Quote (Black XistenZ @ 5 Mar 2020 06:42)
" Everyone to the right of Comrade Bernie is a corporate puppet and must be purged! "
About your actual point: I think you're putting too much stock into how things played out with Nixon/Ford. With Nixon, there was a smoking gun, which led to broad, bipartisan support for his removal from office both in Congress and among the public. If such a situation repeated itself with Trump, I'd agree that Pence would turn into a lame duck. But that's not the only way impeachment could go.
The way I see a successful Trump impeachment play out is that the accusations peel off ten-ish percentage points from the Republican electorate, while the other 35-40% stick with Trump. In this situation, the party establishment knows that they will get crushed up and down the ballot if they stick with Trump, so they have to get rid of him, but that they also want to avoid publicly turning on him because he still has too much support from the base.
So in this situation, they would pressure him behind the scenes. McConnell would lead a large delegation of Senate Republicans into the WH and tell him that he has two choices: step down and get a pardon from Pence, or get impeached, lose his immunity and spend the rest of his days in prison. The outcome, from the view of the public, would be that Trump steps down without there being a smoking gun and with his approval among the GOP base still in the 70s or so. I dont think Pence would be an awfully weak president in this scenario. Him pardoning Trump might even boost his popularity with the shocked GOP base. (While Ford's pardon of Nixon hurt his approval ratings across the board.)
rofl, cool story bro. I come up with almost all of my analyses myself. sure, I might occasionally be influenced by articles I read on sites like nytimes, WaPo or national review, but not to the point I'm just parroting.
it's so funny, the same fucking idiotic narrative, and literally everyone perpetuates it: rep establishment shills like icemage, dem establishment shills like cock, 'im14andthisisdeep' political edgelords like trench boy and camboy, and trump cultists like yourself and the rest of the incel crowd: whenever someone calls out the well documented, beyond any shadow of the doubt proven, and painfully obvious on literally every issue concerning american politics (wages, healthcare, foreign policy, trade, education, taxes... you name it) FACT that
politicians supported by special interest make policy for those donors, you people clutch your pearls and try to make that sound like some kind of loony conspiracy theory, that couldn't possibly be true.
do you honestly not feel stupid, or at the very least incredibly naive for buying that propaganda so uncritically? goon-shill at least gets paid for being a hack, but you guys just do it for free.
and the way you framed it is particularly clumsy and bad, yet again outright ignoring the easily identifiable premise in favour of a strawman that fits into your little black and white, left and right world.
the thing is, it's
completely irrelevant where on the political spectrum someone falls - what makes them "corporate puppets" is
the fact that they are beholden to the donor class, not that they are 'to the right of bernie'.
a principled evangelical fundamentalist could just as well not deserve that label - if they rejected special interest funding and influence. they would not be a corporate puppet, but still far to the right of bernie. can you really not make that simple and obvious distinction, is your mind really incapable of overcoming your ridiculous partisan bias to identify this fundamental issue? unbelievable really...