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ffr

(22,672 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 11:38 PM Apr 2020

Why isn't the GOP clamoring for regime change and taking immediate, drastic action to depose tRump?

Opinion: America deposed Saddam Hussein for doing what Trump is guilty of now

One of the justifications for the Bush Administration’s 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 Bush’s invasion of Iraq.

Now, there is clear documented evidence that despite warnings from his own National Security Council, infectious disease experts, and the Pentagon, Trump’s 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?
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Why isn't the GOP clamoring for regime change and taking immediate, drastic action to depose tRump? (Original Post) ffr Apr 2020 OP
He's their guy. That's why. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #1
Kompromat. nt tblue37 Apr 2020 #2
I know-- the GOP is committing suicide dawg day Apr 2020 #3
Just what I was thinking earlier today. Sucha NastyWoman Apr 2020 #4
Pence is a weird combination of ambition and piety dawg day Apr 2020 #8
Doubt anyone wants to take his place at this point, or could reverse what's done. Hoyt Apr 2020 #5
Actually, I suspect they won't depose Trump because Pence is not Trump kurtcagle Apr 2020 #6
If they are able to get him off the ticket in November....They have an electable alternative The empressof all Apr 2020 #7
Because they are Fascist, all of them. cayugafalls Apr 2020 #9
Because they're getting their way on judges, elimination of regulations, bribes, etc. kysrsoze Apr 2020 #10

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
3. I know-- the GOP is committing suicide
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 11:41 PM
Apr 2020

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)
4. Just what I was thinking earlier today.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 11:46 PM
Apr 2020

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)
8. Pence is a weird combination of ambition and piety
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 12:01 AM
Apr 2020

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.

kurtcagle

(1,604 posts)
6. Actually, I suspect they won't depose Trump because Pence is not Trump
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 11:59 PM
Apr 2020

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)
7. If they are able to get him off the ticket in November....They have an electable alternative
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 12:00 AM
Apr 2020

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)
9. Because they are Fascist, all of them.
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 12:06 AM
Apr 2020

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.

Fascism originated in Italy, and Mussolini claims to have invented the word itself. It was actually his ghostwriter, Giovanni Gentile, who invented it and defined it in the Encyclopedia Italiana in this way: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

In other words, fascism is corporate government – a Libertarian’s wet dream. It’s a government in which the Atlas’s of industry are given free rein to control the economy, just how they’re 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)
10. Because they're getting their way on judges, elimination of regulations, bribes, etc.
Sun Apr 19, 2020, 02:17 AM
Apr 2020

Why would we expect that party of criminals to do anything else?

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