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Well, evidently Trump is unstable. He can't stay the course on any issue; he keeps peddling delusions, etc. So the symptoms are there for all to see. You are right though that only a group of proffesionals could make a precise diagnostic. And even that is not a given. Psychiatrists often disagree; it's not an exact science.

Finn's got a sick antipathy toward Eugene Robinson, an outspoken Pulitzer Prize winning Black journalist who is very often on MSNBC.

As ever, Finn is intellectually disingenuous here - not to mention hypocritical.

He trashes Robinson and defends crazy ass Trump.

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This Trump supporter is shouting at protestors: "McCain needs to die now!"

So, that's cool.

The Electoral College is the cruel joke a badly misguided subset of the Founding Fathers, who had no faith in democracy, played on us, their descendents. It's been used, what, five times now?

Despite all the daily hoopla Trump likes to create with his tweets, the story has been apparent for some time: Trump's been laundering money for the Russians for quite a few years now, that's why he wouldn't release his tax returns. Mueller suspects it, Mueller has already got several of Trump's associates to turn evidence, and when the story comes out Trump must leave office.

In the unlikely event that such a thing happened, Trump will still be our president for a full eight years. The Republicans will still hold the White House for a full 20 years by nominating candidates who share in Trump's vision for America. And even after 20 years out of power, the Democrats will still not return to power until they purge their liberals and instead nominate a Trump-lite to be their standard bearer.

There's nothing that anyone can do to prevent Trump from issuing mass pardons.

The Deep State is a shadow government that has its own agenda with tentacles reaching through all our branches of government and departments.

It began as primarily the military industrial complex. Eisenhower warned about it. Do you know what portion of the American GDP is spent on them?

I'm having difficulty believing that you are unaware of this.

In his final speech from the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that an arms race would take resources from other areas -- such as building schools and hospitals.

In his remarks, Eisenhower also explained how the situation had developed:

"Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of ploughshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well.

In today's government, Eisenhower has a fan in his fellow Kansan Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — who keeps a portrait of the former general in his office at the Pentagon, Bowman says.

Speaking at the Eisenhower Library last year, Gates talked about America's insatiable appetite for more and more weapons:

"Does the number of warships we have, and are building, really put America at risk, when the U.S. battle fleet is larger than the next 13 navies combined — 11 of which are our partners and allies?

Is it a dire threat that by 2020, the United States will have only 20 times more advanced stealth fighters than China?
These are the kinds of questions Eisenhower asked as commander-in-chief. They are the kinds of questions I believe he would ask today."

Trump will still be our president for a full eight years.

Assuming you mean as an "unlikely event" the evidence coming out that Trump has laundered money for the Russians for over a decade,

Trump will be forced out either by resignation or by impeachment/conviction. Even with a Republican Congress and Senate.

In fact it might be the Republicans pushing hardest for impeachment/conviction as the revelations are made, eager to get Trump/Pence out of there, (Pence has been telling lies to help Trump), to get House Speaker Paul Ryan in the White House and not have to chance the public will get so turned off by the Trump treachery that we have a Democratic House and Senate. In which case, if the conviction happens after the midterm, the Presidency would go to whichever Democrat is Speaker of the House. At the end, it might well be the Republicans pushing hardest to get impeachment going.

Congress can impeach/convict the President for abusing the power of the pardon. Remember, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, in the impeachment process, means whatever Congress damn well thinks it means. That's the check and balance for the fact that the President can't be put on trial while in office.

What a dipshit

To really get a sense of how abnormal and fucked up Trump's behavior is, just go to youtube and watch any of the incredible performances at prior Kennedy Center Honors evenings with Obama or even Dubya attending in celebration and support of the arts.

witch hunt.

That sounds a little sadistic and even a little more paternalistic. I mean, you hope he's allowed to wreak more havoc so that we "learn our lesson"?

I see the Koch's cooking up a major Trumpity revolt in which they will unseat his Lardness as a grand strategy to ascend Pence to the throne.