The Donvict operates this way, testing the waters to see how far he can go and see what might stick.

That’s not fair. 8 year olds aren’t nearly this dumb.

I'll believe it when I see it. Maybe if you manage to primary candidates that have a spine and will actually do this.

(But yes, everyone should vote blue in general midterms, because the electoral system is cooked and the alternative is messed up beyond words. Especially those who believe Dems are just pretending to oppose fascism or sometjing - the more the Dems win, the more their bluff gets called. And one can say: "Okay, we voted blue and blue won. Now what?")

Lol out loud

You say this as if trump thinks things through.

Hows that Iran situation going? Oh, he declaired absolute victory? How very odd, and also factually untrue.

If they’re pardoned they can’t hide behind the fifth, especially if he issues the blanket pardons like he’s threatening.

Might make for some interesting TV. And you KNOW those dumbfucks would then somehow screw up their testimony, subjecting them to perjury charges…

Yeah but on the other hand, if they are pardoned then the 5th doesn't apply to them and they can face charges for not answering questions.

Every single day would be the worst scandal of any other administration.

Bullet goes in, bullet goes out. You can't explain that

republicans will make a show of it but ultimately they won't vote to remove him. They're complicit and they're absolutely wallowing in the fact that they can do whatever they want as long as they convince everyone it was his idea.

The interesting thing about child rape, is that it activates the completely unhinged QAnon-esque people, who actually do commit violence with glee. Though I disagree with them on many things, we just happen to be aligned on "child rape=bad". That crime creates a visceral reaction that "stealing and selling state secrets" doesn't quite emit.

So I feel like Epstein is the one thing that could actually get through to many in MAGA cult.

As soon as he kicks the bucket there will be a massive power vacuum and everyone will change their policies to align with Vance. Nightmare scenario tbh, I hope he lives til the day he goes lame duck.

I've been thinking about this a lot, but the problem is that the President can only pardon federal crimes, so if a mob drags Steven Miller from his house in California and kills him, the President can't do anything to intervene. However, I'm pretty sure that the President could pardon crimes committed in D.C., and the Supreme Court has basically said the President can't be held accountable for crimes committed in office, so in theory, a future President could order agents to take Miller into custody, bring him to D.C., and execute him. He could then pardon everyone involved and no one could be held accountable.

Well why not? He likely will throw pardons around (it likely makes him hard to abuse the system). At this point they kinda have to go for broke, they are "all in" so to speak.

yeah agreed. I keep circling around the fact that our government is completely captured across every branch and party, and the interests that have it captured care nothing about Americans, or are hostile and just using us. The 2 political parties dictate the outcome for primaries, so they will never let an honest actor win a national primary unless a secret-decent person manages to sneak through their net, which seems unlikely given the grooming process politicians need to go through before they get any real power. Mamdani won because mayoral races arent as hard to enter and get funded as federal races are. But he did it despite the dems massive efforts to backstab his campaign into oblivion. Can that scale nationally? Seems hard to beleive. Bernie's candidacy and the outcome of his suing the DNC showed us that they can hand pick whoever they want at any time and the primary system is not legally binding, and need not be fair or impartial. Its not really an election.. Only the general election is.

https://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primaries-bernie-sanders-supporters/

So whats inevitable now : Social programs and free speech/protests will inevitably be removed. I cant see a midterm win by dems leading to a turnaround in our national descent into fascism. Its really just a matter of time until some sort of revolution happens, and the centrists are just playing for time in an utterly doomed system. We're in a dead zombie democracy that was a watered down version of democracy even when it was alive.

Well that's fucked up.

Trump weaponised the DOJ. Trump is a war criminal. Trump would pardon his illegal deeds regardless if Biden used that power, however, the former president had to pardon unless continuous prosecution seems like a fun everyday activity.

Trump will say he does what Biden did, but he is a living sack of human garbage so his comments mean nothing. By that logic Biden could've removed democracy too, as Trump started his first term.

I'm not sure they are thinking that. I bet they think they are the one person who can somehow ride the wave that it trump and find a way off it and still win. Like how a golddigger is hoping the guy will die soon. I mean, while hw is a grifter, he is a sloppy one. So the people around him end up recieving plenty of the spoiles of his grifting (points to stock market data right before trump does something that affects it greatly). So even if he does turn on them, they usualy come out rather rich.

Unfortunately America wouldn’t let an American appear at The Hague. Like I’m sure they’d send special forces to recover them before that.

Gdub signed the Hague Invasion Act back in 2002, so we've already got laws on the books to do it.