the FBI and that he, in essence, took the meeting to protect us. He finished the call by saying "his actions were patriotic!". Sure, some people will suggest that we on the left had to contort ourselves to make Clinton's actions OK, but I hardly think "I think every powerful politician is cheating and don't much care unless they're diddling a child or someone who can blackmail our country" can be considered the level of contortion that the caller who thinks Don Jr. was just trying to scoop the NY Times to protect our country.
