We’ve been here before so many times. France is the only country with any mettle. The rest of Europe is going to wail about “not escalating things” and there will go Greenland, and effectively NATO, which is just what… huh which country wants that gone again? Surely not a country that has been shown to manipulate Trump.
Will never happen, the Republicans would have to admit all his executive orders are tainted. They kept Reagan’s dementia quiet for 2 years.
Maybe… In 2027 👀
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uBlock, dawg
Nah, non-paywalled links should be mandatory rule.
Sure, so nothing then. Got it. 🙄
Yep, you shouldn’t post if you cannot provide a link that is accessible to everyone.
Take a look at the internet archive and other services that remove paywalls.
Blah, blah, blah.
Just like last time, no one did anything and this time will be no different.
The blind allegiance to power is too strong.
So true, now undress yourself, get on all 4s and wait at the front door for you master.
Correct. Also permanent removal via 25th is actual harder than impeachment and removal because you will eventually need 2/3rds of each house of Congress. The 25th amendment is not a short circuit to impeachment.
What we need is Congress to signal to Trump a real, actual threat of impeachment. He would have to change course, and if he didn’t then he should be removed
The problem is the world became to reliant on one country. I hope this means it won’t happen again. But it well cause money consolidates.
dude makes enemies everywhere. bonkers.
American democracy is a sham. Too many influencers and voters that are too easily influenced.
Just like every other country on the planet…
Sigh. I keep reminding people that the 25th Amendment was not meant for this. It was meant for when a President is physically incapacitated. Like, if a President was shot in the head, and is still alive, but in a coma. Because all the President has to do is say “Naw, I’m good”, and he gets his office back. If the VP and Cabinet still agree, it takes a 2/3 majority of both Houses to make the expulsion stick. And even then, the VP carries in as “Acting President”, which is not formally defined anywhere.
Impeachment is the way to handle this. It has a lower threshold. It doesn’t require the VP or Cabinet to sign off first, and only needs 1/2 the House to start the process. And once the President is removed from office by 2/3 of the Senate, the VP becomes the actual President, no “acting” involved.
Because all the President has to do is say “Naw, I’m good”
Or, historically, his wife claims he’s good, but can’t speak to anyone directly, so she would talk with him away from everyone and come back with his feedback.
I predict Stephen Miller would be the one to assume that role this time.
I’m certain Stephen Miller has already assumed other wifely duties for Trump, so this wouldn’t be a stretch.
I like you’re assumption that’s not already happening. Trump doesn’t have the capacity to orchestrate what’s currently going on, there is definitely multiple people using him for their own interests.
Sure, but as yet he remains the mouthpiece.
If he either falls apart or even worse, somehow grows a conscience, then they will isolate him and speak on his behalf.
It was meant for when a President is physically incapacitated.
Dementia is physical incapacitation.
What is impeachment usually meant to do? Because he’s been impeached twice and here he is.
Colloquially it is also meant to include conviction by the Senate. Impeach + convict. But yes, Republicans have been assholes for many decades. It still needs to happen though, so it is what continues to get demanded.
It would lead to his removal, but it got cockblocked by the Senate. As intended.
For those that don’t know. The Senate purely represents old money. They were created as a check/balance to keep citizens from taking away wealth, privilege, and power from the ruling class.
The British House of Lords used to hold the same sort of power with their ability to veto anything passed by the House of Commons. The House of Commons took this veto power away, but unfortunately they were only able to do this by getting the King to threaten to ennoble hundreds of new people and overwhelm the power of the traditional Lords. Our (US) current King would of course never agree to any such thing.
That’s a fascinating historical nugget. I wonder if he would have actually gone through with it? That would have been hilarious. How would they get picked?
He (King George V) would have done it (in 1911). Asquith (the Prime Minister) told him that his father (King Edward VII) had promised to do it before his death in 1910 and King George assented. Asquith actually prepared lists with hundreds of names on them.
Which is why the House is often called “the People’s House”.
Impeachment is meant as a check on an Imperial Presidency. In the Constitution, it is supposed to be triggered in response to “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”. It leaves to Congress what that means. So it does not have to be a chargeable crime. The President is supposed to uphold the Constitution, and Treaties like the NATO treaty are supposed to have the same force as the Constitution. Threatening to attack our allies should count as impeachable.
However, he has been impeached twice and failed because Republicans in Congress have his back. In particular, the second time around McConnell said that Trump deserved punishment, but it was better done in the courts. Then Surprise! the Courts said the only way to hold a sitting President to account was through impeachment. It was an ouroborous of letting him off the hook.
We may have to live with the fact that there is no way to fix this, other than voters (or God Himself) intervening, as long as Republicans are too chickenshit to stand up to Trump.
For what I know, impeaching him means the house will vote to send him home. If the vote doesn’t pass, he won’t go home.
It never says physically incapacitated at all. It says:
“unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”
If the president has a stroke and becomes a psychotic menace. Nervous breakdown and won’t leave his room…all sorts of things.
That’s the text all right, but the text also says that all the President has to do is present Congress with a “written declaration that no inability exists” to get his job back. So as long as the President has the mental acuity to write a letter, he gets his job back. Not a high bar at all, and your “psychotic menace” or “nervous breakdown” Presidents can still write a letter.
You’re 100% right on the mechanics of it, but only 90% right overall. There is one small thing you might not be considering: Republicans might be more supportive of removing an “incapacitated” president than impeaching a tyrannical one because of the less damaging connotation of it.
Doubt it. Reagan likely had Alzheimer’s while President, nobody cared.
And he was 77 when he left office, a year younger than Trump was when he started this term!
Did Reagan threaten war with NATO?
No, but he did declare war on an island
Impeachment was attempted after the Jan. 6th Insurrection, if it didn’t work when he was trying to monkeywrench the levers of power by subverting the confirmation of the vote, and it won’t work now. He’s been shooting his stupid mouth off for decades, being old doesn’t necessarily make him demented despite very obvious signs of aging poorly.
You’re absolutely correct. But people need to realize that the 25th amendment is not a viable option. The threshold for action via the 25th Amendment is higher. If impeachment won’t work, the 25th amendment won’t either.
I think its time for the second ammendment if you ask me.
25th time someone says we should use the 25th amendment.
In the year 2525, if anyone’s left alive…
“Not now. Just give him a bit more rope and he’ll surely hang himself this time!”
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Hehehe liberals, when are you gonna get it through your thick skulls - the Trump Regime doesn’t give a flying fuck about the rules, he wipes his ass with the constitution in the morning before downing a Big Mac with a side of western rules based order for breakfast.
The only way this monster is leaving office is if the people rise up and force him to do so. Congress will not save us - hell, most of them are part of this problem of cancerous end stage capitalism and need to be deposed as well.
AFAIK the military still cares about rules. So that’s kind of a big reason to do the necessary legwork.
He’s the head of the military isn’t he? So according to the rules, they must obey him.
Exactly. So when a new president is sworn in, even if Trump and his cronies don’t care, the military will still follow the new Presidents orders and will have no legal reason to follow Trumps.
At least, hypothetically.
