• Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
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      For sure with all the other times people have stopped him from doing something illegal.

      WHEN he does this, Kash Patel and the FBI won’t do anything but HELP HIM. WHEN he does this, TOM Homan and the DHS won’t do anything but HELP HIM. WHEN he does this, Todd Blanche and the DOJ won’t do anything but HELP HIM. WHEN he does this, Pete Hegseth and the Military won’t do anything but HELP HIM. WHEN he does this, John Roberts and his SCOTUS won’t do anything but HELP HIM.

      When Democrats get in, if Mike Johnson allows it, they might be able to impeach some of them and then trump will install an “interim” appointee that will be no different.

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    1. ICE at polling places
    2. Lost ballot boxes
    3. Elon
    4. Postal shenanigans
    5. Republicans lose house and senate convincingly
    6. Lots of legal challenges
    7. House and Senate just don’t acknowledge newly elected reps, delay, et cetera
    8. Lots of legal challenges that proceed very slowly
    9. Impeachment
    10. Martial law
    11. Lots more legal challenges
    12. Nothing changes.

    I wish you luck Americans but as a nation you’ve demonstrated that you’re unable to respond to this challenge.

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      Lol, the house and Senate don’t get to refuse anything. The states send their representatives to Congress and they became the new Congress in January. This isn’t a special election.

      They’re going to win control of at least the house, and from then on Trump will be a lame duck president. Any play at martial law won’t work and will just make Trump look like even more of a pathetic joke, they would need many millions of people in the army to actually enforce it and they don’t have anywhere near that.

      So tired of the uneducated doomer shit on this site.

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        It’s true. Since being in he hasn’t been able to do ANYTHING without passing bills through Congress…

        The end of his first term shows what will happen (except now it will be worse since he is on tilt)

        Even with Democrats controlling the House, Donald Trump retained several significant unilateral powers in the second half of his first term (2019–2021):

        Executive orders and memoranda – He directed the executive branch without congressional approval. In fact, he increased his use of executive orders and unpublished memoranda once facing a hostile House, particularly on immigration policy. Appointments – He nominated federal judges, Supreme Court justices, and executive-branch officials (subject to Senate confirmation, which Republicans controlled). Most notably, he nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in 2020. Pardons – The pardon power is entirely independent of Congress and cannot be overridden. Foreign policy and military command – He could make executive agreements (no Senate ratification needed), direct military operations, and set diplomatic policy. Veto – He will still block legislation Enforcement discretion – He will direct how federal agencies prioritize and implement existing laws.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      We know.

      The only good news is that a lot of us have thought this was happening before now. Su they might not pull it off this time either.

      And some progressive candidates are making progress.

      It’s very bleak. But it has been bleak for longer than much of the world noticed. So far we’ve survived albeit not without many losses and setbacks.

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        Their lack of ability and understanding are their only redeeming qualities.

        But this is all just to set up for 2028, and a dry run. Not for the president of course he doesn’t care about anything outside himself, but for the party, it is.

        If they control one house of congress, they can refuse to recognize results and fillibuster it until it gets thrown to the States, where every state gets one vote, and they control over 30 of them.

        That is one of many cheats they are planning, last resort kind of one. I suspect they are going to try and electronically cheat at vote totals, given that they got the inner workings of all the voting machines in swing states from pillow infomercial douche’s group he set up, getting hard drives from states like michigan, arizona, colorodo, and everywhere else. It all varies by state, but I suspect they’ve been cheating as such since 2016 when the poll numbers were so offset from the actual results.

        I’d like to see some exit polling to confirm because that is traditionally the most accurate.

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    ‘well, I didn’t vote for him’

    ‘both sides are the same’

    ‘why do you support genocide?’

    ‘no wars president’

    ‘he knows how to run it like a business’

    ‘im a fucking moron’

    ^^^all the above groups are the same

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      What self reflection do you do when you realize that the opposition party that you shill for STRUGGLES to defeat the most obvious and disgusting populations in our country.

      What self reflection do you do when you look back at the last forty years and try to tell someone what they GAINED by voting for your neoliberal (opposition).

      What self reflection do you do when you say something so stupid as above and all of the leaders of the party that YOU SHILL FOR haven’t done anything to stop any of this? They don’t even focus on the worst aspects and share the same donors. Is Peter Thiel less evil now that he supports Dems instead of MAGA? So now we support Peter Thiel?

      What self reflection do you do when the party you shill for can only come up with a pathetic “first 100 day plan” a couple weeks before midterms when we should have something like “Project 2028” that should be a published roadmap of everything that they are going to implement and everyone that they are going to imprison.

      Instead, the people you shill for while shitting on the American people, are “committed to oversight” and going to “restore affordable care act tax credits”

      No one should support any of this until the Dems get rid of AIPAC and change leadership.

      Everyone always accused me of being an election bot so I will even give some neolibs some credit. Ossof and Tallarico are awesome and know how to speak to MAGA filth and are promising. David Hogg was a good DNC chair that wanted the party to change direction and they got rid of him with a quickness. So without a change in leadership and committee appointments, just prepare to watch more capitalist elbow bumps after their WWE fights while we get NOTHING

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      That’s how we Unite people against Trump! Attack them 😂😂😂 keep it up pup

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        They’re not here, pal. All flavors of lefites are from vaguely center-left to “it goes that far???”

        But none of the right that I’ve seen.

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          Yeah IMO the closest we have to conservatives here are the Tankies, which can come across as MAGA at first glance because they both like licking boots.

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      Yes we’ve had coup attempt, but what about second coup attempt. -Pippin

      I don’t think he knows about second coup attempt. -Merry

      -Aragorn: throws a maga hat over the bush