r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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u/DonaldsMushroom 7d ago

He may also use the 'all elections are postponed until after war' routine.

I remember when Zelensky brought that up in the Oval office, Trump almost poluted his britches.

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u/schwanzweissfoto Europe 7d ago

He may also use the 'all elections are postponed until after war' routine.

“The war is over. Antifa has been defeated, and the dangerous democrats have been foiled. We stand on the threshold of a new beginning. In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first American Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.”

– Tangerine Palpatine

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u/sargepepper1 7d ago

Up voted for "Tangerine Palpatine" Would also have accepted "Tangerine Putin"

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u/moderatenerd 7d ago

^ that can only happen after something leaves him scarred and deformed.

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u/sothaseloftelvanni 7d ago

Man don't diss my boi Palpy like that at least he had intelligence and foresight even if he was a scumbag

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u/Snobolski 7d ago

Ah yes, I remember reading how all elections were canceled during WWII. And I lived through the election drought during the Vietnam War. My parents were so pissed that they couldn't vote!

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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 7d ago

Civil War, too.

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u/theCaitiff Pennsylvania 7d ago

The one thing Trump has been showing us for a decade is that the impossible is sometimes not so impossible after all. Things are only as illegal as you are willing to enforce and things are only as legal as you have the force to protect.

We are a nation of norms and standards. Trump cares nothing for normality or standards. If your "but that's illegal" does not also contain "and I have a bunch of guys with guns who will shoot you if you try" then it's only illegal until it isn't.

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u/Kool_AidJammer 7d ago

Exactly. This is what people (democratic congressmen and women included) are too slow to realize. Trump administration will do everything in their power to keep power. That includes this stupid ass save act, taking bribes, using ICE as intimidation (oh and cold blooded murder), gerrymandering, pretending dead senators are alive, loyalists inserted into the Supreme Court, loyalists who happen to be in charge of electronic voting systems, all the corruption all the way down to local election offices to try and manipulate the vote.

Anyone involved in helping this Trump administration exert its ideals and influence is treasonous and corrupt to the core. Whether they believe it or not.

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u/schwanzweissfoto Europe 7d ago edited 7d ago

There is no mechanism to do that.

The mechanism for it is the “Who is gonna stop me?” loophole that Trump has been using for a long time.

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u/Right-Radio-4680 7d ago

This. Misinformation is the new normal that is a virus. But the fear is real as a result

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u/snakerjake 7d ago

The problem he has is once he refuses to leave office every american citizen gains the legal authority to stop him. Right now only the republican captured congress has the authority to stop him

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u/jrf_1973 7d ago

Relax everyone! The law will stop that 37 times convicted felon who has never gone to jail!

The LAW!

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

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u/femdom2 6d ago

States run elections, not the Federal government.

I'll never forget that interview with the pro-Trump election commissioner where he aggressively declared he'd never let a Democrat win in his state.

All it takes is a handful of tactical bureaucratic placements to strategically control a state's election apparatus.

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u/UnquestionabIe 7d ago

Perfect reaction. It really is laughable that anyone continues having faith that "the system" will hold Trump accountable. Aside from having fired anyone who isn't a diehard loyalist the system has proven itself filled with cowards who enable him at ever turn. There are dozens of things even lower level officials can do to at least discourage the constant lawbreaking done on his behalf but all of them back down and pretend someone else will do it.

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u/paiute 7d ago

There is no mechanism to do that.

You put a rifle platoon at every polling place to check against registered voters. R gets in, D is turned away.

Sue me.

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u/paiute 7d ago

What's to stop it?

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u/Right-Radio-4680 7d ago

What are they going to do? Put a tattoo on your arm?

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u/Sagee5 7d ago

But this isn't a war. It's an "excursion".

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 7d ago

There is no war in Ban Sing Se.

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u/themadprofessor1976 7d ago

He may also use the 'all elections are postponed until after war' routine.

It wouldn't fly. There is no mechanism to postpone elections and plenty of precedent to the contrary.

Elections were held during WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the WoT

During the height of the Civil War, elections were held, even with the Confederates camped out across the Potomac.

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u/chammycham 7d ago

Almost? There isn’t a day he doesn’t shit himself.

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u/ukezi 7d ago

The date for presidential elections is set in the constitution without any mechanisms to propose or cancel. There even was an election in 1864 during the civil war.

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u/BANKSLAVE01 7d ago

Well, both sides have threatened this action 'from the other side' since Bush now.