You’re right, Congress and the President have no power outside of the media—except for that pesky budget- and law-making thing, and the President’s authority over 4.4 million Government employees and members of the military. And the ability to launch nuclear weapons.

There is so much truth in this statement that it’s scary.

If white Liberals are not willing to inconvenience themselves by moving into flyover and gerrymandered Republican districts then the Presidency and States (and all internal state offices) will remain Republican for decades. White liberals upping sticks and fleeing to the coasts and retreating into gentrified “safe”…

Thanks so much for a clear understanding of what is happening. The nation wants to call us ‘angry Black women’ when in fact it should be ‘wise and vocal Black women’. Everyone else is afraid to speak pure, unadulterated facts. They have a mob mentality and think they will get something. Look what happened to the HBCUs.

All true, but life expectancy for a 70 year old American male is 14 years. Trump, while obese, also has at his disposal to the best care on Earth. The two factors probably balance out.

Nicely done! I love the phrase “twitter fingers...teleprompter thug” but I disagree with the 8 years. He is a 70 year old man that is overweight, eats poorly, probably other unhealthy things in excess and has a crazy/weird gastrologist as his personal physician. People normally go to a gastrologist when they have…

Beautiful Post. Everything absolutely spot on. This is why I come to The Root. Meanwhile, in the wypipo part of Gawker, you still have bullshit blowing Bernie Sanders posts like this: Celebrity Democrats Fuck Off.

Jesus, yes. Every time I hear or read someone saying “well this is the last straw, his supporters/congress will have to wake up and see how horrible he is now!” I want to scream. No! Anybody who didn’t jump ship a while ago is on for the whole ride now. Particularly the voters. They’ve now made Trump part of their…

It won’t be impeachment. It will be 25th Amendment or death in office, Dr. Feelgood’s “medical” pronouncements notwithstanding. I do not have good feelings about the 2018 election as we are nowhere near the 5-9% of the voting populace agitating for change.

Not like Pence is any better nor, given his handling of affair…

The Republicans have 33 state governors, 52 senators, 237 representatives and the Faux Head Nacho in the White House. They aren’t going to do a damn thing to loose any of those things. They know that if they lift a single finger against him it will be political suicide, all they have to do is look at how many current…

We will see how “independent” Comey is — I’d like to believe it. One good thing is that Rod Rosenstein seems to be independent enough to take on this.

Mein Drumpf is flinging verbal poo to effect his escape.

Republicans do nothing except fall in line. Those Obama democrats that voted for Orange Julius Caesar aren’t rebelling against anything until they realize that the jerbs aren’t coming back but fear of the other trumps their own economic situation. I grew up with them in the Rust Belt, some are in my extended family…

They put up absolutely no opposition to any appointments Trump made. They’ve practically rolled over for Trumpsters.

At the rate he’s moving it’ll be a lot longer than 8 years. He’s already trying to drag his predecessor into Benghazi style hearings over the wiretapping he invented from whole cloth.

Everyone thinking the Republicans will wake up and push to get Trump out of the White House needs to remember that they fundamentally agree with his policies:

I’ve got a buddy at work. Dude is sharp, but he’s an old-school Texas-born moderate/social-liberal who hates Trump and is convinced that the Republican base will suddenly wake up one day and topple him.