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.

So the wording is super long winded (holy fuck this is why lawyers shouldn't exist or be in power) but it seems per the 25th amendment Kamala could, with agreement from Biden's cabinet, assume the presidency. If Joe doesn't contest it, she would just stay. If Joe did contest it, it would go to congress to decide if the president (Joe) is actually fit to be president. The wording also seems to indicate the acting-president, formerly the VP, would remain acting-president during the decision time allowed to congress.

It would require 2/3 majority vote in both houses to finalize the ousting if it came to that- which would be interesting to see because it's almost like a legalized coup at that point. If you assume all the Rs just want chaos and to vote against Biden (not a safe assumption, but just assuming for now) it would need like 50 or something dems in the house and like 16 or 17 (too lazy to look up the actual numbers each party holds right now) dems in the senate to vote to kick him/keep Kamala. If republicans decide to gum shit up because they would rather Trump face Biden, not Kamala, they could just fuck the whole "coup" and cause a tiny meltdown in doing so because then it's just "dictator Joe" (Trump owes me if he uses this) desperately clinging to power when his VP and cabinet said he needs to go.

God I hope this happens purely for entertainment and chaos value.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I did say previously that they'd never 25th their own guy, but I didn't anticipate him being THIS pathetic. I thought his handlers would be smart enough to cancel this debate (maybe he threatened them into letting him do it? I remember a recent article about him being violently angry towards staffers), and just generally lock him away until after the election, heavily staged events aside.

Maybe they would? Thought like you alluded to, I doubt Conservatives would impeach him because he's so obviously withering away and the DNC apparatus is in full blown panic right now.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All of this going down in an election year with only 4-5 months in advance would be a tall order.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago

I'm with Her ™️ the real Her. Kamala Harris.

I believe she can do it. She only has to lay off the whatever she's on. Xanax or whatever for like a month or two to do the coup