Donald Trump’s commutation of the Roger Stone prison term will be the final nail in the coffin of the Presidency of the 45th President, and will cause massive loss of seats in the House and Senate on November 3.
To give a commutation to a man totally obscene and crooked as Roger Stone is, only adds to the image of Donald Trump as the most corrupt President in American history, bar none!
Only Mitt Romney, among Republicans in Congress, has had the decency to condemn what Trump has done, giving a pass to a man who was convicted by a jury of seven felonies.
But polls show a complete collapse of Trump’s ratings, and this action only adds to the destruction of his chances to win a second term.
The Republican Party in the House and Senate has no principles other than their own political advancement, and their personal acquisition of wealth, and they will suffer an historic disaster, equivalent of 1964!
‘The Final Nail’ comes Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
This is the scheduled date for the 2020 United States presidential election.
Here is my sense of most people, here in the United States, with regard for this topic:
“Who is Roger Stone?â€
They don’t know.
And, when you really think about their top Election 2020 issue and concern, who cares?
What they know and care about is COVID–19.
What COVID–19 has done and/or is doing and/or may do to them.
COVID–19 has struck here, in the United States, and timed close enough to the general election, on the watch of a Republican Party-affiliated U.S. president.
That Republican Party-affiliated U.S. president is Donald Trump. And Donald Trump has not been effective enough—some would say he has not been effective at all—in sufficiently helping people, including people who are voters, to survive this pandemic crisis here in the United States.
This is what most people know.
This is what most people care about.
So, come November 3, 2020, Donald Trump will become the eleventh unseated president in United States history.
And, because the Republicans hold the United States Senate, with 53 in their caucus, and there is a sufficiently strong national shift going against that incumbent party. That this does not affect only the top race for U.S. President. That upper chamber of Congress (well, given how way they operate, they should be referred to as the “upper chamber of Commerceâ€) will also switch party control [to the Democrats].
Looking at past unseated U.S. presidents, but with more a focus on the applicable five from the 20th century, 2020 Donald Trump comes across as a combination of 1932 Herbert Hoover and 1980 Jimmy Carter.
Trump is like Hoover for being confronted with an extraordinary crisis (Hoover, the Great Depression; Trump, COVID–19)—one that is overwhelming in its magnitude—and revealing an unacceptable combination of ignorance, indifference, and incompetence.
Trump is like Carter for the electoral coincidence—and rarity—of two consecutive presidential election cycles which switch the White House party (1976 Democratic pickup for Carter followed by 1980 Republican pickup for Ronald Reagan; 2016 Republican pickup for Trump followed by 2020 Democratic pickup for presumptive nominee Joe Biden). The people, who are also voters, wanted to get rid of Carter (in 1980) as they also want to get rid of Trump (here in 2020).
The United States has not historically experienced many occurrences in which two consecutive presidential elections switched the White House party. (It happened only once during the 20th century.) Usually, a given presidential election cycle with a White House party switch—to Republican or to Democratic—is followed by the next cycle resulting in an incumbent party hold. (Typically it’s re-election for that incumbent U.S. president.) So, referring to Elections 1976 and 1980—as this would also play out with Elections 2016 and 2020—is not only noteworthy but is also necessary.
Donald Trump is a troll president. The first in our nation’s history. And, for some people, a troll is entertaining. For some people, trolls are not entertaining. For some, trolls can be entertaining. To however much extent.
Since 2016, the Democrats freaked out over the following: a rising, truly progressive wing (by this period’s standards; and those in control of the Democratic Party are absolutely not progressive); and Hillary Clinton having lost Election 2016 to Donald Trump—and the losing Clinton campaign/party establishment doing all they could to cover for her embarrassing loss to a man they perceived the most beatable opposition-party candidate (and one the Clinton campaign propped up for nomination).
It has been something watching and listening to Democrats become McCarthyites. Russiagaters. (Four years running!) And banging the drums for more war. Their faux Resistance. And becoming political allies with neocons. (The Obamas love the Bushes! Michelle has mentioned she and George W. share the same values. Refer to those pictures of the two embracing. Aren’t they adorable? This, despite the fact Barack won his first term to the presidency of the United States, in 2008, due much in part to Bush and his lying the nation into the Iraq War.) Which reveals, at least to me, where this Democratic Party—for those who control the party—is and where they intend to continue heading: Left on social issues—meaning, they will come across as if they are enlightened and are good with people who are not white and/or heterosexual (and, for some, that is everything)—but right on economics, on healthcare and on health insurance, on Wall Street, on the military, on wars, and on their knees for the oligarchs. A home and party—more like a club—for those who appreciated the presidency of George W. Bush.
During the Trump presidency, the Democrats—the party establishment— were the ones who mourned the 2018 death of warmonger and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain. But, it was Donald Trump, unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who did not get the United States involved in more wars. (Bush had us in two. Obama took us to seven.) This may actually be the biggest problem Washington, D.C.—as well as corporate news media—has with Donald Trump. (Wars are good for business. Their business.)
I have never suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome. I was not born into a household with parents who talked about politics. It is most likely they wanted their children (I have one sibling) to figure out politics, on their own, after they came of age. With my parents born in the 1930s, and with my knowing them enough, and that they did not freak out over party-switching elections, my guess is that they voted for presidents from both major political parties—for Democrat Lyndon Johnson, and his 44-state landslide, in 1964; for Republican Ronald Reagan, with his 44- and 49-state landslides, in 1980 and 1984. So, I am plenty accustomed to party-switch elections, be they U.S. President, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. Governors. In fact, they happen often. So, for me, there is no freaking out.
Those who self-identify with a major political party may enjoy most the particular election cycles in which power switches to their side. That experience and feeling is bliss. And, after that happens, many of them go back to sleep. But, as I have come to recognize, that is not enough. It is what gets done with that power—after having become re-empowered—that counts.
With Joe Biden at the top of 2020 Democrats’ ticket, I believe him when he told billionaires, in 2019, “[With me as U.S. president], nothing will fundamentally change.â€
This happened as well with Donald Trump. Despite his messages in 2016—that the establishment is the electorate’s problem; because they bailed out Wall Street, not Main Street—and that The People need change; actual change; and they weren’t getting it with the then-incumbent Democrats. (“Make America Great Againâ€!) Despite his being the nation’s first troll president. Despite his being entertaining (for some). Despite his changing the image of what we see with a U.S. president. Despite all of that—Trump did not fundamentally change anything that is notable let alone worthy for the people who are not already rich. (The 2008 Obama voters. The 2016 Trump voters. A consider number of them are and/or were the same. They thought they voted for change. And, so, they have more in common than they realize.) And that’s who Joe Biden will be as U.S. president. Which is what real power in this county wants.
I will conclude with my observations on a most recent example of Donald Trump being entertaining.
It was with Trump’s July 3, 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
Timed for Independence Day, it was supposed to be something in the way of an important speech. Yet it turned out to be a speech, supposedly intended as well for the entire nation, that was delivered in a state regularly aligned to the Republicans. (The Democrats haven’t carried South Dakota, in a presidential election, more than once since the 1940s.)
Trump’s speech was a combination of American Exceptionalism and Culture War.
Trump’s speech, if he really meant it to be taken seriously, was tone-deaf.
People’s No. 1 concern, here with the upcoming United States presidential election of 2020, is not American Exceptionalism and/or Culture Wars.
People’s No. 1 concern is COVID–19.
While this is occurring, especially here in the United States, COVID–19 will likely remain No. 1. And, if Trump may have at least momentarily thought he was being truly serious, what he was actually attempting to do was distract people from their top issue; because, it is not good for Trump and his 2020 re-election campaign.
What I found to be remarkable about that speech was that it was basically a form of Trump masturbating in front of his audience. Not actually. But, if he and his advisors would have reached agreement in having determined that it may electorally help him, Trump may have gone ahead and actually masturbated in front of his audience.
Such a move may have been perceived as a bold electoral approach to potentially secure some votes. Perhaps win over some new votes. Yes—despite that speech being of no help to him electorally, as he is well on his way out, it was one more example of troll president Donald Trump providing us with entertainment!
We all agree with what Romney termed it. This is unprecedented, historic corruption.
Mueller reminds us that Roger Stone is still a convicted felon, no matter what Trump tweets.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/11/1960020/-Mueller-reminds-us-that-Roger-Stone-is-still-a-convicted-felon-no-matter-what-Trump-tweets
Trump must be impeached and removed for commuting Roger Stone’s sentence. Rule of law demands it.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/11/1959948/-Trump-must-be-impeached-and-removed-for-commuting-Roger-Stone-s-sentence-Rule-of-law-demands-it
Best thing to do at this point is to get out there and vote the crooked Trumpenfuhrer out.
The Mueller report shows the depth of connections between
the Trump campaign and the Russians.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/what-the-mueller-report-says-about-russian-contacts/
That’s one of the many reasons why we don’t dismiss it as something the Democrats made up.
We suspect that Trump is doing money laundering or something like that, which is why he doesn’t want you to see his taxes.
The Christian in me hated Trump mocking the disabled reporter.
As a woman I hated him bragging about grabbing p*ssy.
I’m rather disappointed that voters were ok with such disgusting rudeness and crudeness.
The rest of us second that disappointment, Leia.
His crowds at his rallies laughing at him being rude and crude about others shows that they are rude and crude people themselves.
Seconded, Former Republican. That’s why they deserve to be called deplorables.