How long will the Trump administration last?

[Jon Miller]

That requires 2/3 of congress to support the VP et al. I am not saying that they won't, but if they can't even do an investigation what makes you think that they will?

JM

[grumbler]

There would be a way to do it.
By invoking the 25th Amendement, Section 4

If the Vice President is backed by the majority of the congress, the Principal Officers of the Executive, or th majority in any other government body, he may declare the PotUS unfit for office.

It hs never been invoked before ... and originally seem to have been only meantfor fringe cases, like a president lying in coma, or surprisingly getting some kind of mental illness ... but i seems like the amendment 25.4 is so broad, that is also can be used, if (after a certain time of presidency) it turns out that the president is mentally too unstable or intellectually too challenged to perform the duties of the PotUS.

The independent also published an article about 25.4 as a means to get rid of the orange one:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a7528421.html

The 25th Amendment Section 4 process really won't work against an unwilling president, even if you could get 2/3 of each house to support it, because the President could keep sending declarations of recovery and the Congress would be tied up in an infinite series of hearings and votes. Eventually, the 2/3 caucus would start to break up as the disaster deepened.

Impeachment and conviction are final, and the only way one could really go. Temporary measures would be counter-productive and likely result in widespread civil disorder.

[rah]

It's going to take more than a bad budget or incompetency to bring him down. *sigh*

[giblets]

Proteus seems to think America's standards are as high as, say, Germany. lol

[Proteus_MST]

True ... in germany we already got rid of one chancellor (Helmut Schmidt) via our mechanism of "constructive vote of no-confidence"
(on the other hand, our chancellor always is connected to the party with the ruling majority, as we don't have any independent public "chancellor election" similar to your "presidential election", so there is no big danger that we will get some kind of "motion of no confidence"- or "vote of no confidence-ping pong, where a freshly elected chancellor is forcefully removed from office within his first weeks by such a vote whenever he doesn't belong to the ruling majority party )

[Alexander's Horse]

Flynn has pleaded the 5th... since we're talking treason, can they waterboard him?

If the rug tries to head north next thing you know Canada will be building a wall.

[Uncle Sparky]

The Americans will pay for our border wall...

[Broken_Erika]

We'll just build it out of Tim Hortons coffee cups filled with used coffee grinds.

[Uncle Sparky]

Since we're joking about building a wall on the USA/Canada border, I suspect the news of illegal immigrants flowing from the USA to Canada isn't getting much play internationally. In most years, about 1,000 refugees cross into Canada from the US illegally. Since Trump was elected, the number has skyrocketed. Manitoba has had nearly 500 people crossing this year to April 30, with much higher numbers out east.
Because we have a Safe Third Country agreement with the US, refugee claimants are required to apply for refugee status in the first country they reach. If they try to cross the border at a Customs crossing, they are turned back. If, however, they reach Canadian soil, they can apply for refugee status here. Many refugees who started in the US no longer feel safe in Trump's America.
I'm posting this today because a Ghanaian refugee claimant died last night in a ditch about 200 meters from the Canadian border, less than a two hour drive from where I live. This is the first recorded death of this type in years. Trump's not so subtle racist, anti-immigrant policy, as well as the Canadian government's failure to realize the US is no longer a safe country for many immigrants led to this woman's death.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/safe-third-countries-border-crosser-death-1.4140348

I don't think we should build a wall, but we must realize that people who risked their lives to flee their homelands are no longer feeling safe in the US and should adjust our Canadian refugee laws accordingly until adults retake the American government.

[Dinner]

48% want him gone. Up 10% in a week.

[Alexander's Horse]

If folks wanted a reality TV President, they got it with Trump.

People dying to leave is getting a bit too real though - imagine that, I never heard of people fleeing the USA, ever.

[Kidlicious]

If folks wanted a reality TV President, they got it with Trump.

People dying to leave is getting a bit too real though - imagine that, I never heard of people fleeing the USA, ever.

No one has left except for illegal aliens.

[Kidlicious]

48% want him gone. Up 10% in a week.

I promise you that you won't win an election as long as the Kathy Griffins keep it up. More false accusations and victim playing please.

[rah]

While what she did was definitely crossing the line, at least she did something that trump rarely does. She Apologized for it.
Even though I'm reasonably sure it was just for public consumption.
Our president could learn something from her.

[Kidlicious]

While what she did was definitely crossing the line, at least she did something that trump rarely does. She Apologized for it.
Even though I'm reasonably sure it was just for public consumption.
Our president could learn something from her.

No she didn't apologize. That's not an apology. She's playing the victim, and victim blaming. She's an insane feminist, and she isn't funny.

[giblets]

Everything Kidicious says about her is making me like her more.