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Trump unleashes furious rant over Wall Street Journal claim that Iran ‘takes him for a sucker’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Call your representatives. Demand they invoke the 25th amendment or Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution. Demand they remove an obviously demented and incompetent President from office.
We should also be demanding that US troops are withdrawn from the strait of Hormuz and that we work with our non-Israeli allies to reach a multilateral agreement with the government of Iran to reopen the strait and guarantee everyone's security. Removing Donald is necessary to stop things from getting even worse but just doing that alone and allowing the other idiots in DC to go back to business as usual isn't going to clean up this mess he created.
Nobody said that was the only step. Don't be daft.
The rest of this will get fixed (as much as it can be considered "fixed") after November, when the impeachments start. Everybody with a handful of neurons to rub together knows that. Steve Bannon's been chirping about how they're all going to prison after November for months now.
Between then and now is damage control. Starting with getting the pedo out of the White House.
Iran's going to be a problem for years to come. There's very little we can do about it now. We can stop the aggression. We can't force the strait open. That's up to the Iranians. And they've been spending recent weeks dragging neighboring countries into this mess. So, now nearly the entire middle east is involved. When we pull our folks out, we cannot guarantee what happens next. Israel seems fairly intent on continuing to pursue their goals in the region with or without us.
Plus, now China's playing games in the South Pacific in response to threats from PedoTUS and there's recent information that Russia's entire military effort in Ukraine is propped up by China as well. Iran, similarly, is propped up by Russian and Chinese munitions. This entire fiasco in the strait is part of a much, much bigger US-China conflict that we'll be dealing with for quite a while.
The global balance of power has irrevocably shifted.
Congress can’t invoke the 25th, that’s for the Cabinet or the President himself. Congress only steps in if the Cabinet declares the President is unable to preform his duties and the President contests the decision.
Yeah, congress can impeach and convict though which would also remove him
Not true. In addition to the Cabinet, the 25th Amendment also provides for Congress to appoint a committee to do this in cooperation with the Vice President, and this process was started by Rep. Jamie Raskin on April 14.
Here's the actual text of the relevant section of the 25th from Wikipedia: