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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
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.
Wasting more funds and time. Gear up for the elections, select the proper candidates who are younger and healthier, get rid of the old shitbags and re-take the executive, administrative and judicial branches. Then prosecute the fuck out of every corrupt MAGA turd. If you clowns let them get away with it again, shame on you.
It's gonna take a lot of effort trying to get democratic socialists into office. That day that happens will be the day a blue corn moon occurs . I really hope the DSA gets a huge boost if they wanna put their place in Congress.
+1...Fully agree!
I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in... We kept it grey!"
Bureaucratic babbel at it's finest.
".... We kept it grey" was such a powerful line though.
Good
Jesus Christ just go for impeachment. If you can 25th, you can impeach. What a waste of time.
Is impeachment much better? He's been impeached twice already, what did that accomplish?
That's because they didnt get the 2/3 in the Senate they needed to remove him. But they need that 2/3 to 25th him... So yeah.
Plus if they 25th he can just write a letter saying he is competent and resume being president whenever he wants.
they may get 2/3 if those Republicans on the fence feel like they have a good excuse to throw him under the bus. Their insane base might still vote for them if they say "we had to he was really sick" instead of "we had to he's breaking things you don't give a fuck about"
It's politics.
just ask him
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.
Swing that lettuce leaf. Get Hakeem Jeffries and his flexible spine to do it
so getting around to thinking about it. hope committee might finally distract from all that epstein horror
I ain't looking forward to the next candidate so trump getting ousted is not much of a W.
Maybe we should welcome that though? Shouldn't we the people be able to kick out any president that isn't doing what the majority expect? Other countries seem to do this fine. Time for the USA to exercise that approach. Bring on the bad ones, we'll kick them all out.
Bring on the bad ones, we’ll ~~kick them all out~~ not vote for them.
Come on, let's at least try to be a bit proactive next time, eh? Nobody wants to go through this bullshit again.
If trump is removed under the 25th then Vance is potus.
"We are going to file a request to create a vote in order to create a commission, that can create a petition to allow us to file the article to vote on whether or not we can impeach the seditious, blackmailed. child raping, human trafficker that sold out our country".
The rules are pretty hilarious at this point.
They REALLY WANT HIM GONE GUYS
he's going to ace it! it'll be the best 25th amendment commission they've ever seen! Maybe even the most they've ever seen, who knows? lots of people were saying "wow you aced it mr president"