Ten Will Get You Twenty Five?

donnie recently slipped into a complete Hitlerian fantasy world: "When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total,” Trump said at the White House. “The governors know that.”

Turns out, the Governors don't know that.

Because it is another of donnie's delusions.

Andrew Cuomo is as good a lawyer as he is a good Governor.

He pointed out that donnie's delusion is clearly trumped by the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

That Amendment says:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Since there is nowhere in the Constitution where it says "When somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total,” it would appear that the 10th pretty well negates donnie's fantasy.

In the event that donnie persists and tries to act there is another Amendment.

Here is Section 4 of the Twenty Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:

"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, 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.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days 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. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office."

Of course the Constitution also provides for the removal of the president for high crimes and misdemeanors, of which donnie is guilty of daily.

And we already tried to get rid of donnie for clearly impeachable and removeable activities.

But the republicans protected him.

A clear violation of the Tenth Amendment should re-open the impeachment process.

But it won't.

The republicans are too in thrall of being in power to care about our country.

I assume the same crowd that voted to acquit a clearly guilty chief executive will protect him again.

This time they will not only protect him from from the Twenty Fifth which would seem to empower and commission the Vice President and the Cabinet to remove him from office - the man is dangerously, criminally, delusional, and by that protection, they will award the crown to the dildo.

There always used to be enough Americans in Congress to preserve the Republic in dire times.

Not any more.

I know that it is coming: the Constitution, in one fell swoop, with complete connivance by Ol' Mitch, will cease to be an operative component of what used to be called the government of the United States.

I just wish I knew why.