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Given that the Supreme Court has ruled that presidents can do anything with impunity, I suggest the Biden take this opportunity to execute trump as an official act based on national security and protecting the homeland against fascists.
Foreign and domestic!
Which would lead to President Vance. What's next in your plan?
An official act of executing vice president elect, obviously
Naturally. I mean, if we’re doing this authoritarian thing now as the electorate has indicated that it wants, might as well be a less racist, less stupid authoritarian.
Yeah, I mean there is a clear authoritarian mandate for the United States. Biden should just act on it.
People want to vote for locking up their political opponents, and a president that enjoys absolute immunity? Let's fucking go.
What does happen if the president-elect dies before the inauguration?
The most likely scenario is Trump/Vance are still selected by the Electoral College but on election day Vance is sworn in as President, without a Vice President. Vance then goes through the standard process (Senate approval) to select a Vice President.
Technically it is possible for the Electoral College to select Vance and whomever Vance selects as VP. Since Republicans (will) have control of the Senate the odds of this scenario is slightly increased just to save everyone time. However given the various Electoral College deadlines and the fact that Vance would likely want time to select a VP, this option isn't likely.
Now if Trump had died 4 weeks before election day and Vance had clearly selected a new VP already, then the second scenario is more likely.
President Vance.
JD Vance (and Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Elon Musk) is not a replacement I would welcome in the event of Trump no longer being able to be president.
You're close to the solution...
This is how you end up on watchlists. Not that it will matter since Trump will tear down FBI
Seriously though... It was argued that, yes, a president can eliminate political opponents with impunity. I surely will be mistaken here, but if Biden wanted to, he could take out trump, and the entire top of the Maga movement and he would be untouchable.
It would circle into a civil war, probably, but the Maga crowd would get exactly what they wanted, just the other way around.
On a slightly less funny interpretation of this: so it seems that trump has calmed down the "kill the opponents" rhetoric after his victory, but many of his crowd haven't. I seriously worry for political opponents, journalists and comedians in the US as soon as trump and his cronies rise to power. I seriously expect many to go to jail, and some, indeed, to just disappear or get the good ol' "walked too close to a window" treatment.
So I'm actually wondering if Biden should just take out trump, just for self defense because there is an actual non zero chance that trump and cronies will get their revenge on Biden and Kamela.