He is desperate to suspend the Midterm Election because he knows the Dems are going to win in a bloodbath, and get control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers.
Even during the shamefully feckless Biden administration, they put Bannon and Ron Varo in jail for defying their subpoenas. With a new freshman crop of angry, motivated Dems screaming for MAGA blood, they will be much more aggressive this time around. We may see impeachments not only if Trump, but also Noem, RFK Jr, Hegseth, Thomas, Alito, etc. And with the presidential election coming up, there may be ambitious MAGAs who want their shot at the Big Chair, and will cross the aisle to bury this administration, and clear the decks for their own shot. Trump can’t allow that to happen.
So he will TRY to suspend elections, but that is a BRIGHT RED LINE, that must never be crossed. We have never suspended an election, not even during the Civil War, because it literally means the official end of American Democracy. He cannot be allowed to do that, under any circumstances.
And let’s say he cancels the election. Elections are a state-managed process, so what if the Blues states don’t respect his suspension, and hold their elections anyway? What if Red states balk at having their election rights removed, and decide to defy Trump and have their elections?
What will happens if the House flips, and a new crop of freshman Dem reps show up to be sworn in by the new House Majority Leader. Trump will order Mike Johnson to hold the line, but will he be able to?
We hear loose talk of “Constitution Crisis” all the time, but this would be an actual Constitutional Crisis, one of the biggest in American history.
And let’s say he cancels the election. Elections are a state-managed process, so what if the Blues states don’t respect his suspension, and hold their elections anyway?
Do you legitimately not see what the plan is?
Declare fraud or whatever by blue state governments.
Say Blue state governments refuse to work with fed.
Install puppet leaders in blue state governments to “save the states”
Puppet leader might cancel elections, but more likely they do all they can to rig it either thru voter suppression and shutting down certain polls, or just ignore actual results and declaring trump gets all the state electoral votes.
What will happens if the House flips, and a new crop of freshman Dem reps show up to be sworn in by the new House Majority Leader.
How is that a question either?
They just won’t bring the House in session to seat the new congress, just like they did with that special election seat.
They’re not using Congress to do things, trump is doing things and they’re obstructing congress from holding him accountable.
“No congress” is their goal. Some people can keep desks, but they’re not doing any type of governing. They want the president and his unelected appointees to just be able to do anything. Fully consolidated power, and we’re fucked because for 30 years neoliberals were pushing consolidation too.
You’re still expecting MAGA to work inside a system when all they’ve done is try to blow the system up. They don’t want any representation.
That’s the point. By making them stick to the Constitution, they have to deliberately ignore it and make up their own rules, and that makes it much harder for even a friendly Supreme Court to agree with them.
That’s not even getting into how the “difficulties” it creates is just SC clerks from Ivy League schools have to work more unpaid hours to write up some bullshit justification…
What in the actual fuck are you talking about? I’m the one who has been saying that we should NOT surrender! Call their bluffs, make them follow through with their Constitution-violating threats, and make them work for everything they want to do, instead of just giving it to them.
Stop electing people from the same generation year after year after decade after decade. They won’t let go, think the world is owed to them and are feckless assholes that would rather see the world burn than leave anything for anybody else. Get em the fuck out of office, across the damn country.
He is desperate to suspend the Midterm Election because he knows the Dems are going to win in a bloodbath, and get control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers.
Even during the shamefully feckless Biden administration, they put Bannon and Ron Varo in jail for defying their subpoenas. With a new freshman crop of angry, motivated Dems screaming for MAGA blood, they will be much more aggressive this time around. We may see impeachments not only if Trump, but also Noem, RFK Jr, Hegseth, Thomas, Alito, etc. And with the presidential election coming up, there may be ambitious MAGAs who want their shot at the Big Chair, and will cross the aisle to bury this administration, and clear the decks for their own shot. Trump can’t allow that to happen.
So he will TRY to suspend elections, but that is a BRIGHT RED LINE, that must never be crossed. We have never suspended an election, not even during the Civil War, because it literally means the official end of American Democracy. He cannot be allowed to do that, under any circumstances.
And let’s say he cancels the election. Elections are a state-managed process, so what if the Blues states don’t respect his suspension, and hold their elections anyway? What if Red states balk at having their election rights removed, and decide to defy Trump and have their elections?
What will happens if the House flips, and a new crop of freshman Dem reps show up to be sworn in by the new House Majority Leader. Trump will order Mike Johnson to hold the line, but will he be able to?
We hear loose talk of “Constitution Crisis” all the time, but this would be an actual Constitutional Crisis, one of the biggest in American history.
Do you legitimately not see what the plan is?
Declare fraud or whatever by blue state governments.
Say Blue state governments refuse to work with fed.
Install puppet leaders in blue state governments to “save the states”
Puppet leader might cancel elections, but more likely they do all they can to rig it either thru voter suppression and shutting down certain polls, or just ignore actual results and declaring trump gets all the state electoral votes.
How is that a question either?
They just won’t bring the House in session to seat the new congress, just like they did with that special election seat.
They’re not using Congress to do things, trump is doing things and they’re obstructing congress from holding him accountable.
“No congress” is their goal. Some people can keep desks, but they’re not doing any type of governing. They want the president and his unelected appointees to just be able to do anything. Fully consolidated power, and we’re fucked because for 30 years neoliberals were pushing consolidation too.
You’re still expecting MAGA to work inside a system when all they’ve done is try to blow the system up. They don’t want any representation.
That’s the point. By making them stick to the Constitution, they have to deliberately ignore it and make up their own rules, and that makes it much harder for even a friendly Supreme Court to agree with them.
Make them dance.
What the actual fuck…
You think they’re being held by the constitution?
That’s not even getting into how the “difficulties” it creates is just SC clerks from Ivy League schools have to work more unpaid hours to write up some bullshit justification…
Of course not, but you don’t just give them an out, make them actually, literally violate the Constitution.
Then dare SCOTUS to defend it.
They not only are, they have been, consistently…
They do, again consistently…
You think that is somehow accomplishing something, even tho I just said;
Is anything I’m saying making sense to you?
No, it’s not. I’m supposed to surrender American Democracy because of some imaginary law clerks? WTF?
What you’re saying to do, is what’s been happening and is happening and won’t do anything to prevent it from continuing…
Your plan is “surrender”
But at this point I don’t think I’m going to help you understand anything, and frankly I don’t think it’s worth the effort
What in the actual fuck are you talking about? I’m the one who has been saying that we should NOT surrender! Call their bluffs, make them follow through with their Constitution-violating threats, and make them work for everything they want to do, instead of just giving it to them.
Stop electing people from the same generation year after year after decade after decade. They won’t let go, think the world is owed to them and are feckless assholes that would rather see the world burn than leave anything for anybody else. Get em the fuck out of office, across the damn country.