The public does not decide if he gets impeached or not.
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No, the GOP Congress does. And they will not commit suicide in the primaries, no matter what Trump does. Unless the base flips, Congress will not impeach.
When they lose in the midterms anyway, that’s when they’ll start to impeach.
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For several election cycles, the GOP have been loudly proclaiming their willingness to subvert the democratic process by whatever means necessary. The GOP are in charge of electoral administration in the majority of states.
I see no reason at all to expect them to administer the midterms honestly. It would be suicidal for them to do so.
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We will see. I think they’ll lose anyway, or at least have a come to Jesus moment… but it’s too early to tell.
here’s another great example of what i was talking about. pay particular attention to the australian prime minister, a man of apparently overage or better intelligence, as it slowly dawns on him that 45 is not following his main idea and is instead flying off the topic to some shiny thing he thinks he’s found in the pm’s words.
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Yet another in the endless list of demonstrations as to why third-way compromise bullshit is catastrophically destructive idiocy:
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People like this quisling or Manchin aren’t just unreliable pseudo-Democrats. Their toleration by the establishment Dems is actively destructive to the American left.
Why would anyone support a party willing to endorse and promote slime like that?
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Looks like someone forgot that you’re supposed to say “globalist” these days.
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Impeachment is still off the table unless the GOP base turn against Trump. Indictment would have to get past the pardon and the USSC.
There’s also the point that swapping Trump for Pence still leaves you with an antidemocratic fascist party in charge, now with extra theocracy and competence.
Pence doesn’t necessarily get you clear of Putin; I don’t think his claims of ignorance are credible, and he has his own dodgy Russian contacts. He might not be quite as thoroughly owned as Trump, but he’s still compromised.
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Possibly additionally compromised by how much he knew about how much Trump was compromised.
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And y’all say I never post anything cheerful… 
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Hell no.
But I think the chance of a double impeachment is even lower than the almost-nonexistent chance of just impeaching Trump.
Just for a reference: the estimated number of draft dodgers who moved to Canada from the US during the entire Vietnam War is estimated at 30,000-40,000.
At the same time, about 30,000 Canadians volunteered to join the US Army in Vietnam.
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Australia’s list of wars:
Out of that entire lot, only one (Operation Astute, stabilising East Timor after the Indonesians trashed it) was fought primarily in Australia’s direct interest. The rest were all in service to our Anglo-American overlords.
They haven’t included the near-extermination of Indigenous Australians in that. There were a handful of notable skirmishes, and a few brief guerrilla campaigns, but the assault on Aboriginal Australia was primarily a one-sided and informal civilian operation.
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Korea needs no coalition; the South are in it whether they want to or not. The US can annihilate NK single-handed if it doesn’t care about collateral damage.
For Iran, it’s the Saudi Alliance. I’m still expecting the US to use them as proxies and then come in afterwards, but we could see overt US involvement from the beginning.
I also wouldn’t be surprised to see US and Russian troops working together in Syria relatively soon. That probably would’ve happened already if not for the media attention on Trump/Russia.
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