Why Is No One Talking Openly About the 25th Amendment?
The whole world is watching an insane person go round after round with dementia - and no one is calling a spade a spade.
Yesterday, Donald Trump talked about a “great, arbitrary line” that was run through the United States “decades ago” to make Canada. He said he wants to make it the 51st state that can retain its “lovely ‘O Canada’ anthem…it’s a great song, really.” Trump’s lying-everytime-she-opens-her-mouth press secretary elaborated on how joining the United States would be a great financial boon to Canadians because on a salary of $150,000, “they have to pay 53 percent taxes! Can you imagine?”
What I wrote above would be too far-fetched for shows like House of Cards, Homeland, and Zero Day, but sadly, the above scenario, one that plays out in the Oval Office between Monday and Friday afternoon — he then heads down to Florida for a weekend of golf — is the current reality.
Okay. With no other option but to accept this reality, let’s move on to the next topic. The question of whether or not a person who happens to be a 78-year-old man in questionable health (but apparently good because each morning he keeps waking up!) saying such things is sane. If these were the ramblings of a funny, if not habitually cranky, grandfather holding court on the front porch before his mid-afternoon nap, then most of us would chuckle and say, “Gee golly, grandpa is in rare form today.” Alas, dear readers, these are the very serious suggestions, which in the Trump White House 2.0, evolve quickly into intentions coming from the duly elected president of the United States.
The last time the world was privy to such a public display of a world leader’s mental deterioration was in the waning years of Leonid Brezhnev’s rule. In Brezhnev’s case, though, his slow disintegration into a mental cocoon made him more childlike in that he became caring as if trying to undo regrettable actions from his past. He was keen on nostalgia and always seemed ready to hug and kiss anyone within arm’s reach.
By the time of his death, Brezhnev was harmless. He was run out for ceremonies and New Year’s greetings. He was suitable for handing out awards, and the power structures like the KGB and the military chiefs maintained devotion to the socialist dream — and robbed the country blind until Gorbachev tried to undo the corruption.
The Soviet Union was lucky to have had a bumbling and mentally struggling leader like Brezhnev. The system isolated him just enough so that he couldn’t really harm anyone. No one in the governing Central Committee would let the senile old leader start a war with the United States — gaurdrails abounded. This is not the case in the United States, though. Our version of the bumbling, benevolent leader is Donald Trump. A man, staring down a double-barrelled shotgun of dementia and mental sickness, if not total insanity, aware that he is weak, not respected, and not loved. Crippled by a desire to “show them” that no one can treat Donald Trump the way he was treated after he left office, his sole plan for each day is disrupt as much as possible, and to urinate all over the traditions, values, and history of our once great nation.
Why are the world’s journalists not saying out loud what everyone present in the room is thinking when he goes off on these utterly lost-in-space tangents about tariffs: This mother-effer is out of his effing mind. He’s mentally sick, and someone needs to get him help. Saying a tariff is a tax on a foreign country is the same as saying 2+2=7 (No, it doesn’t…Yes, it does…No, it doesn’t…Yes, it does…Okay, how?…Because I am the president).
While it will probably result in them being refused entrance into White Hous press briefings — could you imagine if a Democratic president so openly quashed the 1st Amendment rights of right-wing propaganda organizations like Fox? — journalists need to start asking that angry Looney-Tune of a press secretary this question: Is there worry among any of the cabinet members that the president has lost effing mind? Is anyone discussing the 25th Amendment?
Imagine if Joe Biden had said anything that Trump has said? He literally told the head of NATO yesterday that the U.S. might just send more troops to Greenland and declare it U.S. territory — at which the clown from the Netherlands laughed — real funny.
We are in our Brezhnev moment. All we can hope for is that sooner and not later, the morning’s papers will thrill us with the headline that Trump is now hanging with Leonid and others in the great big Oval Office in the sky — or, hell in Trump’s case.
Anyone paying attention should know that trump is either blatantly lying to the American people, is mentally incompetent, or is delusional about the water released in California.