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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy isn't the GOP clamoring for regime change and taking immediate, drastic action to depose tRump?
One of the justifications for the Bush Administrations Iraq invasion was because a vicious dictator, Saddam Hussein, was guilty of killing his own citizens. It was the same justification Trump used for launching a slew of missiles at an abandoned airfield in Syria Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was alleged to have killed innocent men, women, and children during a civil war exacerbated by Bushs invasion of Iraq.
Now, there is clear documented evidence that despite warnings from his own National Security Council, infectious disease experts, and the Pentagon, Trumps malicious narcissism has resulted in thousands of American men, women and children dying unnecessarily. As many commentators and pundits alike have noted, Trump has thousands of American citizens blood on his tiny hands. The prescient question then is: Why are Republicans not clamoring for regime change and taking immediate, drastic action to depose Donald J. Trump for wantonly killing innocent American men, women and children?
Although Trump did not create COVID-19, he was certainly aware of just how dangerous inaction would be as well as the deadly consequences of doing nothing. That lack of action fits the general requirements to charge and convict any American in every state of the Union of criminally negligent homicide. - PoliticusUSA
Excellent question that someone in the media should ask McConnell and all rePutican representatives. Why don't they value American lives as much as they valued Iraqi lives?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,858 posts)tblue37
(65,488 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Good.
And I lived in Indiana when Pence was the anti-gay, anti-science governor, and know he's a dolt and a bigot.
But in those interminable "press conferences", in contrast to Nutso Trump, he looks "presidential" (if intensely boring).
Were I in charge of the GOP, I'd get Trump to resign from the ticket and put Pence at the top.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,754 posts)These guys must really hate/fear Pence to try so hard to hang on to Trump.
I used to think Pence would be just as bad as Trump, but that was before Covid-19...
dawg day
(7,947 posts)He and his wife are both really hungry for power, I think, but they're also really religious in that saccharine way. So as president, he would be a lot more dedicated than Trump is to denying women and LGBT rights, not to mention forcing his own particular brand of zealotry on the rest of us.
But he's not insane in the way Trump is.
He'd be terrible too. No doubt about it-- we have to win in November, and win the Senate and hold the House.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)kurtcagle
(1,604 posts)Pence is a very milquetoast candidate who doesn't really excite Trump's white supremacist followers. They have made the calculations that Trump will, even after all of this, still bring in that critical 40% that they need, with enough shenanigans, to propel themselves to another four-year term and control of Congress, but Pence likely won't. If they fail in November, the GOP is functionally dead - they can't gerrymander for another ten years, may even lose many of their bulwark states such as Texas, and once that happens, their grip on power is gone.
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)Their only hope is to run Mike DeWine... He's getting lots of media love and comes across as being reasonable. His willingness to work with the Democratic Governors will play well with independents. Then they can run Niki Haley for VP in hopes of picking up minorities, women and the south.
cayugafalls
(5,645 posts)They got what they wanted. The merging of state and corporations. Dump does what the corporate elite want him to do and he never bats an eye. Dump is a corporate elitist himself.
In other words, fascism is corporate government a Libertarians wet dream. Its a government in which the Atlass of industry are given free rein to control the economy, just how theyre regulated, how much they pay in taxes, how much they pay their workers.
https://truthout.org/articles/no-actually-this-is-what-a-fascist-looks-like/
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)Why would we expect that party of criminals to do anything else?