Trump is becoming more and more unhinged.

[L. Coyote]

Link to tweet

When is it okay to say the president might be nuts?
By Jennifer Rubin May 2

During an interview with the Washington Examiner's Salena Zito on May 1, President Trump suggested the Civil War wouldn't have happened had Andrew Jackson been president. "Why could that one not have been worked out?" Trump asked.

On Saturday, President Trump gave an angry, rambling speech to his supporters in which he obsessed over perceived enemies in the media and elsewhere. Recently he insisted he won’t “stand by anything” in his accusations about alleged wiretapping by President Barack Obama, yet argued that his case has been “proven very strongly.” (In reality, the entire national security community has rejected it, as have the chairmen and ranking minority-party members of House and Senate committees.) He said ..........

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. At least Trumpy knows that he can't defend his lies,

so he says that he won't "stand by anything" he says.

How convenient-- for a royal figure. He can say anything he wants and won't have to account for it. And what does the press do? They treat him with royal status. They give him another pass. And the GOP? Oh. They love him.

[L. Coyote]

2. I think those are not his tweets. The staff is doing the political strategy tweeting.

Trump is too demented to do the truly coherent stuff with proper grammar and spelling that tweets from his account. The Obama cyber lynching started after the grand jury subpoenaed WH records, and was a carefully laid out strategy to attack the investigation as apolitical witch hunt by the Obama administration. Trump is incapable of that level of reasoning, it is more characteristic of his legal staff and strategists developing a defense in a case where they know they have been caught and the evidence will convict them, so they need ti impugn the evidence.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. Why did the electoral college make such a poor choice for president?

The electors are supposed to protect the electorate from their bad choices due to lack of education, etc, but it seems that the roles are reversed. The electorate is actually smarter than the electoral college. If we had popular vote then this whole situation would have been avoided.

[zipplewrath]

4. The EC has been destroyed

The EC, as it exists today, destroyed the original concept. Electors are often required to vote for a particular candidate. They are directly elected by popular vote, not appointed by legislatures. And their total number has been distorted by the changes to the House of Representatives. It no longer serves the original function and is in need of repair, or possibly "repeal and replace".