Well, he has the first half of “Dictator” down…

The President of the US wants the dollar to crumble, because most of his personal money is in alternate digital currencies…

US Catholic Cardinals are one of the enablers for this administration, by focusing on abortion above all other issues during the election. It’s a little too late now, though.

No, but he did declare war on an island

Doubt it. Reagan likely had Alzheimer’s while President, nobody cared.

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 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.

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.

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.

Yet is someone wanted to sue Trump, the Supremes would probably toss it out of court. What do you call a ruler who can never be held to account by his subjects?

Watch as no European country pays the Danegeld, while all of Trump’s Arab business partners in the Middle East do. Then Trump will complain about how “Europe doesn’t want peace” before taking Greenland by force, and use Saudi money to build a Monument to Peace on the grounds of the new Trump Gaza golf resort (also built with this money)

Safest to have her take Chuck’s Senate seat. But I am acting a bit selfish here: as a New York State resident, I don’t want to give her up yet.

Sure, but she appears to be an effective enough politician that making her VP is a bit of a waste. All the VP does is settle fights in the Senate and wait for the President to die.

And the president cannot pardon a state law crime

Amazingly, that point is now up for debate

Trump pardoned Peters in December, but his pardon power does not extend to state crimes. Peters’ lawyers have said Trump has the authority to pardon her, arguing that President George Washington issued pardons to people convicted of both state and federal crimes during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1795.

This is all performative. I think AOC has already been promised Chuck’s seat without a primary challenger in 2028, and she’s gonna take it.

She knows that if she ran for President in 2028, she would’t stand a chance, because she lacks a key thing that Gavin has – a penis. Look at the last few elections, and you will see that whenever the Democrats ran someone with that key asset for President, they won! The last penis-haver who lost was John Kerry, and he had his own issues.

No, all of America isn’t a misogynist hellhole. But there are enough people out there who will come up with any excuse to not vote for a woman to make a difference. (My favorite from the last election was the guy who didn’t vote for Harris because she reminded him too much of his ex-wife.)

AOC will run for Senate and win, and serve there for a term or three. Maybe by then, we’ll be ready for a female President.

Oh, there’s going to be accountability all right, but for the wrong reasons. I predict that lawyer is getting his ass fired for telling the truth in Court and making the administration look bad. It may not happen right away, but it’s gonna happen.

I’ll believe it when I see it. So far, Republicans’ vows to go against Trump seem to have the same sticking power as their vows to their ex-wives.

We’ve run over a thousand simulations

What does that even mean? How do you run simulations on something like that? It makes me think she just kept asking ChatGPT over and over …

The “checks and balances” depend on putting ambitious people in different parts of the government, and giving them competing roles. Then, naturally, excesses get curbed because no one part of the government would want to cede too much of its power to the other.

It did not forsee a future where the leaders of the other co-equal branches of government would subjugate themselves to the President’s ego.