GOOD NEWS. What I Just Heard About the Plot To Oust Trump Using the 25th Amendment
Posted by Sia on May 12, 2026, 2:48 pm ADMIN
Great idea about posting good news every day Trish!
What I Just Heard About the Plot To Oust Trump Using the 25th Amendment
by Robert Reich - May 12
Friends,
I had dinner recently with a group of political operatives — sophisticated people who for years have been advising politicians and candidates. During dinner they shared with me their fantasy, which they gave 30 percent odds of becoming a reality within the next four months.
In my dinner companions’ fantasy, Trump’s failed war will elevate gas and food prices so high and long that much of the Republican base will begin turning against Trump. And Trump’s mental problems will become even more obvious.
Faced with all this, JD Vance promises Marco Rubio that he’ll appoint him vice president if Rubio joins Vance in seeking to oust Trump under the 25th Amendment.* Rubio agrees.
Vance and Rubio then approach House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune for confidential discussions in which they broach the possibility. Johnson and Thune give Vance and Rubio their tacit support.
Vance and Rubio then get Pete Hegseth to sign on, promising Hegseth that he’ll keep his job. They get Todd Blanche to sign on by promising him he’ll be appointed permanent attorney general.
Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, and Blanche are what Thune and Johnson need to make the 25th stick.
This arrangement serves everyone’s interests. For Vance and Rubio, it avoids what could be a messy 2028 primary election in which the two are pitted against each other. As president, Vance gets a head start on being elected president in 2028. As vice president, Rubio is heir apparent in 2032 (when Rubio will be only 60 years old) or in 2036.
As president and vice president, Vance and Rubio end Trump’s tariffs and his war, which have caused prices to soar, upset the Republican base, and turned much of the world against America.
Hegseth gets the job security he’s desperate for. Blanche gets the promotion he covets.
Republicans in the House and Senate get rid of Trump, who’s become an albatross around their necks and who they fear, if he remains in office, will cause them to lose control over the House and Senate in the midterms — and could lead to a congressional rout in 2028.
The plan is finalized when Trump is away at Mar-a-Lago. It’s executed in a conference call to Trump — during which Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Blanche, Johnson, and Thune notify Trump he’s no longer president.
Trump screams, hollers, pounds his Mar-a-Lago desk, and threatens legal action, but there’s nothing he can do. He’s out of office.
I listened intently as my dinner companions spelled all this out. “So you really think there’s a 30 percent chance of this happening?” I asked them.
“Could be higher if the war continues,” one of them said, and the others agreed. Another of them thought the odds already higher.
“I can’t decide whether to be elated or worried,” I responded.
They laughed, but I was serious.
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** To remind you: Section 4 of the 25th Amendment states that “whenever the Vice President and a majority of … the principal officers of the executive departments … transmit to the president pro-tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.” Section 2 of the 25th Amendment states that “whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
We don't know. They're so scared of him they would have to be keeping it on the deep QT.. SAY ‘NO’ TO WAR! RESIST!
Not holding my breath
Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on May 13, 2026, 3:00 pm, in reply to "Hey, I hope he is" ADMIN
I essentially lost faith in process balance to restore America. Dems talk big but lack the leadership to move it. The wrong scum rises to the surface. They let the republicans criminally hoodwink and steamroller over them and do little to nothing to fight back.
This is the first winter where my lone surviving Trachycarpus takil not only suffered no frond damage, but is flowering for the first time ever. That's because we had an extremely dry USDA Zone 7 winter. We're normally USDA Zone 5.
All over this city sound of chainsaws breaks as dead trees are removed. There are so many! Felling these endangers houses, buildings, cars, streets... and it all could have been prevented. In many parts of the city, green and white ash are the dominant deciduous species, and the forest looks like it should in winter.
This is real, in your face climate change.
It is everywhere in different ways, and promises to increase cost of food as much as fuel costs to haul it. That's a double whammy to US households.
We have a felon liar and denier as president, and felon leads a population of liars and deniers. He's more interested in male marking building and landmarks with his urine scented legacy than anything.
The war, inflation, debt, deficit, White House crime feeds an ego and crushes us.
What does it take for "Americans" to awaken? To demand his removal? To care enough to do it? You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
Me neither
Posted by greenman on May 13, 2026, 4:40 pm, in reply to "Not holding my breath" Valued Poster
I'm no longer optimistic...well, at all. SAY ‘NO’ TO WAR! RESIST!
The same AI prfogram that evaluated felon to a -6.5 approval mark
Posted by Pikes Peak 14115 on May 13, 2026, 8:54 pm, in reply to "Me neither" ADMIN
pitted Gavin Newsom against Vance and Rubio in 2028. Outcome was almost identical to the torpedo that sank Harris Walz.
If correct, it proves people in the so-called swing states learned nothing and are likely to repeat their 2024 mistake.
If a sufficient population of us is that stupid, then the US future is bleaker than we thought.
Felon either gained a lot of butt weight, or he is wearing self-soiling protection for his meeting with Xi.
Exxon and other oil companies said US supply of packaged motor oil is dangerously low and when the current supply runs out later this summer, we have a serious product shortage. Much like what happened to toilet paper a few years ago.
America without motor oil? You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
on May 12, 2026, 2:48 pm
