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My thoughts exactly

It would very much be our problem because then we'd have a nation with fealty to Putin/Russia right on our doorstep.

You would consigned millions of people to remain in slavery as well as their descendants for god knows how many generations for the chance it would maybe have stopped trump, a bigot from New York?

You might want to look at the past two elecctoral college maps before you go blaming everything on the south.

It wouldn't be that clean cut. Yes, a good chunk of the southeast would go but you have plenty of states that are discontiguous or so close to a 50-50 split, that we'd end up with a bunch of 1850s Kansas-Missouri situations.

Donald Trump is from New York.

I'm trying to imagine what the day should be called?

"Grab em by the bussy" day?

Ah, I'm still working on it....

They must mean the television show.

Cult 45 is a bunch of pussies. How many of them are willing to die for a cheeto? There's going to be enough military there this cult will get curb stomped in about .4 seconds. I hope they do, maybe it'll take a few child molesters and a few future mass shooters off this planet.

The Beerhall putsch was terrible planned and executed as well. Past failure doesn’t necessarily mean they will continue to fail.

Yup. Except this time the president won’t hold back the military like Trump did.

Well, you're right, but you're missing the fact that Republicans work hard to make and keep these conditions, because their base is made up of the most disaffected people. They block healthcare reform, they block student debt relief, they block first time home buyer assistance - they block all the social programs that would ease these problems. Then they try to dismantle the government entities that work to help these things; did you notice how many of Trump's appointees were vocally against the organizations he put them in charge of? Republicans want the government not to work so that they can say "See, it doesn't work, we need smaller government," and then they can get rid of the regulations and taxes that reduce the (already obscene) profits that corporations make.

So yes, you're right, but it's working as intended for the right.

If he disapears tomorrow, maybe that'll knock some sense into the republican party and they'll get some actual politicians and work with the democrats instead of blindly voting no and anything they do, regardless of how good it is for people. These problems that you're concerned about wouldn't be problems if the right wasn't trying to make the left look bad. So take the both sides shit and shove it up all the way up your ass.

There's one party who has a lot of people who want to address the problems you point out. There is another party that wants to remove all ability of the government to address any of those problems you mention because they think that will solve the problems.

The problem with the former party is that they can never get a large enough majority to do anything about it. The way our government is set up, you need more than slim majority in both houses to get anything meaningful done, unless you can get everyone of the people in the party to line up behind it, any you'll inevitably have hold outs.

Your post is just more of the "muh both sides!" nonsense. The problem isn't that neither party listens, it's that the one who wants to stop the government from being able to do anything about it keeps getting at least near 50% of the people to vote for them.

Well said, can't upvote this enough.

The kitchen is dirty, and it's on fire.

Yes, the kitchen being dirty is a problem. It probably even contributed to the fire, and makes putting out the fire even harder.

But you have to put out the fire before you can worry about anything else.

Stop playing the 'both sides are the same song.'

The ACA was based on Mitt Romney's Massachusetts plan because Obama wanted to make it easy for the GOP to swallow it.

If the US is in trouble it's because one side has been trying desperately to screw the other and doesn't case if the public suffers too.

You're right. But that would mean politicians would have to stop kowtowing to business, start re-regulating Wall St, and begin to support social justice cause (tax rules, public housing, business regulation, etc). So unfortunately it's unlikely to happen because the whole gd world is so far down the rabbit hole we are blind to what could be.

How you gonna wrap a law around it? Hell, even with something as "obvious" as this quote? Trump said nothing that "incites violence". He's playing the mob boss thing, again.

If 01/06 wasn't enough for our government to take action, nothing will be. And again, what would that action even look like?

I've preached many, many times on here and reddit that libs need to get armed, educated and practiced. Is that terrorism? Fuck me. I'm just saying that the conservatives are ready to kill us and we should be prepared to defend ourselves.

It is but only for leftists. Thanks, McCarthy.

Right with ya. Problem is, the vast majority of Americans are ignorant of history and have a, "Can't happen here!" attitude.

Fascism isn't coming, it's here, now, today.

You have it right on the best/worst case scenarios. Best case might sober enough people up to turn the ride. Otherwise we're sleepwalking into this.

Is it explicitly stated whom a president may not pardon (eg, themselves)?

If so, no reason to anyone to do anything if he's elected

Now you keep saying that term.....brown shirts......what do UPS delivery drivers have to do with this?

And hopefully either held in jail without bond or be convicted felons who can't vote.