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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To the glee of the fascist dictator currently attempting Ukrainian genocide.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

All thanks to his friend, the US dictator elect

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All these analysts trying to figure out how this tyrant who will be in control of all the Federal government can't do this or that because a piece of paper says so. SMH.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not the piece of paper, it's the amount of people who have to go along with something for it to happen. A lot of his and his zealous proposals are wildly unpopular.

Also Trump is a raging narcissist. If the focus ends up on project 2025 and makes him look bad, he will ditch whatever that item is. So I guess pick your battles and make noise.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

You're exactly correct. The law as it stands is irrelevant to what these analysts think. I'm not saying Trump can call every shot, but it doesn't really get any easier to change or skirt laws he dislikes. Anyone who leans on the "but the law says..." argument is praying.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Would it not be economic suicide to do so?

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 weeks ago

Like how slapping double digit tariffs on literally everything would be economic suicide?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago

Voting for Trump was economic suicide.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

Everything he has proposed is economic suicide.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People don’t seem to understand that Trump is the Russians’ inside job.

The call is coming from inside of the house. The policies are meant to be bad on purpose. The people that destroy the country will be on planes to Moscow when all is said and done.

Russia won. The oligarchs won. We lost. That’s all there is to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Political too. And geostrategic, of course. But that seems to be very much en vogue these days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Trump would be impeached if he tried. You think Raytheon and Boeing can't buy enough congressmen to impeach him?

[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He's been fucking impeached twice already.

How do you people have such short fucking memories?

Nothing sticks to this dirtbag. That's how he got that stupid nickname.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, the irony of how poisonous Teflon actually turned out to be.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump would be impeached

Let's assume that happens. What would that do, exactly? Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before? What was the net effect?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who would impeach him? Raytheon and Boeing will get money via DoD as usual

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

A lot less though. Keep in mind, Ukraine help is also a big plus in all the financial books, even though it looks like they just "get the money"...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are we still pretending that impeachment in the US is any kind of meaningful threat to a president?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If you understand it as a trial where a president who has done something wrong is held accountable according to the law, then no that's idealist nonsense.

If you understand it as a mechanism that allows 50+ senators to replace the president with the VP if they want to, yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Um, you know those companies can sell weapons and craft to other countries right? Trump will still be happy for Europeans to buy weapons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, no, we're out of NATO.

Or at the least we'll have a CJCs that stops all NATO cooperation, so we're in in name only.

Who am I kidding, either the CJCs or SecDef WILL be Michael Flynn.