To impeach, or not to impeach

[David Horn]

(10-08-2019, 02:10 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-08-2019, 01:21 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-07-2019, 02:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trump is asking other governments to invent conspiracy theories in order to smear his political opponents. He uses the office for his own financial gain. He should be carted out of the oval office and taken to jail.

True that!  Trump is the first POTUS to totally ignore the responsibilities of the office, while exercising powers for his own gain -- many that are specious at best.  If the GOP office holders who back him now continue until he finishes a second term, there won't be much 'America' to pass on to the next POTUS.

I think that your naive to believe that Trump is the first American President to use their power and influence to sway a foreign leader or a fellow politician  to do something for them that's in their personal interest to have occur or American interest. In Trump's case, he may have attempted but he didn't succeed so no law was broken.

That's not what I said, though I do think that using foreign help to win elections is uncommon.  My point is more general: that Trump is purposely destroying the very fabric that makes a nation viable, and doing it for personal gain.  He pits everyone against everyone.  He has no friends other than family, and I'm not sure they're all that safe either.  He's the political analog of the Bubonic Plague, and the only force that can derail him is unwilling to do it to save their short-term political skins.  The GOP will rue the day, but so will we all.

Frankly, it's sad and scary.