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Not sure who still needs to hear this, but the Republican party are traitors to the United States of America.
They've abdicated their Congressional duties and signaled that they are fine watching this country crash and burn to give a single man the power of a king.
They aren't going to remove him.
Want him removed? Give Dems the House and Senate.
8 million people showed up for no kings. You are telling me we couldn't get a chunk of them to follow a senator around to remind them who they work for?
I’ve written all Dem candidates for Statewide and Federal office in my State, asking what they’ll do to punish these folks and strip them of their ill gotten gains. I made clear no response = no vote, primary or general.
ONE candidate responded.
I have no faith Dems will do shit.
That's where I am. I'd rather see tho whole thing burn to the ground that vote for another "time of healing" bullshit democrat. I want fire and fucking brimstone. Someone, a bunch of somones better serve some damn jail time or i'm never voting again.
Eyup. I often write here that citizens respect the constitution, patriots defend it, and traitors violate it. In the us anyway.
The sycophants in Congress WON’T stop this because they agree with him and with everything he’s doing. Congress won’t stop his insanity.
Only things similar to what went down in France circa 1793 will stop him. That’s gotta come from the people. Not from toadies, yes men, and cultists.
I keep reminding people that the 25th Amendment is not the solution here, because it requires a higher bar to enact than simply impeaching the guy. You need to have the VP and half the cabinet on board to trigger it, but then the President gets his office back by simply telling Congress "Nah, I'm good". But then if the VP and cabinet still insist, it would take a 2/3 vote of both houses to trigger.
Impeachment requires no Cabinet officers, and only a majority of the House (but still 2/3 of the Senate to convict).
It would be fitting, though, if for all the dumb, impeachable shit he's done, the thing that finally did it was swearing in a tweet on Easter....
That would be something. Raping a whole bunch of kids, and women and countries and businesses is fine... but they draw the line at swearing on Easter...
Christians are fucking strange.
You mean “Christians”.
It doesn't seem like there's an especially substantial call for the 25th Amendment, buuuuuut the 25th isn't strictly a downgrade to impeachment:
TL;DR: The argument for the 25th is that, if you can get the ball rolling, it might actually be possible compared to impeachment proceedings which currently, inarguably, are not.
Bingo.
Vance is going to want to be seen as leading the coup, not being handed the job. But it's not happening for another 10 months. First, he needs a new Congress, one who is already itching for impeachment. And if he's waiting for Congress, he's going to wait another three weeks: so long as he only takes half of Trump's term, he remains eligible for two full terms himself.
Vance will exercise Section 4 of the 25th after January 20th, 2027.
One rebuttal I've heard in a previous discussion of this is that Congressional Republicans might have more appetite for removing him for "medical incapacity" than "high crimes and misdemeanors" because it allows the party to save face.
Impeachment is a political tool, and doesn’t change anything unless removed. They won’t do that.
~~Could~~ constitute war crimes
Blowing up a school and murdering 168 schoolchildren is absolutely a war crime. Journalists need to grow a spine and stop trying to spread uncertainty by soft-pedaling this shit.
For that you need journalists who get paid by someone else than Bezos or Ellison. Something that does not exist, as Pichai (Google) and Nadella (Bing) censor the search results in a way, so they never see any light of day.
No they need to tell the story from all point of views. Don't you ever think about the kid's shooters mental state? /s
We could possibly hurt Trump's feelings by calling him a child rapist charlatan war criminal. We need to consider his feelings as well.
What to know about the 25th amendment? It is not going to happen for Trump. That’s all there is to know.
Actually it just might. Republicans need to drive down the blue vote before the midterms. Voter suppression measures aren’t enough. Trump keeps threatening to die but hasn’t. If they remove him before the midterms, it could remove the motivation for dems to show up.
They may just feed Trump to his own leopards.
It's more likely that the military will assassinate him than that Republican politicians will betray him.
That will never happen. He purged the military. They follow him blindly and willingly. The army is FULL of orange shitgibbon cultists.
I didn't say it will happen. I said it's more probable than Republicans betraying him.
Or a dark cabal poison him, etc.
Then they can leverage him as a martyr instead of fracturing the party.
They won't do it unless shit gets way way worse first.
Oh this isn’t the bottom?
There is always more down
But but but this time is different!
This article should be titled "Five people have recently tweeted about the 25th Amendment"
One of them is Anthony Scaramucci. Why the hell do people think we need to hear anything from him?
Well based on the presidents actions, all governance is done over social media... maybe they're trying to follow suit?
He had one whole Scaramucci to do something, and he didn't.
Mark my words, the 25th amendment won't even be considered until January 20, 2027. After that point, the remainder of the term is a freebie for Vance because he's still eligible for 2 full terms.
What you are ignoring us that the new Congress will be in place by then, and as long as the election isn't ratfucked the Democrats will probably gain a slim House majority. This means not only that the Democratic Speaker will be third in line for the Presidency, but also that the Democratic House (and the Senate)will have to approve whoever Vance picks as his VP. They could just sit on it and not do anything, in which case the VP slot remains vacant, and that House Speaker is now second in line (plus, ties in the Senate can't be broken, which can be handy if Republicans still hold that.)
So, they may pull the trigger* early if they don't think the Congressional election is in the bag
*= Hey, FBI, that's only a metaphor....
Vance is going to need that new, impeachment-ready Congress in place before his coup, or his coup will fail.
Which is a good thing...
trump in office being obviously crazy will depress R turnout because their candidates have to say they agree with the crazy shit.
Dems will have a lot of "free" votes because they just have to point out how bad shit is.
Vance's personal pursuit for max power is going to fuck their movement over.
It's why we need to start making sure every Fem.politicians values party/country over their own personal.power.
Not to doom-reply, but…
their candidates have to say
Dems will have
[x] Doubt
Because they just have to point out how bad shit is? They did that before and Trump got elected again.
Requires Vice president and majority of his cabinet. I'm guessing (sadly) highly unlikely.