I think the chances that republicans will admit their guy is incompetent is close to 0. They will rather lock him up in the white house basement for 2 years.

Maybe the dementia will progress far enough that he’ll forget he needs to send in a letter

If I were a Republican I'd be arguing that there's no way Americans didn't already know he was incompetent when voting for him.

This seems like more copium and wishful thinking but it is probably more likely, but still not likely.

Somebody needs to position themselves right next to the Stalemate Resolution Button and be ready.

Yeah far easier to impeach, which requires a simple majority in the House and 2/3rds of the Senate.

The 25th Amendment is a higher bar, since it requires 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate.

That's the issue when you have a Republican controlled Congress. They'll never turn on the party so you're asking them to hold themselves accountable.

Judging by how much the billionaires back him, I don't think that's true. The idea that billionaires are anything other than scammers and abusers like Trump is pretty obviously false. He just doesn't mask it.

Are they just now catching onto and parroting memes from his first term? Lemmy needs a "the right can't meme" comm if there isn't one already.

Yes, I would think stupid people would think a constitutional lawyer is a smart person.

I’m not sure David Ingle is too bright, though.

Oh no he didn't just insult my favorite congressman!

It's not even true either. Jamie Raskin is highly intelligent, and professional, and he even kept serving while undergoing cancer treatment. He's a hero.

trump on the other hand, is trash.

as an aussie that has a parliamentary system, and in that system has had a period where we frequently ousted the PM, it’s not that great of an idea

you want governments to be able to plan for the long term. really, even 4y is not great for long term planning because it kinda implies you need to show results before the term is up

we had a bunch of policy flip-flops during that period, which is very inefficient

i guess it doesn’t really matter if you get 2y no matter what: there’s no more after your 2y, but i think that’d lead to leaders doing a bunch of the “fuck it” last term stuff because they have no reason to make a good impression for their potential reelection

I thought the benefits of parliamentary systems come from the fact that that they're more proportional. They have a balance of power going on in the fact that you can win a seat from being popular in your district, but you can also win from being popular in your party, which gives a chance to minority parties that are spread thin across the country.

Winning a district directly gives you those "maverick" politicians that don't fit into the major parties but they reflect the unique local politics. But those people can be corruptly beholden to their local industries. Winning off the party list results in members who represent their parties.

Deliciously written and insightful. Thank you!

Not bad in theory but fix gerrymandering and apportionment first

Unfortunately, they can only create that commission if the president signs it, or they have a veto-proof majority, or they send it to JD while Trump has executed Section 3 of the 25th.

Your request for "nuke us from space" has been filed. It may take up to 15-20 years before you get a reply.

Concepts of a plan.

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.

This "other body" is the commission they are talking about.

If we should be nuked from space for anything, it’s Trump’s insanity, not calling it out. Yesterday people complained that Democrats don’t even put up any opposition. Now we’re complaining when they begin the process of removing him from office. 🤷‍♂️

It's the only way to be sure.

*Netanyahu, not Putin

Not with that doomer attitude

Is impeachment much better? He's been impeached twice already, what did that accomplish?

Also a Brit, I agree. Plus, even if the Democrats get their shit together (which they won't) and the impeachment goes ahead and doesn't go the exact same way as the other impeachments and even if he is somehow actually removed from the presidency (which is incredibly unlikely IMO), then what? He certainly won't go to jail or face any other consequences and even if he did, it still doesn't fix any of the massive, fundamental problems in the US political system that led to this situation in the first place. Russia will still be meddling with the system, Project 2025 will keep chugging forward, Fox News will still keep spewing bullshit from every available media source and someone else will just fill the vacuum.

Even if the unthinkable happened and the US somehow managed to purge every Mitch McConnell/Lindsay Graham/Ted Cruz/Peter Thiel/Elon Musk type of character out of the system (and those are just a few names off the top of my head, there are probably hundreds that would need to be removed from power/sent to prison realistically) I still don't know if that would be enough. I can't really think of many empires in history that reached this depth of corruption and decline and managed to rise back out of it.

And that's just me talking about the legal ways. By which I mean, they could impeach Trump for years, finally remove him and the MAGA base could very well just be like "fuck it" and storm the capital again or something and put him back in. Nothing would surprise me at this point TBH.

Why?

I hear ya, but nobody is going to willingly elect JD Vance. It’s better to remove Pedonald as quickly as possible imho

I'd like to see ole Donny Trump wiggle out of THIS one!