• Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
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        There will be elections. All autocrats love elections. Being reelected with 90+ % just feels too good to not have them.

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      It’s only going to get worse. The right would rather elect trumps lifeless corpse than someone with any decency

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      All that’s going to do is switch out him for his successor in the party. All of these things are things the party has been working for, such as declaring martial law and locking people up without habeas corpus, disappearing them, including citizens. Without addressing a lack of an opposition that can win in the face of election rigging 2028 won’t change anything except perhaps a leader that is not quite so stupid about doing the exact same things.

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      He was just as bad the first time. People still voted for him. Junior or eric will win in 2032 probably.

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      Come faster for what exactly? The majority to vote in whatever lackey he backs next?

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          Neither desantis nor vance will get it ultimately. I do not think, especially not desantis.

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              There will be a big fight in the viper nest for it in any case, that is the maybe one chance to unseat the party before it is too rigged to overcome, but it would need to be a popular candidate running a reform campaign.

              Newsom will not walk with presidency, he had his chance in 2024 when he could have won but waited his turn like a bitch.

              But I digress. Idk who ends with supreme leader but it will make things worse not better, half as mean and twice as smart and the country will get sliced up by the megacorps and parasitical biz dickheads.

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            They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?

            Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don’t do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I’m afraid you might be right.

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    I accidentally scheduled a vacation to Chicago during Mexican Independence Day, which apparently is a huge deal in Chicago. When I got there, the entire downtown area was completely shut down as Mexicans had been roaring up and down every street in trucks for the last two days. The Chicago PD had blockaded every exit off the highway within two miles of downtown to try and stop it. It didn’t- it just limited them to doing it on the highway breakdown lanes and the actual fucking grass medians.

    The moral of the story? If the above is what the Mexican population of Chicago does for fun, I’d dread to see what they do in the face of an actual threat.

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    dude honestly thinks he is the shit. If there was ever a pit fight between world presidents, I would bet money on him losing his first fight in the first five seconds.

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        If historical figures allowed, monarchs definitely yes. I want to see Queen Elizabeth on a horse kicking assess.

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          Which one? One or Two?

          Also if historical heads of state are allowed I wanna see Robert the Bruce Vs Richard Lionheart and I also wanna see Charles the First hiding in a corner in the Foetal position rocking back and forth like a little bitch.

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              Oh, then it depends when you bring her back. She came to the throne when she was 26 and also served in the army as a mechanic. At the D-Day memorial one year she was the only leader there to have served in the Second World War. So she knows how to shoot a gun, knows how to repair a car, and can defo fuck someone up if she was brought back at her prime.

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                I want both versions, first exactly for the same reasons you mentioned and second to see this but jousting with a heavy umbrella towards Trump:

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                  The older one to the younger one: “Listen, Cabbage, we need to talk about this one kid you’re going to have. His name is Andrew and…”

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      Two comments, and I know this is now old news: it’s insane to see someone/somegroup get SO pissy for being hit with a soft, non-lethal projectile; and while I understand how he was likely carrying it, upon further review the clip above seems to show that this man is a sandwich-mancer and can summon subs from thin air.

      I don’t normally like to use the AI summary of a search, but this one was funny: Force of rubber bullet vs sandwich

      I’m glad they failed to indict him, and I hope he finds success in another place.

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    The last time this obese imbecile was that slim was deep in the last fucking millennium. Which was also when it was the last time he could squat like that, useless cunt.
    If he tried to squat like that today he’d shit himself 4 times on the way down and then roll over like a hog in even more shit.

    Fuck sake, What type of bunch of fools could ever vote for this buffoon? Hang your head in shame.

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      Insurrection is grounds to declare martial law, remove those in power, and halt elections. He has to push hard enough to force people to fight back.

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          There will be an activity called an election. It won’t be free, or fair, or allow everyone to vote. The simplest method would be restricting voting locations to those deemed ‘safe from insurrection’ aka counties that voted for Trump.

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    Where are all the soldiers and assorted politicians who swore an oath to protect the USA from all threat foreign and domestic?

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      They are considering deploying a national guard or something there. I believe this meme is purely humoristic.