Trump is playing Let's Make a Deal; Behind Door #1 a Russian Dacha, Door #2; Impeachment and Jail, Door #3;

is Civil War 2.0.

Donald Trump has made a career of pandering to racists and bigots and laundering money for Russian Pimps & Gangsters. The problem is that millions of conservatives are racists and bigots. Thus, in 2015 he knew there was a built-in base to whom he could play. Since his escalator ride down into the muck of the conservative lizard brain, his Maga Horde have heaped all manner of effluent praise and fantasy-fulfillment upon him.

Ben Garrison draws Trump as a He-Man endowed Master of the Universe and Scott 'Dilbert' Adams has imbued Trump with the powers of The Purple Man.

But, to the #QAnon acolytes and the deranged denizens of 4Chan, Trump is the billionaire playboy who gave up his lifestyle to be ridiculed and attacked in order to save America. As an incestuous regurgitation machine they have convinced themselves the latest revelations about Trump's criminal attempts at extortion and quid pro quo are really Trump finally springing the trap to drain the swamp and capture all the enemies of #Maga upon whom they pile the sum of all the rage and hate felt by their whole movement.

Conservatives will never abandon Trump. I believe even if Faux News decides Trump is too toxic and he needs to be jettisoned, in order to minimize the damage to the GOP from the 2020 elections, conservatives will rebel and kick out more of the so-called RINOs. Republicans would be happy to run the Two-Santa Claus Playbook on President Professor Elizabeth Warren and gear up to win back the White House in 2024 but, MAGA will not allow them to abandon their Chosen One.

But, Trump is not going to resign; that would be admitting defeat. And Trump is not going to abscond to a Russian Dacha on the Black Sea; as a mob adjacent Grifter his whole life Trump knows he'll be rubbed out. And Trump is not going to accept the promise of a Full Presidential Pardon; he needs protection for his odious spawn as well. And Trump is not going to start a foreign war with Iran or Venezuela; that's too hard to sell and even Trump knows Wars have a habit of ruining Presidential legacies.

Trump is the king of believing his own hype and the over-the-top ludicrous fawning fan-fiction has him believing he is the Greatest Negotiator Ever as evidenced by his Let's Make a Deal phone call to "Nancy".

What Trump is going to do is continue to escalate his violent rhetoric because he knows his base. Trump's very fine people are aching for him to declare War on Liberals, Feminists, Immigrants, minorities, journalists and the the whole cadre of Non-#Maga who are the true enemies of Conservatives.

Conservatives want blood and a White Power Nation, and Trump is going to conclude his best option is to ramp up the cries of 'Presidential Harassment' and 'Deep State Witch Hunt' until his Maga Horde decide to act on Trump's call for violence. At that point, Trump won't care what happens as the violence he unleashes will drown out his Impeachment.

Update:
So, it's But Her Emails II: Trump Strikes Back, over at Zandar vs. The Stupid we see the Trump plan; Claim this is all a Giant Conspiracy involving Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Trump is going to use the entire apparatus of Government to defend himself against Impeachment. Of course, the media is dutifully playing along by uncritically reporting Trump's State Department breathless new revelations into the emails!!!! As Traitor Tump continues his long line of saying something and getting millions of Americans to pretend what he says and what is actually happening are the same thing.

Republicans want to steal Social Security via Sequestration

Sequestration is back. Coming up very soon are the automatic cuts to Military Spending that were supposed to make Republicans balk at the Sequestration deal in the first place.

Except ha ha! It's time to change the rules. Republicans never, ever bargain fairly. Their goals are always to transfer as much taxpayer money to the Plutocracy. Thus, they agreed to Sequestration because they got the cuts to programs they wanted right away and once the cuts they don't like come into play they always planned to just renege on the deal.

"Deficits don't matter", Republican Arch-Fiend Dick Cheney. At least when Republicans control the White House, when a Democrat gets in their Republicans wail and moan about the Debt and beat their manly-boobs about deficits.

"Washington has a spending problem, but incessantly and mindlessly cutting national security will not get us out of our fiscal mess,” said Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado.

Lamborn and Jim Bridenstein of Oklahoma have introduced the Republican Plan to steal Social Security, increase Federal Government employee pension contributions and eliminate Medicare, in a bill entitled Provide for the Common Defense.

The Sequestration cuts to DoD Budget, which Lamborn called mindless, is set to drop Military Spending from $670 Billion in 2013 to $625 Billion in 2014 and $590 Billion in 2015. So the cuts to the Official DoD Budget for 2013-2015 will be only a reduction in spending to $1.815 Trillion instead of $2.010 Trillion.

"In this protracted struggle, good management dictates that we resist overspending as resolutely as we oppose underspending. Every dollar uselessly spent on military mechanisms decreases our total strength and, therefore, our security" Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1961.

The Lamborn/Bridenstein Bill is nothing more than the slimy Republican tactic of Using the Troops to steal from the Working Class, poor, sick, elderly and Veterans in prostrate service to the insatiable appetite of the 1%.

But, this is a special circumstance, the Republicans see a way to accomplish their goals of Oppression and Subjugation while also transferring the blame onto the Democratic Party.

If they manage to get Provide for the Common Defense or any bill passed which affects Social Security, while President Obama is in office, Barack Obama will effectively save the Republican Party and dismantle his "own". It would be a simple four step process;

Step 1) Get President Obama to sign onto cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. 

Step 2) Triumphantly tell Wall Street Thieves they got the cuts they've always wanted while crying to the Media they never wanted to cut Social Security or Medicare. 

Step 3) Roll Social Security into Hedge Fund Accounts were the Trillions will be clipped, stolen and find its' way into a few thousand Cayman Island and Swiss Bank Accounts 

Step 4) Run ads in every campaign for every office for the next 100 years that President Obama and the Democrat Party cut Social Security.

Sequestration has afforded the Republicans a special circumstance in order to really screw the Working Class over, but it's nothing new in the right-wing playbook. Back in the 1970's Jude Wanniski created the Two-Santa Theory by Jude Wanniski, which lead directly to the Creation of Supply-Side Economics.

Under Reagan and W(orst President Ever), Republicans engage in massive Government spending while unemployment is kept down and the "economy" is kept going by creating millions of Government jobs with millions of dollars in direct Federal aid to local and state government to help boost state government spending.

Ah, but see that all changes when a Democrat is the President because then, all of a sudden, the bills come due; "We're broke, broke going on bankrupt," Speaker of the House John Boehner in February 28, 2011.

Under President Obama, over 500,000 federal jobs have been eliminated, wages for federal employees were frozen for two years, deficit spending has decreased faster than under any President since Eisenhower, and since 2010 the only spending bills passed cut food stamps, unemployment benefits or programs for the sick and needy.

And if someone points out the incredible shrinking of Government spending under President Obama why Republicans simply ignore it.

"Are you arguing that there are fewer government employees under Obama than they were under Bush?" Senator Rand Paul asked. 

"That's a fact. That's a Tremendous Fact." Paul Krugmann 

"No, the size of government is enormous under President Obama." Rand Paul

But, while the Neoliberal Piss Down Your Back and Tell You It's Raining Prosperity Reaganomic Model has been incredibly successful at transferring Billions from the 99% into the pockets of the 1%, the Tea Party Fanatics don't have a grasp on the finer points of using the Apparatus of Government to steal The Wealth of Nations.

But, it's not the 1970's and 1980's anymore.

The Two-Santa Theory is being hampered by the Zealotry of the Tea Party types who have no time for RINOs and "Squishes", like Mitch McConnell and Grover Norquist, and in their quest for right-wing purity they make war on Working Class, minorities and women.

So, the Republicans have increasingly turn to the new Breed of Democrat, the so-called Reagan Democrat or Pro-Business Democrat or Third Way Democrats, to aid them in passing the Politics of Austerity.