What they are “supposed to be doing” is upholding their oaths to the Constitution, which includes following lawful orders from the elected civilian Commander-in-Chief. If he gives them an unlawful order, they absolutely should disobey it. But when “career professionals” decide to act “on behalf of the people” against the elected civilian leadership of the country, that is literally a Deep State dictatorship.
No, it isn’t. The president is not a god or a king. If he’s a foreign intelligence asset and they know it, everyone from cabinet officials to career public servants have a duty to intervene. That’s precisely why we had impeachment proceedings last year, and it was the total refusal by republican senators to abide by their oath that prevented his removal. Oath to the Constitution doesn’t mean simply following orders and minding your own business like little Nazi death camp guards.
“Should Trump be put on suicide watch?”
I dunno–I gues if you wanted to prevent it… 
At this point, we’re talking in circles (and Discourse is scolding me for posting too much).
Of course the President isn’t a god or king. Of course he’s bound by U.S. laws. But the same is true of members of the intelligence community. There is a Constitutional method of removing a President. Elected civilian officials declined to do so. The fact that you disagree with a verdict doesn’t mean that verdict didn’t happen.
Again, if the President actually does something illegal, of course officers of the government should do something about it. But nothing has changed since November 3. Whatever the intelligence community should have been doing on November 3 is what they should be doing now.
(And just by the way, I apparently missed the part of the impeachment hearings where President Trump was shown to be “a foreign intelligence asset.” What I remember is that he was shown to have attempted to pressure a foreign government to provide dirt on a political opponent.)
I think pay-for-view is a terrible idea.
It should be livestreamed and free for everybody. He owes us at least that much.
This.
and this.
Well… something has changed. We are now expecting Biden to be the president come late November. And Trump might act even less appropriately as a result. And yes, the intelligence community ought to be on the lookout for actual illegal actions of the president.
But “giving state secrets to Russia” isn’t an illegal action, when done by the president. Launching nuclear missiles at China when Congress hasn’t declared war probably IS, and that’s the sort of thing where the administration and military ought to disobey orders because they owe a higher allegiance to the country and the constitution than to the president.
This might seem like a nitpick, but it’s actually a key point. We aren’t expecting Biden to the President come late November. We are expecting Biden to be confirmed as the winner of the 2020 election come late November. He won’t actually be the President until January 20, 2021.
This, back atcha.
I don’t feel Donald Trump will seek to harm himself (beyond the usual way he harms himself by talking). I feel he will direct his frustrations outwards towards other people.
On the side issue that’s developed, I believe employees of the federal government work for the United States not for the President. Their ultimate loyalty is to the country not the individual.
CIA agents, for example, take this oath: "I, [name], do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
No mention of the President (who takes a similar oath). Federal employees are supposed to obey the law not obey the President. The degree to which they follow Presidential orders is only up to the limit that those orders are lawful.
Re the OP:
Narcissists express their feelings of despair and anger by projecting them outward onto others, because narcissists can never be at fault. Everything that happens in their lives happens to them, not because of them. That’s why personal grievance figures so big into how they conduct themselves.
I’m more worried Trump will nuke Pennsylvania than kill himself.
Not a nitpick at all. That’s a typo!! (Or a brain fart, I guess.) I meant to write January.
Fortunately, he can’t launch them himself.
Yup,
He’s not going to kill himself, unless he can take everyone else with him.