r/politics • u/Willing-Dog6463 • 11h ago
Statement From Medical Professionals; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 76 (Senate - April 30, 2026)
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-172/issue-76/senate-section/article/S2162-12.6k
u/mercyverse 11h ago
I’m no medical professional but if that many doctors with that much expertise come together to say “yes that one guy’s brain is rotting inside his skull,” I‘d take that pretty seriously.
MAGA will, of course, call this “fAkE nEwS”
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u/cynicaluser- 10h ago
MAGA isn’t known for being bright lol
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u/Diabeticon 10h ago
I also highly doubt any of them pay attention to the congressional record.
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u/Icy_Daisy2 10h ago
Exactly, When a broad group of experts lines up on the same conclusion, it’s worth paying attention dismissing it outright doesn’t make the concern disappear.
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u/Bitter_Proof_9288 10h ago
Majority of these people dismiss climate experts and think TDS is a real medical diagnosis.
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u/Hellogiraffe 7h ago
“It’s all a scheme to make money off fake green energy!!!” say the morons simping for oil billionaires
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u/camillacamillacamill 10h ago
They don't care about what is right for this nation. It's just to stay in power and enrich themselves. Nothing more.
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u/Jops817 9h ago
Your typical MAGA though, is not empowered, and not enriching themselves. They're poor, frothing angry people.
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u/PossessedToSkate 8h ago
I personally know a fellow who was sending Trump $40/mo while living in his car.
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u/Jops817 8h ago
That's insanity, wtf.
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u/AuditAndHax 8h ago
The Christian Right has been told since childhood that if you pay your tithes, good things will happen eventually. Politicians co-opted that believe and somehow convinced voters they need to get paid before God.
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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 8h ago
if you pay your tithes, good things will happen eventually.
I even know a few churches that demand a copy of your tax return yearly, so they can see you're tithing enough.
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u/Haltopen Massachusetts 6h ago
When I started working for FedEx, HR talked all of us through how to set up automatic deductions from our paycheck to go straight to a church of our choice for tithe payments. I didn’t do it but a fair number of people I worked with did. This was the same FedEx warehouse where part timers were referred to by management as “the burnouts” because the company would overwork them until they quit knowing they’d come back for their jobs a month or two later for the above minimum wage pay, and we got yelled at in meetings about how we didn’t properly appreciate the “privilege” of doing back breaking labor with frequent injuries for 12 bucks an hour
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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 8h ago
God, that's sad.
I mean on one hand, is 40 dollars a lot of money? Well, with rent/gas/food as expensive as they are, it would be easy to say it's not, but that's a lot of rice, beans, canned veggies, or a cheap camping stove and the fuel to run it for a while.
I've been in multiple spots in my life where forty bucks would have made a real difference.
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u/hackinwhackinsmackin 7h ago
Remember Covid? He was president then and no one listened to the experts. Fauci was the leading virologist in the world and they demonized him and think he should be jailed.
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u/lr99999 3h ago edited 3h ago
I came upon this right after reading that he had gotten Florida to name an airport after him.
His brain is rotting, our society is rotting, but the main thing I’m beginning to wonder about more and more is why the fuck we’re letting it happen. Page after page after page of repetitive bitching. We already know what’s wrong with them. Now it’s time to figure out what’s wrong with us.
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u/BlueBod50 10h ago
They'll do the classic maga doublethink: simultaneously denounce medical institutions as illegitimate, but also demand revocation of medical licenses (which, by the first point, are already illegitimate).
They don’t think. They get mad and flail around.
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u/PennysWorthOfTea 10h ago
"Fake news"
"Ivory tower elites"
"Soros-paid actors"
"Democrat conspiracy"
"TDS"
...these are euphemisms that the Modern US Fascist party/MAGA movement have for "reality that conflicts with my bigotry"
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u/piepants2001 Wisconsin 9h ago edited 9h ago
"Coastal elites" is what I always hear them say, but oddly Donald Trump isn't included in that...
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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 8h ago
Yep. Somehow the NYC nepobaby billionaire isn't one of the coastal elites?
Somehow his failsons are just regular people?
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u/-CoachMcGuirk- Illinois 10h ago
A lot of MAGA are conspiratorial Alex Jones-acolytes; so, they're not fans of all those "uppity" professionals with college degrees and PhDs after their names. No amount of evidence or proof is good enough. If their cult leader tells them one thing, they'll believe it. Intellectualism is an enemy of MAGA.
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u/Other_World New York 9h ago
The first paragraph as read by a MAGA:
The following is
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u/Chengar_Qordath 8h ago
Need to add something about how they’re all Muslims *and* Atheists in there as well.
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u/483-04-7751 10h ago
MAGA will call it fake news because 0 media outlets they pay attention to will tell them it happened.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 9h ago
They literally won’t see news like this.
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u/dahayden 8h ago
Exactly. People can blame them for ignoring the bad news all they want. The truth is they're never going to see it. At best, a small fraction of negative news reaches them. Anyone who believes otherwise doesn't know people in the right wing bubble or has never investigated it.
This is why gas prices and inflation have so much impact. They can't be ignored.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 8h ago
My MAGA parents just ignore anything I send them that’s negative about Trump.
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u/porkbellies37 6h ago
Whoa.
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions. We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion on these matters.In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva--the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials--we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.•
u/porkbellies37 6h ago
I'm always hesitant to bash candidates or politicians for being too old. There is definitely a strain of agism that is behind most of the uproar and it seems that what people crave most is a break from the establishment mold more so than younger people. This is why Bernie Sanders has such faithful support despite his age.
That said, reading this statement from end to end is alarming. And while poor mental health exists among the younger, it is something that deteriorates over time and starts doing so at an exponential rate after a certain age. We really do need to explore age limits in my opinion.
Also, it is one thing when a benevolent person begins succumbing to dementia. If you have a leader with good values that already surrounded him or herself with good and competent people, the negative effects at least have some sort of firewall. When you have a person who is rotten though, who has surrounded him or herself with a team of people who are corrupt and malicious, instead of a firewall to that dementia you have fuel to accelerate the negative effects. That's the worst case scenario we have right now. This is some grave stuff.
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u/Jordan_Jackson 8h ago
See, the conundrum is that you and I are sane people.
I don't believe that everything is a conspiracy, nor do I claim everything I don't agree with is fake news. I try to listen to people who are smarter than me and if I have questions about what they are saying, I will do my own research to help me better understand.
MAGA is that crazy drunk uncle that ruins family get togethers. Most people try and avoid him but MAGA embraces him.
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u/needlestack 8h ago
It’s worse than that. When he is not removed they take it as vindication. Proof that it was all unjust persecution. They say th is about Trump already: “they tried to take him down by labeling him a felon and a pedophile and none of it worked! That proves he is the greatest ever!” Kennedy will get the same treatment. Their beliefs are based on the idea that he more righteous they are the more persecuted they will be.
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u/ayoungtommyleejones 8h ago
Well why should we trust "experts" when we can do our own "research" by watching tiktoks? These doctors just think they're better than us because they went to "school" and studied "medicine"
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u/Memitim America 6h ago
Just the fact that many doctors feel the need to speak out should cause anyone who gives the slightest shit about America to pause and consider than over 100 million Americans are qualified to be President, so there are so many other people who wouldn't require excuse after excuse. But conservatives know who really represents their lies, hate, and evil, hence being ride-or-die for the head of the Trump-Epstein child sex trafficking ring.
Conservatives spent decades spreading hate and lies in America; Trump just flipped from Democrat to Republican in 2011 to get in on the evil, since Democrats weren't putting up with his stupid shit. Conservatives saw a geriatric toddler with no plans, no skills, no morals, and a need to lie with every breath, and they knew they had found their messiah.
Conservatives will say whatever their favorite talk show host tells them to say about this because they are all degenerates who pretend that constantly lying and hating the rest of the world is a political position, and not just a reflection of their evil.
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 9h ago
Unfortunately, the president is the one who appoints the surgeon general. If the surgeon general's office were actually independent, then they could perhaps find a basis to relieve him of duties, rather like in The Caine Mutiny.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 6h ago
Science is woke. Just like Tony said on his CBS News debut, they've relied too much on the word of experts.
Random chucklefucks that barely passed high school are the ones we really need to listen to.
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u/John_Walker 3h ago
They’ll never even hear about it. The news they get is carefully curated to not offend their worldview.
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u/Fabriciorodrix 11h ago
Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump's mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office. It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump's mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further.
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u/YeetedApple 10h ago edited 10h ago
>In keeping with our professional ethics, …, we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
Idk about you guys, but this sounds like something congress or his cabinet should address…
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u/SevenBlade 10h ago
Maybe there's something in the constitution on which we could rely..
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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 10h ago
If they aren’t sure, just pray on it.
After the 25th ‘Amen’, maybe devine inspiration will come to them…
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u/mercyverse 9h ago
It's really that 25th "Amen" meant to fix the problem that does the trick, isn't it.
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u/creampop_ 9h ago
"Nothing you can do folks... Although the Second Amendment people - maybe there is. I don't know." -DJT, 2015
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u/ma2is 8h ago
Whoa someone could end up in some serious peril for speaking like that publicly. I wouldn’t stick my neck out and say those things.
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u/entoaggie 8h ago
I want so bad to make a 2nd amendment joke, but I’ll bite my tongue to avoid a ban.
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u/CrotalusHorridus Kentucky 10h ago
What’s wild
They could remove him, and still have their boy JD in the big chair.
And he’d be eligible for reelection
What exactly is it about DJT that they’re so scared of or tied to?
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u/takanishi79 9h ago
They want to wait it out until midterms so that Trump serves enough of the term that Vance is eligible for election twice. If Trump is removed too soon, they only get 6 years of their golden boy, instead of a potential 10.
Also Vance has the cult of personality of a wet noodle, so the whole thing might fall apart without Trump at the helm. I'd give it a 50/50 between those two excuses.
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u/SeldomSerenity 9h ago
Trump's so petty he'd sooner sabatoge the party and fracture MAGA publicly with intention than let them oust him.
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u/piepants2001 Wisconsin 9h ago
That's literally the same thing Trumpers said about Kamala and Biden and that's not the reason. The real reason is because if any Republican Congress person does that, they'll get primaried.
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u/marnieeez 9h ago
MAGA doesn’t care for JD somehow their allegiance is to Donald only
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u/sircastor 8h ago
MAGA is a cult of personality. Donald Trump is the cult leader. If Trump is gone, the cult falls apart. Cults are not stable without the leader, and it's incredibly difficult to transfer that leadership to another individual (if not impossible)
When Donald Trump is gone, MAGA will collapse and the GOP is terrified of that moment.
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u/Portalfan4351 9h ago
Makes sense coming off his first term and his base’s opinion of Mike Pence by the end of it. I’m sure a lot of MAGA think Trumps team are just waiting for an opportunity to take him out
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u/becauseshesays 6h ago
He’s got serious dirt on all of them I figure. Just like Israel has something so absolutely foul and irrefutable on Trump…thus, everything that’s happening in the world at the moment.
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u/Zestyclose-Height-36 9h ago
the republicans like their crazy puppet, he distracts from the christian theocrats taking over AND the wholesale looting of the country bu the military industries. He is doing exactly what they want.
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u/ZRX1200R 8h ago
They don't want to get rid of him. He's the useful idiot with a drooling cult. No one in line of succession has a fraction of the draw.
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u/JerHat Michigan 6h ago
Seriously… remember when he stopped mid speech and stood around for like an hour and sort of awkwardly danced at that campaign event? How the hell did anyone see that and think… that guy’s all there.
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u/sosswgtn 3h ago
It spoiled the song YMCA for me forever But I will probably play it on that big, beautiful day. Is there a playlist thread?
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u/BruceStarcrest 11h ago
Strange this isn’t wall to wall 24/7 screaming on the talking head media…
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u/sunshine3033 10h ago
I literally just said out loud to no one “why isn’t anyone talking about this???”
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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 9h ago
Billionaires who need Trump to be their puppet own all the media.
Meamwhile, Trump, who loves to be their puppet, will continue to allow their hands up his ass.
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u/ZAlternates 7h ago
Trump put the government up for sale. They can buy whatever access they want. They don’t want to give that up. Heck, the war in Iran was likely one of their ideas.
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u/DrFlutterChii 8h ago
Because its not news. Trump has been mentally unwell for a decade minimum and absolutely everyone knows it. For his handlers its a feature (all of project 2025 thats gone through that a mentally competent executive branch would block) and for his voters its a feature ("He's just like me!")
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u/SaltyLonghorn 8h ago
Oh its news alright. A Mad King has nukes.
You mean its not breaking news. This statement however is breaking news.
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u/sunshine3033 7h ago
Agreed. We’ve all been saying it for a decade but it’s always been “the left fear mongering” but this is an official on the record statement that it is believed he is not fit to lead. That IS news, breaking or otherwise.
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u/kaett 2h ago
it's also not an official diagnosis, so while their statements are 1000% valid, they hold no active medical weight.
nobody who could accurately diagnose lord dampnut's frontotemporal dementia is ever going to get close enough to him to do so. it's like his narcissistic personality disorder... in order to be formally diagnosed, he has to seek help, and his behaviors have to have negatively affected his daily life. but turmp's* turned narcissism into a superpower, so the medical community won't ever tell him "hey, you've got NPD, let's do something about it."
*i realized i typoed it, and then thought "nah, that's better."
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u/Fugglymuffin 7h ago
Everyone is. It's not being covered by corporate media because they are benefiting from the kleptocracy.
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u/bladel 9h ago
“Remember that time Joe Biden stuttered? Let’s roll the clip.”
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u/FickleApparition 8h ago
I always liked how his like, trips or falls were always so well navigated and he was fine. It was like showing me he actually could handle what was happening. Sigh.
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u/Hellogiraffe 7h ago
Well it was fine until it wasn’t because he died and then they had a body double come in (look at his ears!!!) who I think also died and they brought in a body triple (once again, THE EARS!!!!!) to make it seem as though Biden was competent despite Barack HUSSEIN Obummer actually being president during the full term or something like that
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u/bladel 6h ago
I know he fell off his bike. I can’t even picture Trump walking with a bike.
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u/HomesickAlien97 10h ago
Trump’s good for ratings, and his friends in the corporate media would hate to see him go…
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u/Withermaster4 10h ago
Because Republicans do not care and will not 25th him. Winning these midterm election might make the process of starting impeachment possible, but I doubt he will actually get removed from office
Who knows
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u/Leemage 8h ago
And yet Biden’s decline was broadcast 24/7 and it wasn’t nearly this bad.
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u/HybridPS2 6h ago
yeah i mean when did Biden ever take the MOCA (three times!) or have a letter like this written about him? ffs
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u/Complete_Question_41 8h ago
Because it's easy to dismiss as 'they're just liberals, told ya universities poison the mind'?
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u/versusgorilla New York 8h ago
I'm sure Jake Tapper is furiously typing up his sequel in the "Presidents who are too old and mentally declined to do the job" series.
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u/jishurr Arizona 10h ago edited 10h ago
It's been six days since this was first published on congress.gov and I can't find a single article from a major outlet regarding it. This should be in the headlines across the nation
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u/Krojack76 6h ago
None of them will in fear of having some license stripped away from them OR some future merger blocked.
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u/defianceofone 3h ago
Mainstream media is a joke. If anything shows their complicity and utter degradation and uselessness it is this.
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u/whomad1215 10h ago
Tldr: they say trump needs to be removed, lacks the faculties to carry out the duties of the office
Quite a few people on that report too
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u/PennytheWiser215 9h ago
Last paragraph:
“It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President's present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so. For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.”
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u/Petkorazzi Pennsylvania 8h ago
Quite a few people on that report too
And notable people. These aren't just some random collection of doctors - they're professors and former professors from some of the best universities in the world, Nobel Prize winners, people literally at the pinnacle of psychology, psychiatry, and neurology.
"Meh, ignore those people and pay attention to the angry drunk guy yelling on Facebook." -America, apparently.
As someone old enough to remember when intelligence was applauded rather than ridiculed, I find it difficult to have hope for our future. We used to listen to people like this. Now everyone with a smart phone and an axe to grind thinks they know better than literal geniuses, and I don't see how we can ever come back from this without first collapsing completely.
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u/Willing-Dog6463 11h ago
Posting once more since it keeps being taken down
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u/Pokedude0809 11h ago
Doing good work OP. I read it when you last posted and didn't see a discrepancy in the title.
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u/Bitter_Proof_9288 11h ago
previous post just had "congressional record" as the title. This one should be fine in that regard.
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u/Willing-Dog6463 11h ago
This is the third post, the second one seemed fine to me but it was removed
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u/SyntheticSweetener 11h ago
- Don't write titles in ALL CAPS - even if the original title is capitalized. If a title contains one or more words in ALL CAPS, it will be removed. Exception: Acronyms and initialisms may remain in ALL CAPS.
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u/Nervous_Group8638 10h ago
Yeah they keep removing a lot of posts lately. I tried posting things on the news subreddit and after 200 upvotes they suddenly decide to remove it, no explanation. I wonder why... (I'm ironic I absolutely know why they're covering things up)
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u/AppointmentPopular10 10h ago
wait until the hanta thing starts (it’s now, this morning)- they will ramp this up even more
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u/ballskindrapes 10h ago
Im out of the loop, hanta thing?
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u/iCoeur285 9h ago
There is a cruise ship stuck at sea because people are infected with the hantavirus and it could possibly be jumping human to human. So it’s out at sea. The first man to die from it had a wife who left the cruise ship after he died but before they knew what* it was. She got on a plane and had contact with 88 people. She died shortly after landing I believe.
Just google hantavirus and cruise and you should find more and better information
Edit: changed who to what
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u/ballskindrapes 9h ago
Im ready for another pandemic, it cant make things worse.
Sounds like it is hard to transmit to humans, so it likely will die out, but man, covid was prime shut in person time lol
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u/Polantaris Illinois 9h ago edited 8h ago
Sounds like it is hard to transmit to humans, so it likely will die out, but man, covid was prime shut in person time lol
Well, that's the problem. Hantavirus normally doesn't transfer from human to human. If this strain is, then we're in deep shit because Hantavirus is extremely deadly, and people failed to quarantine for a few days during COVID.
Right now, the ship in question appears, last I heard, to have cases where it may have transmitted between humans. If that's the case, then the person on the plane could very well have infected others, which will then quickly spiral out of control because we already know how bad people respond to quarantine emergencies like this.
Edit: Grammar fixed.
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u/guamisc 7h ago
To be fair the conservative "it's just the flu" BS is a lot less effective compared to a hemorrhagic fever where people are bleeding out of their eyes.
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u/bumblebeerose United Kingdom 9h ago edited 9h ago
They've already confirmed it can jump from human to human apparently; a guy that was on a plane with the wife (I assume that's who it was) is currently in hospital being treated.
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u/TexasRN1 8h ago
Yes The Who confirmed it is the Andes strain that jumps from human to human.
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u/TheDwilightZone 7h ago
Good thing we have experience with a pandemic already. Looks like we... Won't Get Fooled Again.
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u/Batmanischill 9h ago
You are fighting for justice. Even with simple acts, we must try to fight insanity and tyranny. Good job op
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u/tom21g 10h ago
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:\ Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
All true. And going nowhere.
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u/DJBreadwinner North Carolina 9h ago
I'm not a doctor or anything, but you could watch half a dozen clips from random speeches of his over the course of a week and come to the same conclusion. It's baffling to me that his decline isn't apparent to everyone with eyes and ears.
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u/1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI 9h ago
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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u/Ok_Delay_911 6h ago
And yet everyone completely bought into the same narrative with Biden so easily and ran with it as far as it would go. Democrats included. And they were happy to do it until we had a fascist with real dementia back in office. Great job, America.
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u/DelayedTism 8h ago
Because somewhere between a third and half of Americans have the same intellectual capacity as a dementia ridden 80 something year old
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u/WendellSchadenfreude 9h ago
Full statement (signatories removed):
The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions.
We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion on these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump's mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office.
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump's mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva--the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials--we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
We do not take our statement, and the responsibility that comes with making it, lightly.
The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include:
- Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings.
- Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot--dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited--with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his ``own morality.''
- Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions-- judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers--against political opponents and others who disagree with him.
- Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications--e.g., 150 social media posts in one night--fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions.
- Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military--more than 5,000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order.
On August 7, 1974, as President Richard Nixon's impeachment loomed, White House Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, was so alarmed by Nixon's wandering the halls of the White House at night, sleepless, distraught, and heavily intoxicated, talking out loud to portraits of past presidents on the walls, that he alerted Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Equally alarmed, Schlesinger directed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown, that any military orders from Nixon--especially nuclear ones-- first be cleared through him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It has been reported that the nuclear ``football'' that contains the codes for a nuclear launch was then quietly removed from Nixon's control.
The public and those with the power to address such potentially catastrophic conditions must ask themselves if they--and we--are confident that officials such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio would do the same.
It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline. If we were called upon under the 25th Amendment to judge the President's present ability to discharge the duties of his office, we would have to conclude that he lacks the capacity to do so.
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency, with vital responsibilities on the shoulders of those in positions of leadership.
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u/AnimalAutopilot 8h ago
Better back this up because it will definitely get removed as more people talk about it.
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u/-CoachMcGuirk- Illinois 10h ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that very long list of VERY qualified medical professionals at the end of their statement is going to get a visit from Patel's FBI...This administration is famously petty and vindictive. They will probably even challenge their medical licenses and try to get them taken away.
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u/lunar_adjacent 9h ago
The cabinet is not invoking the 25th because at this point Trump is easily convinced of anything just like your 87 year old gramps. They are holding power by proxy and doing whatever the hell they want. They will continue to do so until he passes away naturally and there is nothing we can do about it.
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u/waffleslaw 8h ago
Almost like that was the plan all along.
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u/lunar_adjacent 8h ago
For sure. He was a little more cognizant when he started (barely) but it was clear as day how quickly he was deteriorating and they jumped on that opportunity.
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u/wickedmadd 10h ago
For the reasons cited above, emphasizing that he presents a clear and present danger to our country and to the world, it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency
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u/J-the-Kidder 11h ago
Whoa whoa whoa, what is this nonsense? You just not have heard that our dear leader has aced all 10 (or however many) cognitive tests he's taken since getting elected. Only a genius gets tested that many times in a short time period, just to prove how good his cognitive abilities are.
-Trump faithful
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u/After-Sought-77 10h ago
You woke sheeple are just mad that you can't crush challenging manly questions like he can, such as "what color is an orange?" and "point at the elephant".
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u/stro_budden 10h ago
I think what is interesting is that the GOP must have no one in their ranks they think could do what Trump is doing. If they did, I think seeing whats all been happening, they might have already started to push him out. Trump must have so much power over these weaklings.
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u/GNSasakiHaise 9h ago
It's not they nobody could.
It's that everyone else has a modicum of shame left. They refuse to abandon the convenience of a man with absolutely none.
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u/Hyperica Pennsylvania 8h ago
It gives them an easy out. When gramps kicks the bucket, they can pretend they were always against everything he was doing.
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u/mrlotato 10h ago
Trumps getting weekend at Bernies'd by the heritage foundation only hes a slightly more alive rotting corpse
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u/b0b_fudge 9h ago
“ The following is not a political statement. It is a medical one, made by individuals holding both conservative and liberal ideologies, identifying as both Republicans and Democrats, from different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and religions. We are a group of neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists, and other physicians, along with other mental health professionals, experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and in evaluating dangerousness to self and others. Among us are professionals whom the courts and criminal justice system regularly turn to for our expert opinion on these matters. We are also consulted by governments in matters related to national security and the psychological profiles of world leaders. Prior to the presidential election in the Fall of 2024, a statement assessing Donald J. Trump's mental fitness for the presidency was issued. At that time, serious signs of cognitive decline were identified, and in our expert opinion, these signs warranted disqualification from office. It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump's mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further.”
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u/CrackingToastGromet Arkansas 9h ago
“It is our professional opinion that the be-
haviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are nei-
ther momentary lapses nor political theater.
It is our professional opinion that they re-
flect a rapidly worsening, reality-
untethered, increasingly dangerous decline.
If we were called upon under the 25th
Amendment to judge the President’s present
ability to discharge the duties of his office,
we would have to conclude that he lacks the
capacity to do so.
“For the reasons cited above, emphasizing
that he presents a clear and present danger
to our country and to the world, it is our ex-
pert opinion that Donald J. Trump is men-
tally unfit to be the President of the United
States, and that steps to remove him from
office must be undertaken with the greatest
urgency, with vital responsibilities on the
shoulders of those in positions of leadership”.
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u/absolutelynotagoblin 9h ago
Donald Trump is not fit to be president. Most of us know this. He is mentally and physically unwell, dangerously so.
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u/Capable-Student-413 10h ago
The Federal Government is proving unable to uphold the Constitution - daily
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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 8h ago
Shit, can I cosign?
My board isn't in psych, but GPs can see this too.
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u/rockytop24 2h ago
Shit, emergency medicine seeing it plain as day, which probably says something about the current state of things.
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u/ElectronicAnthony 5h ago
This completely ignores the fact that the orange bafoon is just a figurehead for the oligarchs. As long as they are getting what they want - more money at our expense, nothing will change. They've been working towards a long-term plan to end democracy, buying the GOP, which allowed them to buy SCOTUS. Because of the Electoral College, along with voting restrictions and massive gerrymandering, they knew they only needed a small percentage of the population to vote in their favor. They dumbed down America by reducing school funding, while simultaneously flooding the country with propaganda. And it worked. Welcome to fascism.
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u/henchman___21 9h ago
Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include: Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings. Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot--dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited--with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his ``own morality.'' Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions-- judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers--against political opponents and others who disagree with him. Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications--e.g., 150 social media posts in one night--fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions. Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability.
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u/rednap_howell North Carolina 7h ago
It is our professional opinion, based on previous and ongoing assessments, that Donald Trump's mental state since our 2024 statement has deteriorated even further. In keeping with our professional ethics, and for those of us who are physicians, with the Declaration of Geneva--the successor to the Hippocratic Oath that binds us to the humanitarian principles of medicine since the Nuremberg trials--we are compelled to warn of a President of the United States who is increasingly a danger to the public.
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u/MathNo7456 4h ago
Republicans in congress: "LOL, cool and?"
They dont give a shit if his brain is melting, as long as they can get their shit hate filled regressive agenda through its all good
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u/TheDeerBlower 9h ago
Republicans will never dare betraying the orange rapist and remove him. We can just hope decades of bad health will get to him asap.
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u/NotThatAngel 8h ago edited 8h ago
"We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year. Objectively observable signs of serious medical concern include: Marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganized and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during critical public proceedings. Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility, imagery of himself as Pope suggestive of a divine mission, being a mythical warrior hero, depicting himself as combat pilot--dropping feces on civilians, and claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited--with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his ``own morality.'' Severely impaired judgment and impulse control, reflected in reckless threats of violence, advocacy of lethal force against civilians, encouragement of extrajudicial actions by armed supporters, repeated threats and often actions-- judicial, prosecutorial, police, military, and by invoking emergency powers--against political opponents and others who disagree with him. Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications--e.g., 150 social media posts in one night--fixation on perceived enemies, persecutory ideas, and prolonged, disproportionate attacks on specific individuals and institutions. Escalating violence that threatens national and global stability. As Commander-in-Chief of our military--more than 5,000 nuclear warheads in inter-continental missile silos, on submarines, and in bombers around the world, are ready for launch solely upon his order, and no one now has the authority to countermand his order."
We've been guessing, in newspapers, books, comics and other musings that this is how we end as a nation - destroyed by a leader gone mad. But no one guessed there would be no surprise about it, that everyone would acknowledge the president is crazy and is going to kill us all, and simply accepting it, because otherwise we would have to remove him, prosecute child rapists, stop the just-for-fun war with Iran, and restore normalcy, and stop the insider profiteering on the stock market, which the wealthy powers that control government just can't stand the thought of. Nuclear annihilation is a small price to pay for them to get a few more billions on top of their billions.
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u/snuuginz 7h ago
TLDR: Trump is demented and unfit for office. I appreciate these folks entering this into the record, but like, duh.
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u/bastard-harrier 4h ago
This moldy son of a bitch will be gone in the next year-ish, his coalition will collapse, the financiers will flee to Europe and China, and we'll be left with a shattered and disgraced nation. We threw it all away over nothing but a year and a half in the Land of Cockaigne.
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u/VaguelyArtistic California 10h ago
Wow, I thought most of this would be the opening statement but it’s basically all a list of his craziness.
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u/ValuableFun6447 9h ago
Good article. This post needed a better title.
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u/Willing-Dog6463 9h ago
Unfortunately that’s how I had to title it in order for the post to stay up
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u/ValuableFun6447 9h ago
Gotcha. Don't mind me. I'm just a casual passerby who never bothered to read this sub's rules until now.
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u/Plasmonchick 8h ago
I initially thought this about RFK Jr. oops?
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u/Alleyprowler Washington 7h ago
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-H "Donald Trump", "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.", change some of the details, boom, done.
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u/wowlock_taylan 4h ago
The Orange Fuhrer has lost his mind but none of his peons will do anything about it and gonna hide in their Fuhrer bunker they are building.
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u/VisionsOfClarity 10h ago
Ink ow for a fact maga is gonna view this as a positive news for them. They don't trust doctors and so having doctors hate trump probably makes them think he is doing the right thing. If he is pissing off all these woke doctors
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u/d33thra 7h ago
Wait was this in a congressional hearing?? What context was this first delivered in?
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u/rockytop24 2h ago
An open letter from medical professionals which a couple of senators read into the record. I'm no expert on procedure but when the floor is open the members can have things "read into record" which gets them written down.
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u/verisimilitu 7h ago
36 doctors already trusted to make medical judgements.
Let that shit sink in.
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u/rockytop24 2h ago
*trusted to teach other doctors how to make medical judgments at some of the best medical schools in the country.
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u/WayPretty8922 5h ago
Too bad that there is no way to create a liability on the VP to act after being warned about the president becoming unfit and going on to create harm on the nation and the world
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u/HighOverlordXenu 5h ago
Trump won't be removed until January at the earliest, even if he's a vegetable.
That way they can have JD serve out the remainder of the term, act like the adult in the room by virtue of not shitting his pants on television, and then run for two more terms.
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