Whether Republicans decide to get rid of Trump depends entirely on whether his polling numbers drop down to something like 30%
It doesnāt depend on whether heās a criminal - we already know he is - and Republicans are fine with that - as long as heās popular
The problem is most of Trumpās cronies have committed impeachable offences too, a whole string of them could feasibly go down, the rot of criminality runs extremely deep here, weāre basically talking about an organised crime syndicate
If Trumpās poll numbers were to drop down to 30% or lower - and I donāt believe they will, the Republicans canāt credibly rig the election
There is a long way to run in this yet
The Democrats are so fucking impotent in their messaging however that I expect Trump to limp on and be the candidate, and if heās the candidate, he could still āwinā, most likely by having the actual thing rigged in certain states
Whether Republicans decide to get rid of Trump depends entirely on whether he helps or hinders their individual chances of re-election to the House and Senate in 2020. With Independents starting to move on the impeachment question, the scale is starting to tilt from Trump helping to hindering. It is quite the quandary for Republicans though as Trumpās base is very loyal and would likely sit out the election if he is forced out. It also raises the specter of him running as an Independent.
Saudi Arabia are not only hosting Joshua Ruiz but also a WGC event where they are paying millions to worlds top golfers just to show up. They have thrown money at UUCOAM Eddie Hearn to hold the fight there. They are also hosting Spanish super cup with Real Madrid, Barcelona etc in January. It seems like sports governing bodies are happy to ignore the many human rights violations and are now wanting to āgrow their sportā in new markets. We havenāt seen such an abandonment of morals since the Irish rugby team toured South Africa during the apartheid but to be fair to them they didnāt have any morals. Itās sickening to see.
The US has just killed some Iranian dude called Qaseem Soleimani who apparently is a very big deal
Region analysts, ie. Twitter peeps, are saying that this could lead to a US-Iran war or at least set Iraq ablaze with the US army and western people in Iraq becoming major targets of Shia militias
At least if thereās a war against the US, which is not to be welcomed, Iran will have mass support on this forum, which is to be welcomed, being the considerable lesser of two evils as they are
What a strange place @Sidney has found himself, on the side of Rouhani, Assad, and Putin, who now apparently are the good guys after years of trying to convince us they are the bad guys.
Things are starting to simmer and could boil over very easily. Iran obviously feel that Russia have their back and possibly China as well (all three held military exercises together recently). Soleimani is a big fish, regarded as the single most important operative in the ME by the CIA, veteran of the Iran Iraq war, heavily involved with Assadās forces in Syria, and the de facto leader of Hezbollah. This wonāt go down well in Tehran, their response will be interesting.