News flash people, he's not fuckin joking. Arm yourselves while you can.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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This isn't a joke it's testing the waters.
He's not testing the waters.
He's normalizing the illegal discourse.
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That’s what this shitfuck does. He ‘jokes’ about an idea, then repeats it until it sounds normal, then does whatever the fuck he wants and nobody does anything about it.
I'm fucking tired of this fucking dumbass and everyone who enables him by saying he's just joking. Sometimes, people are not joking. It's not just a fucking prank, bro. And even if it was? What kind of professional politician just pulls pranks nonstop?
He's never joking. He's a genuine psychopath, he has no sense of humor. He's just learned to pretend like he has one to fool the normal humans without broken personalities. If he says it, he's serious.
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Zelenskyy’s comment about war and instability was NOT BEING THE SIDE THAT STARTED THE WAR.
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
anyways, EPSTEIN FILES. WHERE THEY AT?
It's not even that. It's about what the country's structure permits. Ukraine doesn't allow for midwar elections, the us doesn't allow for skipping them.
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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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One of the reasons he's so desperate to end the Ukraine War is so he can collect his Nobel Peace Prize, freeing him to start his war with Mexico, and have a draft, essentially enslaving the entire young male demographic so they can't be used against him in a Civil War.
Then he can use the Mexican War as an excuse to suspend elections, even though we've never cancelled an election in our history, not even during the Civil War.
The fact that he lept on Z's remark about no election, illustrated that he's been giving this a lot of thought, wondering what might work as a reasonable excuse. Dems love Zelensky, and he cancelled elections because of the war, so if America is in a war, he can cancel elections, and the Dems will have to accept it. It won't occur to him that there's a difference between fighting a war in a separate country, and fighting a war within your own capital city.
It also won't occur to him that just because something happened in a different country, doesn't mean we have to accept it here. We have a Constitution, that's the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.
It also won’t occur to him that just because something happened in a different country, doesn’t mean we have to accept it here. We have a Constitution, that’s the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.
It boggles my mind that there are still Americans who cling to legalism as some kind of saviour, even after all the months of proof that it is absolutely no barrier to the fascists doing exactly what they want.
Just because they want to pretend the Constitution doesn't exist doesn't mean we have to accept it.
We don't have to match the MAGAs immorality to beat them, we just have to play Hard Ball, and force them to follow the rules, and the rules are the Constitution. If they refuse to follow the rules, we can't just say "Oh well, we tried," and give up. You FORCE them to adhere to those rules, whether they like it or not. And if they won't cooperate, you keep pushing, and you NEVER stop demanding that they follow the rules.
Make them obey, period. You don't disparage those that are advocating for forcing them to follow the Constitution. That's just weak, and that kind of Democratic thinking is what allowed MAGA to rise, take power, and then take power AGAIN!
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We have a Constitution, that’s the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.
It's just words on paper if not enforced. And Republicans haven't been keen on enforcing it when it comes to him, not specifically but especially.
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He is NOT JOKING. This is his plan.
You think he's deploying the military on US soil because he gives a fuck about law and order? Guess again. He's testing the waters now to see what he can get away with when the time comes.
Federal elections have never been cancelled or postponed in the history of the nation. Not even for the Civil War, or WWII. It's mandated by the constitution.
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Hmmmm...
Release the Trump/Epstein files
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.
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Oh hey look, it's exactly the thing I was talking about when Trump ran for a second term the first time.
"If Trump wins this election, there won't be any more elections."
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He’s telling everyone what his plan is. War incoming by Jan 2029.
Joking?
yea, you know just like how he "joked" about rounding up brown people, or cut most people's medical aid, or destroy the american soft power.
you know, just funny things he would totally never ever do, because that would mean his voters are retarded.
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That’s ok let’s get prepared to stop him 🛑 ✋🏾
He isn't joking and you shouldn't pretend he is
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.
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Release the Trump/Epstein files
That's ok, let's get the police prepared to arrest him 👮
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.
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"by joking" you fucking dumbwits, are you not learning at all? He doesn't care if he can or not, he will bruteforce his way through legislation with his MAGAlitia. They are ALREADY utilizing fear and suppression with their masked terrorists kidnapping people off the streets or posting up next to demonstations. If you are not acting now, tomorrow might already be too late.
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!”.
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So… basically the thing he said he would do before the election?
I would say this is impeachable if they already didn't make such a joke out of the punishment.
He's not joking. What does he have to do to be taken seriously? A hostile takeover of the capital?
Industrial strength "Joking" being used in this headline.
Trump has no sense of humor nor has he ever told a joke.
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