Here we go!
In my crazy daydream, I will now give the next steps, after flipping Congress, (which took me three weeks to methodically analyze.)
Let us now get to the good part!
I am fired up and ready to go!
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The House:
en.wikipedia.org/…
The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population,
So, in my crazy daydream, we have flipped all the red House seats.
So, we now have Democrats in all 435 seats.
The Senate:
en.wikipedia.org/…
We cannot get all 100 seats in the senate flipped from red to blue in the elections of 2026.
So, I wrote the diary last week showing what is possible, (in my daydream):
www.dailykos.com/…
I put the numbers after the names to make it easy to count how many red Senate seats we can flip blue.
22
Our team currently holds 47 seats in the Senate.
(45 Democrats plus 2 Independents that caucus with Democrats.)
So, we could end up with 69 blue seats in the senate.
Ha!
Okay.
Now for the next step:
constitution.congress.gov/…
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Okay, that should be the easy part.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Okay, in my daydream, we have 69 blue seats in the Senate.
That is more than two thirds.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Yes.
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
Okay, I recall reading somewhere that the next in line to take over the Presidency, after the removal of both the President and the Vice President, is the Speaker of the House.
I do not see that in the Constitution.
Let me look that up.
simple.wikipedia.org/…
That copy and paste result looks sloppy, but yes, the Speaker of the House is next in line.
Okay!
So:
In November of next year, 2026, we flip the House and the Senate.
On the 3rd of January, 2027, the new blue Congress is sworn in.
On that same day, Hakeem Jeffries is elected as Speaker of the House by unanimous vote.
On that same day, the House impeaches both Donald Trump and J. D. Vance.
On that same day, the Senate votes to convict and remove them.
On that same day, Hakeem Jeffries is sworn in as President.
I know, this is all such a collection of unlikely events.
But tone it down a little, and imagine the Senate taking a week or so, rather than acting on that same day.
Anyway.
Now we can imagine the cabinet picks of President Jeffries.
Wait, what about his pick for his VP?
Kamala Harris?
Ha!
And, aside from his cabinet picks, what about loading up the Supreme Court with about ten sensible Justices?
(I know, that takes some action to increase the number of Justices, first, then appoint some folks.)
Maybe he could nominate openly lesbian Rachel Maddow:
en.wikipedia.org/…
She earned a degree in public policy at Stanford in 1994.[12] At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner Fellowship.[13] She was the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in 1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. She had also been awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of the Rhodes.[14] This made her the first openly lesbian winner of the Rhodes Scholarship.[a][16] In 2001, she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)[17] in politics at the University of Oxford.[18] Her thesis was titled "HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons" and was supervised by Lucia Zedner.[19]
Her doctorate is not in law, but she seems so very smart and sensible, with a well-informed world view:
Oh yes, what about Elon Musk?
Maybe Congress can pass a bill, and President Jeffries can sign it into law, a law that forces Musk to leave the USA.
And never come back.
Ha!
Well, tell me in the comments the folks you want President Jeffries to nominate for his cabinet, and for the Supreme Court.
And new federal laws, such as, one to restore Roe v Wade.
And tell me if you think Trump and Vance will be charged in various courts after they are removed.
(I read in the Constitution that such a thing can be done.)
Seems to me, they both need to be locked up in a mental health facility.
Hugs!
