Trump calls Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ as US rift with Ukraine deepens
-
I don't know, I've studied coups and I have a pretty active imagination. In fact I generally have to calm myself down. Which is part of why I know the minutia here.
The end run would be a Saddam Hussein moment, where he had members of his legislature arrested for treason while they were gathered for a speech by him. The particulars wouldn't necessarily match but the idea would be to reduce the Senate to it's quorum number and hold the vote then.
The problem with that course of action is 2/3 of the states must then also vote for it. And that's not a realistic scenario. Especially if he tries to conduct mass arrests to affect the number of sitting legislators there too. Because at that point he's lost all legitimacy and triggered massive protests or a civil war. At which point we refer to case G anyways. (The Go To Hell plan, when everything fails)
Note - it is 66 Senators, not 75. I hate fractions.
-
P-R-O-J-E-C-T-I-O-N.
-
Is that regardless of like 20% of democrats being assassinated? Could they get the numbers if enough of the no votes are eliminated?
-
He said himself, it's not a crime if you are saving America!
-
This is what around half of the voting public wants. I'm going to be doing what I can to try to fight against this (for as long as I remain anyway), but the rest of the world needs to plan as if the U.S. is an enemy state and an active threat. We should be given no benefit of the doubt. No trust. Assume the worst and then try and think about how it could be even worse and go with that.
-
There was, 8 years ago. But the second best time is right now.
-
I'm right there with you and I live here. It boggles my mind that people voted for him and people stayed home.
The leadership on the left is terrible, and there is so much money and propagandizing on the right, it is insane.
They know who and how to target political messaging in a way that that was unheard of 20 years ago.
Even now, there are smart intelligent people that are like, "He seems to be making a difference." Holy fucking shit!
And then they get mad when I ask them how. They always have bullshit propaganda points that were spoon fed to them and zero, actual understanding of the issues.
-
If they outright kill legislators en masse then Trump better be heading to a bunker staffed by loyalists. Because he just blew the air horn to start a civil war, with exactly zero moral high ground or legitimacy.
-
They would simply blame Mexicans and DEI. Use it to garner more power. Who would be able to stop them, or prosecute in any meaningful way?
-
We would. That's where the people have to step up. The military would. Political leaders not aligned with trump would.
-
You have guns, fucking use them
-
Strikes. The only thing that works and is non violent. The rest is just reminders that the working class can stop working. Or reminders that one can do a Luigi.
-
Europe’s, who look down on rampant American capitalism and Trump?
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of fascist Europeans. Anecdotally, my mom recently told me her friend likes Trump, and that same person votes for our own far-right party whose leader has essentially been trying to emulate Trump.
One of my biggest fears that I think not enough people have though about, is that - due to how much more connect the world is with the internet - WW3 would devolve into a bunch of civil wars. WW2 was extremely different from WW1 and already had its far share of in fighting in some countries, this time it could be worse and happen in basically every country involved.
-
I thought Trump loves dictators.
-
as if the U.S. is an enemy state and an active threat
-
On the Japan front, they were already fairly demoralized and the most important factor is simply that, while the US had nukes, no one else did. With mutually assured destruction, that's off the table.
-
Mm it makes me very angry and sad to see peoples response to this. I feel like in Europe at least more and more people are becoming aware that it is not in fact just "the art of the deal", but serious. Still a lot of careful rethoric thrown around and a lot of people refuse accepting the situation (fascists in the white house) but it is getting better. I have no idea how it is in the US tho except for some news articles which don't tell me shit about what people think..
-
Brexit wasn’t left/right wing. Eurosceptics on both sides. I’d also point out France where right-wing populism ultimately lost out despite an increase in protest votes.
There’s also a greater tradition of public service broadcasting, meaning politicians are more rigorously interrogated than in the highly commercial, partisan American system.
The EU and EC are somewhat stabilising influences too. An EU member government simply wouldn’t be allowed to do some of the stuff Trump is doing.
-
If we are lucky this is only how bad it will be. I strongly suspect it is going to get much worse before it gets better.
The outright corruption and country-killing isn't really having that much impact yet, but it will. And just wait for the global economic crisis.
However, if things get bad enough there's a better chance of people rising up and things changing for the better. Or if things stay sane enough somehow, the midterm elections changing everything.
-
No we can't. Nor unless republicans stop universally falling in line.
