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The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior
In 2020 there will be a Democrat running for President. And, someday there will be another Democrat in the White House. Republicans and Trumpers will not like it. You will criticize the things that he or she says and does. You will look into their past, scrutinize their business dealings, their public statements, their private lives.
Before you pounce, look in the mirror.
In order to save you all from being hypocritical, please refer to this list of things that the Trump base as well as Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and other Republican leaders think a president may say or do and still deserve their enthusiastic support.
The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior
If you are the president, you may freely:
• attack private citizens on Twitter
• delegitimize federal judges who rule against you
• refuse to take responsibility for military actions gone awry
• fire the F.B.I. chief in the middle of his expanding investigation into your campaign and your associates
• accuse a former president, without evidence, of an impeachable offense
• employ top aides with financial and other connections to a hostile foreign power
• blame the judiciary, in advance, for any terror attacks
• call the media “the enemy of the American people”
• demand personal loyalty from the F.B.I. director
• threaten the former F.B.I. director
• accept foreign payments to your businesses, in possible violation of the Constitution
• occupy the White House with the help of a hostile foreign power
• intimidate congressional witnesses
• allow White House staff members to use their personal email for government business
• neglect to fill thousands of crucial federal government positions for months
• claim, without evidence, that millions of people voted illegally
• fail to fire high-ranking members of your national security team for weeks, even after knowing they lied to your vice president and exposed themselves to blackmail
• refuse to release tax returns
• hide the White House visitors’ list from the public
• vacation at one of your private residences nearly every weekend
• use an unsecured personal cellphone
• criticize specific businesses for dropping your family members’ products
• review and discuss highly sensitive intelligence in a restaurant, and allow the Army officer carrying the “nuclear football” to be photographed and identified by name
• obstruct justice
• hire relatives for key White House posts, and let them meet with foreign officials and engage in business at the same time
• promote family businesses on federal government websites
• tweet, tweet, tweet
• collude with members of Congress to try to shut down investigations of you and your associates
• threaten military conflict with other nations in the middle of news interviews
• compare the U.S. intelligence community to Nazis
• display complete ignorance about international relations, your own administration’s policies, American history and the basic structure of our system of government
• repeat untruths
• lie
Last edited by Goose (5/14/2017 9:04 am)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.