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This isn't a joke it's testing the waters.
This is always how he starts things.
yeah love how they always call it jokes. The only jokes trump involves himself with is himself and the people he brings into his circle.
He's not testing the waters.
He's normalizing the illegal discourse.
And if he does that. Expect people to do some nasty business in response to his dictatorship.
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He isn't joking and you shouldn't pretend he is
Dang... he's still alive. Maybe tomorrow.
Ya’ll think the US will ever collectively understand that they can’t keep pretending like these things are jokes or “wouldn’t actually happen”? I swear, Trump could grow a little mustache and people would be saying “oh no, I can’t believe we’re about to fall into fascism!”.
No. Literally warned people and yelled at them that we would be inviting kidnappings (ICE), abortion rights, and gay rights, civil rights… damn there is so much that has already has happened. He can do no wrong to his base and the Supreme Court here and congress has pretty much given him free rein. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I guess if they keep pretending it’s only ever “just getting started” they can pretend as if their inaction was warranted.
Yeah pretty much “we have to wait and see” is what is frequently parroted after everything I have said to try to get these people to see the massive error that is going kill them and the rest of us with them.
Honestly the Trump/ Epstein thing is the closest I’ve seen them wake up too this time (since we’re shown the evidence when it first blew) , but this time it doesn’t seem to be sliding down as easily, but I’m almost positive Trump will find a distraction e.g. such as war…
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We've had elections during a war before and we can do it again. Ukrainian laws don't apply to the US.
Yeah, the law pertaining to not holding elections during martial law in Ukraine was created during another person's presidency as well. He didn't make that. (It stemmed from Russias invasion into Ukraine in 2014, law made in 2015). Zelensky didn't become president until 2019.
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He’s telling everyone what his plan is. War incoming by Jan 2029.
AND he fucks children
Rapes
Hey guys I hearn fücking kïbs is cööl nöw :DDDDDDDDD
Could this be why his aids looked "pallid" after his meeting with Putin?
It's possible his aides had it in their head that they're the "good guys" and fully bought into the propaganda that Trump was going to save America and then had their whole realities shook when they saw Trump and Putin talking together in perfect English talking about their callous conspiracies to wreck nations and crush people they hate together.
This guy is just such a dickhead. The type of people that still support this asshole are very much telling on themselves.
Probably watched Archie Bunker and rooted for him.
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News flash people, he's not fuckin joking. Arm yourselves while you can.
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Can he have a stroke or massive heart attack or something already? Fucking hell man. Nature never takes the ones it should.
Then they 25th Amendment him and install JDV as Thiels hand-picked successor. Somehow speedrunning our way into some weird techno-fascist hellacspe faster than we already are.
Or he could've already had one. Allegedly Reagan was declining for years and the people around him successfully hid it until he was out of office.
lol cool so he just said the quiet part of the playbook out loud.
For those in the back: he’s gonna get the US in to a Serious Fucking War right before the next election so that he can pretend he’s got justification to call off elections.
Pay no mind to the fact that FDR won his third term at the peak of WW2.
Come to think of it: that’s probably why he wants to do it: he knows he probably can’t win another election (putting aside the illegality of running and serving for a third term), and doesn’t want to think about himself being overshadowed by “some old librul Democrat from the 1940s”. And yes, that is a completely serious guesstimate on orangeboi’s rationale for this.
Legally, it won't matter. He doesn't hold office until the next guy, his term ends in 2029. If there is no replacement, the office is simply vacant, and we already have processes for that.
Legally, it won't matter. If (when) he's ignoring the laws to that level, it doesn't matter what anyone pretends happened with an election. The laws will have no bearing anyway.
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So who's he going to invade? Mexico or Canada?
If he tries to invade Canada, Canada’s gonna party like it’s 1814 and we gonna light up the WH - again.
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So did they cancel elections when US invaded Iraq? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Nah… but Trump just wants to cancel elections. He is a dictator. Since there’s nothing and no one stopping him - there’s no reason why he won’t just do it. It’s what 70 million Americans wants anyway.
We've had one Afghan invasion, yes. But what about second Afghan invasion?
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I would say this is impeachable if they already didn't make such a joke out of the punishment.
Yes he did, and he definitely wants to. Now… where are the Epstein files?
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I'm convinced putin recommended this.
I'm positive that would only apply, if the US was actually invaded and/or occupied by a hostile power. If it's just the US bombing some other country, then why would local politics be affected?
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