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Trump being elected should have invoked the 2nd amendment, but as we all know the American citizens are the most spineless bags of hot air since the hot air balloon.
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Ah yes now it’s time for a “special 3 days operation” in Canada.
Jesus Christ that comes across as even worse than Putin deciding he needed to annex Ukraine. How is it that in a world of too many bad guys, we’re turning into the worse guy?
"We" are not turning into anything. The government has been taken over by fascists and what "we" should be turning into is a unified, organized resistance.
Canadian here. Please do.
Imagine thinking you have a constitution when living under a king lmao
He should have been banned from running long ago when he incited an insurrection trying to stay in power.
It does seem like all the hoohah about how great the US Constitution is, or the genuis of the US founders may well have just been some good marketing mixed with a reliable dash of American Exceptionalism.
The problem with any constitution is that it's not self-enforcing. Any system can be subverted and corrupted. It's the corruption that's the problem, not that the Constitution (like any set of laws) is not perfect.
A lot of things he's done should have invoked the 25th ammendment
A lot of things in Trumps last term too. And a few things in Bidens term. The 25th doesnt really function.
We used to talk about "constituional crisis" too, and Trump is now just ignoring judges and asking what anyone will do about it. That should also trigger the 25th, if congress lived up to their oaths, but their oaths are vastly secondary to party politics, self interest, and money making, on both sides.
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Not sure how 25th would help. vance literally was the one that called for ignoring judges and calling for their impeachment.
most of the die-hard trump worshippers wouldn’t stand behind Vance….
Don't underestimate Vance's capacity for evil, or Trump followers' willingness to brainlessly follow any goose-stepping shitstain who the rightwing media glorifies.
Vance doesn’t have that thing that they worship… wasn’t a reality tv star or www wrestler, wasn’t wealthy or have a brand….
they would ditch vance as quick as they ditched pence
In his deal with Putin, Trump is closing the investigations into child trafficking and kidnapping of Ukrainian children, and closing down war crimes committed by Russian military.
I agree, Trump advocating for invading Canada and Greenland is enough for the 25th Amendment and on moral grounds I hold him accountable for absolving Putin and Russia of war crimes.
That's not what the 25th amendment is for. The correct process for such criminality is impeachment, which isn't a much higher bar than the 25th. It won't happen, the system is already too corrupt.
The guy already should be rotting in prison for a whole host of reasons, but here we are.
That's the problem, the republican party captured the levers of power and now get to police themselves. This is what happens when you get a Republican clean sweep.
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What should have happened in America and what is actually happening are two different things.
25th Amendment needs to start with the Vice President, so we know that's not going to happen:
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
This seems like such a short-sighted design by our founding fathers and subsequent leaders when we look at it with today's lens. I know they likely would have assumed that people would riot with pitchforks and torches of anyone engaged in corruption during their era, including having the support of the VP. I know the 25th amendment was a more recent addition (1967), but I'm surprised there weren't more catching points for this written into the foundation.
I guess they hoped we would never allow things to get this shitty.
The 25th wasn't intended for illegal actions. It was for when the president has a stroke and goes comatose, or other forms of incapacitation.
Impeachment is the constitution's main way to get rid of a corrupt president.
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It should have been done even before that when he blatantly started contributing to the Russian war effort
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