The USA is fucked. Your systems have horribly failed to stop him and the rest of the world has no interest in getting into a fight with the strongest country in the world over how many Holocausts it plans to do in its territory (or, realistically, Canadian territory).
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i know it's not the point of the thread, but FYI:
bunker busters can't destroy cities. not practically, anyways.
they're hyper-specialized munitions that get dropped from high up in order to pick up a lot of gravitational momentum to then penetrate deep underground and through multiple layers of concrete.
they're long, extremely resilient, stupidly heavy rods with relatively small warheads.
they're the "rods from god"s little cousins, essentially.
although there's some speculation that some kinds of modern concrete might be strong enough to withstand even multiple direct hits...
the kind of munitions that could cause enough destruction to level a city are M.O.A.B.s, for conventional arms, or straight-up nuclear bombs.
...or you could use a LOT of smaller bombs, like the russians in ukraine, or the israelis in gaza.
but bunker busters, while having an objectively badass name, are not actually that scary a weapon, unless you're sitting in an actual bunker; they're more of a precision weapon!
How familiar are you with the concept of civil war?
If he would go to bomb an American city a civil war will start. Then they authority to stop him or not will rely on the winner of the war.
Keep in mind that he already ordered the military forces to siege US cities, and they gone through the process of doing it while refusing to escalate into actual violence.
Trump doesn't seem to have that much control. I'm not sure he would be arrested if he ordered a strike, but I don't think it would happen either.
On paper there's plenty that could. The Supreme Court could have stepped in to stop a lot of this. Executive orders only stand in places where a full fledged law from congress doesn't cover the issue. The military is theoretically as obligated to disobey an unlawful order as they are to obey a lawful one and states are theoretically pretty insulated from federal interference except in a few explicit areas.
But, we don't live on paper and none of those protections exist unless there are people out there who are ready, willing, and able, to act on them. What happens if the Supreme Court somehow manages to rule against the administration and they just flagrantly disregard the order? What happens if Trump orders the military to start attacking US citizens openly or starts an illegal war without congressional approval? What happens if Trump runs for president again in 2028? Or just says he's president for life and we're not doing elections anymore?
The answer is nothing, unless people stand up against him. And... so far... we haven't seen much of that. Not from people in government at any rate. We've seen a bit from normal folks on the ground in places like LA, but our government's been working to neuter the power of popular protest since the civil rights protests, perhaps even earlier. So reasonable people can disagree on the efficacy of that.
I really don't want to echo the doomer line I've seen written here a lot, but yeah, we're probably fucked. Like maybe if something was done like... a decade ago? Two? Maybe we wouldn't be in this situation. But... as things stand? I don't even know if the damage from the first Trump presidency can ever truly be repaired and more damage is being done on a weekly, almost a daily basis. Personally? I think it's only a matter of time before this man breaks the global economy irreparably. In a way that simply can't be swept under the rug again. Domestically? Who the fuck knows at this point? I have to resist the urge to laugh out loud whenever people ask where I see myself in five years because at this point I've got no idea what the next two weeks are gonna hold.
So... yeah. Fun times in the ol US of A.
the scotus being 6-3 super majority conservative isnt going to do anything against trump.
Yeah, I know. Just leaving room for miracles I guess.
Maybe I'm crazy, but, I believe the Chain of Command will not allow Trump to order military violence on U.S. soil.
I'm not sure what you mean. He can do almost any single act he wants. But depending on what it is, the response could possibly come back to bite him in the ass.
Like his fucking around with Epstein or his claims of ending various wars. He fucked around and is in the process of finding out. But he's rich, so he won't get locked up, because that's how the justice system is designed.
In reality, most of the world doesn't respect him, including most of the U.S. And like any scam artist, he caves when he has no other choice, and then lies about it. So, is the U.S. totally fucked? We'll find out, won't we. There's no guarantees in life. And it also depends how white and how male you are, too.
I'm no expert but ~~also long as the USA doesn't bomb another country~~ isn’t it's kind of the responsibility of the USA itself and their people?
We'll ultimately be rescued by an invading foreign army: Canada, Mexico or China.
Rescued by china?
they'll sell off what still remains in aliexpress.
Yes that's what we need by rescued.
Like when America rescued Europe after ww2
No, the USA is not fucked.
Everything happening now has happened before, and worse, and the USA has endured. It may take some time, but the US will be fine.
The difference is now there are countries who have their shit together and will happily let the US become irrelevant.
I mean the dems voted for the people who firefombed gaza.
It'd be your own medicine really
So did the other side. What's your point?
you act as if the gop isnt going to do it, every president before biden allowed it.
The US President is not subject to laws, when acting in his official capacity, unless at least 1/2 of the House and 2/3 of the Senate vote to impeach him. So winning the election is a license to do illegal things, if you have enough political support.
He's been doing illegal tgings since before he was president, he doesn't give a shit and neither anyone else
So the answer is very clear, when laws/agreements/contracts/etc. no longer have an effect at all, usually authority becomes solely defined by force and force alone.
I fear it's only a matter of time before a civil war breaks out.
There will never be a civil war. Americans are too lazy, selfish, and stupid to actively rise up. You'll get some groups and people trying to rebel, but the masses will just see them as disruptive to their 'comfortable' lives. Ultimately, for all of America's ego and pride, the people are sheep.
He is commander in chief of the US military.
The US military stresses disobeying illegal orders.
So the simple answer is the US military chain of command respecting their oath to the constitution over loyalty to Trump.
You mean like all of the air force brass, logistics commanders, pilots, all the way down to the MPs, who have been consistent in collaborating following illegal orders to fly black bagged and chained legal US residents that were refused due process to foreign concentration camps?
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Look at it this way, Trump is legally capable of firing the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank (Jerome Powell), and he hates that man's fucking guts. Practically speaking though, Trump can't sack the guy without sending shockwaves through the financial world and tanking our economy. At the moment, Trump is trying to trump up (heh) a reason to fire Powell because he can't do it by fiat.
If his hands are tied over this thing he can legally do, you think he'd be able to bomb American cities? Think even the stoutest MAGA would applaud the bombing of New Orleans? They're turning on him over the pedo thing, destroying an American city is two orders of magnitude worse.
Why bomb new orleans when you can just wait for the next hurricane and send the fema
They're turning on him over the pedo thing
Sure thing bud, it's definitely not performatory thing at all. They're going to rise up anytime with their gums and milifia anytime noe.
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