• Pelosi: Trump wants to be impeached, House Democrats are not on that path
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Keep in mind that the Russian plan is to stir up as much shit as possible and divide America so it collapses in petty internal squabbles and fails to be an effective international presence, which is pretty much already half-true. Pelosi has classified intel on Russia in her head and for obvious reasons she can't talk about any of it. But I have to imagine that there is unstated reasoning based on classified information that is driving Pelosi to hold back impeachment proceedings. Impeachment will only divide the country further because Trump's cult will see it as the single most direct attack on """"democracy"""" (because it effects Their Guy) ever and the results could be explosively insurrectionist. Never mind if it's successful and Trump is removed, just the act of passing articles of impeachment and beginning a Senate trial could potentially ignite the nation. And you can bet Russian social media bots would be throwing jet fuel and napalm at the right-wing to push them into it. In a sane America in which the only thing wrong was a reckless manbaby President doing impeachable things every six hours, impeachment would be the way forward to ensure there is a strong precedent set for the rule of law. Today, we have an insane America where nearly 40% of the population supports a President who constantly spouts divisive bigoted rhetoric and has attempted to turn the people against their own media; a President who constantly gaslights the entire nation in order to obstruct justice into his own potentially-treasonous crimes; a President who has repeatedly floated trial balloons to his voting base over refusing the peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 2020 election and risks being held criminally responsible for everything he is documented to have done. Donald Trump is such a greedy coward that he will absolutely set fire to everything to protect his own skin, and Pelosi is having to play very carefully with this maniac with access to the nuclear briefcase.
@elix: The problem with all that, however, is that the longer she waits the less likely she'll be able to do anything about Trump. Where will Pelosi be when Trump decides he should allow himself to run for a third term pre-emptively? Where will she be when Trump begins to accuse people of treason and has them jailed with threats of execution if they don't sign written statements confessing to their 'crimes'? Where will she be when Trump begins to retroactively assert that 'American's aren't Americans' and revoke people's citizenship through purity tests of his own invention? Where will Pelosi be when Trump allows major widespread hacking of our election by multiple countries in order to ensure his Presidency continues? Where will Pelosi be when Trump declares all investigation of the Executive Branch illegal and all conducts thereof underneath executive privilege? She thinks she can 'wait Trump out'. She thinks Trump 'is a contained fire'. She is playing with hellfire and gambling with the nation for it. It makes zero difference whether she pulls that trigger now or later as goes 'but people might rebel'. Trump's diehards will never change their minds about the President even after (or if) he's out of office. Those people will always see any movements against Trump as treason. Fox News will always call any movements against the President treason. The only thing she does by waiting is diminish the rule of law and the structural integrity of the nation. If not now, when?
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