Why can’t he be stopped?
Brennan pointed out the obvious on Tuesday:
John Brennan, former CIA director in the Obama administration, said Russian President Vladimir Putin likely recorded Monday’s meeting with President Donald Trump and will be able to use it against him in the future.
“I would find it unbelievable if they didn’t [record it] in some manner,” Brennan said Tuesday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I think whatever Mr. Trump said in that meeting with Mr. Putin is now memorialized on Russian tape and it will be used as necessary by Mr. Putin against Mr. Trump.”
Brennan added that the president was almost certainly told by members of the U.S. intelligence community prior to the meeting of the possibility that Russia would be recording their one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
Quite; but he ignored them.
The level of crazed reckless grandiosity it takes to think You Alone can take on a task that complex and dangerous when that has never been the way it works is terrifying to contemplate. Presidents work with colleagues, they don’t try to pretend to be miraculous Lone Geniuses. This stupid stupid stupid man, this ignorant conceited rash lawless toxin of a man, alone among presidents in history thinks he can do everything by the sheer force of his…what? His incoherent repetitive babbling? His lunatic facial expressions? His repellent body language? His grotesque clumsy meaningless gestures? What? What makes him think he has anything useful to add, let alone everything?
Unless of course that’s not the issue because it’s simply that Putin has him by the testicles and is forcing him to do it.
Either way, why can’t they stop him? Why can’t someone force him to stop doing treasonous shit right in front of us?
Maybe because with a supine Republican majority in Congress it would require a coup, bloodless or otherwise, and those able to stage one are not willing. Yet.
I’ve been wondering about some sort of coup as well. At this point I’d almost consider it a counter-coup, given the degree of unprecedented lawlessnes and lack of accountability of the current Republican Executive and Legislative branches along with the Judicial complicity in gerrymandering and voter suppression. At what point, if ever, does protecting the Constitution and the country from those who fail to uphold their own oaths of office (or rather, actively violate it) override the lawful, civilian chain of command? Are dedicated, knowledgible, Intelligent military officers and intelligence officers going to allow the ongoing disaster to further endanger the United States? Resignation might be the normal route to go, but the situation becomes less “normal” all the time.