DeVos resigns:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

1. Wow

When you lose Devos...

[mindfulNJ]

2. Oh brother.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Pure show

[avebury]

4. She doesn't want to be asked to sign

off on 25th Amendment.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Bingo!

[Totally Tunsie]

47. That's it.

Coward's way out.

[Blue_playwright]

5. That one surprises me.

[HUAJIAO]

14. 25th amendment fear

[Blecht]

6. Rat says bye to ship

[MH1]

44. you beat me to it. nt

[diva77]

7. Ha! It's like she went to 50,000 volts in the Milgram experiment before

calling it quits

[Hamlette]

34. lol

[malaise]

9. Well now she has time to learn that the plural of child is not childs

It is children

[HUAJIAO]

22. Its are?

[malaise]

28. :rofl:

[dawg day]

10. She doesn't want to have to vote on 25th-ing him

I wonder with all these cabinet vacancies, who can even vote to remove him?

[madaboutharry]

11. Fuck you Betsy.

Shut up and go home to your Amway mansion.

Inflection point my ass.

[Kitchari]

12. I'm surprised

I didn't know DeVos had a threshold for decency

[Lock him up.]

43. She doesn't and never will.

She's running away from the massive spotlight that's coming up (like the coward family she's part of).

[smirkymonkey]

46. Exactly!

She's evil. She doesn't have a decent bone in her body.

Ding, dong, the witch is dead...

[DemoTex]

13. Looks like the big-cheese rats get off first.

[nolabear]

15. So is she self preserving or are they in on it together?

I honestly trust none of them.

[enough]

16. She meant the infection point. NT

[grumpyduck]

17. Another fucking coward.

[FakeNoose]

18. If she stayed she would have to vote in the 25A invocation

They all would have to. But if she leaves, Ellen Chao and the others, they don't have a quorum.

[underpants]

40. Mary Trump said just that on CNN.

Chaos doesn’t want to vote on the 25th. I’m not sure about the quorum. Quorum of the positions or of current cabinet?

[FakeNoose]

45. I think the entire Cabinet is required to vote

... but I don't know if anyone is allowed to be missing. (?)

Some DUers know a lot more about this stuff than I do.

[underpants]

50. Let me see what I can find

Consider this hold music. The thread is hilarious

Link to tweet

?s=21

[underpants]

51. It doesn't mention a quorum. Only says VP + Majority of Cabinet

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xxv

There are 15 Departments and 6 other members. That’s Pence & 11. No mention of “acting” Secretaries like that asshole Chad Wolf.

President Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet includes Vice President Mike Pence and the heads of the 15 executive departments – the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General. Additionally, the Cabinet includes the White House Chief of Staff and heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, United States Trade Representative, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Small Business Administration.

[FakeNoose]

52. OK but if they've resigned they can't vote, am I right?

Somebody has already worked out the numbers. That's why the loyal toadies like Mulvaney, Chao and DeVos have resigned. It's to thwart any 25A efforts - in case Mike Pence starts getting ideas.

When enough secretaries are not available to vote, they can't take Chump out of office. Of course it's all water under the bridge because Chump is out in 12 days anyway. The question is how much damage can he do in 12 days? He'll go for the maximum, it's already in the works.

[underpants]

53. To my reading they need 12 total

Pence and 11 of the 21

[blogslut]

19. lol

sigh. she won't suffer one damned bit

[gratuitous]

20. As that great philosopher Paul Simon wrote, Betsy

I say now who do, who do you think you're foolin'?

[madinmaryland]

21. Off to dream up her next scam. The Scamway Queen.

[Takket]

23. OMG

She has been there since the beginning at that scumbag is the LAST person i ever expected to leave..............

She will ALWAYS be scum. No mercy for bailing out 13 days early

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

24. My guess

These people do not want to go against him with the 25th and end up having to hire security for the rest of their lives to protect them from the "patriots."

[C_U_L8R]

25. Too chickenshit to do the right thing.

The House needs to impeach.

[sarisataka]

26. Has she retracted her statements

That DoE staff should resist the Biden administration?

[meadowlander]

27. Just a matter of time until her brother is picked up...

what are the odds that he wasn't at least in part involved in what happened yesterday?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html

[Stallion]

29. Ivanka Will Resign Next to Retain Standing in Social Circles

[underpants]

30. I just had a serious deja vu

Like I’ve seen this before. Very weird.

[Johonny]

31. Her brother is probably mad Trump didn't pay for his troops

[Blue Owl]

32. Fall on your sword for the fat fuck with leaky rubber pants

[yankeepants]

33. I think she meant a "defection point" but who's gettin' all educatey about it?

[roamer65]

35. Fuck her.

Arrest and imprison her.

[sheshe2]

36. Slithering away.

You can run but you can't hide.

[catbyte]

37. What courage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Michigander is so proud at this moment.

Just kidding.

[hlthe2b]

38. Oh, brother. Really splitting hairs to credit her with any "conscience."

[marmar]

39. She's just mad that she lost her parking spot.

[AlexSFCA]

41. if the entire cabinet resigns, only pence will remain so it'll be up to him

[Kaleva]

42. I wasn't expecting this.

[gldstwmn]

48. If no one is left in the cabinet

does that make it easier to invoke the 25th?

[BlueIdaho]

49. Not necessarily

That would throw it into the hands of congress. We know the current Senate under Mortuary Mitch is incapable of doing anything. So I’m thinking the cabinet is the shortest route to the 25th. Cowards like Betsy and Mrs. Mitch McConnell want to avoid having to make a tough decision. Better to just get their covid shots go on vacation.