• disregardable@lemmy.zip
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    They could literally impeach him tomorrow. This is not a one man show. It is a choice. They’re choosing to make themselves richer and make you poorer, to make themselves more powerful and to make you more vulnerable. Not just Trump.

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    There are no divine guard rails and Trump is merely a symptom of a diseased country…diseased west internationally frankly. Looks like nothing will be done until maybe a critical mass of you have nothing to lose. Too comfortable and selfish for now, waiting for invisible heroes who will never arrive to do the hard stuff for you. Or not. Could end up like Russia for centuries.

    Laws written are only applied to the out group, not the in group under nazi regime. The in group shrinks over time.

    I think Canada following you idiots into hell, just on a delayed timer. We have the same situation where we’re fucked the minute we elect our own nazi party. Very nearly did last election. Nobody should trust us long term. Handing ourselves to USA on a silver platter is in the cards IMO.

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      I know this is small potatoes compared to everything going on with “WWIII: the Nazis return” but it irks me to no end how on top of trump saying he’s taking Canada and Greenland he’s also says “51st state”

      So Canada in its entirety will be 1 state? And I assume all of Greenland will be a 52 state?

      Canada is a diverse place with regions and cultures… but lump them all into a single state. Sure. How many electoral college votes does Canada get?

      I don’t know much about Greenland but I’m sure the same applies to them.

      How is that flag going to look? Actually that last one’s a stupid question it’ll just be trumps face.

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        Disclaimer I’m not responding as if I think I’m the arbiter of truth it’s just for “fun” thought experiments.

        I think their current focus is with Alberta and funding the fringe separatist movement there with the support and rigging of the system traitor Smith and the Wildrose faction of the worst political party merger since the CPC federally. Fuck you, Jason Kenney. Their polling is trending down, but idk we got years of suffering to go to see if NDP can eek out a win with a centrist NDP as it will be under Nenshi. It hinges on Calgary, gods save us all for that’s always a let down historically.

        Since Pierre lost that is. Reset the 4 year timer and they’ll try again federally. If they (Republicans, their media empire Carney does nothing about, or their dark money) get Alberta to separate then IMO USA will annex it. 51st state talk is mostly just inflammatory words meant to catch headlines, for now. I mean these are meth head nazis so there’s a lot of winging it and reactionary decisions.

        As an aside, fascist parties in U.K., Germany, and France all are polling high as well. Don’t be surprised if all this tough talk bravado from Europe craters into the ground if those dipshits vote Nazi and fracture Europe before we get the chance to fuck our own ass here at home.

        Something stinky going on in Quebec too but I’m not very knowledgable about that situation yet.

        So Canada in its entirety will be 1 state? And I assume all of Greenland will be a 52 state?

        I think the provinces would just name swap to states instead of province/territory, but that’s not based on anything other than not taking them so literally.

        How many electoral college votes does Canada get?

        Zero is my bet. Their other auxilery nations like Puerto Rico for example. Except they probably aren’t going to have legitimate elections ever again anyways if they don’t outright just cancel them entirely. They wouldn"t want us voting Democrat.

        I don’t know much about Greenland but I’m sure the same applies to them.

        Well it’s only 58,000 population minus whoever they kill invading theoretically so idk.

        How is that flag going to look? Actually that last one’s a stupid question it’ll just be trumps face.

        https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=Flag+of+Puerto+Rico+Flag+of+the+U.S.+territory+of+Puerto+Rico&ia=images&iax=images

        Something like theirs perhaps.

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    Realistically only Congress or the Supreme Court can stop him and no they aren’t going to. Beyond that, as others have said it is just standing in the street and yelling. But that won’t stop him.

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    The only significant opposition has been in a few courts. Everything else is mostly vocal and easily ignored. So, yeah, we are.

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    The fun thing about checks and balances is that it relies on the other branches to be actually interested in the continuation of governance.

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    If I can give an overly pedantic answer, it’s not him. I certainly never give such a vile human being a pass but …… his advisors have their own agendas. At least some of the evilness is their agenda and Trump is either the sock puppet, was bribed, or just doesn’t care about anyone besides himself.

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    I know this is “no stupid questions”, but for the love of God, could you try to at least type it coherently? It reads like you were having a stroke while typing that or trying to mimic Kevin’s “why use many word when few do good?” Have some self respect, sheesh. I feel like there’s no point in explaining anything to you because you wouldn’t get it anyways.