This isn't a joke it's testing the waters.
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He's not testing the waters.
He's normalizing the illegal discourse.
This is always how he starts things.
yeah love how they always call it jokes. The only jokes trump involves himself with is himself and the people he brings into his circle.
Trump doesn't joke
And if he does that. Expect people to do some nasty business in response to his dictatorship.
Yes he did, and he definitely wants to. Now… where are the Epstein files?
I hate to say it bud, but just like everything else he has ever done, it will be swept under the rug. People will stop worrying about it. He’ll pardon anyone involved if it ever even comes close to coming out.
All this bullshit about, “he said he’d release the Epstein files!!”
That isn’t what I remember.
What I remember is them asking about declassifying this and that, “yes, yeah, absolutely”. When asked about the Epstein files, “yes. Well, maybe not so much that one. I don’t want innocent people caught up in that.”
I’m paraphrasing and doing my best to quote, but every article I read fails to mention that. I can’t even find it when I search for it.
It was clear from before the election that he would keep those covered up.
When he said that, people cared for about ten seconds. When he sent his people to overthrow the government, his base cared for about 10 seconds and then blamed “ainteefuh”.
When he pardoned all of those “ainteefuh”, no one batted an eye. Even people who looked me in the eyes and swore that it mattered. “He’s gonna do it on a case by case basis.” They said. “He won’t just pardon them all, it would send a terrible message.”
One week later, “Well, they were political prisoners. It wasn’t as bad as the news made it look.”
FUCK Donald Trump. He can do anything he wants to do. The rest of us need to just bend over. That is reality now.
I’m sorry.
We’ll see how it goes in 2028. I ain’t got high hopes. I wish I could have high hopes. Reality has showed me that my high hopes are silly.
Sorry to be all doom and gloom. You can tell me all day that the sky is neon pink, but I can see with my own eyes that it’s still blue.
Agreed on all counts :( I just don’t want all this to distract from the topic that might take him down, one way or another. The Epstein files make him afraid. He’ll make mistakes. That’s what we need.
so much for that 2A, the well regulated militia against a tyrant thing. Hmm.
He’s telling everyone what his plan is. War incoming by Jan 2029.
AND he fucks children
Rapes
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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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!”.
No. Literally warned people and yelled at them that we would be inviting kidnappings (ICE), abortion rights, and gay rights, civil rights… damn there is so much that has already has happened. He can do no wrong to his base and the Supreme Court here and congress has pretty much given him free rein. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
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We didn't cancel elections during the Civil War.
"Missed opportunity." - Trump, probably.
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Could this be why his aids looked "pallid" after his meeting with Putin?
It's possible his aides had it in their head that they're the "good guys" and fully bought into the propaganda that Trump was going to save America and then had their whole realities shook when they saw Trump and Putin talking together in perfect English talking about their callous conspiracies to wreck nations and crush people they hate together.
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.
Legally, it won't matter. He doesn't hold office until the next guy, his term ends in 2029. If there is no replacement, the office is simply vacant, and we already have processes for that.
Legally, it won't matter. If (when) he's ignoring the laws to that level, it doesn't matter what anyone pretends happened with an election. The laws will have no bearing anyway.
Most importantly, the states run the elections.
So he can "cancel" the election, but only red states would listen. Blue states would still hold elections and report results. And with red states not holding elections, it's safe to say any election would lean heavily left.
So republicans would only lose seats, and trump would get zero electoral college votes. Well, most likely every red state would still try to send electors for trump
After midterms we'll be able to see what's gonna happen if that plays out.
But honestly, blue states should be prioritizing building up their own NG the next three years just in case.
Or alternately-
- He cancels/delays the election due to a national emergency. He could potentially delay until the following Jan 20, arguing all the while that he's "cancelled" the election. Shifting, contradictory public statements muddy the waters.
- Some blue states move ahead with elections anyway, arguing that the delay is unconstitutional.
- The supreme court rules that delay is constitutional with a dissenting democrat minority.
- Red states claim blue state elections are invalid and an attempted coup (because after January 6th, they love applying that word to things).
- Blue states select a president, Trump denies the results (we have a precedent for this now) and refuses to cede power to the president elect.
- As the January 20th deadline rolls around, Trump jails the new president as a traitor, following up on the claims from his base that the election was a coup.
- January deadline passes, Trump arguing simultaneously that the election was a Democrat takeover AND that the Democrats cheated because red states didn't hold elections.
- With no (free) political opponents, Trump releases an executive order stating that the office of the presidency must be filled at all times, and remains in office.
- Multiple court cases are filed and allowed to creep through the courts before being dismissed for various reasons.
- People begin to adapt, normalize the situation, and eventually become distracted by a new scandal.
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He's not joking. What does he have to do to be taken seriously? A hostile takeover of the capital?
I would say this is impeachable if they already didn't make such a joke out of the punishment.
Industrial strength "Joking" being used in this headline.
Trump has no sense of humor nor has he ever told a joke.
"Joking"
He's not joking.
This guy is just such a dickhead. The type of people that still support this asshole are very much telling on themselves.
Probably watched Archie Bunker and rooted for him.
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