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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could this be why his aids looked "pallid" after his meeting with Putin?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So did they cancel elections when US invaded Iraq? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Nah… but Trump just wants to cancel elections. He is a dictator. Since there’s nothing and no one stopping him - there’s no reason why he won’t just do it. It’s what 70 million Americans wants anyway.

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is that why they drew up attack plans for Mexico? Probably some sort of bullshit like the gangs and caravans of immigrants keep coming over the border, so they have to go into Mexico to deal with them before the evil dangerous criminals get to the US border. Then occupy a part of Mexico and call off the elections due to the war. Trump is always talking about how he's like a "wartime" president.

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[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If this mf tries for a third term. We civil war.

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

You have been at war since the January 6th beerhall putsch attempt. It's just that one side didn't realise and didn't even put your new dictator into a luxury prison first before letting him get re-elected. Rookie mistake honestly.

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

If we got through WWII, with troops scattered around the world, without canceling elections or even disenfranchising the soldiers fighting overseas, he has no excuse. (How did a solider in France, a sailor in the Philippine Sea, or a marine on Leyte Island vote? Mail-in ballots.)

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

One of the reasons he's so desperate to end the Ukraine War is so he can collect his Nobel Peace Prize, freeing him to start his war with Mexico, and have a draft, essentially enslaving the entire young male demographic so they can't be used against him in a Civil War.

Then he can use the Mexican War as an excuse to suspend elections, even though we've never cancelled an election in our history, not even during the Civil War.

The fact that he lept on Z's remark about no election, illustrated that he's been giving this a lot of thought, wondering what might work as a reasonable excuse. Dems love Zelensky, and he cancelled elections because of the war, so if America is in a war, he can cancel elections, and the Dems will have to accept it. It won't occur to him that there's a difference between fighting a war in a separate country, and fighting a war within your own capital city.

It also won't occur to him that just because something happened in a different country, doesn't mean we have to accept it here. We have a Constitution, that's the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.

[–] S0ck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We have a Constitution, that’s the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.

It's just words on paper if not enforced. And Republicans haven't been keen on enforcing it when it comes to him, not specifically but especially.

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[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Anyone But Trump, 2028
Also, where are the Epstein files?

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Fascists manufacture wars to declare martial law and stay in power.

Just like Nazi Germany, Russia, Isreal

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dictator does dictator things, Americans do nothing. News at 11.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So he thinks killing people is a joke.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Desperate measures require desperate times.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meh, just hold one without him. Get an electoral college quorum and move the new guy in because it's 100% state driven and he can't change the constitution. Like an old time papacy schism, let God sort it out.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

he can’t change the constitution

No, but he's sure proven that he can ignore it. And the Supreme Court will ultimately back him up. And they've already ruled that he can't be charged with anything illegal he does while president (the courts won't even punish him for crimes he was convicted of when not POTUS). And even if they don't rule in his favor he's shown he's willing to ignore the courts when they don't rule in his favor.

If the cops and military side with him- and there is a good chance the majority in both groups are MAGAts, he'll just have people participating in the 'illegal/illegitimate' elections arrested.

If he's still alive in 2028 he will not give up power, I guarantee it.

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So who's he going to invade? Mexico or Canada?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mexico for sure. It’ll be “to stop the cartels”. Calling it right now.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

If he tries to invade Canada, Canada’s gonna party like it’s 1814 and we gonna light up the WH - again.

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[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh hey look, it's exactly the thing I was talking about when Trump ran for a second term the first time.

"If Trump wins this election, there won't be any more elections."

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[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Stop assuming he has good intentions. He does not

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

9/10 chance trump tries to cite the Ukrainian Constitution, then putin simultaneously tries to de-legitimize Zelenskyy.

Before any tries to use that as an excuse, let me say this: Ukraine has a different history, different circumstances, resulting in a different "social contract", you cannot apply a foreign country's constitution in your own country. Besides, all of their political parties have already agreed to postpone until after the war.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

Oh just dictator things.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Again? He was saying the same thing his first term

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Oh no! Who could have seen this coming! Oh, everyone? Oh ok. And people voted for this? Idiocracy to the max! You get what you ask for. You want an autocrat dictator getting rich from your backs, you'll get it!

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

That’s ok let’s get prepared to stop him 🛑 ✋🏾

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

He learned from Netanyahu.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We've had one Afghan invasion, yes. But what about second Afghan invasion?

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