Oh, I don’t know. I watched his presentation and it reminded me of two things: A 6-year-old trying to get away with something when he knew he’d been caught, and using one of the old Canadian World Domination maps. Hilarious satire from yesteryear but not so funny when it’s your “president” and you watch him go through the process as he starts to take his own bullshit seriously.
I don’t know if he’s a psychopath, a sociopath, dementia-addled, a dumbass who is corrupt to the bone or any/all of the aforementioned, but it doesn’t take a licensed clinician to see there is something deeply wrong with him.
One of the articles on this notes that it’s illegal to knowingly disseminate a false weather prediction map.
Surely the president is subject to actual laws right?
We’re not talking here about declassifying something on the fly, or security or something else, but an actual law that he broke.
Remember that time Obama said that he had visited 57 states, and when he was called on it, doubled down and showed reporters a map with hand-drawn lines dividing California, Texas and Alaska in half, with a new island doodled in the Gulf of Mexico, and how the US flag in the Oval Office suddenly had seven glittery new stars glued onto it? And how everybody in the public, the media and government just laughed it off, saying “heh heh, that’s classic Obama for you!” Man, I miss those times.
My bold. I, acting as Trump’s lawyer, would merely reply that my client knows nothing, and therefore all charges should be dropped.
Once again, this is not a sign of dementia, just par for the course for the dumbest, and more important, biggest liar, of a national leader in the history of ever.
Mitch McConnell is still GOP leader in a GOP Senate, yes? Then what makes you think they’d be anything as quaint as an impeachment trial? :dubious:
To which McConnell’s response regarding judicial appointments by President Obama was, effectively, that nothing in the Constitution requires that the Senate provide that advice or consent.
Nothing in that provision says the Senate must try any impeachment, only that it has the power to try impeachments. You could argue that tradition or custom supports holding a trial on a House impeachment, but IMHO the proof of how far that would go in the GOP Senate is Supreme Court Justice Garland. :rolleyes:
A thread about Trump’s neurological health seems a good place to ponder the sanity, the rationality of a decision like this one:
New York (CNN Business)The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into four major automakers who have rejected the Trump administration’s relaxed air pollution and mileage regulations.
The four automakers — Ford (F), Honda (HMC), Volkswagen and BMW — agreed in July to meet the tougher standards set by the California Air Resources Board rather than the Trump administration’s rules, which would roll back standards put in place under former President Barack Obama.
The man is having a psychotic episode as I type this, and has been having this episode for days. Anyone debating the other side of this is purposely not paying attention.
Trump’s psychotic episode is going to involve the entire government, potentially. He’s got NOAA to throw the Birmingham National Weather Service under the bus, in an attempt to “prove” that Trump’s 100%-wrong Sunday remarks were actually correct (they weren’t) :
As the same source notes, Trump had gotten a Rear Admiral to back up his “I was right nanny nanny boo boo” claims on the day before. Of course the Rear Admiral probably had his fingers crossed behind his, er, rear, while spouting the mendacious remarks.
Trump will shut down the entire government unless CNN, MSNBC and the rest start broadcasting The Dear Leader Was Completely Right And We Were Completely Wrong messages post haste.
He might even resort to nuclear strikes. Would that surprise anyone?
If Hannity has Trump’s back the way I think he does, we can expect to see some doctored footage of ‘Dorian’s devastation of Alabama’ in an upcoming show.
I mean, what does Sean care? It’s not as though he has a journalistic reputation to protect.
“Which would roll back standards put in place under former President Barack Obama”. This is pretty much all we need to know.
Trump can’t stand that Barack is such a better man than he is. There is no comparison. So, like the school yard bully that he is, he attacks the man instead of trying to make good choices of his own.
No doubt Ford, Honda, BMW and especially VW are making a business decision, not an environmental one. It’s easier to tool up for what is required in CA, and sell the same cars everywhere. Instead of having a special roll out for CA, and a different one for everywhere else. Not to mention that they could say “We are doing the right thing” is a good business decision for them from a sales perspective.
Trump can’t stand it. Someone is doing something right. Something he can’t seem to manage to do.
This article uses a lot of anonymous sources, so some caution is in order. But it claims his closest advisers think he’s "“losing his shit” and he often acts like a “four year old”. The article says he’s rapidly deteriorating, and Mapgate has had a significant negative impact on him.
Why is some caution in order? It’s not as if we can’t see it happening before our eyes. It’s not as if he hasn’t been acting like a four year old all along.
