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TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
1. "Crazy" is a term that is over-used in our culture and is easy to dismiss...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:37 PM
Jan 2017

NPD sounds like the latest gimmicky condition. I think using the term "having Mental Health issues" may be a more apt way of describing the President's current mental health status.

And I agree, we should start prodding our Congress critters to invoke the 25t Amendment...

Girard442

(6,083 posts)
2. If I could channel the great George Carlin here.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:01 PM
Jan 2017

"The court filings would have to use language like, 'cognitive deficits' or 'inability to process information so as to arrive at a rational plan of action', or 'self-destructive tendencies' but we know what they really mean is 'fucking nut case!' "

I'm not worthy, but still.

unblock

(52,309 posts)
3. it's not really a matter of having grounds for it.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:03 PM
Jan 2017

they could rather easily make a case based on npd, pathological lying, bipolar or other mood disorder, etc.


it's more a matter of having the will to do it. the republican party doesn't want that political disaster on their hands, they don't want to be seen as defying the will of their own voters nor as having put a crazy person on the nuclear trigger.

furthermore, his cabinet is the least likely group to do this, given that donnie surely screened them out primarily based on personal loyalty to him.



Initech

(100,099 posts)
5. He's demolishing the government and our very way of life and all he cares about...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:07 PM
Jan 2017

Is a fucking popularity contest.

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
7. I thought the 25th Amendment was something that the legislative branch
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:22 PM
Jan 2017

(Congress & Senate) could also use to remove the President from office. So only Cabinet level officials can invoke the 25th Amendment?

How many taxpayers voted for these Cabinet members?

 

66ty6

(12 posts)
8. He probably is borderline nuts but I don't believe he is
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:29 PM
Jan 2017

the same sort of cold, calculating hateful bigoted prick that Pence is. We have to be careful
what we wish for.

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