Brooks now serves as the Schwartz senior fellow at New America, formerly the New America Foundation, a think-tank heavily funded by globalist billionaire George Soros. The Board of Directors of New America is currently chaired by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
“Are we truly stuck with Donald Trump,” Brooks asked in her posting for Foreign Policy. “It depends. There are essentially four ways to get rid of a crummy president.”
Brooks went on to outline four ways to remove President Trump from office, including impeachment, declaring him mentally unfit for office, or b having the military overthrown him in a coup.
While waiting for the next election in 2020 is possible, Brooks argued that after “such a catastrophic first week, four years seems like a long time to wait.”
Impeachment, while an option, “take time: months, if not longer — even with an enthusiastic Congress. And when you have a lunatic controlling the nuclear codes, even a few months seems like a perilously long time to wait.”
Another option is “an appeal to Vice President Pence’s ambitions” by having Trump removed from office after being declared unfit for office under the terms of the 25 Amendment.
“The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders,” Brooks said. “The prospect of American military leaders responding to a presidential order with open defiance is frightening — but so, too, is the prospect of military obedience to an insane order. ”
“After all, military officers swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not the president. For the first time in my life, I can imagine plausible scenarios in which senior military officials might simply tell the president: ‘No, sir. We’re not doing that,’ to thunderous applause from the New York Times editorial board.”
paulo1 on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 9:58 am
Military leaders are highly trained professionals. Trump is a loose cannon, banging off of one issue after another like a pinball machine. Then, his advisors (and I use that term very very loosely) are quick to parrot ‘alternative facts’.
regarding statement: “The prospect of American military leaders responding to a presidential order with open defiance is frightening — but so, too, is the prospect of military obedience to an insane order. ”
Either way, the US is screwed and losing credibility and influence by the hour throughout the world.
I think domestic unrest will continue. Trump, in just 10 days has become a joke punchline, despite his trying to discredit the media. This morning, MSM newscasts are openly mocking the false stories initiated by Conway re: Bowling Green massacre by ‘terrorists’ supposedly let in by Obama. Is insurrection in the offing? California is openly defiant as is Massachusets regarding Musli….oops, travel ban.
I wonder how things would have unfolded in the late ’30s if the German Military had overthrown Hitler instead of being duped and cowed into ‘going along’?
Court cases, riots, protest marches…..hmmm in just 10 days. Daily, the fawning Republican lackeys…ooops leadership (including Pence) continue to go along in order to exhibit power. But, the cracks are appearing and will widen as the budget defecits increase. rebuilding the military (like it needs expanding!!??), replacing Obamacare, infrastructure, The Wall…..this stuff ain’t free. This means more and more debt. For the posturing Tea Partiers this is a non-starter.
Maybe the Military will remain behind the screen, but declaring Trump incompetent isn’t too much of a stretch, and Pence looks to be a mild-mannered friendly sort of controllable guy who might dearly love his name on the door. Messy? Sure. But to not remove Trump in the near future will bring the Country to its knees.
Stock tip; Buy vaseline futures. That is, if you have any money left.
Que Davy, Trump supporter….1,2,3
Sissyfuss on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:09 am
The sooner Nero facilitates the fail of Ind Civ, the better it will be for the living Earth and all its inhabitants. Except us, of course.
Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:14 am
Why, unlike most online articles, are there no links to said quotes? When I quote others, I provide the link and so does almost every other commenter and blog.
So it’s globalist billionaire Soros VS globalist billionaire Trump. So same as it ever was since civilization started. Elite VS elite.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:48 am
Fair enough Paulo. Saved this in my notes for you to (maybe) eat later if Trump and his enemies don’t kill us in some epic “death star” type battle in the next year or so. LOL. BTW Paulo, I am not a typical Trump supporter. This is only temporary and he has lots of ass kickin to do yet. I will turn on Trump like a scorned woman if he is lured into the liar of the corrupt establishment. I despise the right. My family is fox news conservatives. It is a labor to go to mom and dad’s and sit with them and watch fox news and not want to burp and fart. No, I like trump because he is destroying that fake world you and your BC elite live in. He is redesigning the world and winning and you are beside yourself. I am loving it too. Sorry but you are fun to see all hot and bothered…1…2…3.
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:54 am
Rosa Brooks…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks
served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, weekly column for the Los Angeles Times, At the Pentagon her portfolio included both rule of law and human rights issues and global engagement, Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, social anthropology, Special Counsel to the President at the Open Society Institute, George Soros’ philanthropic foundation, consultant for Human Rights Watch, a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, a board member of Amnesty International USA, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, board member of the Harper’s Magazine Foundation, the Open Society Foundation’s US Programs, the National Security Network and Amnesty International USA, Washington Post, weekly column for Foreign Policy
You hardly can’t get them more deep state than this (CFR, WaPo). These folks think they can spend their entire lives ramming the entire world into a single tax farm, owned by them.
And now all of a sudden, ordinary people have pulled the rug from under their imperial jackboots.
And now this Rosa Crooks advocates that Trump should be wasted, US empire style, just like they did to Hitler admirer JFK.
Putin should be mad giving up head over heels his relationship with China as the CIA bullet can fly any minute from now.
If clowns like Brooks and others think that they can solve the “Middle America problem” with a single bullet, they could be in for a mighty surprise.
Middle America has meanwhile crossed the Rubicon, smelled the odor of freedom and won’t be driven back in the PC corral again. It could very well be that Trump won’t indeed get very far, but Gorbachev didn’t either. It is likely that in a couple of years from now both will be remembered for initiating the breakup of their respective empires.
Leftism is so 20th century.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 10:55 am
Brooks was likely a big Hillary supporter and I imagine attended Pizza parties and Podesta spirit suppers. I think one time they drank pig blood or something and talked to ghosts. Of course this guy is going to want to over throw Trump. Trump messed with his social life. Now he is ponding his pud in some low life discredited New America Foundation talking like a rat.
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:04 am
But to not remove Trump in the near future will bring the Country to its knees.
No, I like trump because he is destroying that fake world you and your BC elite live in.
What’s a “BC”? British Columbia? Canada?
OMG, not another Friday, please say it is not true.
These liberals profess to be very deep into “human rights” but if somebody opposes them, the “tolerant crowd” like the paolo13’s of this world, easily morph in murdering scum bags.
Ah well, it will be soon all over and the land grab will begin.
Tic-toc-tic-toc.
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:06 am
Of course this guy is going to want to over throw Trump. Trump messed with his social life. Now he is ponding his pud in some low life discredited New America Foundation talking like a rat.
It is nominally a she, but in this age of cancerous feminism it is not always easy to tell.
Antius on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:51 am
Sounds like a genuine foaming-at-the-mouth Lefty creep. For these people, politics is all about promoting and defending cherished idealisms. The more unachievable, unnatural and perverse they are, the more they seem to like them. They are always outraged and violent when things don’t go their way. Truly dangerous people. Political idealists always ruin the world.
Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 11:58 am
“Brooks, who served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2009-2011 and as a senior adviser in the State Department, outlined four ways to remove President Donald Trump from office,”
Here is the link they provided
3 Ways to Get Rid of President Trump Before 2020
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/30/3-ways-to-get-rid-of-president-trump-before-2020-impeach-25th-amendment-coup/
Fucking retards can’t even count or are embellishing the shit out of everything. Infowars the king of “fake news”.
Written by retards, for retards.
Dhu 1, duh 2 duh 4 duh 7 duh…
Me can counts good duh….
DerHundistlos on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 5:27 pm
@ Ape
I borrowed a slightly modified version of your earlier post (see below). To copy someone is the highest compliment.
Question: What’s a metastasizing cancer to do when there’s only healthy tissue left to infect and consume?
Answer: Republicans move to sell off 3.3 million acres of national land; an area the size of Connecticut is targeted for “disposal to the highest bidder” in a new bill before Republican-controlled House.
DerHundistlos on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 5:30 pm
Pence may very likely be worse than Trump. Maybe Trump bought himself insurance by nominating him as VP.
DerHundistlos on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 5:38 pm
@ Trump and confederates
So you really expected the opposition to sit back and take it after you throw every imaginable insult at “evil” Obama- from the Trump birther BS and every possible in between? Trump and Republicans have galvanized the opposition unlike anything I have ever seen.
No, it’s you who are all hot and bothered. You were bamboozled and so were many others, which explains why in poll after poll, despite this normally being a president’s honey moon period, Trump’s support hovers at a pathetic 33% (the lowest approval numbers since the beginning of polling).
Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 6:41 pm
“Trump’s support hovers at a pathetic 33% (the lowest approval numbers since the beginning of polling.” You actually trust polling these days? Did you not witness the media at its finest during the election? Do you really think they have changed at all? Sorry, your numbers are not valid except for manipulated sampling. I understand you hate Trump and I understand why. What bothers me is the lies and deceit. I am just asking for honesty in life and it is rare these days. The left is completely off the deep end and lying through their teeth. Sickening. Personally I wish we had a real green party but that is a sorry shame too. WTF.
solarity on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 6:47 pm
Draining the swamp starts with a few spoonfuls of putrid water and is “a catastrophic first week” to slimy swamp denizens. Go Trump.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 7:05 pm
FYI
“Secret Service Is Dealing With Over 12,000 Tweets Calling For Trump’s Assassination”
http://tinyurl.com/jrleoc2
“United States Code Title 18, Section 871, “Threats Against President and Successors to the Presidency,” which prohibits knowingly and willfully mailing or otherwise making “any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States.” The charge, a Class E felony, is punishable by at least one year in prison and a maximum of five years.”
Former U.S. Secret Service special agent Tim Franklin, who is now a criminology and criminal justice professor of counterterrorism and cybercrimes at Arizona State University, said in a phone call Tuesday that “it’s the people who have a true and genuine intent to do harm that the Secret Service is worried about.” That’s why one-off posts and people with no record of threatening messages tend to get passed over. He said the Secret Service is looking out for trends and consistent behavior, like the person who repeats their intent to kill the president over time. If someone has made threats in the past they are more likely to get investigated when they post another “Kill Trump”post. “They’re not going to to beat down the door of everybody who makes a negative Twitter comment,” Franklin said, which may be a relief to anyone who tweeted an off-hand and not entirely serious death wish for the new president. But for users who use certain language and specific details about the president, his location and how the assassination will happen, the Secret Service will likely take notice.
Repent on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 7:19 pm
Civil war 2.0 if he is assassinated…Guaranteed. The torches and pitchforks (and AK47’s) come out if he is taken out. If the deep state want their heads served on a platter…
Apneaman on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 7:54 pm
Crazy mofo’s all over because we’re now in crazy time. Steve Bannon, another whacked out old white man who wants to send others to fight. But hey, these types of people always come out of the woodwork in times like this. SteveO is right about the wars. If not him and Cheeto then it would be a couple of other rich old men making the call. It can’t be helped. It’s rooted in our biologly.
Steve Bannon: ‘We’re going to war in the South China Sea … no doubt’
Only months ago Donald Trump’s chief strategist predicted military involvement in east Asia and the Middle East in Breitbart radio shows
“The United States and China will fight a war within the next 10 years over islands in the South China Sea, and “there’s no doubt about that”. At the same time, the US will be in another “major” war in the Middle East.
Those are the views – nine months ago at least – of one of the most powerful men in Donald Trump’s administration, Steve Bannon, the former head of far-right news website Breitbart who is now chief strategist at the White House.
In the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, Bannon has emerged as a central figure. He was appointed to the “principals committee” of the National Security Council in a highly unusual move and was influential in the recent travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, overruling Department of Homeland Security officials who felt the order did not apply to green card holders.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/steve-bannon-donald-trump-war-south-china-sea-no-doubt
War with the competitors for ruling the sea lanes and access to resources has gone down before and it along with elite vs elite at home and their true believer tribes of commoners at each others throats is standard in the overshoot loop. Compare Jay Hanson overshoot loop to what’s going on right now.
OVERSHOOT LOOP:
Evolution Under The Maximum Power Principle
“Therefore, the best political tactic for groups to survive in such a milieu is not to live in ecological balance with slow growth, but to grow rapidly and be able to fend off and take resources from others[5].
The inevitable “overshoot” eventually leads to decreasing power attainable for the group with lower-ranking members suffering first. Low-rank members will form subgroups and coalitions to demand a greater share of power from higher-ranking individuals who will resist by forming their own coalitions to maintain it. Meanwhile, social conflict will intensify as available power continues to fall.”
Here is a synopsis of the behavioral loop described above:
Step 1. Individuals and groups evolved a bias to maximize fitness by maximizing power, which requires over-reproduction and/or over-consumption of natural resources (overshoot), whenever systemic constraints allow it. Differential power generation and accumulation result in a hierarchical group structure.
Step 2. Energy is always limited, and overshoot eventually leads to decreasing power available to some members of the group, with lower-ranking members suffering first.
Step 3. Diminishing power availability creates divisive subgroups within the original group. Low-rank members will form subgroups and coalitions to demand a greater share of power from higher-ranking individuals, who will resist by forming their own coalitions to maintain power.
Step 4. Violent social strife eventually occurs among subgroups who demand a greater share of the remaining power.
Step 5. The weakest subgroups (high or low rank) are either forced to disperse to a new territory, are killed, enslaved, or imprisoned.
Step 6. Go back to step 1.
The above loop was repeated countless thousands of times during the millions of years that we were evolving[9]. This behavior is inherent in the architecture of our minds — is entrained in our biological material — and will be repeated until we go extinct. Carrying capacity will decline[10] with each future iteration of the overshoot loop, and this will cause human numbers to decline until they reach levels not seen since the Pleistocene.
http://www.dieoff.org/
Step 2 perfectly describes the demise of the working and middle classes and to me it appears that, in America at least, that step 3 is well under way. It will happen everywhere eventually. The Alt Right is a perfect example of a new subgroup.
Ty on Fri, 3rd Feb 2017 9:13 pm
I vote that the Queen keep him alive, but confined, in the tower of London, just for a pause, until we make sure our vetting process is adequate for us to process him correctly.
sinnycool on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 2:32 am
The policies of the US in the last twenty+ years caused such social and economic erosion within their own population that enough of the losers from the failed social contract to reject that contract and elect Trump.
Rather than understand “Why Trump” and acknowledge it, and try to address it, the stupid blind protesting bastards in the streets are stamping on the faces of the social losers, the Trump supporters they despise.
At the expense of the very institutions they cherish – the rule of law and respect of process – they want to forcibly return to the failed status quo that created the problem in the first place.
The backdrop to that is falling prosperity and an increasing social divide which continues to exacerbate the original problem.
Failing to acknowledge all the above by those intelligent enough in this forum to appreciate the true situation is abjectly hopeless.
makati1 on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 3:05 am
sinny, perhaps it is all orchestrated by Soros and his kind? After all, such chaos is their method, and they have long experience in other countries. The most recent, the Ukraine. I keep saying that the U$ has to be taken down to make way for the One World Government. It appears to finally be happening.
Cloggie on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 4:05 am
I keep saying that the U$ has to be taken down to make way for the One World Government.
???
The US (and their vassal govs in Europe + NATO) are the last tool *** THEY *** have to accomplish One World government in the first place.
The West: the world’s last (racial) communists.
If the US comes down (as it will, Soviet style, with Trump currently functioning as the US equivalent of Gorbachev, de facto initiating the break up), the chances for One World will be over once and for all. Let’s bring it on.
The Soros crowd is currently with the back against the wall.
Russia
China
Islam
European Right
Heartland USA
…*** NOT *** interested in One World.
Soros is losing big time, Samuel Huntington is winning the fight.
This is the future, a multi-polar world. Or a world “de-Americanized” as the Chinese prefer to put it.
https://s17.postimg.org/6wwnomfpb/worldmap.jpg
The very fact that a de-loyal “racial commie” like you has fled the US, is the best proof that One World is not going to happen.
Theedrich on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 4:53 am
It is time to take the assassinators seriously. The time for allowing “free speech” that calls for killing the president is past. Cockroaches such as Sörös and their puppets need to be arrested and put on trial. Since all of them want a dictatorship, perhaps it is time to give them what they want.
makati1 on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 5:53 am
Don’t worry, Cloggie, the EU is leading the way down. Chaos is now enshrined in the EU and the U$ and spreading. TPTB are not tied to any country or passport. They are loyal only to themselves and their cause.
Did I say they were sane? No, of course not. Insanity rules in the EU and the U$. If you do not see their method, it seems evident in their actions. Create world wide chaos. When it gets bad enough, they will appear as the savior that will make it all go away, if only…
It has nothing to do with anything you mention as their ‘last hope’. So, just sit back and enjoy the show. It may be too late to do anything about it anyway. However, there is still Russia and China.
Which will come first? Nuclear extinction? Resource depletion? Radical climate change? Only time will tell.
Davy on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 6:28 am
Too bad makati what you say may well happen but first you will have to run the gauntlet of a collapsing region in gross overshoot of everything including sanity and you are the king of kings there.
makati1 on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 6:43 am
Davy, I Am in a much safer and more flexible place than you. You should speak about insanity elsewhere when the EU and U$ are blowing apart in riots, terrorist events, and a snowflake generation that does not know responsibility or how to think for themselves.
Interesting that my part of the world is still growing by 6%+ annually while the U$ has to lies and cheat to get even 1.6% growth. You would like to be correct because you don’t want to believe that others can actually get out of the Fascist Police State and live a decent life. To a place where someone is not watching them using 3 million “security” cameras or listening to their conversations and tracking their spending, PC use and travel 24/7/365.
I ignore your jabs as I know who is going to suffer the most in the years to come. Hint: it is NOT me.
Davy on Sat, 4th Feb 2017 7:09 am
maakti, bellow your condo you never leave is 20MIL people as far as the eye can see and your feet walk. This in a small island nation of 100MIL in a region of 4.5BIL. You have no farm because you are never there and even if you do it will be overrun by so many people in a desperate rush for wht is left. This region of overshoot is based on exports of finished goods and imports of life sustaining energy and food. The ecosystem has been destroyed be 2 decades of unfettered growth without thought of the consequences. What could be worse? I am in a bad place too but for different reasons. Get a grip old man. Quit being afraid of death. Prepare your hospice death is near.
Thomas on Sun, 3rd Sep 2017 6:55 am
Great post! Have nice day ! 🙂 woeoq