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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The entire point of the 25th amendment is to deal with this sort of situation. Using it wouldn’t be a constitutional crisis. It would be in the public view, and it would go through established process and democratic channels.
Straight up REFUSING to use it and instead having the president’s staff managing the president like a toddler and hiding documents is far, far worse. Because all of this is happening in secret, outside the democratic process, and without accountability.
It's like people have already said - they want the veneer of being the secret heroes of the White House without losing the power that comes from having their candidate's ass in the chair.
"But we have to hide documents from him!" You elected him.
"But he gets mad at us and we have to calm him down!" You elected him.
"But he tweets all the time!" You elected him.
It's been fun.Also, why not doing everything possible to remove him altogether? Yeah, no pity from me. Only for the people who are regularly working for the White House independent from who is in power. I feel sorry for them, because they might not have elected Trump at all but now have to deal with him.
Edited by Swanpride on Sep 5th 2018 at 8:48:41 AM
It's a strategy which I think is very dangerous for the Republicans to invoke because consistently, their base is NOT reassured by any of this. Trump's endorsement is gold with the people they have incited to riot against Washington since Reagan.
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And I just watch Roy Moore vs. Mitch McConnell like Satan vs. Asmodeus. It's impossible to say who is a more genuinely evil piece of shit.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 5th 2018 at 9:08:21 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.And I just watched Marco Rubio vs Alex Jones
. Never thought I'd sympathize with Rubio over anything, but jeez, Jones has slime for blood running through his veins.
Context: There was a Big Tech hearing in the Senate that Jones sat in on, then proceeded to heckle Rubio as he talked to reporters. Among Jones' grand statements are such gems as:
“Democrats are raping Republicans!"
“Look at this little frat boy, so cool. Go back to your bath house. Compromise in the bath houses. There goes Rubio, little punk.”
“Marco Rubio the snake. Hur hur hur. Little frat boy over here.”
Rubio may be a snake, but Jones is so low and flat that the foot of man is incapable of crushing him.
Jones is an interesting story as according to his wife, he used to be playing a character but has gradually gone through Becoming the Mask.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.One can find some amusement over Jones' antics. At least until one remembers that Jones not only makes a lot of money through these antics, he has a sizable audience who think he's more trustworthy than actual journalists. Including the President.
I'm no longer able to find Jones funny — he's genuinely dangerous.
Edited by M84 on Sep 6th 2018 at 1:36:21 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedIf it's someone Trump actually likes in the WH (unlikely I know), he might go full Et Tu, Brute?.
Disgusted, but not surprisedMaybe it's whoever gets him Mc Donald's meals.
It says a lot about the state of things that I'm not entirely sure this isn't the case.
Edited by M84 on Sep 7th 2018 at 3:30:48 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedWhich honestly sounds to me like the real character he was playing was the reasonable and ordinary person he was when he was with her.
The Alex Jones we know today isn't the kind of mask you put on as a completely artificial personality and then slowly slide into in your personal life. It's the kind of mask you put on so that you can be yourself but with that thin veneer of pretense that lets you escape judgment by your friends and family for the toxic individual that you are. Then, as you receive more and more positive reinforcement for doing so, you gradually stop pretending you were ever anything else.
Kind of like what's happening to the Republican party as a whole since Trump's election.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 6th 2018 at 7:29:55 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.That ship sailed a loooong time ago.
Given how Japan and North Korea struck negotiation deals and how everyone seems to be playing Trump like a fiddle in meetings, I hardly think that there are any world leaders that even respect Trump, in public and private.
Inter arma enim silent leges

Yeah. No sympathy, no respect. You don't get brownie points for keeping the monster you elected looking respectable, and you sure as hell don't get to write an op-ed stroking yourself off over how much of an unsung hero you are for it.
It's been fun.