Now it is up to the military to refuse to carry out illegal and immoral orders… it is up to Congress to impeach him… it is time for them to find a spine and use it.
I think it's too late. We don't have time for another long, drawn out impeachment circus. The 25th is the only option, ie immediate and physical removal, and I see no signs of backbone in the videos they are posting from their vacations. They have screwed everything they were put in charge of.
Only the cabinet can 25 him… and they have no moral compass or spine. And Vance is busy in Hungary sucking up to Orban… so it’s up to Congress to impeach him
I'm currently reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem."
In the Introduction by Amos Elon, it is said:
"Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil."
That, I fear, is the very nature of Mr. Trump and his cohorts.
Superlative insights here, John, Thank You!! MAGAs insisting we should accept a serious-but-not-literal President is obscene. This idea of a 'non-literal' Chief Executive lulls the vulnerable populace to sleep, until oooops, Trump and Hegseth start a war. The strikes on unnamed fishing vessels in the Caribbean and elsewhere months ago should've served as a dire warning. Now Trump-- whose speech has deteriorated into a skewed and deranged stream of consciousness-- is teetering on the edge. In a normal world, he should've been impeached and committed to the nearest mental institution. I understand we're at war, but why should the entire world have to wait with bated breath to see if Trump means what he says? I fear it will take a nightmare event for anything to change.
And really, as soon as his second term started...the tariffs, ICE, every illegal action he took was the time for those with the power to shut it down before it got to this point. But I've always felt, as you stated, that a nightmare event was likely inevitable. If we have learned anything it is how weak, passive, and money-driven much of Congress has become; on both sides to a degree.
Being retired and on a fixed income, I was ready to pull everything out of the market the first time Trump was elected. The writing on the wall was in big bold lettering. The investors don't want you to do that. They always have a reason why you should just hang on. Right. Their income. This second time I followed my gut and moved everything to CDs instead of listening to the people whose livelihood depends on you staying invested in chaos. I'm just hoping the banks don't crash. It could happen. I mean, when our own Treasury tells us that our country is insolvent and not a journalistic eyelash is blinked.
I wholeheartedly agree!! The banks failing would be an even greater nightmare than Trump in some ways. It would give him the perfect pretext to declare martial law and never leave the White House!! 😡
Thank you for another excellent analysis. Different presidents have had different communication styles, but prior to Donald Trump presidents generally carefully thought about what they were communicating to the nation. It was like those old commercials, “when EF Hutton speaks, people listen”. The words of the president were always given extremely high value and significance. Fairly early in my medical career I was given a leadership position. It wasn’t long before some older and wiser leaders took me aside and explained to me that I needed to carefully consider my words when speaking to the organization, as they carried more weight than I could imagine. Their advice and a number of leadership courses helped me hone my skills in speaking to those under my leadership. Clearly Trump’s opinion of himself as a “stable genius” has given him the license to say whatever he wants without any regard to consequences. With no “Dutch Uncle” to provide guidance, his statements and posts become even more inflammatory and more bizarre. In terms of presidents, we are in uncharted waters with several storms on the horizon.
We can only hope he doesn’t do it. What a dreadful state of affairs. Scare the bejeezuz out of everyone…for the sake of the short sellers? Likely as not I say.
So perfectly said. So many of us have been frustrated and angry for years now over the press, particularly, refusing to take the threat of this man seriously and particularly once he held office. Voters, also, but we expect more of 'journalists'. Remember how they breathlessly kept looking for 'The Pivot'; that giddy moment when he would start acting presidential?
Yeah, never happened. He just doubled down on ugly and no one called him on it. Not on what he said and not on what he did. And now we are all waiting on the news that a nuclear warhead has been launched. And experts literally saying, just this week, "I don't think he would ever really do that". Seriously? Based on? How many times have you said that and been wrong? Likely 100% with Trump.
Now it is up to the military to refuse to carry out illegal and immoral orders… it is up to Congress to impeach him… it is time for them to find a spine and use it.
I think it's too late. We don't have time for another long, drawn out impeachment circus. The 25th is the only option, ie immediate and physical removal, and I see no signs of backbone in the videos they are posting from their vacations. They have screwed everything they were put in charge of.
Only the cabinet can 25 him… and they have no moral compass or spine. And Vance is busy in Hungary sucking up to Orban… so it’s up to Congress to impeach him
I'm currently reading Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem."
In the Introduction by Amos Elon, it is said:
"Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil."
That, I fear, is the very nature of Mr. Trump and his cohorts.
AND the news media covering him AND his sycophants in Congress.
Superlative insights here, John, Thank You!! MAGAs insisting we should accept a serious-but-not-literal President is obscene. This idea of a 'non-literal' Chief Executive lulls the vulnerable populace to sleep, until oooops, Trump and Hegseth start a war. The strikes on unnamed fishing vessels in the Caribbean and elsewhere months ago should've served as a dire warning. Now Trump-- whose speech has deteriorated into a skewed and deranged stream of consciousness-- is teetering on the edge. In a normal world, he should've been impeached and committed to the nearest mental institution. I understand we're at war, but why should the entire world have to wait with bated breath to see if Trump means what he says? I fear it will take a nightmare event for anything to change.
And really, as soon as his second term started...the tariffs, ICE, every illegal action he took was the time for those with the power to shut it down before it got to this point. But I've always felt, as you stated, that a nightmare event was likely inevitable. If we have learned anything it is how weak, passive, and money-driven much of Congress has become; on both sides to a degree.
Being retired and on a fixed income, I was ready to pull everything out of the market the first time Trump was elected. The writing on the wall was in big bold lettering. The investors don't want you to do that. They always have a reason why you should just hang on. Right. Their income. This second time I followed my gut and moved everything to CDs instead of listening to the people whose livelihood depends on you staying invested in chaos. I'm just hoping the banks don't crash. It could happen. I mean, when our own Treasury tells us that our country is insolvent and not a journalistic eyelash is blinked.
I wholeheartedly agree!! The banks failing would be an even greater nightmare than Trump in some ways. It would give him the perfect pretext to declare martial law and never leave the White House!! 😡
And oh how they judged us for wanting a president who was literate, professional, even humane.
"Will be wild." Remember the sickening reality of that claim.
I’m still hoping for spontaneous human self-combustion.
Thank you for another excellent analysis. Different presidents have had different communication styles, but prior to Donald Trump presidents generally carefully thought about what they were communicating to the nation. It was like those old commercials, “when EF Hutton speaks, people listen”. The words of the president were always given extremely high value and significance. Fairly early in my medical career I was given a leadership position. It wasn’t long before some older and wiser leaders took me aside and explained to me that I needed to carefully consider my words when speaking to the organization, as they carried more weight than I could imagine. Their advice and a number of leadership courses helped me hone my skills in speaking to those under my leadership. Clearly Trump’s opinion of himself as a “stable genius” has given him the license to say whatever he wants without any regard to consequences. With no “Dutch Uncle” to provide guidance, his statements and posts become even more inflammatory and more bizarre. In terms of presidents, we are in uncharted waters with several storms on the horizon.
We can only hope he doesn’t do it. What a dreadful state of affairs. Scare the bejeezuz out of everyone…for the sake of the short sellers? Likely as not I say.
No matter the country, fascists speak the same language. They love a hook and understand that they are the alter ego of many.
So perfectly said. So many of us have been frustrated and angry for years now over the press, particularly, refusing to take the threat of this man seriously and particularly once he held office. Voters, also, but we expect more of 'journalists'. Remember how they breathlessly kept looking for 'The Pivot'; that giddy moment when he would start acting presidential?
Yeah, never happened. He just doubled down on ugly and no one called him on it. Not on what he said and not on what he did. And now we are all waiting on the news that a nuclear warhead has been launched. And experts literally saying, just this week, "I don't think he would ever really do that". Seriously? Based on? How many times have you said that and been wrong? Likely 100% with Trump.
Yes. But Donald treats the job as a board game not a job requiring responsibility.