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The executive summary of their investigation will be ..
"What the fuck."
“Lightweight Jamie Raskin is a stupid person’s idea of a smart person,” said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle.
Trump is a poor white trash person's idea of a rich person.
Judging by how much the billionaires back him, I don't think that's true. The idea that billionaires are anything other than scammers and abusers like Trump is pretty obviously false. He just doesn't mask it.
He's a useful idiot. Back in the 90s when he was doing fast food commercials, he lost massive amounts of money. The appearance of bring a billionaire helped him become a billionaire again. The dude's a grifter and a puppet.
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Are they just now catching onto and parroting memes from his first term? Lemmy needs a "the right can't meme" comm if there isn't one already.
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Oh great another 2 year circus side show.
A commission to assess?
Ffs.
Nuke us from space.
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His mental fitness is being assessed constantly. They just don't care about his decline. Putin will have him as long as he think he can serve his purpose as being a useful idiot.
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Man, woman, felon, camera.
I was about to complain yet again "that's not how it works", but then I looked up the text again and this is explicitly allowed. Congress can set up a commission that basically takes the place of the Cabinet for 25th Amendment purposes. So now all this talk of the 25th amendment makes a bit more sense to me.
They still need a 2/3 margin in both houses even after the commission makes their determination, because the idiot is guaranteed to contest it. But maybe there is some truth to the idea that Republicans won't vote to impeach but would vote to declare him incompetent, based on his dumb tweets
I think the chances that republicans will admit their guy is incompetent is close to 0. They will rather lock him up in the white house basement for 2 years.
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Has anyone noticed that the "both sides are the same so don't bother voting" crowd have tripled efforts since we neared another important election time frame, funny how that happens.
Especially pitching that in the face of Hungary's recent transition.
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Congress has the power to create a commission to exercise the power to remove a mentally unfit president from office. The biggest worry is that this would inevitably be politicized. I say, let it happen! Let it be political. Let's have an openly political "mental health commission" that will rule that being a member of the opposite political party is a mental illness. Hell, let it become a formality. It will simply be expected that the president will be removed from office after a change in Congressional control. Whenever a change in control of Congress happens, the new Congressional leadership will stuff it with political ideologues. And they'll inevitably rule a president of the opposing party to be mentally unfit. Eventually it just becomes a formality, no one even considers it unusual. We just expect the presidency to be able to flip every two years. And we giggle that it has to be done by formally declaring the previous guy to be crazy. I think this would be a good idea.
Why? Because this would effectively transform the US into a Parliamentary democracy. A simple majority in both houses of Congress would be enough to install a new president. They effectively become a Prime Minister at that point. Parliamentary democracies have proven much more resilient to strong-man dictatorial takeover. It's not as perfect a solution as amending the constitution to formally remove the office of president entirely, but it would be a decent hack to do something similar. And going to a Parliamentary system isn't a magic cure-all, but it does have quite a bit of merit. As a plus, we would have the bonus of being "that nation that regularly declares its former leaders legally crazy." And you know what? I think that works well with America's energy.
I thought the benefits of parliamentary systems come from the fact that that they're more proportional. They have a balance of power going on in the fact that you can win a seat from being popular in your district, but you can also win from being popular in your party, which gives a chance to minority parties that are spread thin across the country.
Winning a district directly gives you those "maverick" politicians that don't fit into the major parties but they reflect the unique local politics. But those people can be corruptly beholden to their local industries. Winning off the party list results in members who represent their parties.
Deliciously written and insightful. Thank you!
Unfortunately, they can only create that commission if the president signs it, or they have a veto-proof majority, or they send it to JD while Trump has executed Section 3 of the 25th.
Not bad in theory but fix gerrymandering and apportionment first
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I knew the dems would form a committee eventually. It's only a matter of time now. /s
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Sure let's do everything but useful stuff
What's useful stuff at this point, shooting him? At least this will force the Republicans to vote against it making it look like they have something to hide.
force the Republicans to vote against it making it look like they have something to hide.
It always cracks me up when liberals assume this matters to anyone.
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Congress doesn’t use the 25th amendment, it’s the president’s cabinet.
That is not completely accurate:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Congress can, indeed, create a commission that serves as a substitute to the cabinet for 25th amendment purposes.
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Dems can't get anything done in Congress, so they might as well poison the MAGA well for the Midterms.
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Hilarious how everyone here complains they take the (slow) bureaucratic route.
This is a political party and that's how they can act.
If you want fast results, take it to the streets. Kicking him out outside of bureaucratic procedures is everyone's responsibility, not specifically the elected parties
Wow. What an uphill battle the Democrats have before them. How will they EVER be able to prove how unfit for office Trump is? Wow. A commission!
What a colossal f*cking waste of time. Just 25th him, already. You've got every damn day Trump's been in office for the last 10 years as evidence. Quit jerking off and do your jobs.
Learn how the government works if you’re gonna prescribe how it should act. The Democrats have no power to 25th him- only his hand picked cabinet can do that.
Now they DO need to be filing impeachment every time he does something wrong and just add it to the growing list and make them have to go through all of it every time. That’s all they can really do.
The democrats could have literally shot Trump during Biden's mandate, the fact that Trump was allowed to exist as a political candidate is just further evidence that the "checks and balances" only exist to stop progressives and they'll do nothing about fascism
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As A Brit being a third party I will believe it when I see it
Release the epstein files
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