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Dozens of mental health experts testify Trump is 'mentally unstable' and 'must be removed'
(www.rawstory.com)
this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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Every Republican politican is complicit in keeping this lunatic in power.
Never forget.
And every republican voter.
It's because their power is an inverted house of cards, like all Fascist governments.
I mean... this goes for democrats as well. I don't see them doing anything to change the situation.
at this point they don't have the numbers for anything.
I mean even if they did, we'd just see them rolling over for the Republicans anyway. You know like they've done for the last 2-3 decades.
That meets my expectations, sadly.
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If only there was some sort of protocol for this situation
It would take an act of congress to devise such a protocol
Idk what I'm supposed to do with the advice of dozens of mental health experts. Anyone with the ego to run for President of the United States is arguably mentally unstable to begin with. Trump's always been a degenerate little freak. And now he's a senile degenerate freak.
But he's hardly the first President in US history to suffer from Old Person Brain and get shepherded around by a gaggle of scheming viziers while the country crumbles around them. What is anyone going to do about it? The Senate is packed with people exactly as senile and corrupt and petty as Trump. And nothing in the next election cycle seems like it will change that.
Hell, Democrats were working kinda-sorta hard to put an 80-year-old woman into Susan Collin's Senate seat barely more than a week ago. In NC, they're running Roy Cooper at 68 years young. Meanwhile, 73 year old Sherrod Brown is looking to reclaim his Ohio seat for another six years. These are the Fresh New Faces we're supposed to rally behind to defeat the Trump Gerontocracy?
Agreed. We've had multiple wake-up calls that we don't have any guardrails against an unstable President, and we've done nothing about it. I mean technically we have guardrails. But the reality is our elected officials are a bunch of feckless cowards who value being in power more than they value wielding it responsibly. And since impeaching a President is tantamount to a nuclear bomb enema, politically speaking, no one is willing.
We are electing the fundamentally wrong sorts of people. It's not just age.
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Status quo right? Fuck old pricks I'm 51 and hate a majority of my peers
62 here. Ditto.
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The letter, entered by Senators Whitehouse and Reed of Rhode Island on April 30, represents an unusually direct intervention by medical experts spanning conservative and liberal ideologies, multiple religions, and diverse backgrounds. The press release announcing this action was published Tuesday night (May 5).
It's rare to read that in published form. A potential problem is that it may be useful to someone near Trump for him to remain there. Perhaps Vance, perhaps Vought, perhaps someone else, or a group of them. I don't believe Trump is making these continually bad and harmful decisions on his own. "The power behind the throne."
Vance wants him to stay in through next year. He wants to be the longest serving president since Roosevelt.
Yeah. If vance can get trump over Day 713 then he has 10 years to dismantle voting and term limits.
I'm sure Theil also supports that plan. He wants his puppet to have maximum power for as long as possible.
Vought?
Isn't it interesting we don't read much about him in the news? Author of a section of Project 2025, and director of the US Office of Management and Budget. "Follow the money"?
why was I thinking about "The Boys" lol
I gave up TV somewhere around 2011, so wasn't aware of "Vought International" of The Boys. Sorry.
Also, dozens of astronomers have testified that the sun is bright and yellow, and is visible during the day.
Which means it's always visible, since it's always day somewhere.
Big if true.
I'd been wondering what the bright yellow thing in the sky was
This is as useful and effective as:
"Dozens of security experts testify that Windows 11 with Copilot is spyware and must not be used."
And those experts will be classified as having the bullshit thing the cons call "TDS" in a classic conservative, "no, you!" retort.
I would note that the Soviets would classify those that didn't agree with their regime as having a mental disorder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union
And so of course the cons are trying to get "TDS" classified as a real mental disorder, since having a leader under the sway of the Russians is not enough, we need to copy the worst tactics of their past. Of course the mouth-breathing idiots that are the marks for this level of disinformation eat that up - anyone that points out what an idiot and a criminal that Donvict is must have "TDS"; that's just science.
I'll take "Shit half the country knew back in 2018" for 1000, Ken
You don't need a mental health expert to see that. Millions of people see it.
This removal won't happen until just after the midterms. If it happens before that then the reptile won't get his 10 years of Vance.
As soon as Republicans get slaughtered in the midterms for doing everything that Trump said he would do to disastrous effect they will blame him for those failures anoint JD and then absolve themselves entirely of any responsibility for the policies they enacted during the Trump presidency.
Yes. They’ll be scapegoating Trump and making Vance look like the sane one. All the while we know Peter Thiel put Vance in place just for this reason.
I mentioned once that the narrative will turn to focusing on trump being the instigator and cause and got castigated for it.
That shit is coming. They're just using the idiot to see how far they can go.
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Tired of these headlines, it's been years and years. Rawstory.com is just ragebait for liberals.
ohh yeah because this is what will get them to remove him
Has been for st least over 20 years now.
All of the assholes yelling "Sleepy Joe Biden" are totally fine with Dementia Don.
Repubs will get rid of him but the plan was, and so far apparently still is, to wait until after January next year, after the midterms and so that Vance will take over with less than half the term remaining, allowing him to run twice more. Their hope was that keeping him around until the midterms would help them hold the majority in both Houses of Congress, more than Vance would be able to. But by now, some of them are regretting that, since he's going off the deep end further and faster than they expected. They might lose both Houses anyway and now he's started this catastrophic war. I'm sure some of them are arguing for getting rid of him sooner than planned at this point.
I wouldn't count on anything. The only winner in infighting is the status quo. There's a larger lesson there, should any anti-progressive Dems care to look for it.
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