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struggle4progress

(118,374 posts)
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 01:36 AM Feb 2019

Rose Garden fiasco a commercial for 25th amendment


BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
FEB 15, 2019

... they missed the story .. staring them right between the eyes on Friday ...

The President* is A Delusional Maniac With Sawdust Pouring Out Of Both Ears.

... I don't know what my favorite part was. It might have been when he admitted to NBC's Peter Alexander that he was only declaring an emergency because he wanted to get his mitts on the money as fast as possible ...

Was it is revelation that Shinzo Abe of Japan had nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize? ... It may have been when he shouted out his favorite wingnut celebrities, and then said that not only did he not know Ann Coulter, but that he hadn't talked to her in a year ... If you wanted to produce a commercial to sell the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, this was it ...

... He lapsed into a sing-song cadence that was half-middle-school-taunt and half-serial-killer ... The man is not all there. Everybody knows it. If your uncle behaved like the president* behaved on Friday, you'd hide his car-keys, lock up the booze, and drive him to the neurologist ...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a26364026/trump-national-emergency-25th-amendment/
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Rose Garden fiasco a commercial for 25th amendment (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2019 OP
He's gone. No deposit, no return. WheelWalker Feb 2019 #1
When Trump launched into his sing song riff madaboutharry Feb 2019 #2
He is insane. SamKnause Feb 2019 #3
Ummhmm. sheshe2 Feb 2019 #4
MSM portrayed Dem opposition to unqualified/corrupt Trump Cabinet nominees as political, but THIS RockRaven Feb 2019 #5
Kick dalton99a Feb 2019 #6
my cat ANNIE is smarter than Trump. He is insane, trueblue2007 Feb 2019 #7
Annie for President! Maru Kitteh Feb 2019 #10
mY 5 CATS voted for Hillary ..... They are all DemoCats !!! trueblue2007 Feb 2019 #11
LOL. Kitchari Feb 2019 #12
Pretty sure my 4 are Satanists happybird Feb 2019 #13
The sing song flim flam bullshit is him "orating" how shits gonna go down...and he's got good reason UniteFightBack Feb 2019 #8
"He lapsed into a sing-song cadence that was half-middle-school-taunt oasis Feb 2019 #9

madaboutharry

(40,228 posts)
2. When Trump launched into his sing song riff
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:06 AM
Feb 2019

about the courts, I was scared in a way I couldn’t quite place. But Mr. Pierce identified it for me. Trump sounded like a serial killer in a Stephen King movie.

Trump is unstable and ”everyone knows it.”

sheshe2

(83,940 posts)
4. Ummhmm.
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:16 AM
Feb 2019
He lapsed into a sing-song cadence that was half-middle-school-taunt and half-serial-killer



.....................

The only person who said it out loud was Bill Weld, and he said it at a breakfast in New Hampshire, a couple of hours before the president* emerged into the Rose Garden and had his episode.

The answer to all these questions, and I say this with a heavy heart, is that we have a President whose priorities are skewed toward promotion of himself rather than toward the good of the country. He may have great energy and considerable raw talent, but he does not use them in ways that promote democracy, truth, justice and equal opportunity for all. To compound matters, our President is simply too unstable to carry out the duties of the highest executive office – which include the specific duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed – in a competent and professional manner. He is simply in the wrong place.

RockRaven

(15,018 posts)
5. MSM portrayed Dem opposition to unqualified/corrupt Trump Cabinet nominees as political, but THIS
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:25 AM
Feb 2019

is why we opposed them, and why GOP party-line confirmation votes were such a betrayal of their oaths of office and constitutional duties. Trump's handpicked Cabinet -- most of whom should never be in such a position of power and responsibility -- will never do their duty to the nation, even when it is crystal clear what action that duty demands.

happybird

(4,637 posts)
13. Pretty sure my 4 are Satanists
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 05:08 PM
Feb 2019

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" is definitely their guiding philosophy.

 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
8. The sing song flim flam bullshit is him "orating" how shits gonna go down...and he's got good reason
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:51 AM
Feb 2019

to be confident since he has installed his operatives on the court. It was a taunt - not delusional.

oasis

(49,424 posts)
9. "He lapsed into a sing-song cadence that was half-middle-school-taunt
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 03:09 AM
Feb 2019

and half serial killer....the man is not all there."

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