This OpEd was in my local newspaper - the Daily Hampshire Gazette. It is a payperview so I am cutting and pasting this for all to see. It is in the public space so sharing this writers emaiul address is fair game: I live in an ultra blue, SJW haven here in western mass. The writer is quite tame compared to many I have encountered over the years.
Peacevoice is out of Portland Oregon - that should not be a surrpise. Voicemale magazine is about what I thought it would be as well......
Guest column by Rob Okun: A call to invoke the 25th Amendment
President Donald Trump. AP
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By Rob Okun
Published: 4/3/2020 12:30:22 PM
Modified: 4/3/2020 12:30:10 PM
Mike Pence for president. While in normal circumstances I would never endorse him, between now and Jan. 20, 2021, I think he can handle the job. It is time for a citizens’ movement to demand the 25th Amendment to the Constitution be invoked and Donald Trump removed from office.
Why? Because, he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” as the statute states.
He is clearly not in his right mind. Before the U.S. has even reached the peak of COVID-19 cases (which could stand at 250,000 when you read this), he recklessly said, “I would love to have the country opened up and raring to go by Easter.”
While he backed away from that idea — extending health expert recommendations for another month — he did so reluctantly and didn’t acknowledge his about-face.
Is it rational to suggest — as Trump did last week — that health professionals told him that more people will die from the economic impact than coronavirus? Equating economic health with people’s lives is, well, crazy. (Trump refused to identity the health experts he fictitiously cited.)
Whenever Trump, flanked by the White House Coronavirus Task Force, steps before the cameras he displays why he is unfit. The doctors serving on that task force — especially Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx — witness his rants almost daily (and up close and too personal). Imagine Drs. Fauci and Birx leading a delegation to congressional leaders and the Trump cabinet to call for his removal. It isn’t hard to do. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
The Teflon president who has survived sex, lies, and Ukrainian tapes — even impeachment — is too dangerous to be allowed to remain in office — not for several more days, let alone several more months.
Take his temper tantrums against the Democratic governors of Washington and Michigan. Or his March 20 tirade against NBC News reporter Peter Alexander. Noting that thousands of Americans are infected with the coronavirus and that millions more are frightened, Alexander gave Trump an opportunity to reassure an anxious nation, asking, “What do you say to Americans who are scared?”
In response, Trump spat out, “I say that you are a terrible reporter. That’s what I say — ” and then let loose a torrent of invective against Alexander. What president in his right mind would turn a moment to act as consoler-in-chief into a hysterical rant? (By contrast, Vice President Pence answered, “I would say, ‘Do not be afraid to be vigilant.’”)
Are Trump’s supporters scared more of his wrath than they are of the virus? Are they blind to his erratic behavior? Sen. Mitt Romney was the lone Republican to vote to convict at Trump’s impeachment trial. Let’s call on the former Massachusetts governor meet with Dr. Fauci to discuss removal.
“These are psychiatric symptoms, not simply boorish behaviors,” Dr. John Talmadge, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center tweeted recently, suggesting Trump is not sound of mind. “Trump is mentally ill, cognitively compromised, brain impaired.…”
We must not become the frog slowly boiling in poisoned water.
With millions of people living through the pandemic being urged — ordered — to stay indoors, and as world economies barely hang on, it is more than irresponsible to use the presidential bully pulpit to proclaim you have “a good feeling” that the antimalarial drug chloroquine could be a cure for COVID-19: it is delusional and a health hazard.
No clinical trials have been completed to reliably suggest the drug as a treatment. In fact, an Arizona man died and his wife was hospitalized after they took chloroquine phosphate after hearing Trump suggest it as a possible effective treatment for the virus.
Dr. Bandy X. Lee, clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, told Medhi Hasan of The Intercept that Trump “dangerously lacks mental capacity, which he exhibits through his inability to take in information and advice, to process critical information, or to consider consequences before making impulsive, unstable, and irrational decisions that are not based in reality but fight reality.”
She pointed out that at coronavirus briefings he exhibits “delusional-level distortion and misinformation” because he is “disconnected from reality.”
Wildfire damage is easy to see. Earthquakes and hurricanes, too. The mental illness of a president endangering our country is right in front of us if we simply open our eyes.
Out of his depth, yes; out of his mind, definitely. Out of office? Only if we push to make it happen.
Syndicated by PeaceVoice. Rob Okun is editor of Voice Male magazine. He can be reached at rob@voicemalemagazine.org.