How about an olive branch?
Trump is feeling defiant. It’s all good! Nobody can touch him! He’s going to go on a farewell tour to brag about his “accomplishments.”
Trump is confident Vice President Mike Pence and members of his cabinet won’t attempt to remove him under the 25th Amendment, the people said. Pence is dismissive of the idea of trying to use that authority to drive Trump from office, one person said.
The president and some allies also believe Democrats are overreaching by trying to once again impeach him over Wednesday’s mob at the Capitol, and think Senate conviction would be unlikely in any event.
Oh yes, overreaching, it’s shocking isn’t it, so unlike Trump’s sending his fans to make war on Congress.
Trump plans to run out the clock on his four years in office by highlighting what he believes are his biggest accomplishments, including the barrier his administration built on at least part of the U.S. border with Mexico. A trip to Alamo, Texas, near the border is expected on Tuesday, a White House spokesman said.
It will turn out to be an Alamo Rent a Car in Amarillo.
In sum, it’s a last-ditch attempt to rehabilitate Trump’s legacy after his supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, resulting in five deaths including that of a Capitol Police officer.
Should be a doddle. Just flap the hands, point the finger, make the pinch gesture, stick the lips out, snap the head back and forth, and there’s the legacy, rehabilitated.
A small group of House Republicans wrote to Joe Biden on Saturday, pleading with him to persuade Speaker Nancy Pelosi to back off impeachment as an olive branch in the interest of national unity.
That takes some monumental gall. How about they offer the olive branch for a change? By, for instance, impeaching and removing Trump? Why is it up to the god damn victims of a god damn murderous attack to offer it?
They’re abusers. They don’t care in the least about the damage felt by their victims; they need the victims to forgive them so they can feel good about themselves.
Trump is ideally suited to be turned into a bobblehead; he already is one. Except most bobbleheads aren’t malignant.
Doesn’t the battered wife always forgive her abuser?
Time for the Dems to put all bipartisanship aside and became more partisan then the GOP. They need to burn the GOP to the ground, grind its ashes into dust, and create space for a new, better left wing party to arise.
There is a fish lives here in Australian waters called the ‘orange roughy’, which bears a distinct similarity to the cureent POTUS. I offer this notification, because the one portrayed in the video at the link below has a distinct similarity to said POTUS; who might try to make use of this fact to masqerade as one in trhe waters around Mar-A-Lago and clear out.
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/orange-roughy-hoplostethus-atlanticus-collett-1889/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA6Or_BRC_ARIsAPzuer9Big2lQpLE_Rmbzs8aOY2d7RQMft3oG4Xx70yiGtNeCMJBtKWQfiwaAh6iEALw_wcB
Thank you, Omar, but I am horrified to discover this in your link:
‘Orange Roughy can live for well over 100 years. The fish doesn’t mature until 27 to 32 years of age.’
The thought of Trump going on to 100 and a bit beyond appalls me, but the realisation that the Orange Roughy doesn’t mature ‘until 27 to 32 years of age’ appalls me even more since DT has not yet reached maturity and clearly never will. How long is the bugger going to live?
Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05eFDQnSfE
Trump is losing one of the few things he cares about: In a blow to Trump, golf’s PGA strips major championship from Turmp-owned course. Not very politically important, but I am hopeful that this one will really sting.
Republican congresspeople are in a bind. If they’re forced to vote one way or another on impeachment, either way they’ll piss off half of their primary constituency.
So screw them. Force them to take a stand.
Some Republicans have come out for impeachment, including Senators Murkowski and Toomey, and even Christie. On the other hand, Susan Collins has remained oddly silent, though there are reports that she was seen tapping her foot and scowling.
WaM, it’s easy for Christie to say that he’d support impeachment if he were in Congress; we can all claim to hold lofty principles when we’re not in a position to prove them.
He made that claim in an interview with George Stephanopolous, and he also said:
It’s the since then that cracked me up, as though everything else in the last four years – including his deranged claims about election fraud that began before a single vote had been cast – was just fine and dandy.
When they draw a line in the sand they certainly don’t leave much space beyond, do they?
Whoops! Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/chris-christie-trump-impeachment-congress-b1785123.html
And in the quoted part, ‘spoked’ is as is in the article.
AoS,
Right, which is why I said that they should impeach; force the Senators to take a stand one way or another.
I’ve eaten orange roughy; it’s tasty. (Trump is without taste, in different sense of the word.)
There is a fascinating web site where you can scroll down the depths of the ocean and it shows you what exists (flora, fauna, topographical interest, water and light conditions, human exploration) at various depths. It’s proportional, so 1000 meters requires twice as much scrolling as 500 meters. After a very large amount of scrolling I came across the orange roughy. I had been totally unaware that it lived at such incredible depths; 1800 meters.
I suppose dwelling in the depths is another similarity with Trump.