AND he fucks children
Rapes
Hey guys I hearn fücking kïbs is cööl nöw :DDDDDDDDD
GOPedo Bear
Oh no, pedo ear is back.
He’s telling everyone what his plan is. War incoming by Jan 2029.
I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t happen before midterms.
We didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.
“Missed opportunity.” - Trump, probably.
Were they cancelled during WW2
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!”.
We’ve had one Afghan invasion, yes. But what about second Afghan invasion?
This isn’t a joke it’s testing the waters.
He’s not testing the waters.
He’s normalizing the illegal discourse.
This is always how he starts things.
And if he does that. Expect people to do some nasty business in response to his dictatorship.
I really don’t have hope in Americans to do so. I hope I’m wrong.
“Joking”
THE FILES
THE PHILES
Won’t change anything
It certainly will. Might not change how he acts or the support he has, but it will change the name I call MAGA or any person that would ever entertain supporting him - past, present or future.
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.
I think these people are watching The Handmaid’s Tale and not understanding that Gilead is supposed to be bad
He’s not joking.
He’s not joking. What does he have to do to be taken seriously? A hostile takeover of the capital?
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.
If the war was closer or even inside the US, it might be a different thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if he could still consider it though.
1864 begs to differ.
Don’t forget 1812 either.
Desperate measures require desperate times.
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.
He can’t fucking die soon enough.
That’s the other hope by a lot of us.
It’s cute that you think laws matter to the fascists.
That’s the entire point of what I’m trying to point out here. You’re stuck on what “legality” means. I’m saying they’re changing the definition.
That’ll be before the midterms, in case anyone wasn’t clear about that.
Industrial strength “Joking” being used in this headline.
Trump has no sense of humor nor has he ever told a joke.
