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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Pretty cool how we have the freedumb to install a dictator.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 55 minutes ago

This is what happens when you dont have a democracy

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

So where them 2A folk at LOL

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 50 points 4 hours ago

“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement

so Biden created a bad situation for him in 4 years, yet he thinks Trump needs 8 years to undo it. Sounds like a skill issue to me.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Good job guys, you saved Palestine!

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 39 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

Didn't even wait a whole week. Emporer Trump inbound

[–] Saltycracker@lemmy.world 0 points 54 minutes ago

He will be too old. All presidents should follow the 2 term rule. FDR should have followed it.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Huh, the stupid party always screaming dumb things like "term limits" just cannot prostrate themselves enough in front of donvict, and completely reversing themselves.

Imagine that.

Pretty fucking gross if you ask me.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Just imagine how cheap the eggs will be!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

California could be broken into 66 Wyoming-sized states.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 86 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

It's cute how so many in the comments think the legal checks will prevent this. They don't care about the law or the Constitution in the same way they don't care about optics, hypocrisy, decorum, or process. People keep viewing this through the lense of American democracy. None of that matters to fascists.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 32 minutes ago

In the end, the country isn't a democracy. It's a complicated system with complicated interactions.

It's really not impossible that a democracy turns into fascism.

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

They care about the law the same way the nazi's cared about the law until the night of the long knives. I suspect their mass deportation plan is really them gearing up for the night of the long knives 2.0.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

After four years of them being in power, he'll probably just be able to...not leave, regardless of any election. Who would stop him?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Trump even said he shouldn't have left in 2020. So think that is the plan already.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Presumably someone with better aim than the last shooter.

I’d be very careful as a wannabe dictator in a land with this many guns. The next four years are going to be tense for everyone.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, people don't seem to truly understand this, and I fear it will take something extreme before they do... And it's likely already too late now, let alone by then.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Will the guy still have a working brain? Lol.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 66 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

In order for it to pass, they need 290 votes in the House. The Republicans currently have 220 votes, so they would need 70 Democrats to flip.

Then it goes to the Senate where they need 67 votes. First, 60 to get past the inevitable filibuster, and with 53 votes, Republicans need 7 Democrats to flip to move it forward and 14 to pass it.

Then, the fun part, they need 38 states to ratify it. Trump did win 31 states, so he would still need 7 Harris states to ratify an amendment.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 58 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Nah. They're just gonna say "whachu gonna do about it" as he sits in the office for the third time. Or the richest men in the world backing the regime will just ~~bri~~ lobby.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Don't forget, he'll sit in his office with his private army of proud boys surrounding him after he pre pardons them for shooting anyone who dares approach their precious leader.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 26 points 4 hours ago (3 children)
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago

Oh, but that would lack decorum.

[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 7 points 3 hours ago

This is going to be the only answer, I'm afraid.

[–] KiltedQueer@mstdn.social 10 points 4 hours ago

@HasturInYellow And the one behind him.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago
[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 53 points 9 hours ago

Me as a Tennessean: "I bet it's Andy Ogles"

Checks

Goddamn can I read that man like a fucking book. I'm sorry we're all trying to vote the bastard out but the State gerrymandered the district because... AND I SHIT YOU NOT... "California does it, so it's okay if we do it too". Honest to God what our State Assembly said about breaking Nashville up into a hellscape of gerrymandering.

Do know, he's an idiot IRL as well. He's the kind that's really full of himself and he's got a super high self-worth in head.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 37 points 10 hours ago

Standard traitor shit.

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