• ProfessorScience@lemmy.world
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    … it’s just going to be, I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me.

    Bitch, you are the encyclopedia britannica of reasons for a president to be impeached.

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    Wow fake news much!? He said he WON’T say “they” should cancel it. Then he repeated himself 5 or 6 times to make sure everyone got it. Even though he thinks “they” should cancel it, it’s not something he would say.

    Just so we’re all on the same page. /s

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        Yep, he plays and twists positions he’s clearly promoting by prefacing with “how those crazy reporters would react” and it works. The media gulps it down, every time. Just look how every mainstream outlet is sanewashing this specific event.

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          It’s a self-eating snake now man.

          The media is going to keep on keeping it up because Trump means ratings, and ratings mean money.

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            The media is going to keep on keeping it up because it’s all owned by fascist billionaires who are on Trump’s side.

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            It’s not just the ratings. They’d get plenty of ratings showing trump being arrested, on trial, going to jail, crying on camera, dying horribly; and same for all his conspirators.
            The billionaires are the ones who benifit from trump, and they own the media.

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              They’d make a lot more fucking money showing those things.

              It’d be like the ending of WW2 in this bitch

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              But they’d only get those ratings the one time if he dies or goes to prison. If he lives and continues to be dictator president they can milk him indefinitely

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                Well he’ll probably die soon regardless (we can only hope). I think he’s racked enough criminal charges to keep the show going until he croaks.

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        This fucking idiot is just rambling about an autopen for a few minutes without a hint of irony that he himself is an autopen because his dementia riddled head doesn’t think. He literally said “now I just sign em all because it’s crazy”. It’s like 4 separate layers of irony.

        What a fucking world.

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      Media should start asking this question to everyone in this fucking administration:

      “Will the Epstein Files be released before or after the midterms elections are cancelled?”

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    “They’ll find a reason to impeach me.”

    Like bc of all the crimes? I used to be about non-violence but it really does seem like the answer in specific cases.

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    Guys, not sure if everyone gets it yet, so for those who need to catch up: There will not be any midterms. At least nothing meaningful, if they’re held at all. The right is gaslighting and the left is in denial. The right don’t want elections…they can only reduce their power.

    David Frum said it best: “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”. He’s right, and he would know.

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      They might try, butbim not so sure how well it would go. States control elections, so it would be individual red states (or more correctly, states run by republicans) who would “cancel elections”. But those are also the statea full of people who demonstrated they are willing to storm capitals over election shenbanigans (i truly belive most of the jan 6ers really were convinced that the election was stolen bless their hearts).

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        It was the MAGAts that stormed the capital because Trump told them to. If Daddy Trump tells them the elections need to be cancelled these people will be storming blue states that try to have elections.

        If only blue states have elections then the Republicans can’t lose any seats.

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        It’s all about forcing a constitutional crisis. The States that do not have an election are going to claim that the mid term election was invalid. Forcing the issue to SCOTUS who will mostly likey say something about one state cancelling an election means the mid terms couldn’t happen.

        John Roberts will make weak ass excuse about making sure democracy is protected. Clearance Thomas will get a new RV. Samuel Alito can take joy in being a facist prick. Brett Kavanaugh will get a case of beer. Amy Coney Barret will get solace that her christo-fascist state gets to happen. Neil Gorsuch gets to a be smug little fuckward.

        Those January 6ers aren’t going to do anything, they were upset that the election was “stolen” from their guy. The January 6ers ain’t going to do shit just all those ammosexuals talking about how the 2nd amendement is about protecting the country from tyranny. All as it’s their own team doing it, all of them will find reasons to support it.

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    Can something really be considered “jaw dropping” when anyone with 2 brain cells has assumed he was going to attempt something like this since he literally said on stage over a year ago, you won’t ever have to vote again?

    At this point, I would say it would be “jaw dropping” for him to just follow the rule of law.

    We all know his goal is to destroy the U.S. (as well as any part of the globe they can seize) and the entire system of government on behalf of his handlers and their corporate interests, right? Surely by now, nobody could still believe that maybe this guy is just exceptionally bad at his job…

    The entire point is to burn it all to the ground, and from there rebuild it in their own image. Realistically, who knows wtf will actually be rebuilt if anything, because if/when it all does finally come crumbling down, they will turn on each other to determine who will seize power and use their hoarded resources to force us to fight each other in a civil war(s) on their behalf.

    Anyway, tldr, sorry to be that person, but this isn’t “jaw dropping.”

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    You should already have been impeached you rapist criminal pedophile. You should be in prison waiting for the firing squad.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    I will burn shit. No taxation without representation. Taking away my representation (no matter how much of a shitty sycophant my representative is) is the same as taking way my duties as a citizen to follow the law. If I still have to go to work, then the fucking country is running well enough to have an election.

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      Fuck yeah, this is the energy i want my politicians to have. You should run for something, i’d vote for you.

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      We don’t cancel elections in the US. Even for war. A full-scale invasion of the mainland might be enough to try it, but some piddling foreign “special military operation” isn’t going to cut it.

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        Yes but that’s based on precedent. The current administration gives zero fucks about precedent or logic or anything else. Any convenient excuse will work for them.

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          Its also based on who runs the elections: the states. The federal executive branch doesn’t hold power over them.

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        You’re counting on historical precedent to prevent bad actions from this regime? 🤔

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        While I agree this is just step one. They are showing that law and precedent mean nothing if no one will do anything, and they will continue until that changes.