People here have been predicting the firing of Mueller et al since forever. In reality, this administration is too arrogant and dumb (a truly pitiable combination) to think they need to fire such people. Nixon and those around him were very smart. Not so Trump or his sycophants. They have the collective IQ of a tree stump and cannot think their way out of a kleenex.

What I really am heartened by is that people in this country are paying attention to what's going on, are reacting, are pushing back. Quite unlike what happened in Germany in the early 1930's.

For those of you who have not yet read it, run don't walk to your nearest library and check out In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, about the first U.S. ambassador to Hitler's Germany. Alternatively, go to your local independent bookstore and buy it from them. Even purchasing it from Amazon is acceptable. The important thing is READ THIS BOOK. There will be a quiz on it later.

Doodley

(9,124 posts)

4. We have an unstable psychopath in the White House with access to the nuclear button.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 12:17 AM

Jul 2018

What pushing back is there on that?

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,895 posts)

7. No pushing back.

Reply to Doodley (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 01:24 AM

Jul 2018

But people have been predicting the imminent firing of Mueller and many others for a very long time now. Doesn't anyone here bother to think through why that hasn't happened?

My hypothesis is that the people in the White House are truly too stupid to even think of that. They really think they are in charge, that most people buy their idiotic crap about fake news. Some do, but most do not. However, they are so deep inside their bubble they simply don't know what's going on in the rest of the world.

Trump is mostly bluster. He thinks that being President is a reality show, somewhat like The Apprentice. He hasn't a clue how genuinely ignorant he is. Which is why some of the savvier of those around him can sort of manipulate him. Only sort of, because he defines the word "unpredictable". But they keep on thinking they can control him, can shape him to their own ends. They're wrong, but I do think that in the end his supposed access to the nuclear button will turn out to be laughably non existent.

shanny

(6,709 posts)

6. No. Some pukes want it, some don't

Reply to StTimofEdenRoc (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 12:42 AM

Jul 2018

--puke civil war would be OK by me, and they will get that if they try to push this to a vote (the way they filed it means they can't force it). grandstanding imo

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