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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 41 points 4 months ago (36 children)

Yet somehow Biden is powerless to stop him. 🤔

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Are you hoping that Biden now sets a precedent by using his newfound king powers to assassinate his opponent? I want Trump to lose in a fair election and go to prison for a very long time. Biden using this “the president/king can do whatever he wants” would lead to an immediate civil war

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 41 points 4 months ago (7 children)

The time for a president to not act like a king was before a corrupt court awarded the powers of a king to a president. The only way to turn it back now is for a non-corrupt king to break the corrupt court and then divest himself of powers before a corrupt king ascends to the throne.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That seems logical, but can we try wishful thinking first?

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[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What?! No! This is like a riddle. You assassinate the Supreme court first, THEN pack the court. Then have the new Supreme Court strip the presidency of these new powers.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes but my cabbage is still on the wrong side of the river

[–] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You have the leave the fox with it.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

But Clarence Thomas keeps eating the fox.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

He has enough troops to hit Congress, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and anyone else he wants at the same time.

The irony it would be if he called the Official act, "The Purge of Fascism"

No one would try to bring about an impeachment vote, as they know they would be dead or disappeared before it took place.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Weird how if Biden uses any of the power he has to stop Trump from becoming Fuhrer then it will cause a civil war, but when Trump actually uses that power to become Fuhrer he will face no obstacles.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (16 children)

It will still cause a civil war. Also, that was a wild edit from “you’ll fucking wish Biden assassinated Trump”

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I changed my mind about what I wanted to say, but was I wrong?

EDIT And I changed my mind again. If Trump is so dangerous, the only way to really stop him is for Biden to win decisively. Instead, he's behind in fucking New Jersey in the latest polls. If he wins it'll be razor thin, maybe only by the electoral college or a few counties, and then the fascist Supreme Court will give it to Trump anyway. Lose/lose, at least if Biden does something really funny before he resigns he could make sure Trump can't become fuhrer.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The forces that produced Trump remain and will birth a new "strong man" for the masses to get behind, and the GOP does another attempt for Christian fascism.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

They tried that when Trump lost, people gravitated back to Trump

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And liberals can't actually confront those forces, because some of those forces are the ones who donate to them. Yeah, I get it.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

I want Trump to lose in a fair election and go to prison for a very long time.

I mean, 2020 happened, he lost in a fair election. He did do crimes that should have landed him jail.

Now what? You’re saying it’s gonna happen this time?

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As if that’s not gonna happen when Trump uses said powers? Indecisiveness will doom America. Act! The Heritage foundation, Trump, and the Republicans do. They ask for forgiveness, maybe, but not permission.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Indecisiveness = not assassinating the opponent?

America is doomed. Now both sides are calling for their chosen king to execute the other king. The experiment is over, hyper capitalism disguised as theology won. I want to vote for my chosen president in this election. This thread is telling me I should support my king executing the other king. Even if he gives up that power right after said execution, the president has made a precedent that the “checks and balances” are broken.

My prediction is that if an execution / forceful power grab is to happen, China will immediately invade the Phillipines and Taiwan, seeing the instability of the US, possibly Japan right after, since our new king will be too busy with the civil war or dismantling the government.

After that NATO and the EU will remove the US from any seat we have during said civil war, as we are no longer a democratic state.

The US arms companies will move to supplying the civil war in addition to just pumping Israel full of guns, maybe Russia too since it’s profitable and what even is regulation at this point.

By the time the US does stabilize, we’re a corporatocracy, as the only things left with real buying power are our tech companies and arms manufacturers, which at this point have their own mercenary security to defend against potential profit loss or have moved to other nations (Apple’s risk management division absolutely has these papers and plans drawn up seeing the political climate)

Canada will absolutely close its borders, and probably will be a hotbed of attempted immigration, ironically their right wing leaning government fighting the effects of our right wing government.

But yeah, we should yell at our king to assassinate the other potential king, instead of organizing, donating, campaigning and voting

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes. Pretty much. Exactly. The alternative is Trump. So, yeah. Glad someone else recognizes America as we knew it is over.

You know the thought experiment where you go back in time and kill Hitler? We’re there. Take out Hitler.

The alternative is to do what Weimar Germany did and pretend it’s not happening, or, it won’t be that bad.

Learn from history.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's bullshit. Most people I have talked to believe trump should be sentenced accordingly to the felonies he has been convicted of, not executed.

Sure, blowhards in their online echo chambers love to bloviate about all the doom and gloom, but we have seen enough propaganda as of late to question the veracity of these dubious claims.

Most Americans are pretty much fed up with politics at this point. But the misinformation needs to stop.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Hell no, this "When they go low, we go high, bullshit!" is why Roe Vs. Wade was overturned and if we continue that nonsense it will be why Gay Marriage is overturned.

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

And if donnie wins?

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Curiouser and curiouser 🤨

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