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berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 01:50 PM Apr 2019

Dear Republicans, Trump Is Sabotaging The Executive Branch

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If the Repubs don't wake up to this, America could very well be doomed to become a failed state which would take decades to recover. He quite simply is beheading the departments of the executive until no one remains but sycophants who will attempt to carry out illegal orders from the top. Those illegal orders could range from creating a humanitarian crisis to starting a war in the middle east or beyond.

We are headed there folks and the Democrats in the Congress cannot completely stop him. We'll need some Republicans to wake up in order to remove this wannabe dictator from power.

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CharleyDog

(757 posts)
1. not only illegal orders, but grift and graft, selling secrets
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 02:08 PM
Apr 2019

using intelligence to grab money, using his office to reduce the power of united democracies (G7), NATO, and uplift brutal dictators.
His trade ideas are hurting Americans and he doesn't care. Collapsing healthcare is a goal.

Not to mention threatening food safety, not protecting our environment, enabling mass extinction of species - all for enrichment of the already bloated wealthy. Bank regulations have been undermined and greedy banksters are celebrating.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
9. Indeed
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 04:50 PM
Apr 2019

Putting the situation in terms that would resonate with RepubliCONs is absolutely essential. Despite exploding the deficit, wiping out manufacturing jobs, and slapping tariffs that decimate agriculture, until his recklessness impacts Wall Street, they will continue to support the Mangled Apricot Hellbeast.

But, here again, short of a total collapse that would make the Depression of the 1930s seem like a minor “market adjustment,” they will turn a blind eye to the foreclosures, bankruptcies and other sufferings of little people like us.

Me? I’m trying to figure out how to stuff my pillow-top mattress with whatever currency will survive their recklessness. And keep the tines on my pitchfork dull, rusty and covered with microorganisms.

And get out the vote! That goes without saying...

CrispyQ

(36,464 posts)
3. McConnell has capitulated the power of the Senate to the orange asshole.
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 02:10 PM
Apr 2019

I don't think there is anything that will sway them.



It's on the House dems.

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CaptainTruth

(6,591 posts)
7. He's continuing what the PNAC (GW Bush admin) started.
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 03:05 PM
Apr 2019

Remember the PNAC's (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wofowitz, Bolton, etc) talk of an "imperial America" with an "imperial presidency" where the Executive branch has more power than the Legislative branch?

Seems to me like Trump picked up where they left off, he's trying to make it a reality.

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
8. Trump has no real choice, stay in power or go broke and be incarcerated.
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 03:59 PM
Apr 2019

Of course you have to get rid of judges and legislatures. The orange menace is making his move.

Amishman

(5,557 posts)
10. We need to add permanently weakening the executive branch to the party platform
Mon Apr 8, 2019, 04:53 PM
Apr 2019

Even if we win in 2020, we need to make changes to allow Congress to be a more effective check against executive overreach

Martin Eden

(12,867 posts)
11. Putin's orange asset is doing what he was placed in office to do
Tue Apr 9, 2019, 01:49 PM
Apr 2019

Republicans are either accomplices or too stupid to see it.

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