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Ironically, if he is successful, it would be a national emergency.
The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that's exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections. If they just jump to suspending fair elections anyway, then there will be nothing to stop the gloves from coming off. The billionaires and Congress creatures better run for their bunkers. Anybody that the people perceive as having a hand in getting us to this point, either through direct action or failure to react, won't be safe.
The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that's exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections.
The only things holding Americans back from violence are relatively abundant food, entertainment and comfort. All of which will still continue to exist once free elections are gone. Plus what they replace them with will be branded super duper free elections, and that will be enough for a lot of people.
There is little to no evidence that the 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn't vote in Nov 2024 are any more engaged with what is happening than they were back then.
All they have to do is orchestrate this coup in a somewhat intelligent way that doesn't immediately collapse the economy and they can absolutely pull it off.
Most Americans are not going to fight for abstract rights when their immediate tangible needs are being met.
“…duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.”
Night of the long knives in 3...2..
The US regime has already committed so many serious crimes by now that I would be surprised if it did not try to establish a dictatorship. If it did not do so, all members of the government would risk prosecution as soon as they were voted out of office, even in a legal system as corrupt as that of the US.
Bold move in a nation with more guns than people.
I'm not against a Gaddafi or Mussolini ending at all.
The ending is OK. It's the journey there we all want to avoid.
You're the first Republican President since the civil rights act passed to have negative approval among white voters.
You won the popular vote because for the first time in memory, high propensity voters are going for the Democrats and low propensity voters went for Republicans.
Whatever you're planning won't be enough.
Prediction: None of this so called evidence will ever make an appearance in a court room.
Unfortunately we have been boned since the immunity ruling.
The only emergency I see are the browned pants of the orange hittler…
Donald Trump is the national emergency.
States should declare emergencies first and protect themselves from the fed. Elections are handled by each state, not the government.
we held elections during a literal civil war. What "emergency" could trump that with all our modern life improvements and.... checks notes. No civil war in America...
What "emergency" could trump that with
He has no trouble pulling random excuses out of his ass.
And on the rare occasion the courts eventually tell him to stop, he will have been doing whatever he wants for months and moths before he is told to stop.
Someone please lock Dem leadership in a closet somewhere so people who care can deal with this.
Where are these people who can deal with it?
Please, show some evidence that they actually exist. I don't need names and addresses, thats just opening them up as targets.
Do they exist? Because all I've seen is a lot of bitching and whining and declaring that no-one is good enough to do that.
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Probably should've done it before shit talking the supreme court. I have little faith in them to act in a timely manner, but who knows?
What if that was just theater?
The Chinese government hates the US and, if they interfered successfully, would have done so to get Trump into office, since that would cause the most damage.
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Doesn't there actually have to be a "National Emergency" before he can just "declare" one? I seem to remember the South Korean president tried something similar there. Wouldn't it be great if the consequences were the same?
Doesn't there actually have to be a "National Emergency" before he can just "declare" one?
Yes, but here's the problem. Both the courts and Congress in their truly finite and limited wisdom have decided that only the president can determine what is an emergency.
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