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Why is anyone in the U.S. thinking in terms of "four years", or "midterms ", or "elections" (beyond typical authoritarian kinds)?
Have people not been paying attention? Will these people continue to be "Shocked! Shocked!" with each new decision made by this administration?
That anyone believes anything but the worst will happen is how he got re-elected.
This time there are no obstacles to his enacting or enabling anything he chooses.
Stop your willful ignorance, this is real.
@ricardoharvin I mean the entire US government was set up to be full of obstacles to any president enacting or enabling anything they choose.
This is at the core of the US government. And no, we don't give presidents an option to switch those protections off.
Trump got reelected because the Democratic party officials settled on obviously horrible candidates that handed the election over to him, as was entirely foreseen.
So we saw that the sky didn't fall when Trump was President before. It's not going to fall this time either. Why would it?
The entire system was constructed specifically to keep presidents hindered.
The problem is that the law itself is a dead letter when the centers of power tasked with giving the law meaning are themselves infiltrated by those who seek to replace the law entirely.
The Constitution is not saving anyone.
The lesson you learned in civics class is a lie, an ideologically motivated deception of the liberal state.
To Trumpists, there is no responsibility to the will of the people, only power.
@burnoutqueen @volkris The ultimate arbiter of law has already officially stated that the President can not be prosecuted for any official act, giving Trump freedom to literally do anything, without legal consequence.
Every bit of potential litigation that rules against him will ultimately end up being decided in Trump's favor by his (literally) Supreme Court.
You're missing that without legality and act cannot be official. If an action is illegal, it's not an official act.
Remember: the Supreme Court actively sent Trump's case for further prosecution for the actions that didn't have clear legal basis.
The whole story that the Supreme Court said Trump can do anything is quickly debunked by the fact that the Supreme Court referred him for further prosecution. No, that story is completely wrong, gets what the Supreme Court said backwards.
What the Supreme Court actually said was that any president, in that case Biden, can't prosecute somebody who didn't do anything illegal. That's all it said.
If Trump does something illegal, which I'm sure he will do if he hasn't already, then according to Supreme Court he is perfectly open to prosecution, as the act would not be official by definition.
What you are forgetting is that legality itself is merely a social construct that is used to justify the violence of the ruling class and the state.
When the actually existing state has abandoned the pretense of liberal legality and is now resorting to the logic of fascism (and authoritarianism more generally), you can regard the entire concept of the law as being fundamentally altered, independently of what the Constitution says about the matter.
Just ask the Russians. The Stalin constitution promised all sorts of civil and political rights, but Stalin and his lackeys did all sorts of atrocities anyway.
@ricardoharvin what is the upshot of this post? what do you want us to do?
@scott If you need to be told what to do, you are clearly practicing learned helplessness, which I do not abide.
Unless, of course, you're practicing feigned ignorance, which I also do not abide.
It's been a while since I've had a douchbro in my mentions which, well, you know 
Edit: You're the white liberal, btw.
@ricardoharvin +1000 they've made it clear they're canceling elections, everyone should just get the i-yam-shocked shit out of their system now
@ricardoharvin Yes exactly. Trump even crowed about it during the campaign- “ get out and vote, it’s the last time you will need to” or something like that. Anybody still thik he didn’t mean it, was just trolling?????
@ricardoharvin
There won't be midterms or an election in four years. #Trump made that clear in his campaign, "you'll never have to vote again", like he's doing you a favor by taking away voting rights. Stupid fucking #Amerikkka
@OilersOrganGuy @ricardoharvin
Come on, you will have elections. Hungary, Russia, China, even North Korea have elections. Next USA ones will be about as meaningful.
I expect there won’t even be too much fraud going on. With main social media and most of traditional media, with people in all key positions and branches, there won’t be need for fraud. But next elections definitely won’t be fair.
@ricardoharvin white delusion is wild
@ricardoharvin I don't know why either. I know a bunch of politicians and their circle and they are going on about mid-terms. Meanwhile half my other friends are like, "How cute, you still think we are going to have elections."
@tasharoni I said almost literally the same to my mom last night, and my brother half-chuckled in agreement.
The overwhelming denial I'm witnessing across the board is disheartening.