AMERICA, THE 25TH AMENDMENT WILL NOT REMOVE THIS PRESIDENT—NOR STOP HIM FROM WAR THREATS

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It’s like throwing water on a duck’s back.
Babey… don’t hold your breath. Ain’t happening.
So don’t be duped by the rhetoric.

A nother 25th Amendment teaser.

As if that is where this lands.
As if that is the mechanism that suddenly wakes up and does something.

It won’t.

The 25th Amendment requires the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to act against the President.

Babey… don’t hold your breath. Ain’t happening.

So let’s stop dressing that up like it’s a real intervention point.

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In January.

“America, the World Looks On — The Village Idiot Becomes the Main Character.”

And in that piece, I wasn’t being theatrical.

I was tracing a shift.

I wrote about a country moving from governance into performance, where spectacle begins to override restraint— where the seriousness of office is no longer the anchor, just the backdrop.

I questioned then—quietly but directly— what happens when behavior that should trigger institutional response is instead absorbed, debated, normalized.

What, exactly, are we calling “American greatness” now?

And here we are.

Still absorbing.

If the President can perform contempt on camera and remain untouched, while ordinary people absorb the consequences— and if our public reflex to both tragedy and misconduct is to fundraise instead of reckon—

then the moral question is unavoidable:

Not the slogan—
the substance.
Not the myth—
the measure.

Where is the soul of the nation if the compass only points toward spectacle?

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This President, with braggadocious stupor, threatened to take out a whole nation.

And still— we reach for explanations that soften it, mechanisms that won’t move, language that makes it feel contained.

Even the guardrails people like to point to—the courts— don’t move because something sounds outrageous.

They move when something is filed, argued, processed.

And while that is happening— everything else continues.

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The asylum is being run by the inmates.

Trump and his minions are creating history.

The absolute, irreparable damage inflicted on the world by this Administration will lend chapters to World History— denoted exactly as what an egomaniacal tyrant would desire:

to be imprinted on the world stage for undiluted, macabre remembrance.

Reader’s Evidence Path

Referenced January piece:
America, the World Looks On — The Village Idiot Becomes the Main Character

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What the 25th Amendment Actually Does

The 25th Amendment outlines presidential succession and transfer of power. Section 4 allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare incapacity, subject to congressional review and a two-thirds vote if contested.

Read more:
National Archives — 25th Amendment

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