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  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    How do you guys think Trump will try staying in power? You think it will be an attack on the parliament again? This time with a bigger goon squad?

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      13 hours ago

      He’ll rig the election, or just declare himself the winner, and simply refuse to vacate the office or the White House, and count on Congress and the Supreme Court to back him.

      If SCOTUS doesn’t back him, he’ll just ignore them, there is no mechanism to enforce their rulings.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      He’ll probably be either dead or so far into dementia that he won’t even know his own name by the time his term closes.

      Even the midterms don’t really matter even if free and fair, bills won’t pass at all anymore (Republicans will still have a third of the Senate, so vetos will stand) and the executive branch will keep on ignoring everything because the judicial branch already gave him a pass that only 2/3 of the Senate can hold him accountable for anything, and there is no midterm result possible that gets there.

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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      13 hours ago

      You think it will be an attack on the parliament again?

      Maybe after they create one or attack a foreign one.

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      20 hours ago

      Haven’t been following the news? He’s trying to start WWIII in order to stay in power.

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      17 hours ago

      Why wouldn’t the disgusting pedophile party stay in power “democratically”? Don’t they have control of gerrymandering and electronic voting machines? And didn’t they abolish all checks and balances?

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        16 hours ago

        if they try to gerrymander their way to permanent power, blue states will continue their countermandering work. it seems like the republicans are trying to provoke a civil war, use that to justify suspending elections, and establish permanent power for themselves.

        the key for us, the people, is that we absolutely must organize into collections of people power that have the resilience to defy all this. in Minneapolis, everyone is mobilized. it’s reached a point there where everyone is out in the streets defying ICE, supporting the people out there in some real way, be that recruiting, educating, feeding, keeping warm, or they’re tacitly in support of ICE.

        this regime is offering everyone a simple, sadistic, choice. you can fight in civil war they want to enact, or you can die in the genocide that’s been in motion for 600 years. DC, Chicago, North Carolina, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis are becoming proving grounds of what does and does not work.

        the biggest thing is organization and for organization we need recruitment. too few are active. so please, any fellow americans reading this comment, seek a local mutual aid project to work with. seek a community defense league. get out here and help us fight before there’s no fighting left to do