Borowitz: Trump Impeachment Deal!

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1. dienne77 says:

   October 16, 2017 at 3:21 pm

   Clever, but I can’t seem to laugh. One thing that scares me more than “President Trump” is “President Pence”.

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   • Lisa M says:

     October 16, 2017 at 5:24 pm

     We already have President Pence….he is the puppet master of Trump…it never was Bannon. Trump just distracts and deflects so that Pence can “work his special magic”.

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     • dienne77 says:

       October 16, 2017 at 5:27 pm

       Maybe, but I’m not so sure. Trump is such a loose cannon I don’t think anyone controls him (no, not even Putin). Pence, on the other hand, is single-minded. I think if he gets his hands on the reins, we’ll be surprised at how much uglier things can get.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     October 16, 2017 at 5:40 pm

     They should both be ousted.

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     • Zorba says:

       October 16, 2017 at 5:59 pm

       And then we wind up with Paul Ryan.
       I don’t think he’s a Christian Dominionist fanatic the way Pence is, but he’s the spiritual son of Ayn Rand and would love nothing so much as privatizing Social Security and Medicare. Back to Granny eating cat food, I guess.
       The fourth one in line would be the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Orin Hatch. Not that he’s great- he’s not- but I doubt he’d be as bad as the others.
       Oy! What has this country come to, when I can say something like Orin Hatch wouldn’t be so bad! Shows you how bad off we really are.

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     • dianeravitch says:

       October 16, 2017 at 6:24 pm

       They are all horrible. But Trump is the worst because he is a certified liar, ignoramus, moron, and will drop nuclear bombs if he is in a bad mood.

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     • Zorba says:

       October 16, 2017 at 8:20 pm

       I really worry about my country, Diane. I don’t think I’ve been this worried since the Cold War era.
       Well, yes, there have been some other times as well.
       But……we have a narcissistic, possibly sociopathic person in charge now, someone who may also be well on his way into Alzheimer’s or another type of dementia.
       I am old and may not live to see the denouement of this deranged person’s presidency, at least as far as removing pollution controls, trashing the environment, etc (OTOH, if he starts a nuclear war, we are all scrwd anyway).
       But I do have younger kids, neices and nephews, cousins, friends, and I don’t want the country destroyed for their sake.

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   • Zorba says:

     October 16, 2017 at 6:06 pm

     Say goodby to abortion rights and same-sex marriage, as Pence appoints ever more right wing, Christianist Supreme Court justices.
     More and more Christian stuff taught in schools, more and more religious discrimination allowed against non-Christians ( and even the “wrong kind” of Christian).
     The only positive thing I could say about Pence (and I mean “the only”) is that he’s probably less likely to push the nuclear button and incinerate us all.
     Sigh. Satire is officially dead in this country. You cannot satirize an administration that satirizes itself so very much.

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     • Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:

       October 16, 2017 at 10:03 pm

       Everything is a political decision . We may have to acknowledge that the court itself is a political institution . As such it may be time to acknowledge that it is time to expand the court . Completely up to congress . So if you expanded the court to let us say 19 at a rate of 2 per presidential election.

       Of course that assumes that you have control of congress

       https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/27/bigger-better-supreme-court-reform

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