• orbitz@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    Think you get better luck with impeachment and conviction… His staff are way too loyal. Mean if it ever happened that he was 25th that’d be something for history whatever made that even happen and I hope it does not.

    Mean pretty much every action he takes is worth removing him, but apparently the US citizens are accepting what is happening for their lifestyle. Yes I know but it’s their mess they should have to deal with it.

    Whole idea of being a democracy is you don’t put your finger on the scale so the say. Not that the US (and others) strictly followed that. But when you got that big penis … Sorry military that’s more an internal matter to figure out. Heh as I f ‘that big’ really says what their military power is, yeah they’re huuuuge.

    Course there’s the Venezuela operation, get some military to offer him up in exchange for less conflict? Yeah won’t happen with their military.

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      24 days ago

      The trick with impeachment is you need more people on board. 50% of the House to impeach and 2/3rds of the Senate to convict.

      For the 25th amendment, it starts with Vance, who takes it to the cabinet, and it only take a majority of the cabinet.

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet/

      Scott Bessent - Secretary of the Treasury

      Pam Bondi Todd Blanche - Attorney General (acting)

      Doug Burgum - Secretary of the Interior

      Lori Chavez-DeRemer - Secretary of Labor

      Doug Collins - Secretary of Veterans Affairs

      Sean Duffy - Secretary of Transportation

      Tulsi Gabbard - Director of National Intelligence

      Jamieson Greer - United States Trade Representative

      Pete Hegseth - Secretary of War

      Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - Secretary of Health and Human Services

      Kelly Loeffler - Administrator of the Small Business Administration

      Howard Lutnick - Secretary of Commerce

      Linda McMahon - Secretary of Education

      Markwayne Mullin - Secretary of Homeland Security

      John Ratcliffe - Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

      Brooke Rollins - Secretary of Agriculture

      Marco Rubio - Secretary of State

      Scott Turner - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

      Russ Vought - Director of the Office of Management and Budget

      Chris Wright - Secretary of Energy

      Lee Zeldin - Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

      So 21 people in the cabinet, 11 votes needed to remove.

      So if you eliminate the obviously batshit crazy members of the cabinet:

      Tulsi Gabbard - Director of National Intelligence

      Pete Hegseth - Secretary of War

      Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - Secretary of Health and Human Services

      Linda McMahon - Secretary of Education

      That still leaves 17 rational voters and you only need 11.

      Kelly Loeffler - Administrator of the Small Business Administration

      Brooke Rollins - Secretary of Agriculture

      Marco Rubio - Secretary of State

      I could see these three backing Trump, everyone else is a wild card.

      • uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website
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        24 days ago

        According to Wikipedia you only need a majority of the principal members which narrows it down to 15, basically just the ones with secretary or attorney general in their title. Acting titles can participate as well. Meaning you only need 8 voting yay