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Trump Shares Posts Pitching Himself as Speaker and Calling Kevin McCarthy a Traitor (www.mediaite.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know we're living in the crapsack timeline, but I didn't realize it was a crapsack made of little shit people that the Republicans sculpted like they were Play-Doh and then threw them in the sack and made screaming noises, pretending the little shit people were screaming, before declaring that sack to be their new second-in-command after Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They put a far right super majority in the supreme court, are trying to put their candidate in Congress as speaker and then re-elect him to the executive branch.

We all know they're fucking Nazis, but, just saying, this sure seems like some 1930's Germany shit, right now. Like it's obvious and all, but still needs to be said out loud.

Would be a lot cooler if we were not trying to replicate that shit.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago (4 children)

If elected speaker, he would be third in line to the presidency. They were already ready to kill Trump's own VP on his behalf.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On the bright side, he can't claim executive immunity or pardon himself if he was selected to be Speaker, since the legislative branch does not confer the same level of such protections, and he wouldn't be able to campaign as much, since he would have to do actual work.

On top of that, he would have a much smaller megaphone, much less power, and he would be a live-in distraction for the true believers in Congress.

Basically, he'd have to successfully assassinate two members of the executive branch who are around and guarded by numerous people at all times.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume he wouldn't just golf all the time anyway. Being president obviously posed little hindrance.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

He won't become speaker he got to many legal problems and it takes away from him campaigning so we safe for now.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If there is something dumb to be done it's guaranteed the MAGA Trumpers are gonna do it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (6 children)

"Let's make President Drink-Bleach our speaker!"

What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

President Drink-Bleach

That would have saved us all so much trouble.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sadly our timeline doesn't get democracy on easymode, we get to deal with the problem the hard way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

At least we're not unique.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (4 children)

He is disqualified due to the 14th amendment.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago

They don't care.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Technically that's just a GOP rule... and we know what their reaction is to things like that...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He shoild be, but so far the courts so far have disagreed, and the SCOTUS declined to hear the case until more lower courts have ruled. Until he's convicted, it's unlikely that he will be pre-emptively disqualified from holding office.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Constitution does not state the individual has to be convicted. They only had to aid in any way, shape, or form an insurrection, which he did.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I agree with you, but so far the courts have not. Remember that the courts consist of judges who may or may not have allegiances or prejudices that influence their reading of the constitution. So while we can agree we both think Trump should be disqualified by the letter of the law, we cannot know for sure that he will be disqualified. If he is convicted of seditious conspiracy, then the pathway becomes much clearer.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

A conviction would generally be seen as what establishes the fact that the person has done that act.

Which is probably for the best. I'd remind you that plenty of Americans right now would say that Biden has committed treason of some kind, so it's probably a good thing that there's a formal legal process for this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s not clear just yet that the law applies to him, in general.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My State of Colorado doesn't care about the court, we are going to ban him from the ballot.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, he wants to be second in line for the presidency so that his degenerate followers can perform some strategic assassinations and put him in the presidency.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fucking THIS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

You can't deny it's a distinct possibility.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lmao. I can see it already. He thinks he can be speaker and President.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Then he just needs to appoint himself as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and become the President of the Senate to fulfill his dream of running the entire government.

(Not doing any work, mind you. Just holding all the positions of power at once.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then he just needs to appoint himself as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and become the President of the Senate to fulfill his dream of running the entire government.

Our former prime minister actually did something like this. He secretly appointed himself as health minister, finance minister, industry minister, home affairs minister and treasurer. It was quite a big scandal that only came out after the election that kicked out his government and threw a lot of ministerial decisions made during that time into legal doubt, though nothing ended up coming from it.

Morrison was a lazy shit and only used his secret ministerial powers a few times, he just wanted to have the power for himself. His stated reason was "in case the existing ministers became incapacitated by COVID", but we already have assistant ministers that could fill in if that happened.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Fuck scummo. He was even worse than Abbott. At least he cared about some of us. Sure, they were all rich, white, Christian people, but he still cared about them. Scummo just cared about himself and no-one else. Also, it was kinda funny when Abbott ate his second unpeeled yellow onion on national tv. I mean, once is a mistake, twice is hilarious/concerning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Not yet

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Let's just skip all these stupid little technicalities and proclaim him Supreme Leader or King.

It's what the founding fathers would have wanted...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A speaker needs to be able to speak coherent sentences…

There is nobody better than Trump at willing his own reality into existence. He teases some absurd idea then lets the subconscious of his MAGA fanbase bring it to life. I’m torn between disbelief and “of course they’re legitimately thinking about this.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

A speaker needs to be able to speak coherent sentences…

Lol where have you been? Competence are no longer requirements for office

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh they definitely are all giant sentient bags of shit for sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think ‘sentient’ is WAAAAAAYYY too generous.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Bags of shit are useful.

They aren't.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LOL, donnie calling anyone else a traitor.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The speaker of the house isn't just the guy who talks a lot, Donnie.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

That’s rich (unlike Trump) calling someone else a traitor.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 8 points 10 months ago

Uh didn’t he explicitly say that he wasn’t interested in the speakership like a day or two ago? That was a quick about-face.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Can you even imagine the Democrats worshipping a candidate who was found liable for rape, liable for fraud, and who was out on bail for several incredibly serious crimes, for which there is overwhelming evidence of his guilt on the public record?

Republicans are disgusting. They are a cancer. The whole party is full of the most anti-American, anti-basic-decency traitors the world has ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Excellent. Goodbye functioning government and goodbye swing district GOP congressmen/women.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How would he be the Speaker and be a President ?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

By getting the same mouth breathing idiots who chanted “hang mike pence” on Jan 6 to get serious about committing violence against the potus and vp. No doubt in my mind if somehow trump was 3rd in line he’d laser focus stochastic terrorism towards no 1 and no 2.

Mark my words: If they die, even by heart attack, he would try to seize both offices plus the speakership for himself and claim a new reich.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's called a Dictatorship.

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