Conservatives in comment sections everywhere: "pssh he's just kidding, god you libs are so sensitive!"
Pretty sure those cowardly fucks said if they kept their guns they would step in against tyranny.
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"It's nice that he always says the truth"
"He's only joking, he doesn't actually mean that"
Pretty sure those cowardly fucks said if they kept their guns they would step in against tyranny.
It's not tyranny to them if they're in the Kool Klub.
Is that the Kool Klux Klub?
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Do it let’s pop this shit off already
He's literally not capable of joking, so this is serious.
What the fuck does he have to do to be taken seriously? Invade a foreign country and take away their leader?
It was just a prank, bro!
God forbid you disrupt the global economy.
Believe him when orange hitler talks
We need socialism
Workers need to take control of the economy. No longer should capital be held in high regards in reference to OUR economic way of life. Workers must stop believing the circuses and take over the bread making.
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What is this fucking headline. He is not in a position to float changes like this.
Trump plans on circumventing the law and becoming a ~~forever president~~ king.
Prove to me that he's not already a king. He suffers zero consequences and solely controls every aspect of the federal government. He is what a 6 year old thinks the president is.
Almost all of his "decrees" get overturned. Most of those decisions get somewhere followed. His people try to operate through loopholes in the laws rather than outright violating them. He wouldn't be tiptoing around vague legality this much if he were actually a king
Funny you should say that; he literally brags that he hasn't matured past age 6.
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It’s how he normalizes his insane plans without being directly implicit. He starts with the “I’m not saying they should cancel the elections. But if they did… I’m not saying they should do it though. But I mean, it wouldn’t be unheard of.”
Anyone who has ever worked as a restaurant server knows the old “blame they, not yourself” trick. Forgot to bring out some table’s food, and now they’re upset that it’s taking so long? Don’t apologize for it and take the blame, because that will have them potentially tipping you less. Instead, say “Oh, did they not bring that out? Let me go take care of that real quick.” Now you’ve deflected blame off to some faceless entity, and have put yourself on the customer’s side as someone who wants to help. Your tip won’t be affected, because you’ve positioned yourself as helpful.
Notice that when Trump floats ideas like this, it’s almost always “they”, not “we”. “They” is a faceless, nebulous entity. It can be anybody or nobody, so placing blame on “they” is a convenient way to float potentially unpopular ideas without putting any individual (or himself) in the crosshairs. If he used “we”, he would naturally be the figurehead for the idea, and any blowback would land on him.
It’s a message to his followers on what he wants, without directly tying himself to it. And it allows the various talking heads to use it as a springboard to normalize the idea before it is ever implemented. That way when the thing actually happens, his followers have already been primed to accept it.
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He is absolutely in a position to change this. It's become abundantly clear that we're way too culturally fractured as a nation and will never unify for any single cause. The DOJ is in his back pocket and there is zero chance all 350 million of us can put our differences aside to stop him, especially since a ton of people want this.
Well he can't unilaterally cancel the elections, for example, you know California will hold elections. The question would be whether he gets congress to ignore the results of the midterms.
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He's not in a position to break the US and International law either, but here we are..
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If elections are canceled so is work
it's a bit late for that.
If elections are cancelled so is the entire civic contract.
No taxation without represenatation applies here I'd say, yankees pitched a fit about it once before
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That's already cancelled.
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“I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election because the fake news will say ‘he wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator,”
Complete melted brain babble
But even if it’s successful, they don’t win. I don’t know what it is. There’s something psychological, like you vote against,”
People vote for you on concepts of a plan or don't vote because they think their life will be the same either way then they actually see what you do they turn out and vote. This isn't that hard.
Omg, I think the most eerie thing about this whole thing has been how perfectly all of this was predicted.
If it was a tv show I would say it’s lazy writing.
Almost like it's exactly according to a document someone published years ago.....
Yeah but the fact that they published that, it actually hit critical mass, and they got elected to do it anyway is bonkers.
Or at least it should be
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Shitler and the Turd Reich are going to commit as many crimes against the constitution and international law as they can until they are stopped
TEMU Nazis
As a Canadian I'm not holding out much hope for the US later this year. If Trump doesn't stop elections, or rig their outcome, I'm not sure Democrats will muster the requisite votes because "both sides".
Not sure what you're talking about. I'm not a nihilist. I believe in democracy and the rule of law, among many other beliefs and principles.
On the topic of Trump, I happen to think most Americans are not ready to do what must be done. I don't believe there is nothing that CAN be done. Do you understand the difference?
I have hope that there are individual Americans, or institutions, that will push back. But if it's successful I doubt it will be because Trump followed the law. There's no indication he cares about the law.
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"You will have to kill us to make us stop"
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