Invoke the 25th

[Kinser79]

(03-06-2017, 12:18 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote:

(03-06-2017, 11:48 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: In various posts and threads I've been stating we should impeach Trump or prosecute him for treason.

In a way, I am now increasingly suspecting the situation is even worse than criminality. I suspect Trump is mentally ill.

Invoke the 25th:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powe...f86d5a3891

'“We have as president a man who is erratic, vindictive, volatile, obsessive, a chronic liar, and prone to believe in conspiracy theories,” said conservative commentator Peter Wehner, who was the top policy strategist in George W. Bush’s White House. “And you can count on the fact that there will be more to come, since when people like Donald Trump gain power they become less, not more, restrained.”'

I agree with this assessment. There is something that is just not right with Donald Trump's mental health.

I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for him. He must be going through some dark nights of the soul. What turmoil must be roiling his psyche. For his sake and the sake of the US, invoke the 25th.

My doubts about Trump's fitness for command are diminishing by the tweet.  It's still possible that he's not crazy as some in the press have recently speculated...just "crazy like a fox," instead.

Here's the real danger as pointed out in this passage from the WaPo article you cite:

What happens in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, during a natural disaster or amidst an economic crisis? He’ll desperately need the American people to trust and rally behind him, but he will have drained the reservoir of goodwill. That is when Trump’s credibility gap is going to become a cataclysmic problem for his presidency and, frankly, for the country.

I've said it before in a previous post: I want our president to succeed--with some qualifications.  There is simply too much at stake for the country, indeed for all of us, if Trump should fail.  Especially if he should fail spectacularly in a moment of renewed crisis.

You are right Teach.  Daddy is crazy like a fox.  And everyone who has managed to learn the difference between shit and apple butter knows it.  (Unfortunately this precludes the vast majority of college educated people--particularly the press.)

The problem I would say is largely generational.  Most Boomers, and in this forum in particular, are stuck in 20th century modes of thought, and means and methods of production and reproduction.  As such they were completely blind sided by Trump's use of the media to gain free advertising and the use of meme magic and the Meme Team to push his vision.

It is also these same boomers who scream the loudest that his twitter should be silenced, never mind that it is his direct link to the people.  The simple fact of the matter is that like Kennedy defeated Nixon on the TV (Nixon arguably won the radio debate in 1960) Trump defeated HRC (besides by not being the clear establishment candidate) on the grounds of the Internet.

As for Alphabet Soup's call for using the 25th amendment, I don't think someone who literally claims everything and everyone is  Russian spy/agent/plot should be taken seriously.  His posts become more deranged by the day, and I'm no psychologist (or whatever) but I'm concerned he may be suffering from untreated paranoid schizophrenia.  But then again I'd also say that about Mr. Maddow too these days. 

Seriously I fully expect them to start foaming at the mouth any day now on MSDNC.  Its like watching Glenn Beck except less entertaining.

But then again the shutting down of the nuthouses is something else my and younger generations can lay at the feet of Boomers.