A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would require President Donald Trump to undergo a physical and mental health exam to determine if he is stable enough to stay in office.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) introduced the bill on Friday. Should the results of the said exam be unfavorable, the bill calls for Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Cabinet to remove Trump from office.
The move would invoke the 25th Amendment, a rarely-used constitutional provision that allows the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members to jointly remove the president from office and replace him with the vice president.
"Does the President suffer from early stage dementia," Lofgren asked in a statement announcing the bill.
"Has emotional disorder so impaired the President that he is unable to discharge his duties," she continued. "Is the President mentally and emotionally stable?"
Let me take a moment to answer that last part. No, no he is not.
As I have explained in the past, I am not psychiatrist, though I have worked in the mental health field for almost 25 years, but I know batshit crazy when I see it.
But hey if you need a professional opinion, don't forget that a leading psychiatry group broke protocol to give its members permission to publicly provide their opinion of Trump's mental health.,
And it was not good.
Let's face it you could smell crazy on this guy from a hundred yards away.
Personally I feel that ALL sitting presidents should undergo a psychiatric examination annually.
And Trump is way, WAY over due for his.
To me, this should be required of any and all potential candidates for president and NO ONE should be put on the ballot until they pass this.
ReplyDeleteAnd, also ---- they should pass intelligence tests, history of USA tests, and a test about the Constitution. This current president would probably have failed all of the above if it had been required of him, while Hillary would have nailed them.
I totally agree with you. The only addition I would make is that the physical as well as the mental exams have to be conducted by an independent team of doctors - not a quack like tRump did!
DeleteAfter last year's campaign period I have been saying this for some time, ie, independent examinations should be required. Given all the rhetoric about Hillary's supposed health issues and Trump's mental health I think once the party's candidate is chosen they should have to submit to medical and mental examinations by doctors at Walter Reed, for example, and results should be made public. As well as all the crap that was spewed during the campaign about health issues, a candidate's age also becomes a factor as far as mental acuity is concerned. Trust me, I know this firsthand being a newly retired senior citizen, the aging process is rapidly accelerating and I don't like it one bit - lol!
Deletegsnana8, your idea is good, except ALL the candidates need to be examined. We could save a lot of hot air that way.
DeleteLets extend this a bit further. Like to all paid public servants. The display of behavior and voting record these past few years have caused concern. But start with trump because he is clearly delusional and costing this country time money and respect due to his illness. Additionally he is illegitimate and moot. #notourpresident
ReplyDeleteResign!
ReplyDelete"we saw Nixon with H.R. Haldeman, he would tell Haldeman, “Go bomb Brookings Institute next,” or “Go bomb Wounded Knee,” and people just started disregarding what Nixon said. Kissinger regularly didn’t listen to his president, and I think we’re at that state now, where the five generals of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have to go out and enter politics and say, “We want nothing to do with the president is saying.” It is a crisis in the White House and it’s about Donald Trump’s fitness for command."
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/were-getting-ramifications-what-having
Re$i$'T'
Enough is Enough
ReplyDeleteThese are not normal times.
The man in the White House is reckless and unmanageable, a danger to the Constitution, a threat to our democratic institutions.
Last week some of his worst qualities were on display: his moral vacuity and his disregard for the truth, as well as his stubborn resistance to sensible advice. As ever, he lashed out at imaginary enemies and scapegoated others for his own failings. Most important, his reluctance to offer a simple and decisive condemnation of racism and Nazism astounded and appalled observers around the world.
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With such a glaring failure of moral leadership at the top, it is desperately important that others stand up and speak out to defend American principles and values. This is no time for neutrality, equivocation or silence. Leaders across America — and especially those in the president’s own party — must summon their reserves of political courage to challenge President Trump publicly, loudly and unambiguously.
Enough is enough.
Some people clearly understand this.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-trump-enough/
'We're Getting The Ramifications Of What Having A Sick Man In The White House Means'
...So I hope you'll trust me when I say that I have yet to run into a single Villager who doesn't think off-the-record that Donald J. Trump is ridiculously incompetent but also likely mentally ill, whether from his raging narcissistic personality disorder or from early-onset dementia. Not one, irrespective of party or political leanings. And it's been this way since before the election. If I had a dollar for each mainstream journalist who privately declared that some verbal gaffe of Trump's was a "disqualifying event," or questioned Trump's mental acuity without actually putting that into context publicly, I could comfortably pay my kids' college tuitions. I've even challenged a few to use their platforms to do just that before the election, because their conspicuous silence was complicity in the misinformation, only to be patronizingly told that they didn't want to be accused of bias or advocating for one side over the other. Silly liberal blogger.
But something broke over the last week. Trump hasn't been any more egregious than he was when he went down that gold escalator and declared all Mexicans immigrants rapists or advocated prison for women seeking abortions. But perhaps having him shrug at Nazis and white supremacists marching in an American town was the final straw. It appears that the mainstream media no longer fears accusations of bias and are openly having the conversations they used to have privately. The question is no longer "Is Trump fit to be president?" and the implicit shade of impeachment unsaid but ever-present, but the overt "What are we going to do with this man who should not be in office?"
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/were-getting-ramifications-what-having
The Secret Service Has Run Out Of Money To Protect Trump
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/usatoday-secret-service-has-run-out-money
Secret Service ‘at the end of their rope’ after being ‘treated like servants by Trump’: report
DeleteWilkie’s sources tell her that Trump expects agents to regularly “fetch” things for him and be available to serve him at all times, regardless of when their shifts start or finish.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/secret-service-at-the-end-of-their-rope-after-being-treated-like-servants-by-trump-report/
HOLY CHIT! Legally, they have hit the top of their $$$, and many already CANNOT be paid for services provided?! We are not even eight full months into our year!!!
DeleteMaybe this will be the final straw that will make the orange a$$hat resign.
Here's to hoping!
JHC! Trump is nothing more than a privileged asshole! He does not represent the majority of Americans in his new role and never will!
DeleteImpeachment is the only answer - and the reason is treason, Republican majority in Congress!
Trump failed to build the wall that he promised.
DeleteThere are thugs who will carrying out the orders for his previous supporters, supporting him for the wall he was to build. He never built the wall. Nadda, NO WALL, NO, NOT. There are consequences.
Now the Secret Service must protect him from those that are angry and want revenge.
Trump would be smart to pay for his own protections because the SS will do poorly now they are getting skimpy. When they run out that will be it. Congress won't fund this extravagant case.
Personally, I am more concerned about a president's mental health than their physical health.
ReplyDeleteWe've had presidents with serious health issues in the past and they were still capable of running the country safely and competently. A serious mental illness, however, can put the country, and by extension the whole world, in terrible danger, as we are currently witnessing.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night... yes, he is 100% cray cray.
ReplyDeleteOT?Limp balls $pew:" Psychology Today’—it’s all bogus,” he said. “What has been exposed here is that science is no different than anything else in politics. It is totally determined by money. Scientific results can be purchased.”
ReplyDeleteWith that, another of scientists’ biggest fears was confirmed: that any discovery of major problems in their field would end up being used against them."
" The risk is most acute when journalists recklessly suggest that science, as a whole, has somehow gone off the rails. When they employ a “science is broken” frame, they end up causing “reputational harm to science” and contributing to a dangerous and misleading “news climate” that can be “mined by those interested in attacking scientific findings they consider ideologically uncongenial.”
"Charles Sanders Peirce. “This marvelous, self-correcting property of Reason … belongs to every sort of science,” he said in 1898."
" The problem, says Aschwanden, is that we expect too much of science; we act like it’s an engine for discovery, when it’s just a means of moving, herky-jerky, down the long and curvy road to truth. If science looks to be a mess, she says, that’s because it’s messy work. It’s “a process of becoming less wrong over time,”" the replication crisis shows there is no half-life for our bungling. In practice, we must always act to fix mistakes—and that action often gets delayed beyond all reason." Call It! NOW.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/08/science_is_not_self_correcting_science_is_broken.html
The Conservative Plan to Rewrite the Constitution, and Yes, It’s a Thing
ReplyDeleteIt takes two-thirds of state legislatures to approve a constitutional convention. That’s 34. The GOP controls 32. Yes—worry.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-conservative-plan-to-rewrite-the-constitution-and-yes-its-a-thing
Trump is definitely unqualified to be president and should be tested for something like dementia or Alzheimer's disease. But it's a very slippery slope from there outward. Many people could argue that someone who writes a blog screeching about a failed VP candidate's teenage/early twenties sex life and custody woes is a "batshit crazy" person. Or someone writing crap about how the same VP candidate read a People magazine on a flight. That VP candidate wasn't any more qualified than Trump for the job but it had nothing to do with her daughter's sex life or if she read People magazine.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point - the VP candidate should be subject to the same types of independent testing. No quack doctor letters accepted.
Delete8:31. And the letter was dictated by the Cheeto Twitler.
DeleteAlso, no excuses to drag out the date to go for testing. Do it or quit before you embarrass everyone.
Delete8:31. Also, too, no last minute letter accepted from the likes of Dr. CBJ. Come clean Doc, you know you need to clear your conscience about why you let Sarah use you.
DeleteOT?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/21/calling-withdrawal-afghanistan-trump-escalate-war-sending-troops.html
For 'T'> TRILLION -not million like he said....
https://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/21/calling-withdrawal-afghanistan-trump-escalate-war-sending-troops.html
"ccording to French security sources the women of ISIS are targeted right along with the men by European commandos on hunt-and-kill missions. Indeed, there is an old tradition among the European services—“shoot the women first”—documented in detail by British journalist Eileen MacDonald in 1991 after extensive research on the female terrorists among the radical left and the Palestinians. As one senior security expert told MacDonald more than 25 years ago, “Women terrorists have much stronger characters, more power, and more energy than men. There are several examples where men who have been cornered have waited a moment before they fired, but the women shot at once.”“Women bombers… tend to be more successful than men,” she wrote in her 2011 study"
Deletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/beware-the-women-of-isis-there-are-many-and-they-may-be-more-dangerous-than-the-men
FYI>
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/lebanon-foiled-isis-barbie-doll-bomb-plot-on-uae-flight/
Like I've said, fried in the head...
ReplyDeleteReminds me of John Wayne Gacy
ReplyDeleteMaking things bad and the Secret Service had to leave Trump's Tower for the street.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be judgmental, but, egads, that is an unappealing face.
ReplyDeleteAnd no apologies for this.. what tiny, tiny hands for that BIG HEAD.
Not a big head but a fat filled jowly face. The cranium is as tiny as the hands but the wig, the wig is tremendous.
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