Several readers have sent me this insane, hysterical post by a guy who claims to be “middle of the road” and it caused me to pledge not to keep posting on Trump Deranged outbursts: there are too many of them, they are embarrassing, and it doesn’t change anything. Then I see a post by an old freind, a tenured history professor at a major U.S. university, in which he writes, “106 years ago today (i.e., 02 Oct 1919), President Woodrow Wilson suffered an incapacitating stroke. His wife Edith essentially took over running the White House for the rest of is term. The 25th Amendment was still 48 years away in the future. No particular reason for mentioning the 25th Amendment right now…”
You mean now as opposed to during the previous four years, when this same scholar saw no reason to make a comparison with Wilson when it was screamingly obvious that the President really was cognitively disabled and needed to be removed?
Of course this objective, trustworthy “expert” detected no parallels with Wilson while POTUS shambled around, got disoriented and had his wife handling him like a member of Visiting Angels, but now, as his successor displays staggering amounts of energy and purpose not just for a man his age but for anyone of any age (the correct parallel isn’t Wilson but Teddy Roosevelt), a credentialed historian thinks he can’t do the job, and that an elected President should be removed from office as “disabled.”
Translation: “Disabled”= “Not a Democrat.”
Trump won’t do the job the way that the batty American Left wants him to do it. That’s all.
I need some spinach…
Ethics Alarms 
This willful blindness among historians who should know better is helping make America dumber.
Here is the comment I tried to post on that blog this morning…
P.S. Small point of fact for future information; Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos is not a Substack post, it’s a WordPress post.
I’ll fix that. It imitates Substack graphics. I bet he gets 10X the traffic EA gets.
“I bet he gets 10X the traffic EA gets.”
I’ll take that bet, and wager the farm…heck…the machinery & out buildings, too!
I frequent both, and would hazard a guess you get 50X the traffic & comments…’course you have the unfair advantage of posting topics/opinions which acknowledge logic and a fact-based Universe.
To his credit, Cieslewicz occasionally gets some wood on the ball, and often smacks NPR/PBS with unvarnished aplomb.
Glass half empty?
He’s reluctant to post any comments which violate…I mean…challenge…the world views he holds steadfast; and I Hate Trump tops the list.
Case in point: He won’t post Steve’s comment (above) nor hardly any of his others.
Why? IMO, intelligent well-read Conservatives who make rational, reasoned, reality-based arguments which lay bare Lefty’s breathtaking shortcomings scare him $#!tless.
PWS
But not near the quality of minds reading it!
Jack wrote, “I bet he gets 10X the traffic EA gets.”
I suppose it’s possible but I certainly wouldn’t bet on it. You’ve got the advantages; you write very regularly, you don’t moderate based on partisan politics, and you write and engage with the commentariat in ways that generally inspire participation; Dave does none of those things.
You might remind the guy who said this
“You know, I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is — you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15,” he added. Joe Biden
Seems to me that the writer does not understand what civilian control of the military means or that the only person suggesting using military armaments against citizens was Joe Biden
FWIW, this self-anointed “middle-of-the-roader” lives within spittin’ distance of the talented Ms. Ann Althouse, and ~3.1 miles/5 kms from yours truly in the 77 Square Miles surrounded by A Sea Of Reality.
I’d encourage the commentariat to register their…um…assessments of this feverishly overwrought slobbering, with the caveat that he moderates strictly and at a snail’s pace.
PWS
“Madison/Upper Peninsula based writer. Mayor of Madison, WI from 2003 to 2011.”
Yikes! Now there’s a moderate!
My voluminous experience with MI U. P./north of U.S. Hwy 2 denizens (Yoopers) is that their politics/world-view are, with few exceptions, decidedly unlike those of Cieslewicz.
And I completely agree with Steve’s observation/attempted comment above: This kind of “unhinged” $#!t is both monumentally counter-productive and borderline incendiary.
I anxiously await the anticipated responses from the usual suspects.
PWS
It certainly isn’t ethical to assume the followers of a political position opposite yours are a pack of idiots, but the democrats are making it really hard to not feel that way.
There is a reason the republicans stayed away from calling for a twenty fifth amendment: the knew how glaringly incompetent Harris was. As bad as the dementia ridden president was, the vice president was worse.
The democrats should be afraid of Vance for the opposite reason. He’s young, smart, charismatic and to the right of Trump. They will wish for the days of Trump if Vance replaces Trump.
And one little tidbit that’s conveniently glossed over in calls for the 25th amendment. You also have to secure a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress to sustain removing a president if he objects.
That’s another reason it never went anywhere under Biden — and wouldn’t under Trump.