The madness is pouring out of the White House now, for all to see

[nitpicker]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/white-house-anonymous-nyt-op-ed-woodward

The madness is pouring out of the White House now, for all to see

Richard Wolffe

Thu 6 Sep 2018 05.03 BST Last modified on Thu 6 Sep 2018 05.57 BST

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Let’s start with the bombshell anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, where a senior administration official claims to be part of a secret cabal trying to protect the nation – if not the world – from the worst impulses of the sociopathic man-child purporting to be the commander-in-chief.

“We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous,” Mr or Ms Anonymous wrote. “But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.”
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Donald, we feel your pain, albeit briefly. Your internal enemies are indeed gutless, and if you feel better putting that in ALL CAPS, that’s fine. Let it out. But that bit about turning people over to you for national security reasons is kind of the point here. If you’ll allow us to summarize the GUTLESS person’s arguments: you are fundamentally a threat to democracy and national security yourself. You are indeed, as your lawyers have pointed out repeatedly, your own worst witness.

This much we know from this week’s other bombshell in the shape of Bob Woodward’s latest book. Woodward has cornered the panicked Trump rats into screeching about all the ways they prevented World War Three, or a massive trade war, by ignoring the ranting boss or snatching papers off his desk.
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There is a consistency to the awfulness of this week’s gut-spilling revelations from the the Trump White House.

First, Donald Trump is a crazy loon who is endangering the entire world. Don’t take my word for it. This is according to the Republican political appointees who know him best and work with him every day: in other words, not “the deep state” or any other of Sean Hannity’s imaginary freaks.
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Second, Trump’s staffers are enabling the very horrors they claim to hate, while grandiosely pretending to be doing the opposite.

Mr or Ms GUTLESS says there were “early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th amendment” in what he imagines is a clear sign they can distinguish reality from reality TV.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Trump Cabinet: please know that you will not be accepted into the next edition of Profiles in Courage for your early whispers. If you truly believe the president is incapacitated, you should perhaps consider raising your voice to at least conversational level, if you’re not inclined to bellow from the mountaintops. Library rules are inoperative at this point.
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[democratisphere]

1. The WH Oval Office is now officially the insane asylum.

[vlyons]

2. The WH has become a puss-filled whitehead pimple that needs to be popped.

Sorry for the nasty metaphor. I'm feeling that things are coming to a head (pardon the pun).

[ouija]

3. What is really says is

Republicans are willing to literally put the country and the world at risk to achieve their political agenda I.e. there is absolutely nothing they are not willing to do for their ideology

[vlyons]

8. it's not even an ideology, unless

you call relentless greed an ideology. They are only interested acquiring money.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[AndJusticeForSome]

5. That was a great read, thanks for posting.

Here's my favorite part, although I enjoyed it all very much:

Frankly this telenovela is too far-fetched for primetime. Surely our very stable genius is faintly aware that his own officials have not yet declared war on our allies or assassinated the Syrian dictator. Then again, he does watch Fox News all day – or sometimes the Masters – so perhaps he isn’t up to speed on current affairs.

A really good point.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. One of the first things that needs to happen when you have an addiction

is to admit you have a problem and apparently this anonymous Op-Ed seems to be admitting there is a problem. But we still have a long way to go before the GOP will seriously try to do the next steps to deal with their addiction because they are still furiously trying to justify why they won't act, and are still in denial about how bad a shape they are in.

[3Hotdogs]

7. Keep in mind that the jerk-off who is supposedly leading the Resistance,

supports the Orange Shit-stain's dismantling of regulations, pro-business stuff and so forth.

[Nitram]

9. The fact that anyone would have the slightest bit of respect for the author of the Op-Ed is

disturbing, to say the least. Instead of honoring their oath of office to defend the Constitution, which would require them to report DJT's inability to carry out his duties as president, this self-identified cabal of "patriots" claiming to be working to defend the nation from DJT have carried out a coup and are secretly running the Executive Branch to protect the conservative agenda and continue to implement it. This is a constitutional crisis of enormous dimensions and must be dealt with before we completely lose control of our own government. The Op-Ed is an admission of the commission of a crime and an extra-judicial assumption of power by an unelected group of ideological zealots.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Profiles in Courage has been on my mind

for the past 24 hours. Every single person in the GOP Congress and Senate and the W House could be in a book called Profiles in Cowardice.

[dalton99a]

11. Anonymous POS supported the tax scam, Gorsuch & Kavanaugh, the killing of Obamacare

and everything else on the agenda

[Blue Owl]

12. DT whispers