Yet more Washington DC and journalist self parody (Don’t they ever get tired of making themselves look like utter fools? I guess not!)

Via the Daily Caller: Democrats use anonymous Trump official’s nyt op-ed to push 25th amendment fantasy

An anonymous official in President Donald Trump’s administration wrote an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that Trump’s senior staffers are working against him

Democrats in Congress are using the op-ed to push for Trump’s removal via the 25th Amendment

The 25th Amendment has been only used three times for temporary measures related to medical operations

Some Democrats in Congress quickly used a New York Times op-ed written by an anonymous official in President Donald Trump’s administration to demand his cabinet remove him from office via the 25th Amendment, which the official claims was briefly whispered about in Trump’s cabinet.

Gateway Pundit: Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren is on a warpath.

After a ‘senior Trump admin official’ claimed in an anonymous NYT op-ed that a ‘resistance’ inside the White House often whispers about Trump being unfit to serve, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took the attack to the next level and publicly stated she believes President Trump should be removed from office by the powers of the 25th Amendment.

This has been an ongoing fantasy among the left for quite some time.

Washington’s growing obsession with the 25th Amendment

Lawmakers concerned about Trump’s mental health invited a Yale psychiatry professor to brief them in December 2017.

Establishment politicians , lying journalists, antifa morons, and anti-Trump idiots of all stripes have spent the past two years fantasizing all over the Internet about using the 25th amendment to “remove” President Trump from office.

There is only one tiny problem with the idea; It’s never going to happen.

The 25th amendment was written as it is, precisely to avoid one political party using it for this exact type of political chicanery against the other.

None of the people pushing to trigger the 25th Amendment seem realize how circuitous, unlikely, difficult and involved the process required to exercise section 4 of the 25th amendment actually would be.

Is exercising the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office even possible?

In a word, NO. At least … Not permanently.

However, let us War Game out the absurd 25th amendment pipe-dream of the various and sundry anti-Trump morons … and actually take a serious look and see exactly why using the 25th amendment could never work to remove an unpopular president from his elected office permanently … shall we?

We start with the highly improbable idea that under the 25th amendment’s constitutional mandate, Vice President Mike Pence along with the majority of President Trump’s Cabinet would publicly announce, and transmit in writing, a declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate (currently Orrin Hatch) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives (currently Paul Ryan) that President Trump is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

In this fantasy it would be because President Trump is “mentally disabled” or otherwise “mentally unfit for office”.

Setting aside the question of who exactly would be qualified to make such a determination and who would be the arbiter of what “Stable Behavior” or “fitness to serve” actually is in the first place, in the preposterous event of a serious effort to exercise the 25 amendment, VP Pence could only temporarily assume the role of commander in chief.

Why temporarily?

Because President Trump could immediately make a public declaration that;

“I am just fine, in fact, I’m the BEST EVER! … Big League!!!”

At that point, the VP and Trump’s cabinet would have only four days to again publicly declare (and transmit in writing to the legislature) that President Trump is still disabled or otherwise unfit to hold the office.

If four days pass before making such a declaration, President Trump would resume the Presidential office and the Vice President along with the recalcitrant cabinet members whom had joined in making such a declaration of disloyalty, would all be fired post haste … likely within hours.

That would be that.

However …

In the increasingly unlikely and far-fetched circumstance that the President’s own cabinet and his heretofore loyal Vice President did in fact reiterate an official claim of President Trump’s unsuitability for office and announce as much publicly, and in writing, within the four the day’s time-frame as required by the amendment, the entire Congressional body would then be obliged to assemble within 48 hours after the subsequent cabinet response.

The legislature would then have 21 days to not only debate the President’s “Fitness or Unfitness” for office, but also then vote to prevent the President’s resumption of office.

It gets better … Congress would not only have to perform the vote in both the House as well as the Senate in a mere 21 days, they also must pass the vote to rule whether or not Trump can “discharge the powers and duties of his office” by a margin of two-thirds in the House … as well as two-thirds in the Senate.

That debate is where the question of just who is making the “Fitness” determination would likely be hashed out.

In 21 days,

Yeah sure.

Now even if congress could successfully perform the incredibly unlikely, unrealistic and downright implausible two thirds majority vote in both the House and the Senate, (which the modern day legislature simply cannot do – for anything – let alone this, but let’s play this scenario out) and they somehow do actually prevent the President from resuming his elected office because they have determined him somehow “Unfit”  … and  assuming that Vice President Pence were to volunteer to stay on as president (because any fight for the office by any other individual would more than likely force the process to exceed the 21 day limit) …

Why, that’s still not the end of the power struggle, not by a long shot.

President Trump only needs to come right back and say publicly, ‘Well, now I really am OK this time … better than I was in November 2016!!!”.

Then congress would have to repeat the entire 25 amendment process …

Like the movie “Groundhog day” …

Every time Trump says “Hey I’m really great now and ready to perform my duties of office, Let’s make America great again!” … Congress would have 48 hours to assemble, and then 21 days to debate and vote to declare Trump “unfit” … again.

By a two thirds majority in the House of Representatives … again.

By a two thirds majority in the Senate … again.

They would have to do this … every time.

Why, it could be a monthly event!

Imagine the weekly Trump rallies where “President in absentia” Trump spends an hour or two speaking to an enormous MAGA crowd … in a different state every time, and insisting to be re-seated as President during every speech, speeches that “President in absentia” Trump also sends to congress, triggering a new vote … time … after time … after time. (He’s a billionaire, he can afford to rent stadiums)

The legislature would have time for nothing else.

Why, they couldn’t even break for recess, possibly for years!

Imagine the public pressure that 63 million plus Trump voters would apply onto the Congress critters to put an end to the ongoing “Constitutional Crises” that the legislature would have created and would be constantly presiding over.

How long do you think Congress could keep up a two thirds vote? Could they do it even once more? Let alone achieve a two thirds majority vote month after month in both the House and Senate?

There are some other 25th amendment scenarios that have been posited by a few leftist journalists playing at “Constitutional Expert” where the Congress itself votes to remove the President from office, but those are almost entirely theoretical, even more unlikely than the fever dream above, and even those scenarios would require cooperation from Vice President Pence. The remaining process would be exactly the same thereafter.

It’s not only not very possible to remove President Trump from office using the 25th amendment, it’s as near impossible as anything can be. However the media, the snowflakes, and establishment uniparty political hacks all keep on hoping …

While we all keep on laughing.