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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Remember in the 2016 campaign when he said "Maybe some of those second amendment people can do something about it"?

Good times.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah. Yeah he did say that.

Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just one of those times a president called for someone to be murdered as if he's some Mafia don.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably his own indifference. He clearly has no morals, and he'll be surrounded by even more comically evil villains, but I suspect they'll have a problem getting him to care about their pet evil plans. If it isn't making him money or jerking off his ego, he seems to have, traditionally at least, not cared.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like most narcissists, he craves the approval of others, so he'll sign whatever they put in front of him.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nah. Reagan did a lot of damage while a president with dementia.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

certainly not the Democrats, they’re too busy being enablers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hey hey - are you looking for them to issue a statement?!

They’ll do it, mister! Ho hooo - you better believe they will. And it’s gonna say they’re VERY CONCERNED. Hah?! Yeah! Yeah who’s sitting by now?!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hopefully old age. Though, I guess that's both of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A massive heart attack, the man child eats like an unrestrained 5 year old.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If he doesn't control the house or senate he's limited in what he can do. All the more reason to vote, even if you're not voting for the presidency itself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm still alive and he wins, I'm gonna fucking kill myself. I'm not dealing with 4 (or more) years of his bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dude, it’s not worth it. You have other options, like moving.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You cannot move out of the US unless you have A LOT of money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But you can move within the US to a place where his people have less direct control over the local government. That's what I'm doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not with that attitude

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In his book American Resistance, David Rothkopf argues that many such officials across different ages acted “in an informal alliance” during Trump’s first term to keep him “from doing irreparable damage to the United States.”

Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official, made clear he would happily denounce swing state election results as fraudulent if Trump put him in charge of DOJ.

In Trump’s first term, he adopted House Speaker Paul Ryan’s legislative agenda of repealing Obamacare and cutting taxes, shelving his own hopes for an infrastructure bill due to lack of GOP support.

One of Trump’s most consistently expressed opinions is that he would like his political enemies — a broadly defined group that stretches from Joe Biden to his own former appointees John Kelly and Bill Barr — to be prosecuted.

Last year, the Washington Post reported that Trump’s team had drafted a second-term plan to invoke the act on his first day in office so he could “deploy the military against civil demonstrations.” What would happen next would be anyone’s guess.

And one scary part of the 2020 election crisis is that it actually wouldn’t have been that difficult, if Republican officials in key states were sufficiently corrupt, to throw out Biden’s wins or at least stall the process of certifying the outcome.


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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Vigilantes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Diapers, or lack thereof

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personal friendship with Putin to block China?