Long term effect of not seriously holding this man accountable for Jan 6. He thinks he is untouchable.

Explain ice bloated budget

Can you die already

Are you doing more?

We should stop calling them "trump allies" and start calling them "trump axis."

I know that Europe won't take, because I live in Europe. This post was more of sarcasm, for the earlier post where UK visas got record high from USA citizens.

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

You really think this is bulletproof?

Have Trump run for Speaker. Hell, have him appointed as secretary of agriculture and have the people above resign. Its really not that difficult when your constitution is held together with bubblegum and pinky promises.

There is nothing in the constitution that says he cant enjoy a third term.

Every pedo is entitled to a rope necklace and a long walk off a short deck.

you obviously have no idea what "do your job" means here... military are trained to kill, do you really want them to "do their job" in US streets?

And, unfortunately, he's correct.

Until proven otherwise, he is.

We already have a name for them, it's the GOP. Grand Old Pedophiles

They didn't want ashakenazi.

I’m assuming you’re American, because it’s very on-brand for Americans to expect someone else to fix their shit for them while they sit by and do nothing (thereby making it everyone else’s problem)

You really think 170,000,000 Americans can just up and leave and, even if they could, be accepted by other countries?

It's very important to make the distinction between Congress failing to hold him accountable and declining to. In the first case Congress is ineffective. In the second, and current situation, it is willfully inept. Big difference.

I'm getting tired of all these assholes calling Americans cowards for not rioting in the streets every day and erecting a guillotine on the ellipse! They tried that during the George Floyd fallout, and the right was quite successful in vilifying them. It was only the glaring racism of Trump's first term that revitalized BLM. His second term has effectively quashed that as well, somehow.

The US population is effectively a hostage, and this started long before Trump. Their livlihoods are financially bound to their employment, which is precarious at best. I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it many more times: US citizens, particularly the ones in the upper-middle class are going to have to be willing to die. It's that simple. If the population "rises up" like all the internet idiots want them to, Trump will implement the Insurrection Act ASAP. The aforementioned willfully inept Congress is highly unlikely to stop him. That's going to result in one or both of a lot of dead citizens or a civil war.

All of this brings me to the midterm elections. Americans are facing the shit sandwich of the current criminal and his willing accomplices in Congress, and the Democrats who:

• Aside from 2 weak funding fights, have refused to act as an opposition party in anywhere near the same manner as the GOP when they're in the minority.
• Are largely funded by the same authoritarians friendly billionaires and tech bros.
• Are unlikely to behave like an opposition party even if the manage to win back both houses of Congress, which is not super likely.

I think a lot of Americans are hoping things improve after the midterms, and I hope they're right. I don't think its going to happen, but I think plenty of people are looking for a reason to not risk their livelihoods, or lives. And that's what its going to be. This criminal has no care for anyone but himself. He has no compassion or empathy. He sees US citizens the same way the worst Kings and Emperors of old did: as expendable. If they get "uppity," he will not lose a wink of sleep ordering the military, National Guard, ICE, police forces, or any armed body he can control to open fire on them. Whether they will or not is a massive question most rational people don't want to see asked.

The US is effectively being run by a mad king, and whatever safeguards used to be in place for such a situation are either complicit, or ineffectual (ie, the courts). People are really hoping that a Dem "wave" in the midterms will somehow fix something. Like I said, I hope they're right.

I used to advocate for a life terms for the top MAGAs. That was after the first term, the Insurrection, and the stolen classified documents. After this second term, capital punishment is on the table.

They should have quit while they were ahead.

Or a test to see if they can survive flying lead poisoning.

Only the good die young, only evil seems to live forever.

Yes I moved all investment out of the USA and stopped buying american products as much as possible. Fuck USA and it's Epstein class supporting citizens !

So all that to say don't fight it and let them do it ?

You're sorta missing the point. Nobody is talking about having the military issuing parking tickets here.

It's about Trump running for office, and Congress/the courts saying "no".

Who does the military listen to? Do they obey Trump's orders to enforce his will at polling places?

they are trained killers, you want them murdering Americans? fucking lunatics everywhere.

you seem to be conflating military with police. you want them wantonly murdering Americans in the street? stfu lunatic.

I worry his own party will kill him just before midterms to drive down the democratic vote. It’s literally all they have left to stop a massive red loss.

We are effectively a dictatorship right now and the only thing that can reverse that is if Trump fails to act fast enough or acts so fast he gets heavy pushback. This far they have been effective at letting the most right-wing elements dominate the media so by the time they do crazy shit the people have already sort of absorbed the idea and it doesn't seem outlandish.

He can ignore the courts in the event that they act fast enough to matter. He controls the military and can simply blockade polling locations, cut off power, etc. He can at least fuck with an election to the point where the ordinary safeguards against vote fraud can't be ensured. He has all the tools needed to end democracy here.

The question is whether enough people will be complicit. Speaker Johnson will just declare he hasn't read the news until the coup is complete. But will none of the freedom-loving conservatives think twice about throwing away freedom? Epstein is creating cracks. It would be easy for Trump to fuck up and overplay his hand, but unfortunately he will win unless he makes an error.

But he also needs to move fairly fast. There is a lot of inertia in the way the system is built and if he moves too slowly, it's game over for him (well it's two years of playing defense). It takes time to replace everyone with sycophants.

I'm optimistic. I'm also 70 miles from Canada, if worse comes to worst.

US citizens, particularly the ones in the upper-middle class are going to have to be willing to die

I'm not some kind of super-patriot, but I'm a former soldier. I swore an oath to protect my country from enemies foreign and domestic, and that... weighs on me, despite how easy it would be to just enjoy old white guy status. I'm also old and out of shape and I have no illusions how it will end if it comes to that. But I've also lived a good life. If that's the end to which I'm fated... we can only do what we can in the situation we find ourselves in. Sometimes there is no winning scenario, you just do what you must.

Are there more like me? I don't know. My wife would let the country burn if it kept her family safe. I don't know anyone else thinking about things (aloud) the way I do and maybe they will let the world burn, too. But I won't. In 40 years I'll be dead one way or another, and 40 years later my life won't even be a memory. And the only thing that will exist of me is whatever has rippled out into the world from my actions. I won't have the failure of America be my only enduring legacy. That said, there is time and runway before that becomes inevitable, and I have hope.

Comments like this are what keep getting me banned on Reddit, but I'll keep saying it on every platform:

Pedophiles get the rope. Pedophile protectors can swing alongside them. Insurrectionists and traitors get the firing squad. ICE gets to bleed out slowly.

To Trump: Technically you're NOT entitled to a third term, as you're inelligible to run for a third term. Sincerely, all Americans

“Your country probably sucks”

Interesting how US liberals start sounding like MAGA when someone reminds them that good intentions on their own aren’t sufficient.

Well, based on extended measurements: He is.

Natural causes before July.

Respectfully, you didnt answer dude's question.

What would you personally do if you were United Statesian (American)?

I find it funny that none of the ml shit stains always bitching about genocide havent even touched this thread...

It is somewhat funny the rest of us see this and Trump doesn’t realize it yet.

Talk's cheap. Send money instead.

Y'all gotta make sure term length can't be redefined

You're going to end up with presidential term limits like copywrite law

You said:

One that do-nothing Americans have done nothing but tacitly encourage.

Get off your asses, you fucking cowards. Though, this is like the thirtieth red line.

So you don't get to claim "on-brand american" exceptionalism "expecting someone else to fix their shit."

You threw the first shots, I quipped back. This isn't "Someone else needs to fix our problems," this is "If you're not doing anything to fix everybody's problem, then shut the fuck up about all the people you think aren't doing enough." You have no moral superiority, so get off your fucking pedestal.

Plenty of USians are doing all they can to resist. Just because it isn't enough doesn't mean no one is trying. So why don't you direct your anger at maga specifically, instead of all the powerless discontents who are doing everything they can despite the hopelessness...

ICE's training is also nonexistent. The only thing they're effective at is terrorizing and occasionally murdering unarmed civilians.

The National Guard is domestic, and is often used in domestic emergencies.

Good for you. I guess everyone in the US should stop buying groceries and also cash in their 401Ks if they have any...

If he's literally fucked without consent, what makes people think he wouldn't figuratively fuck the people collectively without it too?

Yeah but him adding "your country probably sucks" was weird.

Maybe "anyone who's President are only allowed two consecutive or non-consecutive terms with no way to run for an additional term", perhaps?

Trump LIES

Republicans stopped any kind of accountability and are not firing him now. They can stop him at any second.

Entitled? So the narccisist of narccisists is now also the Karen of karens.

Thx Chuck Schumer!