At what point does the 25th come into play?
We know he’s a narcissist. He’s also clearly getting dimentia. As the stress gets worse hes going to become less and less stable and more and more incoherent.
How do the GOP folks think that plays out? Better or worse than impeachment?
Could they spin “we thank trump for his service, but unfortunately age prevents him from finishing his work. Unite behind Pence to honour his legacy”?
Over in Breitbart land, apparently the Dems are in a panic.
BUT HER E-MAILS!!!
EDIT: Slow pony
I kinda think the reason he’s rolling over on this so much is because the impeachment inquiry. He was doing his usual block and obstruct nonsense until talks got serious about impeachment and he just started folding to everything.
Possible someone told him that if the house does a full impeachment inquiry, he would lose his ability to block everything and much worse stuff he’s done would come out. Or maybe someone said if they begin impeachment we will not be able to block your taxes from coming out
Thats getting close to 4D chess though so unlikely. But if we get the complaint tomorrow and its bad but not super bad I think he’s probably trying to hide other stuff.
Or maybe he just thinks hes untouchable and doesn’t care anymore.
I’m ashamed to say I clicked on this. What I found interesting, behind all the BS and misleading and selective quotes in the article was the most upvoted comment. The triumph, as usual, is to trigger the dems. This is like the apotheosis of conservative thought under Trump. I’m not sure what sort of information processing system one would need to come up with this and for it to be the most upvoted comment. I feel that, despite many nobel efforts, the Trumpist psychology has not been adequately explained.
I LOVE IT!
President Trump dropped a giant water balloon on the heads of the Dems when they got together have one of their collective Triggerings !
Trump 4D Chess move Flawless!
The core would seem to be genuine resentment. Why have the dems sought to complicate the world and its natural order? They defend the blacks, the Mexicans, and the gays, hug trees, eat weird shit, probably don’t like beer and BBQ, and don’t love God and the flag. Why can they not appreciate that Trump only wants what is good for real Americans? To be an ass kicker, an alpha, who doesn’t give in to foreigners and liberals. Well, they may bitch and moan like the sissys they are, but at least Trump will show them who is boss.
Like the entire discourse floats above policy, but to the extent it implies policy it is simply cultural grievance and ass-kicking Murica, with maybe some charity for poor souls who aren’t natural born ass kicking Muricans.
I think what has to be behind this sort of thinking is the implicit strong belief in a “natural order” and Trump somehow reflects and embodies that natural order. It seems all gut-level, and not driven by any more abstract considerations about how what is may differ from what could be or much less some ideal. Maybe the real concern is lashing out at people who tell them that what they think and beleive is actually wrong, according to x, y, and z, but they don’t understand or have time for x, y, and z, so they seem to reactively lash out against those who do not embrace their values and implicit understanding of the natural order. One minute they were paddling the pledges and getting drunk and everything was great, and now they’re being told they were in the wrong. Who has the right to judge them, some uppity negro or prius driving fem-man? It wasn’t like that when Murica was great, before the abortionists took over.
Really, I just find the who thing puzzling. I did not find Cory Robin’s The Reactionary Mind overly insightful about the psychology at work here, but I feel like it’s fairly “simple” and should be comprehensible.
I lol’d but note the coherence when English probably isn’t even Z’s 2nd language.
Lol fuck this stupid ass country and its stupid ass president.
YOU GO GIRL!!
On days like this I really miss hearing from Jeff Flake.
Top 12 headlines of Faux News website are all related to impeachment. Seems like they are in full blown panic trying to protect Donny.
I half expected this to be a response to the picture of Ivanka at the UN.
All patriots support your opponents
I’m still of the opinion that this is a 3/10 on the trump awfulness scale and I have no idea why Pelosi chose this moment. If the whistleblower complaint doesn’t show clear quid pro quo I think you’ll have a lot of Americans who will be scratching their heads about what exactly he did wrong.
I’ll reserve further judgment until the whistleblower report comes out and hopefully proves me wrong.
The 25th doesn’t. It’s harder than impeachment. I don’t understand why more people haven’t read the actual text of the 25th.
The 25th is if he’s compromised physically somehow, ie unconscious or taken hostage. Trump would simply have to say “nah guys I’m good” (and PS fuck you all you’re fired) and he gets to come back. If his cabinet still disagrees, it goes back to Congress and 2/3 of both houses have to vote to remove (that’s harder than impeachment). 25th isn’t possible
