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One failed coup, on trial for insurrection and planning the next one.
Welcome to this episode of "Dumb Criminals".
Technically if he wins the election it wouldn't be insurrection, but anyone trying to stop him would be.
The President swears an oath to defend the Constitution, which includes the Bill of Rights.
Implementing Project 2025 would still be an insurrection.
I'm so sick of these treasonous jackals.
Better article on the topic IMO: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision
Basically a conservative power fantasy
Fascist power fantasy. No need to sugarcoat it.
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Yeah, but if people think this is harmless and don't go vote, this might become true anyway
Man, I was hoping that since we're obviously gonna end up with a dystopia, that it would be a cyberpunk one, but here we are, gonna be stuck with a regular boring ass dictatorship.
At least people will understand why we are revolting. Convincing the world of your cause is usually the hard part.
Is america really this retarded?
Trump lost the popular vote last time but still got enough state victories to win with Electoral College votes, and he is less popular now than then, but his base is very vocal and with so many adults disassociating themselves with the Republican Party it makes it a very bottom of the barrel pool for candidates.
The problem is there is only one other national party with any chance of winning, and their candidate just gave more weapons to the nation currently bombing children's hospitals and refugee camps.
So while the average US Citizen might be better than this, our ancestors built a system and our elders corrupted it to the point where a large enough coalition of below average people can destroy the nation. Yes, we're really that stupid.
Its even retarder than that
No, but please keep telling me how a three year age difference is more important than US democracy...
I think I'm missing some context.
That poster is complaining about the people who view Biden as too old, while Trump is only three years younger.
I like to think I can read pretty good, but I couldn't figure out how the post summary is related to the article.
Dailybeast does a "doomscroll" load next article thing. That paragraph is from that. Its on the same page, so the bot likely just fucked up. Here's the article name if y'all want context:
Inside the Mean-Girl Army Going to War for a Celebrity Dietician
And the guy called Cheung is behind that quote? Wake up sweety, you'd go into conc camps, just like asian-looking americans did while the ww2 was going on.
How to have large swathes of the military join the protestors, step 1.
People IMO VASTLY overestimate the popularity of the Republicans among the troops. It probably breaks about the same way as the general populace, and as far as being willing to follow orders to march against protestors, the troops that would do it are probably more worried about their own fellow soldiers turning on them than they are about being reprimanded for saying no.
That might be the point. Deploy the military in a low stakes situation to see who listens. Kick all the defactors out of the military. Then, when you actually need them, you are left with a military full of loyalists.
Good thing they sent a strong message to rioters that the consequences for storming the Capitol to overturn an election is... maybe a couple of years in prison maximum. I'm sure that's enough to dissuade Trump from trying again. He wouldn't want to hurt his supporters, would he? /s (every sentence)
They would have to do something about Posse Comitatus first.
"The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which removed the military from regular civil law enforcement, was enacted in response to the abuses resulting from the extensive use of the army in civil law enforcement during the Civil War and the Reconstruction. The Act allows legislated exceptions."
That "something" might just turn out to be as simple as "ignore it".
I mean, I guess, they could try... but then they would be delivering unlawful orders to the military. That likely won't go the way they think it will go.
Because, as we've seen, Trump would totes follow the Rule of Law...then again, who needs silly things like Laws when you become the self-declared Lord Emperor after "fixing" America.
Why do you think Tuberville is deliberately crippling the officer corps?
"abuses... during the Civil War and the Reconstruction", as if there wasn't a bunch of states that not only rebelled, but refused to enforce Federal law after the civil war.
Trump was the exemplary student of "Escalation 101" at Dicks University.
They’re going to meet some metaphorical roadblocks along the military chain of command, and they’ll meet physical roadblocks of well equipped citizens who won’t stand for this.
Not to start a conspiracy but I was wondering if the single GOP member holding up all military promotions was all him taking the fall/ getting ready for only promoting those who will follow suit. Hopefully it can't work like that, but it would make sense
I hate this fucking timeline so much. So many in the media seem to be working toward normalizing this obvious march into fascism, and pivoting to stupid horse race bullshit (the average voter thinks Biden is "too old" and so on).
If donnie "wins" the election (likely only the EC again) then this country is just so fucked. It's over at that point.
Vee heil, heil, right in der Führer's face.