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Elon Musk hands $1m to voter in desperate attempt to flip Wisconsin’s Supreme Court
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I mean there won't be an election, but that's the future at this point..
No.... it's really not, though.
What's really not? If you think Trump or SCOTUS plan on allowing any sort of actual election to happen you're sadly mistaken...
Barring something drastic happening, we're cooked.
Negative Kimosabe. If that was a real actual possibility the protests would be real, and big and i would be a part of them.
No... if trump goes rouge and tries to stay in power, that is exactly why we bare arms.
I've seen so many now that are expressing great fear like yourself.
I don't know how tank tops will stop trump but you do you. /s
But hey, remember when the overturning of roe v wade was just fear mongering and they wouldn't really do it? How project 2025 wasn't actually what they planned to do? How the supreme court would never grant broad immunity to a president? At this point, assuming Trump would try to keep power past 28 is just good sense.
Ok, I can see what you're saying, but those things compared to Trump seizing control of the White House are much different things. I think yes, many idol worshipping Trumpsters would like Trump to take control, but that's a small group compared to Republicans on the whole. Many Republicans own weapons for this reason. This is a democracy, everyone votes to choose our president. No wanna be dictators allowed.
Trump understands all this, he's not going to start a civil war. If he does anything, I think he might try to make a 3rd term a thing, but he would do it through legal channels.
In scale maybe, but fundamentally it's all about consolidating power and dismantling democracy.
Why start now? Also nothing short of a constitutional amendment can make that happen legally (unless the Supreme Court declares the constitution unconstitutional, hah). Even if he personally doesn't retain power, I expect Republicans to dismantle the system to the point that they can just install another sycophant.
I don't think you understand what exactly you're suggesting. First, are you an American? It would be more understandable, maybe.
Republicans aren't taking over, Trump isn't taking over. If they were actually trying to take over, the majority of actual Republicans wouldn't have that.
They're currently deporting permanent residents with no due process in defiance of court orders, ICE arresting citizens, dismantling the epa, social security, replacing the highest levels of government with sycophants, purging govt employees that investigated Jan 6, and of course the aforementioned packed supreme court that has already done incredible damage. There's more but that's just off the top of my head.
Yeah, the peasants are mad. The leopards are eating their faces and they're crying about it in town halls across the country. The representatives don't give a fuck.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5221643-indiana-republican-spartz-town-hall-doge-musk/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-advised-avoid-person-town-halls-confrontations-cuts-go-vir-rcna194689
What can I say, or what could I say? You drink from the fountain of invisible agendas. Nothing I could say would convince you much of anything. Enjoy your journey
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-is-not-joking-about-third-presidential-term-2025-03-30/
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Yeah, I think this would be the best outcome, honestly. Despite the extremely loud, louder than ever detractors, MSM, anti trump at whatever cost folks with TDS... despite them, most Americans watch, see, hear, and understand the good trump is doing. And I could imagine a majority of Americans voting for him a third time. I would, I've decided.
If you are unable to see, understand, and admit any good trump is doing, your opinions are omitable, in my opinion. Many and most educated in America recognize that MSM anymore is controlled by those with anti-American socialist and communist idealization.
Phew... I'm gonna get feel the heat from this one.
You went from denying trump would even do such a thing to pledging to vote for him for an unconstitutional third term, and somehow I'm the deranged one. You're going to be real upset when you learn how tariffs actually work.
Not sure if you're trolling or not. They're very obviously following Russia's playbook of consolidating power, dismantling the state and handing it to oligarchs, and "flooding the zone" with bullshit so people believe what they want. They probably won't outright claim they're the King and there will be no elections, but they'll probably rig the elections, at least in red states, so the Republican party has control of the federal government in perpetuity; similar to how Russia has "elections." Any media that doesn't toe the line will get labelled as "fake news," and probably have "legal" and financial actions taken against them. I mean, a few days ago, and executive order was signed that, among other things, requires voters to show a birth certificate or passport which will disenfranchise many, many voters. So, no, we won't explicitly have a king, but we will have a totalitarian one-party rule with oligarchs at the top, and an extensive propaganda machine to keep people confused and misdirected. I don't expect voters like the one's that wore the "better Russian than Democrat," to organize in a large militia and fight homeland security, the national guard, or whatever other military the government would deploy on US soil (they're "considering" invoking the Insurrection Act at this very moment). I suspect most Republicans would just be fine with their team being in power, no matter what the cost; and having propaganda legitimizing their beliefs just makes it easier for them. Republican voters surely won't rise up to fight for a Democrat that "lost" an election.
Stop blustering the whole we bare arms is just bull shit Americans tell themselves so they don't feel bad when kids kill each other.
Lol right, no, it's literally because we don't want a tyrannical government. Also, look at England, that's what we don't want.