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Offline segnosaur

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Re: The Donald Trump Thread
« Reply #6240 on: October 10, 2020, 02:42:15 am »
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Pelosi is trying to use their 25th. amendment to remove Trump from office because of him being umfit mentally. It's a ploy being used for the purpose of the election, even though it would be quite legitimate.
Seems like a dumb move, imo.  Even if it were successful, all the republicans who've had enough of Trump would probably have no problem supporting Pence.
In my opinion, its hard to say whether it is a good or bad move.

(At this point, i don't think they are actually suggesting he be removed immediately, only that they set up a committee to examine whether Trump is incapacitated.)

There are a couple of good things that could result from this;

- If (after everything is said and done) a committee is set up, trump is deemed incompetent, and removed, and Pence becomes president: it removes an immediate threat to democracy and stability. (Even though Pence lacks integrity, he isn't as unhinged as Trump. Plus, he doesn't have the same con-artist/charisma that Trump does. And any republicans who went along with it would be targeted by the MAGAchuds, which would see the republican party divided and attacking itself. (I think the chance of this happening is extremely remote however, because of republican tribalism)

- If they fail to remove Trump (the most likely scenario), at least they have kept attention focused on Trump's rather unhinged behavior (instead of whatever attacks he is making against the democrats). Plus, it helps re-enforce to voters that the republican party is a bunch of Trump boot-lickers (at least the ones that would block the actions to have Trump removed, which would probably be all of them.)
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And if it doesn't work, just another reason for people who think Trump has had a raw deal from Democrats will just double down on their support, even if they were wavering.
That is a possibility. But my assumption is that anyone who is dumb enough to think Trump has had a 'raw deal' is probably a MAGAchud who was going to vote for Trump anyways.
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