"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."

How will this end?

I've been thinking about how this Alternative Administration will end. Will SCROTUS occupy the White House for four years? Will he be impeached? Will he resign? Will he die? And when?

Bookies are pegging resignation or impeachment at 48%. Read more at Politico.


Resignation.

Not gonna happen, with this man's ego. There are good signs that SCROTUS should resign, however. The leaks from the first few weeks indicate that he is overwhelmed and out of touch. He has been overwhelmed from Day 1, when he met with President Obama. At that time, the reports were that he didn't quite understand the scope of the job, or even that he had to fill thousands of staffers' jobs. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Cream Faced Loon "seemed surprised by the scope," and his aides were also "unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama's term." As was widely reported, President Obama offered extra help to ease the transition.

Even today, three weeks in, there are reports of his being overwhelmed and out of touch. There are reports that he doesn't like being SCROTUS. The White House is chaotic and full of leaks. Even the Intelligence Community is keeping information from him because of security concerns.

There are plenty of reports that he just doesn't understand the workings of the government, the economy (Is a strong dollar the good one? Or a weak dollar? And who is the right person to ask?), foreign policy, or even international decorum. He doesn't seem to care to understand, either. He doesn't like to read briefs; he wants information presented to him in short bullet-point memos. He's learning on the job --if you can call steering a burning ship into a wall of rocks learning--and it's scary.

We all know that he is unfit for the job, but will there come a time when he throws up his hands and agrees? We could hope that he would recognize that he's just not cut out for it, but I just don't see that happening, given his massive ego. 

Though this may be the very way to bring him down: keep insulting his ego. we know that he is quite fragile. He is obsessed with polls and his perceived popularity. After just one week, there were reports that he was becoming demoralized already. If there is one way to force a resignation, it may be to keep chipping away at his ego until it breaks. (Enter the Resistance!)

Impeachment

Nearly a year ago, even before he got the nomination, there was talk about impeachment of SCROTUS. This article by Politico from April, 2016 is on point with its prediction of the election results and the description of the early days of the Bigly Mistake's administration. The article quotes Rush Limbaugh as having the thought that talk of  impeachment would take two days. Ha, ha. It didn't take two minutes. On Inaguration Day, there were calls to impeach.

Reality has brought impeachment a bit closer. Some call for impeachment for SCROTUS's violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause, which prohibits a President from benefiting monetarily from a foreign leader or government. Given that we don't exactly know if he is, given that he won't release his tax returns, there is still strong evidence for this. He refuses to divest, and he has numerous businesses and hotels profiting around the world, possibly profiting from a foreign leader or government.

Here is an article from Huffington Post detailing the Emoluments Clause and concluding that it is probably not a very strong course of action to use it as a basis for impeachment with what we know at this time.

(Side note: I'm trying very hard to read and cite unbiased news sources, and Huffington Post has come out on many lists as biased too far to the left. However, I have found them to have good summary articles with links to more centered media. And, well, I'm biased to the Left, so I'll probably continue to cite them. For the record, I'm striving for unbiased news sources in general).

Undoubtedly as SCROTUS continues his ham-fisted style of Alternative Leadership, there will be other grounds for impeachment. I'd love to have his tax returns found. Wikileaks has vowed to find them. Maybe they'll rise to the challenge.  The Russian thing will surely implode very soon and there may be good reason not only to impeach TЯUMP but to jail him.

Congressmen are stepping up and pushing the impeachment issue, on other grounds. Indeed, last week on Tuesday, February 7, Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) filed a resolution, the first step toward a SCROTUS impeachment, after the Muslim Travel ban executive order. That order was overturned by our wonderful system of checks and balances, this time embodied by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Two days later, on Thursday, February 9, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) also filed a “resolution of inquiry” for impeachment.  His gets closer to the meat of the matter, which is the Russia situation.

If more Members of Congress step forward, maybe one of their resolutions will progress and will stick. Impeachment may be a hard sell to the Republicans (Esquire figures the Republicans won't do it), but SCROTUS's ratings are falling fast, and the mid-term elections are just around the corner.

Rebellion

Could America be subject to a new Revolution? 


Death 

That could happen. I'll leave it there as a possibility.


In an earlier post, I estimated 200 days before he is gone from office. I'll further predict it will be by impeachment. I think it makes political sense for Republicans to join our Democratic leaders to make it happen. The Republicans will be better able to get on to their business at hand under a President Pence <shudder> and their jobs will have a better chance of withstanding the next election.

President Nixon's own lawyer, John Dean, an expert in Presidential endings, has stated that it will end "in calamity." He doesn't specify the flavor of calamity, but I tend to agree. It's already been a calamity for our country. This Alternative Administration deserves to end in calamity. 

 Then, we can exit stage Left and find our new entrance.