In a new turn, lil’ Orange Donnie claims that Norway is a shithole country because “Norway” didn’t award him the Nobel Peace Prize. No matter the fact that lil’ Donnie has been told - several times - that the Peace Prize is awarded by an independent committee.
Some times, that’s an embarrasment for Norway, like that time Obama was awarded the prize for, IDK, not being GWHB? Or when Kissinger was awarded the prize. Othertimes, that’s a drag, like that time Liu Xiaobo received the prize and China wouldn’t accept the fact that the committee was totally independent from the Norwegian government. And some times, it’s rather funny, like when Navi Pilay received the prize and both Bibi and lil’ Donnie were seriuosly pissed off
As a Norwegian, I’m kinda proud that the orange menace is so seriously pissed off at our country because he didn’t get what he really wanted, but is on record that he doesn’t care one whiff about.
He’s a demented old man. Granted, he never was a good person to begin with but now the cruelty really lies with whomever is exploiting a demented old man. I’m not sure there is enough of him left to be capable of making a moral or immoral decision–he’s just a mean, walking, talking vegetable such as you might find in any long term care facility. He probably screams at walls and statues as well. He is no longer of this world.
Well, technically I guess. If there were any actual power in the office, though, he would have been removed by someone a little more ambitious who has a full bag of marbles. As it is, the federal government is pretty united in keeping him in place (half say as much, the other half limits its action to vigorous handwringing and name calling), which would be suicidal if they thought he could actually make or break the country. What he really is, is a nasty old man with dementia designed to sow confusion and distrust in government. It’s your right to seek the schadenfreude, but in this case it’s about as classy as laughing at a blind kid for walking in front of a bus.
If the blind kid had a habit of torturing small animals to death before going blind, maybe.
Just because the kid is blind or the senior citizen is senile only matters in the abstract, in which those people are otherwise blank slates to us and no moral judgments can be made, save knowledge of their disability.
But when we know they were terrible people themselves before experiencing disabilities means it is open season to judge them and enjoy that delicious, delicious schadenfreude
And until the US Congress uses the 25th, I’m gonna laugh at him. The alternative, being fucking scared that a seriously demented old man leads the most powerful country in the world, is not an alternative if I want to keep my sanity.
Having said that, I think part of the reason Trump is so fixated on the Nobel Peace Prize is because it was given to Obama for not being Bush. That tells Trump that it’s a corrupt process where the prize can be awarded to someone just because. And Trump is utterly convinced he deserves it and is much more deserving than Obama, who “earned” the prize by doing nothing more than existing. Trump only hates corruption when he is excluded from it.
(Note however that I do not think the Nobel Prize Committee is inherently corrupt, just that Trump believes that they are and cannot fathom why they won’t be corrupt for him)
Nah, this implies a rational chain of reasoning that he’s rarely ever been capable of, even before his dotage.
He’s fixated simply because his predecessor was a black man, who won one. That’s it. If his immediate predecessor had been a white man or even a white woman, he wouldn’t be quite so consumed by the combination of his fear of inadequacy and his outright racism
Just a bit of clarification: the US Congress cannot enact the 25th. Amendment. That is the responsibility of the President’s Cabinet. Considering the shining examples of sober adherence to the Constitution, the rule of law, the precepts of Democracy, and the good of the people shown by the present cabinet (someone called it his “junk drawer” rather than his cabinet) I don’t see this coming until hell freezes over.
Yup, there’s that. Removing the President via the 25th amendment is for the cabinet
Congress’ responsibility in that regard is to advise and consent to individuals nominated for their respective cabinet positions only those who they judge are suitable, presumably by selecting only those whose sober judgment, experience, temperament, and sagacity would best serve the needs of the nation.
In that regard, they have covered themselves in glory. /s
And, of course, Congress already has their own solution - a finding via impeachment and subsequent conviction that the President has committed treason, bribery or other high crimes or misdemeanors. The bribery part is basically out in the open. The Congressional majority just refuses to do the right thing.
I do believe that they’d do it if they felt they had to for self-preservation, or if they thought they’d benefit from it. Cowardice and greed are virtues that this cabinet has in abundance.