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The past two days we've been treated to Trump's unbridled, paranoid, aggrieved id. He's gone after Google, CNN, NBC, and various other malefactors he blames for not recognizing his genius.
It's truly something to behold. One usually doesn't see such a performance outside of the purview of a cinematic or television treatment of a madman dictator losing what little grasp of reality he or she has left. We're entering Shakespeare's territory, with visions of ghosts and bloody daggers and intimations of impending doom.
Trump has finally realized that the subterfuges and flim-flammeries he usually employed as a mobbed up "real estate developer" in Queens to avoid scrutiny or accountability don't work in the world of power politics. For all of our failings, we're not a banana republic, and he has brought us no closer to being one. In fact, his actions have mobilized the state and societal institutions which were designed as a check on a person like Trump. And thus, he's going full scorched earth, calling into question those institutions, questioning their legitimacy, painting himself as victim of some grand guignol conspiracy to stifle his greatness.
If his behavior of the past two daysnot to mention of the past two yearsis not reason enough to resort to the mechanisms of the 25th Amendment to remove an obviously mentally incapacitated chief executive, I don't know what would qualify. Each tweet is more deranged, more paranoid than the previous one. What we're seeing is a psychotic break live on social media. If Trump were still a louche game show host, we'd be laughing. He has the nuclear codes; this is no laughing matter.
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Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)He still has a lot of people to convince that he's a fucking lunatic.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)My favorite phrase in the article: "His supine sycophants".
Vote like the world depends on it, because it does.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)So don't forget to get your friends and relatives out to vote.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Thelma Harper runs for mayor against a stereotypical disingenuous incumbent politician, winning mostly because of a populist message and witty comebacks. Once she takes office, the city government becomes a shambles, because when it comes to governing a city, Thelma doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground. On the verge of being tarred and feathered, she relinquishes control to the previous mayor and returns to her bickering, selfish family.
The sooner Trump just gives up the gavel, the better. Take a queue from Thelma, Donnie.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)None of them. The GOP does not care.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)They are all loyal to Russia now.
dchill
(38,532 posts)Then reality would be like the inside of his head. It's just not.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)It was written a year ago but still applies. His cabinet is getting rich off of him so they won't do anything.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Everyone of them are looting our country.
cutroot
(876 posts)Just seeking resolution.
AllaN01Bear
(18,384 posts)red alert. thats all i can say about this .
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)that would normally fail as well as pack courts with their own people.
Of course similar like minded people thought the same thing in Germany in the 1930s after a certain person rose to power and we all know how that ended.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)damaging HRC's success in becoming our rightfully deserving Commander in Chief.
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sheshe2
(83,898 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Deplorables... I.e. His base
But 40% has never won an election!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)c-rational
(2,595 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)great post and true.
This madman must be dethroned. He is only for himself and a fucking THUG.
dansolo
(5,376 posts)The 25th amendment is meant to deal with a president who is incapacitated, not merely insane. If they tried this, Trump can contest it, in which case it would goto congress, requiring a 2/3 vote in both houses. Impeachment only requires a majority in the house, and doesn't require the majority of his cabinet and vp to start the process.