Jamok,

You may enjoy this parody Twitter account, Presidential Trump. He responds to Trump's childish sounding rants with more considered language that would pass for a mature rational adult.

twitter.com/ma...ang=en

I've been horrified by the latest happenings in the last day or two. First, he mentions Nazi Germany before shouting down CNN and they were threatened with being kicked out, then takes a question from a site associated with white nationalism. The media is supposed to be checks and balances against him, not the other way around. Today he tweeted that people should buy LL Bean products, because one of their Board members gave $30K to a PAC for him. Nice quid pro quo! Oh, and France's National Front leader was seen at Trump Tower today, and guess what, they're very pro-Russian.

Ladbrokes now has odds of 11/10 on Trump being impeached or resigning before the end of the first term.

sports.ladbrokes.com/en...81036/

Jester,

It's spooky when I can't tell what Trump actually said and what's a spoof of it. Or if the landblokes 11/10 spread on impeachment is joking or not. I have thought about the possible impeachment (there will probably be plenty of 'grounds' one can use.) But the Republican party would need to act unformly to kick out a President who is nominally one of their own. Individual actions would just get the individual scortched in response. And most of the Republicans seem to be sucking up to him since the elections, given how much power and favors he has to hand out. And just ignoring the discrepencies between his words and actions - including that the 'plan' is not to have a plan. My dream is that once how awful his leadership is becomes stark and glaring, maybe the top Republicans get together a 'putch' to get rid of him. And even if (unlikely) so, imagine the riots of all the gun-toting nuts who voted for him, as Trump would fan the flames. So there's the problem, I can't see a realistic play-out of this awful situation that works, or doesn't cause irreparable harm.

I once said that TTWO, given that they had the best properties but corrupt management, was like a 5 year old in a gold mine with a stick of dynamite. It's probably truer to use that analogy with the political situation. Even if he *doesn't* get us into some global conflict with impulsive words or actions, I'm thinking of how much he can damage the country, its values, etc. He could really wreck what it's taken more than 2 centuries to build up. I think you were right, and I was naive about how many people would vote for this crazo. God help us.

Then again - IIRC he said he knew more than all the generals and he'd destroy ISIS shortly after he took office. There's the chance that one of them might wheel a 747 through the penthouse suite at Trump towers. Well, I can dream.