After Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested cities like Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov. JB Pritzker said the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove the president from office, saying "there is something genuinely wrong with this man."
"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war, or that indeed there's some sort of internal war going on in the United States is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health," Pritzker said Tuesday afternoon. "There is something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked."
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Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de · 97 pts · 337d
I'm not sure this would fix much...
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 337d
I'm willing to bet Vance doesn't get the blind worship that Trump gets from his followers.
BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 337d
It's a cult of personality, and Vance has all the charisma and personality of a couch.
fluxion@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 337d
And Trump has the personality of a sleezy used car salesman but apparently a lot of people are into that
Soulg@ani.social · 12 pts · 336d
Right, and Vance absolutely can not emulate it.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
Poor man's idea of a rich man. Idiot's idea of a businessman. Weak man's idea of a strong man.
Grimy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 337d
Couch is his preference, not his personality. I'd describe it more as toad-like.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
That's a roundabout way to tell him to go fuck himself.
RaoulDuke@anarchist.nexus · 22 pts · 337d
Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 336d
Dude George W Bush was their guy two elections in a row.
There people are mindless lampreys just looking to latch onto anything that promises to hurt brown people.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 336d
Nobody was flying George Bush flags on their pickup trucks though. He didn't have the same cult of personality.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d
Nah, I remember seeing many “W” flags on bro dozers. It’s the same awful people.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 10 pts · 337d
He needs to fuck some more kids first.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 336d
They're like geese, they'll follow anything that waddles in front of them.
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 337d
I think its too late to hope on that point, maybe if they all fall to infighting between the tech bro, christian nationalist, and groyper factions they'll tear themselves apart but he would have to be removed very soon for the country to be salvaged into anything resembling the one we knew growing up
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d
Also Vance is going to live long enough to face consequences.
Objection@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 335d
If Trump goes down via something like the 25th amendment, or like, assassination, I can see the base rallying around Vance. But left to their own devices to pick a successor? Idk. The whole "Trump 2028" meme, as much as it's supposed to "trigger the libs," kinda shows a lack of confidence or at least excitement regarding Vance, and I can envision a contested primary, especially as things continue going towards shit and they have to find someone or something to blame.
Personally, I suspect that we've entered a period of one term presidents. There are systemic issues that will cause things to continue to get worse regardless of who's in charge (barring radical change) and at the modern pace of discourse, four years feels like an eternity.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 337d
JD can get removed after Trump as well. Same goes for porno Mike... And for anyone that goes against humanity.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 336d
When one of them go, they're all going to go. The whole shithouse will go up in flames.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 337d
That's the correct approach. Keep calling out the obvious dementia, the guy's barely a vegetable. Just look at the recent speech with the generals , the orange turd is unrecognisable, he barely moves.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 336d
Also mentioning that you are concerned about his health can help to prevent people from immediately going up in arms by appealing to their empathy (no matter how twisted it is in their heads).
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 336d
And then what? Vance taking power is not what you'd want, I believe
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 336d
Vance is a puppy, maga will tear itself apart.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
What do you call a puppy with a machine gun?
Sir.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
Couch fucking loser is better than the Cult leader.
Cults fall apart once their cunt leader dies.
nieminen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d
Not always, but usually. We can hope!
Red_October@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
Trump staying in power is what I don't want. Tinyface Couchfucker certainly isn't a great choice as replacement but he's definitely not worse than Dementia Hitler.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 336d
He's young, ambitious and healthy. He could be much worse than Hitler. Wait till he upsets Trump
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 337d
That microphone placement is hilarious. Every single time, it's in front of his mouth. He must not have had a mini stroke in a while though, it looks pretty good.
Full speeches: Trump, Hegseth address military leaders at rare meeting in Quantico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGeNPJlIK4
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 336d
It's learned behavior. It's how he speaks into Putin's microphone.
But yeah, he has been sounding increasingly mush-mouthed lately.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 44 pts · 336d
He shouldn't be removed for dementia, he should be removed for treason and prosecuted as such. Along with all his goons.
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 336d
goons you say?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 336d
Hired goons?
TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 336d
Gooning goons?
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 337d
Need more to join him in being patriots and standing up to fascist tyranny
Damage@feddit.it · 24 pts · 337d
For those like me who don't know wtf the 25th amendment to a foreign constitution is, it appears to regulate succession of the president.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 336d
The short version is that they find the president no longer fit to carry out his duties as president
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 337d
The only way Trump is going out is if we the people force him out. I’m open to other suggestions but a general strike is the only way I can see that is realistic.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 337d
The only way he's going out is with a bullet or a massive stroke/ heart attack
jj4211@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 336d
Come on, just a few more big Macs...
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 336d
Nepal has joined the chat
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 337d
Pritzker/Trump UFC match when?
PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 337d
Remove this president from office. I'm tired of all the rest of the suits on the hill pretending this guy is serious. He is a Mistake.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 337d
Sorry, Trump can't fight on this occasion on account of the bonespurs.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 336d
I know lots of tankies like to jump in and help the qons out by claiming Russia was a "hoax" when it comes to Taco.
But let's look at the outcomes - if you were one of our enemies, including Russia, you would be beside yourself in how much damage Taco is doing to this country.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
It's pretty obvious that Russia owns Trump, but the legitimate evidence of Russian links gathered by Mueller only landed on members of his staff. Even that was soured by suspect evidence (servers in Trump tower, Steele dossier, wikileaks sources, fusion GPS meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya).
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 336d
Fuck Putin, but he didn't order the army into cities... Unless we count wars, like literally war conflicts, not the made up shit about antifa occupied Los Angeles.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 336d
That's because putin has already established control, meanwhile, trump is a wannabe dictator that still can't get 100% support yet, so he is desperate to project power.
terabytes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 336d
Look up the 2011-2013 Russia protests. He used the police, not the army, and used them to raid and arrest his opposition.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 336d
Yup, been there. I can clearly recall that police also used grenades shipped as international aid from Poland
McNasty@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 336d
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 336d
Impeachment is a lower hurdle and more appropriate. But it's no more likely than the 25th being invoked.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 336d
I remember in like 2014 people were saying that Putin had syphallis or dementia or whatever and "wouldn't last long" in power
ODGreen@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 336d
25th or 2nd.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d
… so the assumption is that Vance will be better?
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 336d
Did he say “inane” or “insane”?