I don't think Groper Don the Con will be returning to the white House

[malaise]

after that vacation.

[adigal]

1. Me, neither. I think he will resign this month

Then Pence pardons him.
He will forget, as usual, about NY's Atty General who is also on the hunt, and Pence can't pardon state crimes. And with his corrupt business history, Trump should NEVER HAVE run for any office, at all.

[malaise]

3. His hatred of Obama destroyed him

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah - bring out the violins.

[sheshe2]

12. Hell, bring out The Trumbones!

Bahahahahahaha we will give him that parade that he so desperately wanted. ....And the CROWD SIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[malaise]

14. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!

[sheshe2]

22. Yuuuupers

He will finally get a crowd size triple Obama's!

[Warpy]

8. He only did it out of spite and a need for revenge against Obama, who dissed him

at the Correspondents' Dinner roast. I can still remember the look on his face as he stomped out at the end of that thing.

Since Congress has denied him his revenge, there's little point to staying in office. He has no interest in doing the job. He hasn't even bothered to find out what the job is in many cases.

Still, it's even money whether he'll go out kicking and screaming (impeachment) or just do an epic flounce.

[malaise]

15. It was an

I'm going to show you look

[Warpy]

19. It certainly was

I remember it from seventh grade, right after I'd whacked him with my metal lunchbox. He didn't show me, he knew I'd hurt him if he tried. Now Donny is finally learning the same lesson, only Obama hasn't had to lift a finger. Or a lunchbox.

[wasupaloopa]

11. Maybe he will seek asylum in Russia with his whole damn family

Big old Areoflot plane picks them up in FL in the middle of the night.

[Patterson]

42. Don't you think he owes too much money to Russians?

[wasupaloopa]

62. yep and he won't be able to file bankrupcy

They will all have to work for Putin swatting flies and bringing vodka

[hedda_foil]

69. I love the image of a grubby Jared and Ivanka swatting flies for Putin.

[enid602]

67. Cyprus

Who knows? He might opt for Cyprus. I think he has some friends there.

[Baconator]

25. Those chickens you are counting aren't even close to hatched...

They are a whiff of a speck in their rooster daddy's eye...

How many times have we said "This is the one. This has to be the one that breaks the bank"

and then...

Nada...

[HipChick]

2. It's a dump as he calls it anyway...

[malaise]

5. He must be dumping all over it -scared shitless - as I type

[HipChick]

10. I'm enjoying this..

[malaise]

16. Join the line

[Hekate]

20. Depends...

[bigtree]

4. he'll be incapacitated

...after his drug binge.

[malaise]

18. Yah think?

[bigtree]

40. weekend trips to his resort, and now an extended stay

...either a woman or drugs.

[malaise]

64. LOL

I'll wave goodbye

[NightWatcher]

6. Fuel up AF1 and point that plane towards Argentina! I'll chip in for gas

[onethatcares]

32. fuel up that Russian 747

and point it toward Argentina. I'll chip in too. But he's not getting AirForce !. You have to be an American President for that.

[Blue_true]

36. Give that lackey an Aeroflot. He likely prefers that anyway.

Point it toward Russia, he would feel at home there.

[jmowreader]

73. He has his own airplane. Make him use that.

[BannonsLiver]

7. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

I do agree, this is a big step forward, but there's no sign of a resignation or anything else that would cause me to believe his departure is imminent.

(but my God Id love it if you were right.

[hlthe2b]

9. May the fates conspire to make you right!

[katmondoo]

13. My guess is he will resign by Thanksgiving

He only cares about his money and the loss of future income will end his Presidency

[Brother Buzz]

17. No way. It's been preordained, etched in stone that....

McCain will lead a group of republican senators into the Oval Office and tell the orange anus to pack it up and leave Dodge before impeachment proceeds.

Goldwater's ghost is pulling the strings, here

After McCain performs this one last task, he will ride into the sunset

[malaise]

21. Would be nice

Damn he lied to his base about the wall too -he really thought the Mexican President would play along - this man is sick

[Baconator]

26. Folks have said for months now that Trump has a transactional personality and outlook...

Business mindset etc...

I said it...

One of the podcasts talking heads I listen to made the point that he wants us to believe it but there's no real evidence.

Transactional is back and forth or give and take.

He expects tribute. You give and he takes.

You build on his golf course and he doesn't pay you. You are lucky to be associated with his brand and to exist in his radiating aura.

You shouldn't talk about or push back on his ludicrous promise to screw over your people. What matters is that he made that promise and now it's up to you El Presidente to give up something to make it happen.

In any case, it changed my whole outlook on him.

[malaise]

33. Yep this is about right

it's narcissism on steroids

[Doodley]

23. When he's gone the full horror of what kind of man he is will come out

[Dream Girl]

30. Yep. It will take years...imagine all of the books and movies

"Post trump" will be its own industry for years to come

[Hekate]

24. As much as I want to believe that, I just don't know. And Pence needs to go first!

[Baconator]

27. Six steps down I think it is...

... and we could have Mattis.

Dunno how that would come to pass in the real world but lordy I would sleep better at night than I do now.

edit: Six

[Hekate]

63. You'll have to Google the line of succession, but they skipped all that with Nixon...

VP Spiro Agnew was a provable crook, so they got rid of him first and with Nixon's agreement appointed a member of Congress to fill the VP slot. So we then had President Nixon and VP Gerald Ford. At that point the Watergate trial could proceed.

As far as I can tell, the line of succession seems to apply to a series of deaths.

[Baconator]

68. It was six...

No. Office Current officer
1 Vice President Mike Pence (R)
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R)
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R)
4 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R)
6 Secretary of Defense James Mattis (I)

On a better note, I typed into google "Presidential" and the follow up of succession was in the top three suggested choices.

I wonder if that's just my search history or everyone in the world combined.

[Hekate]

72. Thanks for the check. I think a LOT of people are worried.

[malaise]

34. Penxe is just as bad - in a different way

and he was part of the lies as well

[Kingofalldems]

28. Does it start tomorrow?

[malaise]

37. We can wish

He may be eclipsed on the 21st

This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the United States since the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 (which was seen only from part of Hawaii), and the first visible from the contiguous United States since 1979.

[delisen]

29. He won't give up the power to pardon his family and

those who might testify against him. We should be discussing how Justice can make the best deal for the people.

We should be strong in demanding justice. The tendency of government is to try to spare the people from going though a long battle.

I think we should be clear that we can take a messy process and don't need to let wrong-doing people in high places off the hook of justice in order to "protect" us.

[GallopingGhost]

31. I'm not celebrating or discounting yet.

Trump is going down, but who will go with him?

I've said before I think Pence has been instructed to stay quietly in the background, making little to no noise, so that he can be brought forth as the calm, rational innocent who knew nothing and was lied to by all Trump's evil henchmen. But he's in this up to his eyeballs. So who knows how it will play out.

[onethatcares]

35. that is scary

especially when you think of all appointments. I don't trust overly shaved white guys with soft hands, I really don't trust overly shaved white guys in suits with soft hands and evangelical thoughts.

Pence is all of the above.

[GallopingGhost]

38. That's a good description. lol

He really is straight of Handmaid's Tale.

I'm convinced many evangelical Twitler voters figured he wouldn't last long and they could get their good Christian dream candidate into the WH.

[Docreed2003]

57. That's actually been my fear from the beginning...

Hell Manafort is the one who pushed Pence on Trump!!

[GallopingGhost]

58. Makes you wonder what they owe each other. n/t

[malaise]

44. I hope the 'collective' pack

the Con, Pence, Sessions, Ryan, McTurtle and several others are going down

[GallopingGhost]

52. Me too.

Fingers crossed.

[lebkr]

61. I just have to think

that Mueller's investigation has turned up more that a few Pence problems and that he will be included in what I hope to be the big take-down . . . along with McConnell and Ryan. Dominoes? I'm ok with dominoes.

[GallopingGhost]

65. Pence has already been caught

in several lies, so it's going to be hard for him to play the innocent maggot card, even if he isn't indicted.

[Miles Archer]

39. The question becomes "What kind of escape route / golden parachute" could win him over?

He could obviously bail for "health reasons"...some "mystery illness"...but he'd see that as an admission of weakness.

He could see the writing on the wall, realize that if Mueller doesn't have the money laundering facts in his hands right now, he's well on the way to them...but if he resigned, his ego couldn't handle it.

But 17 days is a LONG time to play golf, watch cable news, and gorge himself on McDonald's, well-done steaks with ketchup, Diet Cokes, salad with an extra dish of Thousand Island, potato chips, and chocolate pie with two scoops.

HIS BIG MOMENT...tonight's "announcement" that the Governor of WV is switching parties...is somewhat dwarfed by today's breaking news.

His polling keeps getting worse, the transcripts of his begging the Mexican President to pay for the wall, the "WH is a dump" story confirmed by NINE club employees and members who heard it first hand...The Mooch...Stephen Miller...Huckabee-Sanders confirming that he lied by "doing what any father would do" by "weighing in" on the Don Jr fiasco...SUBPOENAS for Don Jr...

...he's really going to take a 17-day time-out and then jump back into the fire?

[malaise]

45. I think he has no option but to disappear

I'd prefer to see him in a Federal Pen but that won't happen for now.
They'll make up some illness but we all know he's a fucking lunatic.

[Miles Archer]

59. CRD...Cranial Rectal Disorder

It happens when a patient's head is lodged so far up their ass that any attempts to remove it surgically could endanger them.

[madokie]

41. Music to these old ears

[malaise]

48. Fingers crossed

I'm not superstitious but I'll defer to the eclipse

[workinclasszero]

43. Is Benedict Trump vacationing in Mother Russia by any chance?

[malaise]

47. Not after recent comments from Russia

He may end up in the Philippines with another autocratic lunatic

[workinclasszero]

50. True

Putin's puppet turned out to be a big disappointment to the Russian mob. Trump conned Vlad too!!

Trump does love that murdering thug running the PI for sure.

[malaise]

51. He conned them all

and Medvedev called the Trump administration weak and impotent.

[milestogo]

46. Does he think they won't be able to find him if he doesn't go back?

Reminds me of my dog at the vet. He sits on the chairs because he thinks his name won't get called if he pretends he's not a dog.

[malaise]

49. Too funny

[GallopingGhost]

55. lmao

One of ours does that too. Gazes at the ceiling like, I didn't hear that name you called, next!!

[KentuckyWoman]

53. never hurts to dream

[spanone]

54. please, please, please...

[malaise]

56. Question - can you have a campaign rally when there is no

campaign? I don't get it.

[spanone]

66. i guess this feeds his insatiable ego....

he's not right.

[flibbitygiblets]

60. well it is a total dump after all. A Tronald Dump!

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can we get a restraining order to keep him at least 500 feet from OUR house?

[no_hypocrisy]

70. But Ivanka and Jared have another 9 months on their lease . . . . .

[D23MIURG23]

71. I have a hard time seeing him just walk away from the presidency.

He wouldn't be able to handle the blow to his ego. I'd be more willing to bet on him pulling some kind of hamfisted maneuver trying (vainly) to get the investigation shut down. Maybe he'll fire Sessions. Maybe he'll try to pull some scam where he preemptively pardons a bunch of people and signs an executive order trying to shut the investigation down. Whatever he tries probably fails anyway though - and gets him in worse trouble. I don't see him stepping down unless he's in an unavoidable checkmate though.