• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    So, it’s either healthcare subsidies or food? You can’t have both? Even though we had both before Republicans took it all away, so they could give tax breaks to Trump’s rich donors?

    Fuck these assholes.

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      It’s also a bit of PR nightmare for the GOP. Trump defying the court order shifts the blame back onto them.

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        In a less polarized and post truth world you’d probably be right. I fear however that the solid 36-37% maga base will never find an issue that can’t be spun or rationalized. In the magasphere this situation seems to be framed as the GOP stepping up to fight against free health care for illegal immigrants which seems divorced from reality.

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          Trump is posting on social media that Biden’s administration was just giving SNAP benefits away. His idiot supporters are gonna believe it.

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          Yeah, but most of the hardcore maga base is going to die within 10 years, but waaaayyyy sooner if Trump keeps cutting snap and Medicaid. Then you’ll be left with the few capable white supremacist MAGAts, and a lot of out of shape brainwashed dipshits who will either scatter into the shadows or fall in line and shut the fuck up real quick

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          I truly think that a good amount of these people could be personally executed by Trump shooting them in the chest, and while Trump says “I know what you are and I hate you” they would lay there dying and say “Oh it’s okay, I know you didn’t mean that. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I still support what you’re doing overall.” or possibly even “I guess I do deserve to die if you say so”.

          Now I will say the majority of even the maga team is not this nuts. But some definitely are. Many humans have unfortunately had the privilege to never interact with the kind of person who will truly never change their mind. I’ve known one or two, and it’s a really mind-expanding experience, almost like you’re meeting an extraterrestrial. It’s hard for people who haven’t seen them to believe 👽 lol

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        I think by saying he’ll defy a court order, he’s letting the supreme court know they have to okay whatever bullshit he comes up with. Otherwise, it will become obvious that they can’t do jack shit.

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      If the government can’t afford to feed and heal the people, they shouldn’t be building a ballroom. I was taught in school to pay for your needs before your wants.

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        But the ballroom is all being paid for by the people who are hoping Trump will do them favors. So, that makes it none of our business.

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      In the end it’s going to be neither. Because once you give way on one front, it is proven that you’ll negotiate.

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        This is literally how we got here. Dems capitulated over and over during Obama’s presidency to keep programs like SNAP going, and Republicans have run the same strategy ever since. Stonewall everything as long as you can, and blame it on the other side the entire time. And people eat it up every single time.

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      I feel like dems should add to their list of demands- if the Rs dont agree to reverse course on Healthcare now, dems will not agree to reopen until all missed snap benefits are paid back retroactively- if it goes another week, they will not vote until ice is fully refunded, etc

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      Use open secrets dort org. You can find the shitbags in your area that gave 5k, 10k, 20k, 50k+ directly to the trump campaign. Not a general Republican PAC, but directly to HIS campaign. You can then cross reference those names with county property records. Then you can engage in civil political discourse with those people

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    “sound the alarm”, horseshit. Just file the articles of impeachment and make the senators vote openly that they believe the executive branch ignoring a court order is okay. Senators should have to openly say it’s okay to not remove someone for not following the rules /“laws” of the republic. Then as Trump keeps fucking everything up the Senators will have to realize either A. They are willing to surrender their job/career/ country to back a tryant,or B. They need to jump ship.

    If its fine to not listen to the courts, then there is no reason for congress to exist. Their job is to write legislation that the courts ensure breakers of that legislation are punished.

    They should have done so on many other occasions, but their failures are only adding up.

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      File the articles of impeachment over every single illegal action he is undertaking. Make it so congress is constantly dealing with impeachment hearing every second of every day till he is dead and buried.

      While doing that make sure that you call for a constitutional convention, not an amendment or a series if amendments. A full on new constitution is needed to clear the shit out.

      While the House of Representatives remains out have all the democratic representatives meet and broadcast it publicly. Do that every single day, talk policy and reforms and ask republican representatives to join the meeting. Make it painfully obvious that the democrats want to have a functioning government and not be held out like this endlessly.

      Anyways tangent over.

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        You do not want a constitutional convention in this political climate. Amending the constitution requires 3/4 of state legislatures to ratify the amendment. Considering a solid majority of states have Republican controlled legislatures, the only things we’re likely to get from a convention are amendments banning DEI initiatives and trans people in sports, or something even worse.

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        I say they amend the constitution to make it 1/4 vote congress impeach, 1/3 vote removes. VP is not picked by President, it is the second most votes like when the country started. Then you put oversight committees on every executive organization and they answer directly to congress. Get rid of “executive powers” that come from declaring emergencies and etc. So impeaching president puts the VP (most likely their running opponent). Then the 3rd votes goes to VP and an emergency vote is taken place, to put a new Senate backup.

        Or I’ve said before: dissolve the executive branch, and place all of the organizations under the legislature, and make a 3rd party review committee that evaluates if legislation, and judicial is being created to overpower the judicial branch or corrupt. And all organizations under the executive answer directly to congress.

        Or, dissolve the Senate and the Executive… Place everything under Congress, expand the supreme Court to 50 judges one from each state. (Still would need some oversight)

        But the idea is to make it so population of individuals is easily defeated, and we don’t have giant stupid news buyouts every 4 years to make 1 position something it was never meant to me. If you don’t want a king, kill the position

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        That would work if it weren’t for the gullibility of republican voters. GOP is clearly the ones at fault for the current shut down, yet they’ve convinced half of their supporters to blame democrats based on literally nothing.

        So if the senate refuses to ratify any impeachment than all the GOP has to do is yell “TDS” and all their criminally stupid supporters would believe it no questions asked.

        Not really different from our current reality tho

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      The events of January 6th suggest Trump would be willing to mass execute congress if he didn’t need them anymore

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      IIRC, Articles of Impeachment against the President are filed in the House, not the Senate.

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        The articles of impeachment are the house, the removal is the Senate. Requires 2/3. It’s why Trump was not removed during his 1st term. Impeached twice, and the Senate never voted to remove, the second time saying it was so close to the end it doesn’t matter if we vote. (It did matter, he most likely wouldn’t be president now if they had)

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          Oh it would be a private road. A nice alley lined with trophies of self-aggrandisement and narcissism, closed off to the public who only get to look on through a fence as he gets driven up and down his rue de merde (which someone told him is related to merit, so he ate it right up, because fact checking is for losers) in a pimped out golf cart.

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    After midterms. These dems better put on their big girl panties and start impeaching and imprisoning this entire administration and the Supreme Court immediately. No mercy project 2029!

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    “I will withold food from them, unless Democrats let me take their healthcare”

    Since he is ignoring courts now, what’s stopping him from doing that anyway, even after government is open? The bill already severely cut snap benefits, and instructed agencies to stop reporting on hunger level in US, so it is not like he cares.

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    Bullshit, the POS does not want Adelita Grijalva to be sworn in and 40 million hungry people could lead to an increase in violence, which is exactly what he wants.

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      This is the play. Look for even more ICE escalation and fishing boat attacks in the coming days as the entire establishment retaliates, not just from tRump but also the MSM from the major L they just took in NY. It’s gonna be an ugly few weeks ahead.

      Check in on your neighbors and community support networks, and help out locally any way you can as people start to hurt. The coming holiday season is going to be less than holly jolly for everyone. Talk about a war on Christmas…

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    Why would anyone expect Donald J Trump, convicted felon, to uphold the rule of law? Mother fucker can’t even follow it himself lol

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    But then when reporters questioned Levitt, she barked back that he IS NOT withholding them and they are being sent out as needed.

    Why is it that the president makes some unhinged, mental social media post, then the white house has to translate that for the media? This is absurd and they all need to be removed from office for incompetence, then charged for all the crimes they have committed.

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      This is absurd and they all need to be removed from office for incompetence, then charged for all the crimes they have committed.

      Why do yall keep saying things like this. It feels like there are dozens of people trapped in the thinking that somewhere some other grown ups will be the grown ups for them.

      These are the people who have been picked and who have the power.

      They won’t be arresting themselves, and they wont allow fair and free elections if no one forces the issue.

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        I do appreciate the Mussolini ending, but…

        What I have been saying since Jan 6th:

        Bury him alive at the feet of Lincoln, maybe a 20 foot deep shaft, just throw him in, then the concrete.

        All that would indicate anything was amiss, would be an engraved gold plate on the floor, on top of the shaft, reading SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.

        … A more patriotic spin on the steretypical real estate developer method of assasination.

        Leave him encased in his own disgrace, literally under Lincoln’s feet, the only suitable place for a racist insurrectionist mob boss.

        And also, the plate is gold… meant to be stepped on, and the engraving wear away with time.

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      There’s another reality where the hungry masses swarm what’s left of the White House like macrophages and destroy the rot inside, demonstrating with great visibility the it can be done, triggering a cascade of fascism FAFO worldwide.

      Sadly, we seem to be in the cancer timeline where they take all the resources and starve us all to death instead.