チカン爺が選挙戦撤退したら、どうなるんでしょう? What happens if Donald Trump pulls out of the US election?
On Saturday, Donald Trump firmly rejected calls from within his party to withdraw from the presidential race.
But what if he were to withdraw?
Disillusioned Republicans have teased the idea for months, but after the release on Friday of video and audio from 2005 that showed Trump boasti ng in lewd terms about attempting to “fuck” a married woman and grabbi ng women “by the pussy”, a wave of congressmen and women openly called on their party’s nominee to quit.
John Thune, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, led the call for Trump’s running mate to take over, writing on Saturday afternoon: “Do nald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effectiv e immediately.”
The Guardian confirmed with multiple sources that a meeting of the Repub lican National Committee took place on Friday night, to explore ways to get Trump off the ticket. The meeting broke up without reaching an answe r.
Experts contacted by the Guardian said that with exactly one month until election day and early voting having let hundreds of thousands of Ameri cans make their choice already, replacing or removing Trump is implausib le ? but not impossible.
“This is mass suicide any way you cut it,” said Jim Bopp, a prominent conservative lawyer. However, he said, RNC guidelines authorize members “to fill any and all vacancies which may occur by reason of death, decl ination, or otherwise of the Republican candidate for president”.
That in effect means that to be replaced as nominee, Trump would either have to die, be found to be incapacitated or voluntarily step down.
The creepy guy who acted pervy toward her won. ANITA HILL lost her fight.
The creepy guy who acted pervy toward her won.
The issue of sexual harassment burst onto the national scene 25 years ag o, exploding in the male dominion of Congress, in the shadow of that mac ho symbol, the Washington Monument.
Such vulgarities and sexually explicit language had never been heard bef ore in the political arena. It was like a jackhammer drilling down into the most sensitive parts of the American psyche.
That traumatic week in 1991 was considered an important tutorial in sexu al harassment. Except that, in the end, droit du seigneur was ratified. Clarence Thomas got rewarded by the cowed Senate Judiciary Committee and ended up with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
No women voted against Thomas because none were on the committee. Just m iddle-aged white men, many of whom left the chamber believing that there had been some sort of consensual relationship between Hill and Thomas.
Why else did she wait so many years to tell her story? Why else would sh e not have quit when Thomas was so prurient or at least not follow him t o another government office? Male entitlement could fathom male entitlem ent, but not the myriad ways women continue to be treated as property, a nd the myriad ways women react to that shameful treatment ? suppressing it or working around it.
Now we have been slimed with another week of unprecedented vulgarities a nd sexually explicit language in the political arena. A cascade of women are stepping up to the microphone to describe a creepy guy acting pervy toward them.
But this time, women get to vote. Thomas may have won his fight for a bi gger job, but Donald Trump will lose. His alleged transgressions have en ergized women to support Hillary in a way that Hillary could not with he r own campaign.
Hillary is in an awkward spot on the subject of licentious behavior by m en. But Michelle Obama stepped in as the avenging angel Anita Hill never had. On Thursday at a rally for Hillary Clinton, her voice trembling wi th disgust, the first lady explained why the “cruel” and “frightening ” actions of Trump ? whom she did not deign to name ? could not be writ ten off as “locker-room talk” or “a bad dream.”
“It’s that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have fe lt when someone has grabbed them, or forced himself on them and they’ve said no but he didn’t listen,” she said. “It reminds us of stories w e heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how, back in their day, the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office. ”
That made me think of my mom, who said that when she worked at a bond co mpany in Washington in her 20s, the executives routinely pulled the youn g women onto their laps at the Christmas party.
Isn’t it delicious that after trafficking in racism, promoting sexism a nd using a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace as a pivot into politica l relevance, Donald Trump could receive his final death blow from a blac k woman: the president’s wife?
And isn’t it interesting that after so many years of keeping a studied distance from the ugliness of the political arena, the first lady is thr owing herself with such passion into this grotesque campaign?
That says everything about the singular threat that Trump poses, and she ’s emerging as the fiercest counter to it: Michelle Obama, octopus slay er. She’s effective because she has never gone looking for a fight ? we know that about her. She acts when she has something to defend, and as she made clear in a stirring, searing speech late last week, that’s mor e than her husband’s legacy, which a Trump victory would decimate. It’ s her dignity as a woman. It’s the dignity of all women. .. ttp://http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/the-authentic-power-of- michelle-obama.html
Isn’t it delicious that after trafficking in racism, promoting sexism a nd using a lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace as a pivot into politica l relevance, Donald Trump could receive his final death blow from a blac k woman: the president’s wife?
And isn’t it interesting that after so many years of keeping a studied distance from the ugliness of the political arena, the first lady is thr owing herself with such passion into this grotesque campaign?
That says everything about the singular threat that Trump poses, and she ’s emerging as the fiercest counter to it: Michelle Obama, octopus slay er. She’s effective because she has never gone looking for a fight ? we know that about her. She acts when she has something to defend, and as she made clear in a stirring, searing speech late last week, that’s mor e than her husband’s legacy, which a Trump victory would decimate. It’ s her dignity as a woman. It’s the dignity of all women. .. ttp://http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/the-authentic-power-of- michelle-obama.html
He(Obama) excoriated Republicans for the “swamp of crazy that has been fed ove r and over and over and over again.” He told them that Trump is the nom inee you get when your agenda is “based on lies, based on hoaxes.” He wasn’t merely safeguarding America’s future. He was reveling in his re venge
Luis Gomez publicly blasted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Luis Gutiérrez for failing to do enough to protect all immigrants facing the threat of a Trump presidency—and for supporting Hillary Clinton and “stale neoliberal policies” over Bernie Sanders’ campaign.
Mr. Spencer, however you describe him, calls himself a part of the “alt -right” ? a new term for an informal and ill-defined collection of inte rnet-based radicals. As such, he poses a complication for the incoming p resident. Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, w hom Mr. Trump has picked as his chief White House strategist, told an in terviewer in July that he considered Breitbart a “platform for the alt- right.”
Perhaps we should not make too much of this. Mr. Bannon may have meant s omething quite different by the term. Last summer “alt-right,” though it carried overtones of extremism, was not an outright synonym for ideol ogies like Mr. Spencer’s. But in late August, Hillary Clinton devoted a speech to the alt-right, calling it simply a new label for an old kind of white supremacy that Mr. Trump was shamelessly exploiting. Continue
Days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald J. Trump is engaged in a high-profile feud with some of the country’s most prominent Afric an-American leaders, setting off anger in a constituency already wary of him after a contentious presidential campaign.
Mr. Trump’s criticism of Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a widely admired leader of the civil rights movement, has prompted a number of D emocratic lawmakers to say they will not attend his inauguration on Frid ay.............
Mr. Neal added that while other presidents, like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, may have imposed policies that hurt black communities, they wer e more sensitive to issues of race. Mr. Trump, through Twitter, is givin g the world access in real time to his unvarnished thoughts, which Mr. N eal called “raw, unsophisticated, ignorant and uninformed.”
“He doesn’t care that people think the civil rights movement was impor tant,” Mr. Neal said. “He doesn’t feel the need to perform some sort of belief that it is important.”
Trump has also not made any public announcement of plans to commemorate Martin Luther King’s Birthday, a tradition observed by most Republican and Democratic politicians. A plan for him to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Monday has been scrapped..