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7th January 2021, 01:49 PM | #121 |
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7th January 2021, 01:51 PM | #123 |
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7th January 2021, 01:54 PM | #125 |
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It doesn't say medical.
It says "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. |
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7th January 2021, 01:55 PM | #126 |
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Gunter Haas, the 'leading British expert,' was a graphologist who advised couples, based on their handwriting characteristics, if they were compatible for marriage. I would submit that couples idiotic enough to do this are probably quite suitable for each other. It's nice when stupid people find love. - Ludovic Kennedy |
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7th January 2021, 01:55 PM | #127 |
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7th January 2021, 01:57 PM | #128 |
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And it says "incapable" of performing his duties, which does not require that he be unconscious.
In the West Wing (I know, fiction), Bartlett was removed from president by the 25th after his daughter was kidnapped, and they concluded that he could not do the job objectively. That was when John Goodman took over (there was no VP). Then again, Bartlett agreed to it. But he wasn't unconscious. He was just incapable of doing the job. |
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Gunter Haas, the 'leading British expert,' was a graphologist who advised couples, based on their handwriting characteristics, if they were compatible for marriage. I would submit that couples idiotic enough to do this are probably quite suitable for each other. It's nice when stupid people find love. - Ludovic Kennedy |
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7th January 2021, 01:58 PM | #129 |
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Why is every time Trump and his supporters light another dumpster on fire and start throwing babies and the Constitution and America's reputation into we get told we can't react to it or "we'll just make it worse?"
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7th January 2021, 02:00 PM | #130 |
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7th January 2021, 02:01 PM | #131 |
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7th January 2021, 02:01 PM | #132 |
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Of course, the King Cobra being an elapid means it has only neurotoxic* venom so they could just put you on a ventilator. *I'm simplifying here for joke purposes. |
7th January 2021, 02:01 PM | #133 |
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I guess the troll matra of "Any reaction to me means I win" being the Trump Supporter/Apologist main strategy shouldn't surprise me.
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7th January 2021, 02:02 PM | #134 |
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7th January 2021, 02:04 PM | #135 |
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Gunter Haas, the 'leading British expert,' was a graphologist who advised couples, based on their handwriting characteristics, if they were compatible for marriage. I would submit that couples idiotic enough to do this are probably quite suitable for each other. It's nice when stupid people find love. - Ludovic Kennedy |
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7th January 2021, 02:06 PM | #136 |
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7th January 2021, 02:06 PM | #137 |
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7th January 2021, 02:07 PM | #138 |
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It’s the same as the calls saying Trump shouldn’t be “gone after” once he leaves office because it “won’t bring the country together” or “it’s will be seen as vindictive”.
No it is called showing the country that everyone has to follow the laws and when you don’t there are consequences. |
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7th January 2021, 02:09 PM | #140 |
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//Total Hijack//
I follow a YouTube channel of a guy who "reviews" exotic reptiles and explains why they, in most cases, do NOT make good pets. His review of the King Cobra is hilarious for when, after explaining all the other many, many, many valid reasons a King Cobra would not make a good pet, he gets down to the cost breakdown of what it would take to properly house and care for it, including the several thousands dollars worth of anti-venom you need to keep on hand at all times. "Yeah I said anti-venom. You're going to need to keep your own supply of Anti-Venom. Why am I telling you to keep your own anti-venom? Well do an experiment. Go down to your local hospital holding your arm and tell them that you've been bit by a King Cobra and you need some anti-venom and just watch the look on their face. They will look at you like 'What? How? How did you get bit by a King Cobra? You weren't bitten by a King Cobra you moron. You were bitten by some local snake.' and when you tell them 'Yeah I have a pet Cobra' they are going to go 'Oh... okay... well *Stammers* Well... we have morphine. I can give you that. We'll make some calls. So just sit tight.' A King Cobra bite can kill you in under an hour. So yea anti-venom. It's not cheap. It's not easy to get. It doesn't last long so you'll have to replace it often. And you're going to need a lot of it because it can take up 20-30 doses of antivenom to counteract the bite of a large King Cobra." |
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7th January 2021, 02:20 PM | #141 |
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Unlike for Davis, Trump can still be effective from Outer Mongolia via the internet. If not moreso - US laws will no longer apply so there would be no limits to what he could say or incite. He needs to be kept under control right now, and that means keeping him inside the USA.
Tents, inside, outside, pissing, etc. |
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7th January 2021, 02:28 PM | #142 |
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I remember a news story many, many years ago about a man who was on the bus carrying a sack. As he got off the bus, he threw the sack over his shoulder, and then turned around, got back on the bus, and asked the driver to take him to the hospital because he had a cobra in the sack and it bit him when he slung it over his shoulder. |
7th January 2021, 02:32 PM | #143 |
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Way to go Putin! First he gets Trump elected, and Putin forgets to take over Ukraine in the 4 years Trump would do nothing. Then at the last minute Trump launches a missile or two.
This moment, if any, is the time for Putin to release Pee Pee Tapes. Trump would resign. |
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7th January 2021, 02:37 PM | #145 |
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Re 25th versus impeachment: They are not mutually exclusive. Trump can be immediately deactivated using the 25th, while impeachment proceedings are launched and progressed.
And as has been discussed extensively for years in another thread, there is ample evidence that Trump has demonstrated he is not capable of discharging the powers and duties of his office. His prime loyally-sworn duty has been to protect the constitution of the USA, not violate it as he did yesterday. That alone is sufficient reason to cut him off at the knees immediately. There is a third option: Trump resigns immediately, like Nixon. Won't happen - Trump is too insane to admit he needs to do this. And a fourth option: Whisky and a Walther, and time alone. |
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7th January 2021, 02:45 PM | #146 |
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Heh! //More Total Hijack//
I remember watching a show back in the day about a South African park ranger getting bit on the upper thigh by a black mamba (another elapid!). He quickly tied a tourniquet around his leg and tried to walk back to his land rover. Fortunately, some tourists were driving by and he manage to flag them down and together they went to the local hospital which took about 30 min(?). When he arrived at the hospital he told the Doctors what had happened and they asked (wait for it) "Are you sure you were bit by a black mamba?" To which he replied "yes, of course I'm sure! I'm the bloody park ranger!" Well, you should be dead by now!" Anyway, they decided that it was better just to put him on a ventilator instead of giving him anti-venom (I can't remember why). So that meant that for about 24 hours he was basically paralyzed, had no feeling at all, and could only hear things going on around him (I'm not sure if he could even blink his eyes). A pretty horrific 24 hours when you think about it. Not to mention all the jokester Hospital staff coming in to your room, "Hey, Bill, check this out. I'm going to make him slap his own face! Why are you hitting yourself?" |
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DEFSEC and Congressional leaders communicate all the time without impropriety.
Do you have evidence of any? I also seriously doubt DEFSEC and POTUS never communicated at all. This is right-wing hysteria. Mayor of D.C. properly requested guard activation. DEFSEC has discretion to activate. The President could issue a directive to rescind that order, but he doesn't have to personally order the DEFSEC to do it. |
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7th January 2021, 03:14 PM | #153 |
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For what it's worth, foreign governments suspect it was a coup attempt with tacit support from several Federal agencies.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...2fLH_WEdmKuzgc There was a video up on Occupy Democrats of Trump and his family watching the start of the riot/coup from a private "command center" they had set up in the WH, but it got pulled suddenly. |
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7th January 2021, 03:45 PM | #155 |
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The important thing is that they resent being forced to go on record, and they express themselves by voting against you, and you lose.
Basically, never force a vote on something unless you are confident you are going to win it. The people who are on the fence will vote against you if you push too soon. |
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No, but what else would make someone incapable after they are elected?
I'm including mental health under "medical". I like the "Captain Queeg" analogy, but I would include Queeg's condition as a mental health issue. I think Trump could be considered to have mental health issues even beyond the malignant narcissism that he has had since birth. I think since the election he has lapsed into a combination of delusion and depression that makes him unfit for office. Now, if someone can just sell that idea to his cabinet. |
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