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[–] [email protected] 39 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, already in the first week. Expect to hear this joke periodically over the course of his term, each time getting slightly more seriously stated. By the third year, everyone will have heard it so much it'll be accepted as a perfectly reasonable idea. And the media will help that along in how they report on it. This is the tried and true playbook and it will work, not only for this plan but for their other plans.

Take for example the planned mass deportations. They'll start out with finding some people who have committed crimes (or they claim have), deport them and no one will object to that, it's already how it's done. As they move on to those whose crimes are not very consequential, like traffic tickets or whatever, if libs say anything against it, they'll pounce on it and amplify stories how the libs are overreacting and want criminals to be left free and have open borders. Harping on any criticism in cases that are technically justified is key to getting the public used to pooh-poohing any dissent as they start escalating and going after the law-abiding (other than being here illegally ofc) immigrants, families with mixed status members, DACA/Dreamers, parents of children born here and thus citizens and deporting the children with them, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

He won't stay in power. His appointment of incompetent sycophants will dismantle 250 years of American prosperity (maliciously or negligently, it doesn't matter) and it will be sold for parts to billionaires and foreign states.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, a "joke".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

He’ll do what Putin did. Have Vance run as President, and run as his Vice-President. He’ll maintain control like Dick Cheney with Bush.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

That’s explicitly not allowed by the constitution. 12th amendment

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Yes, but the 28th Amendment written on this McDonald's napkin says he can totally do this.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

If I were him, I'd be more concerned with making it through this one.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Remember, the Constitution is just a really old piece of paper if the people entrusted to enforce it choose to ignore it.

There is a non-zero chance that Trump could move to suspend the Constitution entirely, backed by a complicit Cabinet, Congress, Supreme Court and several state governments. And at that point, we would literally have to hope and pray that the rank-and-file military is on the side of the people, which is far, far from guaranteed. Because if they're not, you can claim your Constitutional rights all you want, but you'll be doing it with the other prisoners inside of whatever re-education camp you're assigned to.

Heck, there's a non-zero chance that the American voter just gives off a collective "meh" and just apathetically lets Trump seize total power. We just saw a few million people do just that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

Jk, jk...unless...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Ben Shapiro is a hypocritical piece of shit. Sorry that might not be relevant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Ben Shapiro is a hypocritical piece of shit.

Ftfy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago

Nah, that's always relevant

[–] [email protected] 101 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

Luckily, the process of repealing or changing an amendment likely won’t change anytime soon, even with a Republican trifecta at the federal level, as it requires overwhelming public support. As outlined in Article 5 of the Constitution, any such change requires at least two-thirds of the Senate and the House to agree on the modification, with that change then requiring ratification by a minimum of three-quarters of states in the nation.

I wouldn't be so confident. If the majority decides to ignore it, then a constitution suddenly holds very little weight. Remember how the Roman Empire was once a Republic, until someone decided it wasn't anymore? Remember how 1930s Germany was a democracy, until someone decided that had to end?

Trump might argue some weird logic regarding the 22nd and 12th amendment. Or he might just declare a state of national emergency because of a new migrant caravan or some such shit, and postpone elections indefinitely. If he tries anything of the sort, it will all come down to whose side the military is on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, and that fuckwits name was Paul von Hindenburg in Germany.

The fall of the Roman Republic was way more complex though wasn't it? Like the Senate killed Ceaser and then voted to give his son unlimited tenure as Commander In Chief? There's a lot to unpack there

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

What happens if they declare all democrats are enemies of the state and remove them from office and put their people in?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

You’ll probably get to find out in January 😊 that’s kind of the whole plan

[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago

Project Gilead.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

ITS NOT A "JOKE" AND NEVER FUCKING HAS BEEN

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

The god king...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Alright Ganon, let's chill with the rhetoric.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

It wasn't a joke.

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