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On the contrary. Having Democrats in control of both houses would make it harder for him to get anything done, severely limiting his ability to go off the rails. He'd doubtless whine about on twitter every time anyone stands up to him, but that's not anything he's not doing already.
No, but based on what we’ve learnt recently they also won’t tell congress that he tried to give said order and should be impeached.
They’ll just ignroe both the order and the fact that he’s detached enough from reality to try and give it.
Edited by Silasw on Sep 12th 2018 at 11:51:18 AM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranReddit Bans Qanon Subreddits After Series of Violent Threats.
The military attitude with things like that is very much “keep it in the house”. They’re not gonna let him nuke anyone, but they’re not gonna talk about it either. This is both to prevent from running afoul of the various laws prohibiting the services from political speech, and because of the “boys club” effect the military has historically had.
They should have sent a poet.The President can not declare Martial Law by himself, even in times of crises. It requires either Congress's approval, or for individual States to do so. Lincoln's attempt at declaring Martial Law (and suspending Habeas Corpus) were destroyed by Congress, who then decided to declare Martial Law themselves; on top of the fact that the Martial Law Law only applied to the Rebelling Southern States. There have also been multiple times where State and Territorial Governors declared Martial Law (mostly because of Unions Striking). The entirety of the USA has never been under Martial Law, even during the Civil War and World War II.
So don't worry about Trump and the Conservative Supreme Court from trying to violently take over the Country 'legitimately'. It would require the Military acting against the Constitution and Congress (and potentially against the President as well) for what you worry about to happen.
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
Quick question on the cult like support of Trump. Do any of you think or have even experienced supporters who would actually jihad themselves for him? I'm not just talking violence, I mean the possibility of them throwing themselves on their sword, or at least to authorities demanding to take them instead. Has it really reached that point?
Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than YoursI mean... Unite the Right happened.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Reddit's discussion of the banning of Qanon reveals a lot of people were on the forums just to mock them.
But yes, No Sympathy is the general reaction.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 12th 2018 at 9:51:55 AM
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