We’ve been here before so many times. France is the only country with any mettle. The rest of Europe is going to wail about “not escalating things” and there will go Greenland, and effectively NATO, which is just what… huh which country wants that gone again? Surely not a country that has been shown to manipulate Trump.
Will never happen, the Republicans would have to admit all his executive orders are tainted. They kept Reagan’s dementia quiet for 2 years.
Who’s the next scapegoat puppet they have lined up?
If they ever remove this ass from office, it will probably just be the final compromise to somehow still not release the epstein files.
Maybe… In 2027 👀
Paywall 👎
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I use ad blocking dns and it doesn’t prevent paywalls.
Please consider including an archive or similar link with no paywall next time.
uBlock, dawg
Nah, non-paywalled links should be mandatory rule.
Sure, so nothing then. Got it. 🙄
Literally just:
- Load https://archive.in/
- paste url
- wait a moment
- copy archive.in url and put on Lemmy.
Anyone know why there is an https error on this link?
Yep, you shouldn’t post if you cannot provide a link that is accessible to everyone.
Take a look at the internet archive and other services that remove paywalls.
Blah, blah, blah.
Just like last time, no one did anything and this time will be no different.
The blind allegiance to power is too strong.
Dude defunded NPR and they still bootlick nonstop. The indoctrination is deep.
So true, now undress yourself, get on all 4s and wait at the front door for you master.
Correct. Also permanent removal via 25th is actual harder than impeachment and removal because you will eventually need 2/3rds of each house of Congress. The 25th amendment is not a short circuit to impeachment.
What we need is Congress to signal to Trump a real, actual threat of impeachment. He would have to change course, and if he didn’t then he should be removed
The problem is the world became to reliant on one country. I hope this means it won’t happen again. But it well cause money consolidates.
dude makes enemies everywhere. bonkers.
American democracy is a sham. Too many influencers and voters that are too easily influenced.
Just like every other country on the planet…
it’s tiresome seeing all these “tHaT wAs ThE lAsT sTrAw” headlines for years and years, while he just keeps doing whatever tf bullshit he wants with zero consequence
Well if he’s not careful, he might get SLAMMED.
It’s almost like the American “resistance” is a bunch of fucking cowards.
“But I have a family! But I have a job”
Go fuck yourself, so did literally everyone else who ever fought against great odds, you absolute clown.
All while still being very proud that “they” did something in ww2
Most people subconsciously know that they would get Charlie Kirk’d five minutes into their career as resistance fighters.
Maybe you muppets shouldn’t have dined out on “give me liberty or give me death” for two centuries if you just thought it sounded cool but didn’t really mean it.
Have you served or been involved in armed conflict before? Ever conducted or been involved with combat operations in any theater of asymmetrical warfare?
Edit: @[email protected] that was an earnest question. If it was you, I take it that down-vote means “no”. However, I suppose there’s nothing stopping you from saying “yes”, and just lying about it.
First of all, you can call “muppet” someone irl and see what the consequences are.
Secondly, you come off as nothing more than a keyboard warrior.
Thirdly, educate yourself.
You call people cowards for wanting to feed their kids and not die in a ditch as if you wouldn’t do or feel exactly the same.
If you were actually serious about fighting “great odds,” you wouldn’t be lecturing Americans online like some smug, flannel-wrapped armchair Lenin. You’d be out there… uh… rebelling against healthcare or something?
What is the great Canadian class struggle, anyway? Being forced to say “sorry” when someone trips over you? What’s your great act of defiance, bud? Refusing to say “eh”? Skipping the national anthem at a Leafs game?
At least the Americans have something to resist. You’re out here morally outraged from a nation so peaceful, its most dangerous export is Celine Dion’s voice. So go ahead, call them cowards. Meanwhile, you’re the pinnacle of Canadian activism: loud in comment sections, silent in history.
Clown, indeed.
Canada showed up to both world wars on day one, Muppet.
While you cowards snivelled on the sidelines, profiteering on it, before jumping in on the last ten minutes. Canada isn’t fucking stupid enough to vote in an absolute lunatic. We aren’t dumb enough to have created an electoral college system, and be tied in to a system that doesn’t allow for government removal between election cycles. We know better than to let the head of state and the head of government be the same orange dipshit. We know that the head of state needs to be apolitical.While you were busy volunteering to be Britain’s cannon fodder, Americans were busy making sure both wars actually ended in victory because, let’s be real, you weren’t exactly going storm Berlin alone. Seriously, though, imagine being proud about getting drafted into the meat grinder of WWI for a king you don’t even want to answer to in the first place.
And sure, yeah, you didn’t vote for a fucking insane shaved orangutan who shits himself daily. But you also have a government so limp-dicked and ineffectual that your PM could literally blackface his way through half a dozen scandals and still keep his job.
So yeah, Muppet, keep patting yourself on the back for being “better” while your entire national identity is just “not being the U.S.”.
Weak, MAGA level ad hominem. It’s interesting how many of you sound the same and resort to the same boring, tired lines when you’re reminded that your good intentions on their own mean fuck all. Defensive in the same way an 8 year old (or Trump supporter) gets defensive. Way to have ChatGPT help you out with that last paragraph, though. Really drives the point home.
Lol. I don’t need AI to dismantle yesterday’s warmed-over “America bad” bullshit.
You sound like a bad auto‑reply: recycled NPC-tier insults every terminally online “leftist” throws out when they’ve accidentally left their argument at home. It’s always zero substance and the same beaten to death thought-terminating cliches (anyone who disagrees with me is MAGA hurrrr) every time someone says something you don’t like.
The irony of someone who thinks typing “ACAB” and “eat the rich” into a comments section counts as praxis bitching about other’s lack of spine is delicious. Your activism starts and ends with lemmy, but sure, lecture Americans on efficacy and bravery, you sniveling cunt.
Calm down.
The camel’s back is vibranium
The majority of democrats in charge of this country seem to just not care… And the Republicans in charge at this point are full fascist steam ahead, and elated by every terrible thing that takes place.
The only hope is a revolution but I don’t know who’s gonna lead it
Mark Milley
CQ Brown
H.R. McMaster
Jim Mattis
Meroe Park
Dan Coats
Joseph Maguire
Jeffrey Kruse
Alexander Vindman
Tim Haugh
Milton Sands
James Comey
Lisa Franchetti
You’re literally sitting on a pile of decorated generals, heads of intelligence and national security agency leaders who have been forced out by Trump for licking boot or have resigned in protest of Trump.
Where are these cowards? A few are clowning around on social media. If these people won’t stand up, you’re absolutely fucked.
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Who’s “you”? I’m not American
Well, THIS is the last straw for real now!
Source: trust me bro.
After this straw, and that straw, we only have 16 straws left!
No one’s running out of straw!
Sigh. I keep reminding people that the 25th Amendment was not meant for this. It was meant for when a President is physically incapacitated. Like, if a President was shot in the head, and is still alive, but in a coma. Because all the President has to do is say “Naw, I’m good”, and he gets his office back. If the VP and Cabinet still agree, it takes a 2/3 majority of both Houses to make the expulsion stick. And even then, the VP carries in as “Acting President”, which is not formally defined anywhere.
Impeachment is the way to handle this. It has a lower threshold. It doesn’t require the VP or Cabinet to sign off first, and only needs 1/2 the House to start the process. And once the President is removed from office by 2/3 of the Senate, the VP becomes the actual President, no “acting” involved.
Because all the President has to do is say “Naw, I’m good”
Or, historically, his wife claims he’s good, but can’t speak to anyone directly, so she would talk with him away from everyone and come back with his feedback.
I predict Stephen Miller would be the one to assume that role this time.
I’m certain Stephen Miller has already assumed other wifely duties for Trump, so this wouldn’t be a stretch.
I like you’re assumption that’s not already happening. Trump doesn’t have the capacity to orchestrate what’s currently going on, there is definitely multiple people using him for their own interests.
Sure, but as yet he remains the mouthpiece.
If he either falls apart or even worse, somehow grows a conscience, then they will isolate him and speak on his behalf.
It was meant for when a President is physically incapacitated.
Dementia is physical incapacitation.
What is impeachment usually meant to do? Because he’s been impeached twice and here he is.
Colloquially it is also meant to include conviction by the Senate. Impeach + convict. But yes, Republicans have been assholes for many decades. It still needs to happen though, so it is what continues to get demanded.
Impeachment is meant as a check on an Imperial Presidency. In the Constitution, it is supposed to be triggered in response to “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”. It leaves to Congress what that means. So it does not have to be a chargeable crime. The President is supposed to uphold the Constitution, and Treaties like the NATO treaty are supposed to have the same force as the Constitution. Threatening to attack our allies should count as impeachable.
However, he has been impeached twice and failed because Republicans in Congress have his back. In particular, the second time around McConnell said that Trump deserved punishment, but it was better done in the courts. Then Surprise! the Courts said the only way to hold a sitting President to account was through impeachment. It was an ouroborous of letting him off the hook.
We may have to live with the fact that there is no way to fix this, other than voters (or God Himself) intervening, as long as Republicans are too chickenshit to stand up to Trump.
It would lead to his removal, but it got cockblocked by the Senate. As intended.
For those that don’t know. The Senate purely represents old money. They were created as a check/balance to keep citizens from taking away wealth, privilege, and power from the ruling class.
The British House of Lords used to hold the same sort of power with their ability to veto anything passed by the House of Commons. The House of Commons took this veto power away, but unfortunately they were only able to do this by getting the King to threaten to ennoble hundreds of new people and overwhelm the power of the traditional Lords. Our (US) current King would of course never agree to any such thing.
That’s a fascinating historical nugget. I wonder if he would have actually gone through with it? That would have been hilarious. How would they get picked?
He (King George V) would have done it (in 1911). Asquith (the Prime Minister) told him that his father (King Edward VII) had promised to do it before his death in 1910 and King George assented. Asquith actually prepared lists with hundreds of names on them.
Which is why the House is often called “the People’s House”.
For what I know, impeaching him means the house will vote to send him home. If the vote doesn’t pass, he won’t go home.
Impeachment is the House voting to put the President on trial in the Senate. The Senate is then to hear the evidence and vote whether or not to remove the President from office. Trump was impeached twice but the Senate voted partisanly to keep him in office both times.
You’re 100% right on the mechanics of it, but only 90% right overall. There is one small thing you might not be considering: Republicans might be more supportive of removing an “incapacitated” president than impeaching a tyrannical one because of the less damaging connotation of it.
Doubt it. Reagan likely had Alzheimer’s while President, nobody cared.
The worst of his dysfunction came late in his Presidency. He wasn’t demanding crazy shit publicly, so no one really wanted to kick him out, they just let me move on naturally.
And he was 77 when he left office, a year younger than Trump was when he started this term!
Did Reagan threaten war with NATO?
No, but he did declare war on an island
Excellent point. They aren’t admitting that their party failed America, just that their beloved candidate is having a serious health issue. There’s no shame in that.
It never says physically incapacitated at all. It says:
“unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”
If the president has a stroke and becomes a psychotic menace. Nervous breakdown and won’t leave his room…all sorts of things.
That’s the text all right, but the text also says that all the President has to do is present Congress with a “written declaration that no inability exists” to get his job back. So as long as the President has the mental acuity to write a letter, he gets his job back. Not a high bar at all, and your “psychotic menace” or “nervous breakdown” Presidents can still write a letter.
Impeachment was attempted after the Jan. 6th Insurrection, if it didn’t work when he was trying to monkeywrench the levers of power by subverting the confirmation of the vote, and it won’t work now. He’s been shooting his stupid mouth off for decades, being old doesn’t necessarily make him demented despite very obvious signs of aging poorly.
You’re absolutely correct. But people need to realize that the 25th amendment is not a viable option. The threshold for action via the 25th Amendment is higher. If impeachment won’t work, the 25th amendment won’t either.
25th time someone says we should use the 25th amendment.
In the year 2525, if anyone’s left alive…
I think its time for the second ammendment if you ask me.
Gun nuts are awfully quiet, because the reason they hoard guns suddenly arrived, but not in the form of a black man on their property
TL;DR: The US president is the walking talking definition of “Main Character Syndrome” (because he is quite possibly the biggest narcissist in recorded history). Because of this, he is risking the dissolution of NATO, and a possible global conflict, seemingly because Norway did not give him a medal. His letter to the Norway PM below:
Dear Jonas,
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.
Adding the following:
We have debated the extent to which we can call these claims “lies” because the president truly seems to believe many of them.
This, to me, is probably the scariest thing. I told my wife awhile back that the difference between people like Mitch McConnell and MTG was that McConnell knew he was pedaling bullshit to get what he wanted. He just didn’t have any ethics. MTG (and Boebert, maybe Gym Jordan, and certainly Trump and plenty more) genuinely think that bullshit is true.
When that guy showed up looking for the child hostages at that DC area pizza place w/ his AR-15 and found out the place had no basement , McConnell privately laughed at the idiot people like him had created. The MTGs of the world figured he just had the wrong pizza place, but went on believing that prominent Democrats were harvesting the blood of children! If enough people like that get in charge of a country like the US, then all bets are truly off. That’s not hyperbole. They are the kind of people who can be convinced that a country can win a nuclear war, because God would be on their side.
I’m not saying we’re headed for a nuclear confrontation. It would have to be a means to an end for someone who can convince the President of the need to achieve that end, and I can’t think of any billionaires who need a nuclear war. Yet. Still, it’s important to recall that this president did once consider nuking a hurricane. I’m sure anyone on the right, and many on the left, will say he was just kidding. But looking at the context of that conversation, I don’t know if that assessment is fully accurate.
Edit: formatting, grammar
There are billionaires who seek nuclear war though. You can argue that Peter Thiel (knows about the antichrist) actually wants a large collapse because he has some technobabble belief that he’ll come out on top
There are certainly billionaires who want Curtis Yarvin’s stupid predictions to come true, but I haven’t seen any of them advocating for nuclear holocaust. Not even Thiel. Not saying I’d be surprised to see it. “Love, Death, & Robots” had a disturbingly believable post-apocalyptic skit that covered how some powerful people might think they can survive something like that.
This post goes perfect with your username
It’s obviously not that critical cause they make you pay to read it.
Trump sent
DenmarkNorway a letter claiming they owe him Greenland for him not getting the Nobel Peace prize.I thought he sent it to Norway. Either way Norway doesn’t control Greenland and Denmark has no say in the Nobels.
I got the country wrong but regardless, wtf right?
I had no paywall. Here’s an archive link.
“Not now. Just give him a bit more rope and he’ll surely hang himself this time!”
This seems to be the world’s approach to Trump, and I fear it will backfire on all of us. This is not how you successfully deal with bullies.
