John M. Crisp: 3 predictions for an unpredictable era
I've predicted #3 here. No. 1 I hadn't thought of myself, but it really scares me. No. 2 I think un likely.
Showing posts with label 25th Amendment Watch List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 25th Amendment Watch List. Show all posts
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
The 2025 Midterms. For the GOP it's June, 1944 and the choices couldn't be more clear.
Yesterday's' election made it clear.
Yesterday, November 4,2025, was metaphorically D-Day, June 6, 1944. The forces that will destroy you are now present on all flanks. They're on the ground to your south, to your east, and now to your west, and you cannot stop them.
Those who are not besotted by Der Führer know this. Indeed, they know that the leader is mentally unstable and in irreversible physical decline. He is, quite frankly, mad and getting worse. He's surrounded, of course, by seemingly loyal lieutenants. . . not all of whom are really loyal . . . or seem to be.
You can read the situation. He never had the majority of force, only temporary advantage brought on by shock. You went along as it seemed that he'd bring along constative values with him. Because he seemed to do that, even while leading an immoral life and surrounding himself with immoral men, you tolerated deep immoralities, including extra judicial killings and racist round ups. This seemed to be the price you had to pay, temporarily, in order to restore true conservatism to the country.
But it went too far, and it got too weird, and you were in too deep to do anything about it. You know that. You watched him decline into illegality and insanity, and stood by as it got worse and worse.
But you can still save yourself, and your movement.
He had sworn an oath. He was a Roman Catholic. He knew the leader was immoral. He knew the country was committing deeply immoral acts. He served his country's efforts anyway until the raving madness of Der Führer reached the point where he could not ignore it. The situation isn't the same, except perhaps metaphorically, in that there is a Roman Catholic, who has taken an oath, who is serving his country, and knows that what is occuring deeply wrong and that the Leader is mad. He could use, with help, the 25th Amendment.
That will involve deploying something that you never thought you'd see used, and you have to do it. Some of you on the inside, who are not members of the MAGA SA, have to deploy the 25th Amendment before it's too late. You can't wait until the Red Army is in Berlin . . . or the mushroom cloud is over the Korean Peninsula, or protestors are shot dead in Portland, or mayor and governors arrested simply for being opponents.
And you might, just might, avoid bloodshed in American streets, or foreign dead from an illegally provoked war, perhaps a nuclear one.
Or, you can decide that Loyalty is Your Honor and go down in complete and utter defeat in November 2026 while your increasingly demented leader rants and decides that you failed, as you weren't sufficiently loyal to him.
Indeed, that's already started, hasn't it? The wild party with barely clad young women, the sycophantic adoration sessions, the purges of the less than loyal.
And, too, the wise are leaving, aren't they?
The 25th Amendment was for the rare and extraordinary. You know the leader is mad. You know that this is going to take conservatism down. You know is madness is resulting in death. You know that you can act.
His madness is unfortunately not out of the ordinarily for the elderly, which he is. But to have somebody in such a state of mental decline in power, and grasping for absolute power, is. He's sick, getting sicker, and seeks complete control.
Will you, to your difficult credit, act to uphold your sworn oaths to the country, and save the nation from a demented autocrat whose decline gets worse every day, or will you abstain and simply try to take the last plane out of Berlin?
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Fifth Edition.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti vaxxer who has no business running the HHS, announced with Donald Trump today that its recommending pregnant women not take Tylenol due to what it terms an increased risk of autism in children.
But for being born a Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is a certified quack, would not be occupying this position. Donald Trump simply offered him this position to remove him as a political threat during the primary.
This will get worse, taking on childhood vaccines is next.
Dr. John Barrasso. . . . remember your original profession?
Tylenol has been around since 1955.
Trump designated ANTIFA, which actually isn't an organization, a terrorist organization.
Rather, it's a movement of persons on the left who regard the Trump prior administration and this one as fascistic, which this one has in fact become. The name is drawn from an unsuccessful German Communist resistance movement that opposed the rise of Nazism.
Symbol of the 1930s German organization.
ANTIFA in the U.S. is a movement, not an organization, which make the listing of it as a "terrorist organization" all the more frightening. While those using the ANTIFA logo in the US often have shown far left affiliation, the Administration is itself acting more and more fascistic, in recent weeks appropriating a death for its purposes, illegally deploying National Guardsmen, and pressuring media outlets to shut down its critics. Presently Trump is pressuring AG Pam Bondi to prosecute its political opponents, of which this is part.
The administration, with these two events, has crossed into new territory, one being now fully into batshit crazy territory in terms of its medical advice, and another having now crossed the line into actual fascism.
The trend is going to get worse.
Trump doesn't seem have any personal allegiance to democracy at all, and its clear that some of his lieutenants in his orbit do not. However, while his movement has convinced many within it that those on the left are enemies to be hated, the majority of Americans still have allegiance to democracy, albeit in varying degrees. This is part of the reason that Trump's become increasingly unpopular, and was moreover never popular with a majority of Americans. As this become more apparent, the Administration increasingly reaches for thing to rally support from its base, or to distract the general population, something aided by Trump's advancing dementia.
September 24, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
This is odd. Why the sudden change?
Last edition:
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Fourth Edition.
Sunday, August 10, 2025
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Third Edition and Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 98th edition. The Perverts and Fellow Travelers Issue.
July 19, 2025.
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I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people, not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world.
But I now write to you not to associate with anyone named a brother, if he is immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a robber, not even to eat with such a person.
For why should I be judging outsiders? Is it not your business to judge those within?
God will judge those outside. “Purge the evil person from your midst.
St. Paul to the Corinthians..
The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump 2003 birthday wishes to Jeffrey Epstein, part of a book compiled for Epstein's birthday by his paramour and fellow procurer Ghislaine Maxwell included a Trump made drawing of a naked woman, with "Donald" written over the figure's genitals and apparently somewhat mimicking pubic hairs.
I'm not going to post the drawing.
Of course, Trump, in Trump fashion, has declared it to be a fake. And now he's suing the Wall Street Journal.
This all followed an increasingly desperate effort on Trump's part to divert attention from this story. Rather than try to set out the reasons that the story won't go away, I'll just link in this analysis with Ezra Klein, with which I agree.
Trying to get ahead of this, and I think that he'll find by suing the Journal he set himself behind, he's also ordered the release of the Epstein grand jury testimony.
Not the supposed "Epstein files", but the grand jury testimony. That's frankly not what people have been asking for, but its offered out as red meat for the dogs in hopes that they'll satiate themselves and go away.
It doesn't look like they will.
His most loyal supporters, of course, have simply built this into their conspiracy theory, although in a way in which the logic train derails pretty quickly. Trump isn't hiding anything. . . it was the Democrats. . . .
Um, okay. . .
I have a feeling the 25th Amendment schedule has been moved up.
The simple fact of the matter is that Donald Trump has a forty year history of hanging out with kiddy diddling creeps. That didn't start with Epstein. Maybe you could hang around in a pornographic atmosphere for 40 years and not inhale anything, but it wouldn't be easy. And once the rot sets in, and the poison is available, it tends to corrupt.
Hugh Hefner was always a creep. But he was married when he started off on his path of dissipation. He wasn't rapey at first.
And its been clear for a long time, for those who have cared to look even a little, that Trump is a deeply immoral man, and he's surrounded himself, in many instances, by those who are likewise deeply immoral.
Trump has 5 kids with 3 women.
Elon Musk has 14 kids with 4 women.
Pete Hegseth has 7 kids with 3 women.
Linda McMahon is being sued for enabling child sexual abuse.
Trump's affinity for young women has been denied by his defenders, but his own words convict him. Trump, with Howard Stern on the topic of a teenage Lindsay Lohan, stated:
TRUMP: What do you think of Lindsay Lohan?
STERN: She's hot.
TRUMP: I've seen a close-up of her chest. Are you into freckles?
STERN: Imagine having sex with this troubled teen?
TRUMP: She's probably deeply troubled—and great in bed.
From the same interview:
TRUMP: How come the deeply troubled women, deeply deeply troubled.
STERN: Right.
TRUMP: They're always the best in bed. For some reason what I said is true. I mean they're just unbelievable.
STERN: I can tell.
TRUMP: You don't want to be with them for the long term—but for the short term, there is nothing like it.
How is it that this administration, lead by a serial polygamists, who hasn't given any indication he's reconsidered the morality of his conduct, and who is now floundering like a fish on the deck on the Epstein scandal, can be seriously regarded as some sort of Christian leader?
Well, that was always baloney in the first place. Nobody can identify a Christian denomination that Trump is actually a member of. He was a Presbyterian growing up, but he's disavowed that religion. He's sort of generic American Evangelical at best, which makes sense as by and large American Evangelicalism has dumped a lot of Christianity, particularly in the sexual area. . . as long as its conventional.
Populist right wing America has long accommodated itself to deep sexual immorality, but only of a conventional kind. Far less than a century ago it was difficult for Americans to obtain a divorce, and divorce was looked down upon. Now people who have repeat marriages, or who are living together outside of marriage, have no problem identifying themselves as right wing American Evangelicals. St. Paul may have cautioned people about all sexual immorality, but in the American Civil Religion, that doesn't apply to sex between a man and a woman, apparently.
Unless, it turns out, that woman is under 18 years old. That, it turns out, is a bridge too far.
Of course, there's no reason to believe that Trump ever saw any lines as blurred, or any lines at all. Maybe he didn't bed teenage girls, but he hung around with those who did. That alone is wrong.
But we don't know, of course, what we don't know. If we were detectives, and assigned this as a set of facts to investigate, we'd sure suspect that quite a bit of kiddy diddling was going on in this circle of very wealthy "pals". Indeed, their money alone would make it easy for them to get away with things for a long time, or perhaps indefinitely.
It'd make a great film noir, albeit a creepy one.
If it all feels like something deeply fake has been and is going on here, it's also now admitted that Trump's constant claims to perfect health are fake. He has chronic venous insufficiency. It won't kill him or anything, but it doesn't suddenly appear either. He is an old man, with an old man's disease. He's had it for awhile.
Old, and under stress, Trump's rambling "weave" has become so normal that people don't even pay attention to it anymore. On Tuesday, Trump interrupted an energy and innovation event in Pennsylvania to “brag” about his uncle, John Trump, claiming that the at MIT professor had been particularly impressed with student Ted Kaczynski.
Dr. Trump died in 1985, before Kaczynski was identified as the Unabomber. And Kaczynski didn't go to MIT.
Trump went after Fed chair Jerome Powell and was upset that Biden appointed him. . . except he didn't appoint him. Trump did.
Trump's routinely claiming that petroleum prices have gone way down at the pump. They haven't.
Okay, what's this have to do with the 25th Amendment? Well, it's that bridge too far thing. I've long predicted that Trump would be removed from office under the 25th Amendment before the November, 2026 election. I think this speeds that up. Trump's utility to the NatCons is almost done with. The Big Ugly Bill was passed, and spending on things the NatCons disapprove of has been cut. ICE and the Border Patrol are getting a massive funding boost, and that's going to see mass deportations really ramp up.
Of all of Trump's supposed agenda items, the ones that NatCons really care about have been pretty well advanced. None of them have achieved what might be regarded as full success, but they've gone a lot further than they had a right to hope for. Trump's ongoing association with them, however, isn't going to advance them any further. Indeed, as people begin to feel the impact of funding cuts, they'll start to get angry. If it turns out that Trump was fishing in the shallow end of the female pool, it's completely done with.
In fact, the best thing that could possibly happen for the NatCons would be if Trump turns out to be a Dirk Diddler with an eye for girls who should be looking for prom dates.
Eh?
Well, here's why.
I've always maintained that Trump has no real allegiance to anything other than Trump. NatCons certainly do, however. NatCons have always known that their vision, which is relatively new in American politics, had very little chance of rapidly advancing as they had no chance of finding a Francisco Franco who could get elected. They're smart, and they also realized that they could coopt populist discontent, something that ironically the Democrats had a chance of doing with Bernie Sanders. And right wing populism legitimately shares some common goals with National Conservatism, which is nationalistic, ethno-nationalistic, and isolationist.
Where the two depart, however, is that populism is always a very shallow stream. Most populists would be happy if "Mexicans" were sent home, and everyone had to be a "Christian", in a fashion that didn't include the Apostolic Faiths, and which didn't really make you "go to Church" on Sundays, or which held that the spouse you married three spouses ago is your real spouse. NatCons, however, have much more intellectual view on everything, and they espouse "traditional values" in the fashion that Franco, or if you prefer, Belloc, would have recognized, and they'd legislate towards that end.
That man isn't Donald Trump, it's J.D. Vance.
The rest of the NatCon agenda is dead in the water if the Republicans don't hold the House and the Senate in 2026. It can't be cemented if Vance isn't elected in 2028. The GOP won't hold the House, at a bare minimum, if the "Trump agenda" becomes any more unpopular than it already is, and it will. It's becoming increasingly likely that the Republicans will lose the Senate. There's no way on earth that Vance can win the 2028 election as a stand alone Presidential candidate.
But if Trump were to go after the impact of the current legislation starts to sink in, the taint might stick to him. That would give the GOP a chance, albeit only that, to ride things out until 2028. And Vance might have a chance if he became President due to a Trump removal. And, the way things work, that might given NatCons a fellow traveler in the Oval Office for a solid ten years, as Vance could complete the last two years of Trump's term and eight years of two terms on his own.
In terms of "removal", I mean that. That's what will have to happen. Trump isn't going anywhere voluntarily. And hence, the 25th Amendment comes in.
Gosh, we'll hear, the stress of things just caught up with the old fellow.
Or gosh, we didn't know he was a diddler.
July 20, 2025
Not too surprisingly, women with a connection to this story have resurfaced, including Stacey Williams, who was a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model featured in the pornography, um, swimsuit, issue at some joint in the 90s. She was also Epstein's girlfriend in the early 90s, showing some bad judgment on her part.
Anyhow, she states that Epstein took her up the Trump tower where Trump groped her while he and Epstein talked, liking it to “some sort of sick bet or game” between the two “close friends". Several of her friend corroborated the story and she offered to take a polygraph tests, although such tests are frankly worthless.
Trump predictably denied this, but it's worth remembering that he has been convicted for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll.
It's also worth remembering that starting in the last decade it became common to support the women making these difficult accusations. And there are others against Trump. Williams doesn't seem to fit into the category of somebody we'd instantly doubt.
At what point will people take this seriously?
July 21, 2025
The president is trying to present himself as if he’s doing something here and it really is nothing,
* * *
It’s not going to be much, because the Southern District of New York’s practice is to put as little information as possible into the grand jury.
Sarah Krissoff, former Epstein prosecutor, regarding the release of the Epstein Grand Jury material.
This material, which may be as little as 60 pages in length, is not the same as internal FBI or prosecutorial files, and therefore is unlikely to satisfy the demand for what the government has on Epstein. Indeed, it's more likely an effort to simply end the controversy by doing very little.
Trump's current mental state, in my view, is heavily impacted by advancing dementia, although he's never been a good guy. What Tommy Tuberville's excuse is, however, I don't know.
Tuberville stated this past week that Trump's chronic venous insufficiency might be due to "battling radicals".
Is Tuberville actually that stupid?
At least in terms of what he says that hits the press, Tuberville says some really remarkably idiotic things. Maybe he's just one of those guys that says dumb stuff without thinking about it, making him seem dumber than he really is. Be that as it may, with Marjorie Taylor Green and Tuberville both in Congress right now, the GOP has a couple of figures that are just stunningly unqualified for their jobs intellectually, if what they say is what they actually think. Tuberville, for his party, gives unintended evidence for the worst stereotypes of football coaches, particularly for somebody like me who doesn't like football.
cont:
Apparently Donald Trump is posting a random video of a girl in a bikini catching a snake on social media.
Oh, that's not weird. . .
July 23, 2025
Mike Johnson sent the House home for an extra long vacation rather than make them face a vote on the Epstein files.
Like that's not odd . . .
Well that must mean that nothing is embarrassing in them, right. . . right?
Oh, some of these folks will have "town halls" on their month plus long break. . . it'd be a shame if they were asked about the Epstein files.. .
Apparently Sen. Lummis doesn't agree with the recess.
Lummis Calls For Cancellation Of August Recess
She wants them to stay in session so they can make appointments that haven't been made. While I'm not at all happy with the illegitimate Trump Administration, she certainly has a point. Six months in and there's still hundreds of unfilled offices. This will be a huge problem by next year, if it keeps up, for Maga's as the next Congress is going to be Democratic.
Trump's talking up his latest nutty conspiracy:
Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, Comey, Clapper. They tried to rig an election and they got caught. And then they did rig the election in 2020. And then because I knew I won that election by a lot, I did it a third time and I won in a landslide.
There must be some sort of statute of limitations on blaming Obama for everything. And by this point, isn't this thin gruel for Republicans? Literally everything is Obama's fault, according to Trump and the satellites in his orbit.
This is somebody nobody else can do. I can get the drug prices down… 1000% 600% 500% 1500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable.
Donald Trump.
Those numbers aren't thought to be achievable as that would mathematically mean pharmaceutical companies would have to pay you to take drugs.
On Jerome Powell:
He has these think tanks. The build buildings for people who think. It’s really not thinking. It’s a little bit of a combination of thinking. It’s something you sort have or don’t have… He ought to raise interest rates.
Donald Trump.
July 24, 2025
It appears that the Wall Street Journal learned a lesson from the tactic deployed by The Atlantic, and held stuff back from its first report on Trump and Epstein. At least one insider is indicating that there's a lot more to come, which if true, would explain why Trump is currently bouncing off the walls.
Yesterday the WSJ revealed that Bondi had briefed Trump on what's in the Epstein files back in May and that his name does occur frequently. The files also reportedly contain child pornography which is why, reportedly, Bondi determined not to release the information as she did not wish to reveal the names of the victims.
This doesn't mean that Trump is associated with child pornography, and we'd note again that so far what Epstein seems to have dabbled in was ephebophilia, not pedophilia, which doesn't mean that he wasn't, as Trump has indicated, a "creep". But things just keep looking worse and worse for Trump.
Indeed, Jon Stewart hilariously noted this on his show, comparing the situation to the most recent Top Gun movie, which I have not seen, with fighter countermeasures being deployed.
I haven't looked, but if there aren't new variants of the bunker scene in Downfall circulating, I'd be amazed. Those in fact would be apt as Trump is desperately pulling out everything to deflect attention from the Epstein story, even suddenly going after the Washington Commanders, demanding that they go back to being called the Redskins. His most dangerous action, however, is now a serious attempt to go after former President Obama on some wild conspiracy theory.
That latter move is not only desperate, it's dumb. Trump is now setting a precedent that prosecuting a former President is perfectly legitimate. . . with it being obvious that if he lives through his term, which is unlikely due to his advanced old age, he could be prosecuted as well. That increases the incentive, we'd note, for him to try to advance an excuse that he can run for a third term in order that he can attempt to guaranty that he'll die in office.
A move to prosecute Obama, it should be noted, is a full blown step from democracy into fascism and its impossible to pretend otherwise. I've resisted the claims that we're now in a fascist state, as we're not, but at that point, we are. Trump appears perfectly willing to take us there.
This also ramps up the 25th Amendment pressure. Trump is in a full on panic. His loyal lieutenant, Wilhelm Keitel, oops, Mike Johnson, seems willing to stay in Berlin, oops, loyal to his Leader, and do whatever is necessary to hide what's in the files even up to the extent of sending the House home so it couldn't vote in releasing the files, but this drama isn't going away.
The files should be released. Yes, that will reveal the names of young women who were defiled by the rich, but the fact of the matter is that keeping their names secret is protecting their abusers at this point. And that reemphasizes that Trump's female accusers have, for the most part, been silenced as well.
Robert Reich's look at the story:
What did he know, and when did he know it?
From Watergate to Epsteingate
So, as a final matter, what is in these files and who is being protected? The conclusion that nobody is, is impossible. Trump is clearly panicked, and we now know his name shows up multiple times, but in what context.
Whatever it is, it's impossible to not conclude that Trump himself is being protected due to proof of a grossly immoral act or character, or that some very wealthy and powerful people are being so protected.
Frankly, it's also impossible not to conclude that these files are going to be scrubbed. Congress may be in recess, but the Administration isn't. That would be a crime, but the current administration doesn't have much of a problem committing crimes. If whatever is in these is bad enough to attempt to prosecute a former President, it's bad enough to take the lighter fluid and Zippo to.
July 25, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell yesterday on the renewed Epstein scandal.
Maxwell was the "girlfriend" and then assistant procurer of Jeffrey Epstein. The relationship started off when she was in a period of financial distress, but never developed to what she seemingly likely hoped, a marriage, as Epstein was frank that he liked teenage girls for sex partners, and that wasn't going to change.
Which does, frankly, bring up the creepy "enigma's never age" line of the Trump birthday wish poem.
At this point, if Maxwell comes out and says that Trump had no interest in the high school and junior high set, it won't matter, as people will believe that the politicized Department of Justice is doing Trump's bidding. And she's not going to say otherwise, would be my prediction.
Jerome Powel somewhat gently took Trump to school in a public meeting at which they were both present, with Trump floundering like a fish on the deck when Powell corrected him on a building under construction, and mostly complete, whose budget was approved, apparently back in 2015.
August 4, 2025
What the crud?
Okay, I know what the Sweeney jeans ad is, as I looked it up due to all the news about it. But I was clueless on the Jaguar ad. I'm now aware of it, as I looked it up.
And then there's this weird obsession with Taylor Swift.
Trump is almost 80 years old. I'm nearly 20 years younger than he is and I don't know what's going on in advertising most of the time. That Trump seems to, and that he cares, is weird.
And while Sweeney is hot, Trump pointing it out is just creepy. As for her party affiliation, I'm also a registered Republican and obviously completely disrespect Trump. I don't have any idea what Sweeney's political views are, and neither does Trump, who spent most of his life in the Democratic Party.
August 6, 2025
I've been fighting with them for a long time about allowing the water to come down from the pacific northwest. We actually opened up that water pretty strongly, we got a lot of opposition from the governor. We opened it up anyway and the water is coming down ... they've gotta allow full water.
This statement is simply amazingly stupid.
And speaking of stupid:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities....
This will result in deaths.
August 10, 2025
There's beginning to be some signs that people have had enough of King Donald. Just bits and pieces, here and there.
I'm not the only one who thinks this:
The discussion on ICE recruiting is interesting here. ICE is undertaking a full scale recruiting effort to hire 10,000 employees. They're not going to get it done.
Ice recruiting poster. Oddly, these dudes aren't wearing masks like real ICE agents.
No age cap? Every Federal law enforcement agency has an age cap, normally.
Joining ICE right now is probably beginning to have the same appeal that joining the Gestapo would have in 1945. I had that thought before I noticed this counter poster:
Interestingly, it was the Epstein affair that started to get it rolling, and then the moronic ballroom, the latter of which caused this very well done, and inflammatory, AI video:
The radical Texas gerrymandering effort is also really drawing attention.
And that is, I think, quite enough for this edition.
Explicit
Related threads:
Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 99th edition. A second Perverts and Fellow Travelers Issue.
Labels: Crime, Ephebophilia, Epstein Scandal, Hebephilia, Hypocrisy, Ross Douthat, Sex, The Press, The rich and the poor, The wealthy, Zeitgeist
Last editions:
Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 97th edition. The Epstein Connections.
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Second Edition.
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List.
What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.
Liz Cheney
Section 1
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4
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.
January 7, 2025.
Trump calls in and Junior puts him on speaker (in Greenland). He says we need to take over Greenland because there are “ships sailing around and they’re not the right ships.”
Ron Filipkowski
And so the Madness of King Donald is on full display, giving room for a Regency in favor of J. D. Vance.
How long will the decent interval be? My prediction is 18 months.
That would be Monday, July 20, 2026.
cont:
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Donald Trump.
cont:
Reporter: Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?Trump: No.. I can’t assure you on either of those two.
And:
The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously.
Trump also stated he'd use "economic force" to compel Canada to become a 51st state.
And:
It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. And they want to do no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip drip drip ... you can have all the water you want. It makes no difference.
And, he claimed at his press conference that Hezbollah was at the January 6 riots.
January 14, 2025
Because creating a new agency obviously makes sense:
January 22, 2025
He (Kim Jong Un) liked me, I liked him. We got along very well…I think he has tremendous condo capability. He's got a lot of shoreline.January 23, 2025
Half pipes. You see 'em all the time. Half pipes. People live in those half pipes now. You know, they have homeless living in those halftype
and;
The head of a country that lives in forest. A number of them, actually. Finland told me this. Austria told me this. The head of Austria, the head of Finland. And it was beautiful they way they expressed it. They said, 'We live in a forest. We are a forest nation.'
and;
We're gonna be demanding respect from other nations. Canada, we have a tremendous deficit with Canada. We're not gonna have that anymore. As you probably know, I say you can always become a state. If you're a state, we won't have a deficit, we won't have to tariff you.
and;
REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers?
TRUMP: Sure
REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon?
TRUMP: Well, I don't know
January 25, 2025
I'm signing an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in the north. We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible ... you're talking about unlimited water coming up from the Pacific Northwest, even coming from parts of Canada.
Um. .. there aren't any such valves. This is pure batshit crazy.
In any normal time, this would send Donny to the retirement home. It's completely nuts.
Also, fwiw, water flows from the Continental Divide, west. Not from north to south.
cont:
We may be a very substantially enlarged country in the not too distant— Isn't it nice to see -- for years, decades, we’re the same size to the square-foot, probably got smaller actually but we might be an enlarged country pretty soon.
I actually figure at this point there's a good chance he's going to order the military to invade Canada.
January 26, 2025
Okay, there is now this by the person who (illegitimately and illegally) claims to be the head of the most powerful nation on Earth.
No serious nation does this. The man is a dangerous fool.
25th Amendment.
Section 4
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.
Of course, this is aimed at the American public, with the presumption that being a mob tough guy is cute or admirable, rather than this depiction being childish and repressible.
The American public may disagree, in which case, truly, it has become childish.
When we are past this era, and it won't be soon enough, the long lasting American anti intellectual streak in the culture has to end. Yes, some people really are smarter than other. No, collective widom doesn't trump intellect. People need to get educated.
January 29, 2025
We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. And you know what's happened to them? They've used them as a method of making bombs.
We didn't appropriate $50M for condoms for Hamas.
Truly, this is rather weird, even for Donald Trump, and some people will believe it, which is pathetic.
January 30, 2024
A helicopter/aircraft collision occurred last night near Washington D.C. The helicopter was a Blackhawk, and therefore a military helicopter.
Trump took to social media:
Let's face it. Trump is simply stupid. The nation has elected a wealthy, dimwitted, vengeful, ignoramus.
January 31, 2024
This is simply surreal:
This one is shameful beyond all measure:
This is, frankly, shameful in the extreme:
Trump is pitting people against each other on racist grounds. He's an embarrassment to the country.
It's worth watching when it's signed. Trump has the appearance of a profoundly stupid man.
On his appearance, his physical condition is rather obviously declining quite rapidly. He can no longer hide that he's bald and his hair is white. The orange tan stuff, which was always disgusting, isn't working.
Latest babble:
February 5, 2025
Trump proposed the Gazans be cleared out of Gaza and given new land, and the existing area become a real estate development belonging to the United States.
This came in a conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who pretty clearly thinks Trump is nuts.
If the Gazans could be resettled in a viable location, which won't happen, it would address much of their problems. The US then owning Gaza as a sort of Levantine Club Med is bat shit crazy, however.
Trump claimed Middle Eastern leaders thought this was a great idea, which they immediately denied. It's pretty clear the major Middle Eastern powers also regard Trump as a lunatic.
This does provide, however, a real insight into his senile way of thinking. Trump, a real estate developer who really has nothing else to his credit, and lacks any moral character, thinks the whole world is just one big real estate developer. Essentially he's a collision of amorality, senility, and capitalism.
February 23, 2025
February 24, 2025
King Donny appointed right-wing conspiracy theorist commentator Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI.
Okay, at this, point, this has reached the mornic level.
March 8, 2025
This is twice in a week where a cabinet officer suddenly acted independently in front of King Donny.
25th Amendment. . .
April 16, 2025
From I Could Be Wrong
April 18, 2025
The Congo in Africa. Many, many people come from the Congo. I don’t know what that is, but they came from the Congo.
Donald Trump, in a press conference with Giorgia Meloni.
My guess is the following set of photographs might be copyrighted, as I don't know who took them, but I'm posting them under the fair use exception for what they illustrate.
Meloni is exactly the sort of right wing populist leader MAGA people claim they want. She's genuinely a far right politician, but not a babbling vengeful incoherent old guy. Her expressions, and she's notoriously expressive, say it all. She can hardly stand being there.
cont:
WOMAN: It's an ice fishery, and it's been around since the early 1900s
TRUMP: So it's been around for millions of years
cont:
It's all about slavery and if you look at it that way, we should win that case.
Donald Trump on birthright citizenship.
April 19, 2025
While this thread is focus on Donald Trump, we can't help but note that Lauren Boebert stated Wall Street "is full of Communists selling their stock to hurt President Trump".
Truly, Republicans ought to really stop and think. That's amazingly stupid.
And then we have White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who comes across as a total ditz. In her defense, her job is shoveling shit, but none the less.
April 20, 2025
Mad King Donny's admin launched a politicized COVID 19 site yesterday.
April 21, 2025
Trump's social media Easter post.
Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing -- But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!! From Donald Trump Truth Social 04/20/25 08:46 AM
This is extremely weird and ought to be evidence enough that Trump isn't well, and should be removed immediately.
April 22, 2025
Rumors are circulating that Pete Hegseth is about to be booted for a second texting war plans scandal.
April 23, 2025
You know, the cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office. They are pretty much normally price now.
Donald Trump.
This is a complete lie. And its such an absurd lie, that it once again raises questions about the sanity of the person saying it.
April 26, 2025
There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along.
Donald Trump.
April 29, 2025
With approval ratings taking, and this before the tariffs have even hit, King Donny is having a fit, and blaming the "fake news media".
April 29, 2025
Reporter: Who do you want to be the next Pope?
Trump: “I'd like to be Pope. That'd be my number one choice.”
April 30, 2025
I suppose this is supposed to be a joke, but it's really insulting.
May 1,2025
Trump, in an interview with Stephen Smith, a black reporter, about Harvard:
We had riots in Harlem and frankly if you look at what's gone on and people from Harlem went up and they protested, Stephen, and they protested very strongly against Harvard, uh, they happened to be on my side. ... I got a very high Black vote.
Uff.
Yesterday, a cabinet meeting was held which turned out to be a praise session of sycophants, with Pam Bondi's praise, claiming Trump had saved the lives of over 250,000,000 Americans the most bizarre and extreme.
The entire cabinet is basically nuts.
And so, after 100 horrific days, we'll make that the fitting close to the first installment of this 25th Amendment Watch List.
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"The President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law."
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