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The first paragraph explains

barefooted — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:41:11 +0000

The first paragraph explains why it won't happen. How many times must we read these articles about Trump "unraveling", or "chaos in the White House", or etc., etc. We all know he's playing to his base because he depends on the 35-40% support they unflinchingly give him, so until the rest of us get our act together media redundancy will continue to become the white noise his administration is counting on.

Today’s Impeach-O-Meter:

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:33:16 +0000

In reply to From above on Bannon, worth

Today’s Impeach-O-Meter: Steve Bannon’s Meter Reaches an All-Time High

By Jeremy Stahl @ Slate.com, Oct. 11

Speculating each day on the precise likelihood that Donald Trump will be removed from office or leave the White House before his term ends is taxing work. The Impeach-O-Meter requires regular maintenance. Today, we are outsourcing our work to former chief strategist to the president Steve Bannon. And what does Bannon say? “According to a source, Bannon has told people he thinks Trump has only a 30 percent chance of making it the full term,” reports Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman. In our terms, that is a 70 percent chance (!) of Trump exiting office early.

Sherman also [....]

Scarborough Floats Removing

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:29:34 +0000

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Scarborough Floats Removing Trump From Office — ‘There’s Something Called the 25th Amendment’

By Pam Key @ Breitbart.com, Oct. 11

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough urged Republican senators need to “take immediate action” to limit President Donald Trump’s “ability to launch nuclear weapons.”

He proposed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump office, given Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) had already suggested Trump could start World War III. Calling for a tenfold increase in nuclear weapons, having is most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill saying Donald Trump’s erratic words and actions are leading us towards World War III—could lead us towards World War III. They are not pushing back to that reality.”
Scarborough said, “Every Republican senator on Capitol Hill has the record before them. What we’ve said on our show last August, what Willie was talking about from I think 1984, what Donald Trump said on “Hardball” during the heat of the campaign, again he said, if we have these nuclear when importance, why can’t we use them?

He continued, “So at what point do you step forward as a delegation and do what Barry Goldwater did at the White House in 1974 and told Richard Nixon it was over. They don’t have to go over and tell Donald Trump that it is over. But a delegation of Republicans need to go over to the White House and tell the president either you assure us that the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States Senate is wrong or we are going to take immediate action to limit your ability to launch nuclear weapons? And it won’t be what General Hayden said last year; it will no longer be a system built more for speed than for rationality. These Republicans senators in the middle of October 2017 have that responsibility for millions and millions of Americans and others across the globe. And if they can’t do that, then there’s something called the 25th amendment that they’re going to have to start looking at. This is not acceptable as the status quo.

We have the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill saying the president of the United States could be leading us towards nuclear war. And Republican Senators remain silent.”

Section 4 of the 25th

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:17:39 +0000

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Section 4 of the 25th Amendment from Wikipedia

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.

From above on Bannon, worth

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:09:58 +0000

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From above on Bannon, worth quoting separately:

Several months ago, according to two sources with knowledge of the conversation, former chief strategist Steve Bannon told Trump that the risk to his presidency wasn’t impeachment, but the 25th Amendment—the provision by which a majority of the Cabinet can vote to remove the president. When Bannon mentioned the 25th Amendment, Trump said, “What’s that?” According to a source, Bannon has told people he thinks Trump has only a 30 percent chance of making it the full term.

“I Hate Everyone in the White

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 03:05:47 +0000

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“I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling”

In recent days, I’ve spoken with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president that seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods.

By Gabriel Sherman @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, Oct. 11

[....] In recent days, I spoke with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president who seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. Trump’s ire is being fueled by his stalled legislative agenda and, to a surprising degree, by his decision last month to back the losing candidate Luther Strange in the Alabama Republican primary. “Alabama was a huge blow to his psyche,” a person close to Trump said. “He saw the cult of personality was broken.”

According to two sources familiar with the conversation, Trump vented to his longtime security chief, Keith Schiller, “I hate everyone in the White House! There are a few exceptions, but I hate them!” (A White House official denies this.) Two senior Republican officials said Chief of Staff John Kelly is miserable in his job and is remaining out of a sense of duty to keep Trump from making some sort of disastrous decision. Today, speculation about Kelly’s future increased after Politico reported that Kelly’s deputy Kirstjen Nielsen is likely to be named Homeland Security Secretary—the theory among some Republicans is that Kelly wanted to give her a soft landing before his departure.

One former official even speculated that Kelly and Secretary of Defense James Mattis have discussed what they would do in the event Trump ordered a nuclear first strike [....]

Um, more like mad King George

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:53:58 +0000

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Um, more like mad King George IIi every day in every way

Trump: “It’s frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want”

by Andrew Prokop, October 11 @ vox.com

Where the heck are those NRA 2nd amendment militias when you might need them to protect the first amendment and the fourth estate?

Also @ WaPo, from the home

artappraiser — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:50:40 +0000

In reply to Trump ‘whisperer’ says he is ‘stunned’ by president’s rhetoric

Also @ WaPo, from the home page:

Trump threatens to strip NBC of ‘license,’ declares news coverage is ‘frankly disgusting’

The president, who made the comments during a an Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was reacting to an NBC News report that he pushed senior aides for a major expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

By David Nakamura
1 hour ago

The NYT is on the NBC stuff as well:

Objecting to Report, Trump Threatens NBC’s ‘License’

By PETER BAKER and CECILIA KANG 59 minutes ago

Responding to a report by the network’s news division that he contemplated an increase in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, Mr. Trump threatened to use the authority of the federal government to retaliate.