Booman poster Donnah commented on Booman’s recent “It Doesn’t Matter Who Wrote the Op-Ed” post:
I was shocked to read the [Times Op-Ed] letter, published so soon on the heels of Woodward’s book.
Oh, Donnah…!!!
I’m shocked!!!
Shocked I say!!!
Your innocence is touching, as is the innocence of so many U.S. citizens.
Read on.
This is all part of a concerted, fairly well planned and media-promulgated effort that was launched as soon as the shock of Trump’s win wore off.
Bet on it…people sat down and plotted how to get the most anti-Trump bang for the buck, looking forward to the November 2018 elections and on into 2020. This eventually included the timing of Woodward’s book and the Times op-ed.
And…it was a “bipartisan” movement from the very beginning. As I have said here over and over again, neither the DemRats nor the mainstream RatPubs ever wanted to see Trump in office. Why should they? He’s after their power. Their swag, too. Both parties.
I don’t really know if Trump’s continued presidency is a testament to his innate talent at using low-IQ level media like Twitter, a testament to his handlers’ brilliance (whoever they may be) or simply further evidence of a bloated federal bureaucracy’s inability to get almost anything done.
Whatever it is that has kept him in the White House..probably some unholy combination of the three things that I mention above…the antes are continuing to rise with every passing day. That little phrase in the Times op-ed (emphasis mine) “…his presidency needs to end ‘one way or another…’ ” is in my opinion a final, chilling threat from some people who specialize in solving problems any which way they need to do so, and if Trump had enough self-understanding to realize this he would do well to resign as quickly and gracefully as it is in his power to do so.
But…on the ongoing evidence, he does not have that kind of understanding.
So here we jolly well are, aren’t we.
An isolated. half-mad emperor surrounded by people trying to stop him from upsetting the whole apple cart before they get a chance to use his own lick on him.
You’re fired!!!!!!
How far are we from an “Ides of March”-style solution?
The November elections will tell the tale.
Only a true November 2018 ass-kicking by the Dems will turn sufficient numbers of powerful RatPublicans against Trump to be able to impeach or 25th Amendment him, but so far it doesn’t look like that will happen. A change will go down, but not a sea-change. That would follow in 2020 if nothing else important occurs. And…the RatPubs wouldn’t like that to happen, because it quite possibly might mean the end of their party and thus the end of their share of the DC hustle.
Stay tuned.
Shakespeare is always right around the corner, laughing into his pint.
Oh what fools these mortals be!!!
Bet on that as well.
Later…
AG