Norman Ornstein has this little ditty to share on twitter/X:
“Trump says battery powered planes can’t fly in cloudy weather, inflation is 30%. Revelations about shocking Trump rapes and sexual assaults with Jeffrey Epstein. Washington Post leads with two front page stories on Biden’s debate meltdown, pressure to withdraw. One on Trump—on his strategy to lie low because of firestorm over Biden. NOTHING on these Trump scandals. Nothing. Journalistic malpractice to the max. Sleepwalking to autocracy. New slogan for the Post: Democracy dies in negligence.”
The hounds have been released to hunt down Biden because . . . he’s the problem.
Yes, here’s Donald’s Thanksgiving tidings, a true work of demonic genius, chock full of Thanksgiving threats, incitements to violence against even the clerk of the court in the NY fraud case, replete with imagined victimization, and fully representative of a hopelessly psychopathic demon. This will be used to frighten children into better behavior forever for those who choose to frighten children. This Truth Social post, with 6,770 re-truths and 27,600 likes, also speaks to the nature of his supporters and to their dead souls.
Imagine the unimaginable mind that chooses Thanksgiving for this and see the word cloud below it:
“Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia “Peekaboo” James, who has let Murder & Violent Crime FLOURISH, & Businesses FLEE; the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge, a “Psycho,” Arthur Engoron, who Criminally Defrauded the State of New York, & ME, by purposely Valuing my Assets at a “tiny” Fraction of what they are really worth in order to convict me of Fraud before even a Trial, or seeing any PROOF, & used his Politically Biased & Corrupt Campaign Finance Violator, Chief Clerk Alison Greenfield, to sit by his side on the “Bench” & tell him what to do; & Crooked Joe Biden, who has WEAPONIZED his Department of Injustice against his Political Opponent, & allowed our Country to go to HELL; & all of the other Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. Have no fear, however, we will WIN the Presidential Election of 2024, & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
The Thanksgiving Lexicon of An Incurable Psychopath
I don’t know how I missed this when it occurred six weeks ago, must’ve been running for Speaker of the House, was very very hard pressed . . . In any event, I missed the news that Trump is planning to run for president a third time! Give a listen to the CNN clip to the left. I’ll wait.
Here’s the Fun Part . . . ?
Here’s the fun part where Trump said: “That means that if I win [in 2024] and someone wants to run against me [for president, in 2028] I call my Attorney General and I say listen, indict him! ‘Well he hasn’t done anything wrong that we know of.’ ‘I don’t know, indict him on income tax evasion, you’ll figure it out,'”
Where to start? First, Trump is precluded from running for president a third time by the 22nd Amendment, a trifle in Trump’s stable-genius-head, but critically important to the rest of us non-MAGAs.
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.
So, what else is (potentially) wrong with his plans to order indictments against presumably all his political campaign opponents, his 2028 opponents? Here’s a good summary of the state of play from a Trump era 2019 Fordham Law Review article summary:
Suppose the president sought to serve as prosecutor-in-chief, telling prosecutors when to initiate or dismiss criminal charges in individual cases and making other discretionary decisions that are normally reserved to trained professionals familiar with the facts, law, and traditions of the U.S. Department of Justice. To what extent may prosecutors follow the president’s direction? In recent presidential administrations, the president has respected prosecutorial independence; while making policy decisions, the president deferred to the Attorney General and subordinate federal prosecutors to conduct individual criminal cases. In a recent article, we argued that this is as it should be because the president has no constitutional or statutory authority to control federal criminal prosecutions.
“In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
If you mentally noted with a bit of fear when I used the parenthetical “(potentially)” to modify the “wrong” of Trump’s plan to order indictments left and right, well, you were right. The question is somewhat up for grabs. Although there is no federal law or directly applicable constitutional provision forbidding a president to meddle, specifically, to order “indictments against political campaign contenders,” the foundational principle of separation of powers strongly militates against Trump’s confident assertions. A president can consult, advise, or instruct the AG to pursue investigations of illegal activities he perceives to be present. The AG can comply, persuade the president otherwise, or flat out refuse. Also, a president can fire the AG for refusing to carry out his priorities, for insubordination or for no reason at all, although political consequences might be severe for a president who did so.
To be realistic – though, Heaven forfend! – should Trump be elected president in 2024, as he explicitly assumes, the question may become another “instructional moment” for his utterly vapid and intentionally uneducated self. You see, such plans to go after political opponents in the lead up to the 2028 election would immediately run afoul of the fact that he’d be ineligible to run again, per the 22nd Amendment. Seems obvious to all, eh? Well, Trump is a black swan, an event so utterly unlikely, that anything ludicrous might happen, as it has for his entire life. Don’t rely on reasonable arguments; rely on active in-the-streets resistance, should the event arise.
This evening, around 6:30 pm EDT, Trump, trying ever so much to be helpful, gracefully assented to stand in as Speaker Pro Tem, apparently not realizing that Congress already has one of those, telling F*X News Digital:
Donny never told me!!!!
“I have been asked to speak as a unifier because I have so many friends in Congress. If they don’t get the vote, they have asked me if I would consider taking the speakership until they get somebody longer-term, because I am running for president. They have asked me if I would take it for a short period of time for the party, until they come to a conclusion—I’m not doing it because I want to—I will do it if necessary, should they not be able to make their decision [about the next Speaker].”
This is quite interesting for two primary reasons:
Trump is not qualified to serve due to the Republican Conference Rules, which disallows anyone in a House leadership position who is also under indictment to serve. In the most favorable circumstances then, he’d show up for work and immediately be required to step aside until his many indictments have been dismissed or have been disposed of through not guilty verdicts. Both unlikely events. (See our article, Trump as Speaker of the House? That’s Not a Thing . . . but It Could Be if God Has A Wicked Sense of Humor)
Trump, obviously, does not know this. His announcement thereby is nothing less than an embarrassment, at best, or utterly stupid, at worst. I vote for the latter. Twice.
So, unless the GOP revises their rules, Trump’s out of luck. Which poor sod is going to tell him? I nominate Donny Jr.
Just a little something to remind us who this man is . . .
Montage of 33 clips of the stupidest, most vile, insane, weirdest, addled dementia-ridden, psychotic statements made by Trump over the past two weeks. pic.twitter.com/iCbt5PtzBX
