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I'm thinking he's got to do something before the 2026 elections. If he loses the House and Senate by a lot, he could be impeached and removed. We don't have 4 years, we have 1.
Summer 2026 could really suck.
We don't have 4 years, we have 1.
Seeing what happened the past 2 months I think it's way less than that
It's cute to think they'll allow us to vote fairly. After everything they've done, you know for a fact, they'll be going after all the democratic territories to make it impossible to have a fair election. If things are going to turn around, it definitely won't be peaceful.
This is the same guy who has been impeached twice.
But only grazed once.
He wasn't. That was for the photo OP. His ear was perfectly fine the next day.
Yeah - considering his previous involvement with pro wrestling, I’m honestly pretty convinced that he simply got some color.
Just a little to more the right. Thanks to that republican, now the next guy has to shoot from 700m
Third time is the charm?
From the article...
The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
Always watch what the other hand is doing.
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Hmm... I'm not in those departments, but I already have a conclusion for their report: if that happens, you will be assassinated.
That's Easter Sunday.
Perfect timing while everyone is chilling with family.
45 days today into the 90 if my math was right
Trump just moved an entire Stryker brigade, vehicles and all, to the Mexican border.
I think the clearest way to declare himself President for Life, or at least grab a third term, is to invade ~~Iraq~~ Mexico for ~~WMDs~~ fentanyl, provoke a war, and bend everything in his favor in a system he's already fixed.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but this approach feels familiar 🤔
He'll claim the Mexicans fired the first shots. It's what Hitler did in Poland and it's basically what Putin said to justify his war.
I think it's what the Emperor did in Star Wars
Worked for George W Bush.
Did you happen to notice that GWB is not currently president or dictator? Like, yeah he was shitty, but he didn't participate in a violent attack on the nation's capitol. He didn't illegally try to get other states to "find him votes". He didn't participate in a fake elector scheme. He didn't say the 1st Amendment wasn't legal anymore. He didn't consider imposing martial law...
Like, yeah he was shitty, but he didn’t participate in a violent attack on the nation’s capitol.
Not in DC, but in Miami many of his staffers were involved in a violent riot. The threat of violence was enough for them to suspend the counting of votes, and after a deadline passed, Bush won with a supreme court decision.
Bonus points for similarity, Roger Stone organized a violent protest (riot) with the explicit goal of stopping the counting of votes, for the benefit of republicans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
Yeah, he just killed a million Iraqis, nbd
Hanging chad supreme court determined victory says what?
You clearly didn't pay a single fraction of a thing that guy has done, obviously. He was more subtle with his crookedness.
Yes, W and his cronies were more subtle and worked more within the system. That's the criticism.
At the end of the day, even though W was a bad President, he still participated in the transition of power that this country has done previously. Trump tried to attempt a coup.
We still had elections in those years and Iraq started during his first term. Parallels yes, but a brand new level of fucked up.
Yes, obviously. He isn't just being dumb with the Canada and Greenland threats, he wants to provoke the circumstances to invoke the Insurrection Act. It's the easiest way to bypass midterms and elections. They know what they are doing is unpopular, they know they are only maintaining the veneer of having popularity. It allows political persecution of "traitors" and "propagandists". They aren't casually siding with Russia, Russian authoritarianism is their model. Hope Musk gets thrown out a rocket window to make room for someone more loyal and less overbearing on Trump, he's unpopular enough on both sides that it might actually be considered good PR by Trump.
Here is what our American oligarchs have to look forward to. That is, if it hasn't already happened. Is it worth it? You are not special and it won't be different for you.
Putin offered the oligarchs a deal: bend to my authority, stay out of my way, and you can keep your mansions, superyachts, private jets, and multibillion-dollar corporations (corporations that, just a few years before, had been owned by the Russian government).
In the coming years, the oligarchs who reneged on this deal and undermined Putin would be thrown into a Siberian prison or be forced into exile or die in suspicious circumstances. The loyalists who remained — and the new ones who got filthy rich during Putin's long reign — became like ATM machines for the president and his allies.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy
He doesn't have to do shit to justify anything. He hasn't thus far.
All he has to do is say "I declare an insurrection" and the democrats will hem and haw while the republicans move in lock step. And the military will support him, just like they did last time.
Oh, wait, that pisses people off. Let me try again
The military will wait for orders from the POTUS to figure out what to do about the POTUS. SUPPORT THE TROOPS MOTHER FUCKERS!!!