Yes. And I am being serious.
When JD Vance has a Congress that will back him (which he will have in 10 months), he, and a majority of the Cabinet, can invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment. He can declare the President incapable of performing his duties, and step up to the plate. Congress then has the opportunity to decide whether to support his coup, or reinstate Trump to the presidency.
To be successful, he will have to immediately blame Trump for attempting to block the midterm elections, and appoint a special prosecutor to look into the full scope of Trump’s numerous, unadjudicated crimes.
For (most) of the next 10 months, JD Vance will have to continue to appear to support Trump’s presidency, and Trump will have to continue his own Trumpiness.
Bring back the McRib. Im serious
Are you implying that he would eat one and then suffer a heart attack?
Several. But yes. Breaking Diet and Zero coke dispensors at locations in DC and Palm beach would help too.
yes, a General Strike… if the people of the USA stop working for a week, that would be enough to cripple the Orange pedophile supporters
In the meantime, you can do very easy stuff like deleting your Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc), Google, Xitter and Amazon accounts… but that seems like too much to ask of the American people… better descend further into fascism and drag the world down than stop using X
if the people of the USA stop working for a week, that would be enough to cripple the Orange pedophile supporters
They would just call it a terrorist attack from antifa. Americans are terrified of an uprising from black people, it’s why they all have 12 guns.
They would just call it a terrorist attack from antifa. Americans are terrified of an uprising from black people
even better
Europe is its own path. You guys will have internet id before USA the way you guys are going.
Half of the USA already have internet id in some form or another… also, I am not in Europe
No
So lets do that
Yes. Maga gets tremendous power from 2 main sources. 1. Money. 2. Social media, and also religion, but not much you can do about that.
So, like Kimmel situation, disney had profit in firing him, once peiple boycotted, it did not, so had to bring him back.
You need to make siding with trump non-profitable.
That means, you, an individual, even if you think your choices dont matter, you need to boycott every company that supports trump, no matter how hard it hurts you. Now, it does t need to be a complete boycott. But as much as possible. For example, there are suitable replacements for chrome, and google search. But not really for YouTube. You don’t need the stock for these companies to be zero. You just need the projections to be significantly negative.
This is especially important for the social media maga controls.
They are using it to brainwash others. Not you. They know you cant be persuaded to become maga. So they let you think it is free, and subtly control what you’re allowed to see, and they corrupt young people, spread lies, teach to hate women, etc… they wont show the ones they are brainwashing all the truths you know about maga.
They have this power because everyone continues to use their platforms. So number one thing is to stop using meta, twitter, and tiktok, no matter how much you love those. Force people to use signal if they want to contact you, not WhatsApp.
Organize irl, whatever local movement you align with that fits into being pro democracy and freedom and equality for all.
When people organize, they can donate, and fund. This lets you go and protest on congress’ front lawn. You can have buses, trains, free food, things people need to come and go, and create a sustained peaceful protest. And MAGA will see that. The administration will be forced to call them paid actors. So be vocal. Get pro democracy flags for your car. Put them up in your homes. Maga can control what the brainwashed see on social media, but not irl. So you need to be vocal irl. Social media makes everyone think all the world agrees with them.
Do all of those things, and trump will lose tremendous power.
Even if you act alone. Make the sacrifice. Show by example, and remember those videos of one man dancing alone, and then another joins and another, and once people see the movement they join in. Start the wave.
Three things: 1. A general strike. 2. Vote them out in the mid-terms this November. 3. Full scale revolution.
Vote? Mid-terms? We’ve got an optimist here.
Nah, I’m no optimist. You’ve just given up too early.
The Orange pedophile already executed a coup to not give up the power on his first term… expecting he would give up power willingly now is just “ignorant and proud of it”
Not necessarily given up. I just don’t think this entire facade called democracy will solve anything. I’m entirely open to other solutions, like the ones you suggested.
Though it should also be noted I don’t live in the USA, so I won’t be standing side by side with you guys. Not physically anyway.
I guess it should be noted as well…I don’t live in the USA and am not American. What are the odds we’re all discussing America as foreigners? That would be too crazy, even for this timeline. All the best.
You’re right, votes havent mattered probably since computerized voting machines have existed.
But still, do it anyway. You never know.
Vote anyway. If we can’t organize to vote our credibility to strike doesn’t exist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule
I suggest this.
Edit: to clarify nonviolent protests, at least 3.5% of the population.
It’s been long established that a small percentage can lead to a “Tipping Point” and cause a trend that can grow and take over. People like Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Penn have written excellent books about the concept. This article is interesting because it is directly ties the idea to non-violent protests.
People have been watching the No Kings protests, for exactly this reason. With a population of 335 million, 3.5% is about 12 million people, and the No Kings protests have been drawing around 8 million, and will probably draw more in the future. Add to that all the sympathetic protesters at home, and we have to be at that 3.5% goal, and probably beyond it.
I’m one of those homebound protesters. I’m NEVER going to go to a protest, but that doesn’t mean I’m not as militant as they are. At my age, I’d be a liability at a protest, but I can work my keyboard, and spread sourced news and anti-MAGA propaganda in equal measure. Thats my DAILY contribution to the fight, and it’s just as important as showing up to monthly or quarterly protests.
Add people like me to the No Kings protesters, and we are certainly beyond the 3.5% required to cause a tipping point, and it really feels like it is happening. They are losing nearly every court case, including tariffs, MAHA, and more. What little support there was for this war has fully collapsed. He has broken every campaign promise to people who LOVE to repeat “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” Today, EVERY SINGLE MAGA knows that’s not true at all.
I don’t even like the no kings protests but lol at adding you to the number cause you post so hard.
Being allowed to run again, despite being a felon highlights a glaring gap in the ability of US politics to prevent shit like this from happening.
In the UK some right wing manosphere influencer keeps saying how he’s gonna run for Mayor of London (Ant Middleton).
People are gleefully pointing out that his convictions for assaulting a police officer and tax evasion bar him from the role.
Excluding people from running for office because of criminal conviction provides an incentive for authoritarians in power to prosecute their political opponents, so it’s a question that definitely has two sides. :/
Exactly. By the same reasoning, there is no reason to bar felons from voting, or even incarcerated citizens. Prisoners have as much right to government representation as anyone else.
Voting is a basic right in this nation, and it should not be removed for ANY reason. We should be automatically registered to vote at birth, with the registration automatically validating on your 18th birthday. You shouldn’t have to register, declare a party, or prove your identity. If you are an American citizen, you can vote, period.
prove your identity. If you are an American citizen
how do you verify someone is a citizen if you don’t make them prove their identity?
I live in an EU country and absolutely do have to prove my identity when I vote. I do not have to “register to vote”, or more precisely, I’m already required to register my residence with the government, which doubles as voter registration (the government knows my DOB and citizenship, so knows whether I meet those criteria). Getting disenfranchised for criminal convictions is a thing here, but only very rarely and AFAIK only when specifically sentenced to it.
Basically, it’s like you, it’s proved by your residence. That way people can’t vote twice. It used to be that you only had to show up with a utility bill in your name, at your address, and that was enough ID, and that worked just fine for decades. They would check you off their list, you’d vote, and go about your day.
And this is where ensuring total independence of the judiciary comes in.
Its insane to me that the president can pick a Supreme Court judge.
Who else should pick judges except for another branch of government?
This is how we do it in the UK.
https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/our-justice-system/jud-acc-ind/jud-appts/
For Supreme Court justices the selection process is slightly different in that the Minister of Justice convenes the selection panel (constitution is defined in law)
1.the President of the UKSC, who will be the chair of the selection commission; 2.a senior UK judge (who is not a UKSC Justice) nominated by the President of the UKSC; 3.a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission for England & Wales; 4.a member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland; and 5.a member of the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission.
Members of the JAC are senior civil servants and by law must remain politically neutral.
Whilst the Civil Service oversees selection, politicians are kept out of it. Individuals apply for the advertised roles, there are no political nominations and justices don’t serve for life.
He can’t, he can only nominate them. Then the Senate, a separate branch of government, investigates, and approves them. It doesn’t have to be a rubber stamp, and in the past it often hasn’t been.
Interesting, but that is still very political. The judges are effectively being selected by people who will do what Trump tells them to
The government is an inherently political system, you can’t avoid that. The Founding Fathers tried to split the approval responsibility (for many offices) between two branches, to avoid these issues. They were counting on the voters and the integrity of the members to keep things within reason, and it was a reasonably successful system for a long time.
The problem is that it relies on the good faith of the people managing it, and they Founding Fathers never anticipated that our country would be taken over be an international cabal of Sociopathic Oligarch pedophiles and traitors, who would exploit our nation’s honor system.
It wouldn’t be so bad if our government weren’t absolutely ratfucked by the two party FPTP system. There’s no incentive to not pick an extremist who aligns with your political ideology if your political party holds the majority of government offices.
if usa was a democracy and people had any power, maybe…? might as well try oust putin out of power, maybe the response is still less violent than it would be in russia, but you’ll have as much success. Though with enough people demanding something, change happens or steps toward change start to happen, but way america is you need really thorough rebuilding of your entire political system for things to get better.
But as quick patch one thing that comes to my mind is abandoning both sides of your oneparty system and starting a third pary, but that is just temporary because eventually it will be either taken down or corrupted, but it might give you at least something without having to resort to more violent measures.
With some luck diabeties or aneurysm. He looks ripe for it.
1/3 of US renters not paying their rent in a coördinated strike for one month would unwind a lot of landlord loans and collapse Wall Street which is where Trump stores his wealth.
Having a test before being allowed to vote. Nothing fancy, just yes/no questions like “is water a liquid”, “is the USA in America”, “is B the fifth letter of the alphabet”, things like that, which any adult regardless of education level could answer correctly. This would filter out the maga portion of the republican voters and solve the problem.
Yeah… we did that. The tests were intentionally misleading, where the answer could be either of two options. The tests were only given to “certain people” and no matter what option they picked, it could be argued it was wrong.
The solution is making it EASIER to vote, not harder. Encourage people to participate and educate them. Every time you make it harder to vote, it only tips the scales to the establishment and conservatives.
So, a literacy test, which was found to be a basic discriminatory tactic during the Civil Rights era, and you want to bring it back? But it’s okay because it’s the people that YOU hate, instead of the people THEY hate.
We don’t save Democracy by committing the same crimes that they do. Nobody hates MAGA more than I do, but that’s not the way to purge them.
Did you miss the portion that said “any adult regardless of education can answer correctly”?
That’s what they said about the Literacy Tests, too. Who decides the level of education required, and what “correctly” means? There’s a LOT of room to abuse this strategy, which is exactly why is was made illegal.
We aren’t going back to literacy tests. Move on.
Is the earth flat?
Exactly.
Maga voters would be so angry with us right now. If they could read.
People who answer yes get thrown off the edge
storming the gates would be a pretty stupid idea if i recall correctly
There is a pardon for that unless you’re referring to Babbitt.
Sometimes those people’s necks just start squirting randomly.
We’ve seen it happen.
“Everyone’s saying it…”
Vote in better Congresspeople who will vote to remove him from office. The problem is the people. Always has been.
People yes, but also the system is extremely fucked up and stacked against people. If you are unlucky to be born in bumfuck Alabama, you’ll grow up with your asshole priest telling you lies, your TV / Radio telling you lies, your patents telling you lies because they too were lied to and your school being underfunded and shitty.
It’s a vicious cycle that we allowed to get to a point of no return and it is not easy for somone to get out of it.
And this is by design, the elites used religion and propaganda to brainwash a huge swath of people.
I honestly think even they are surprised how well they did, because they were afraid they went too far when Trump got into office the first time.
They thought they had pushed their luck and now a fully open conman rapists was the leader of their party.
But, the brainwashing was too strong and complete, the cult members are literally cheering him on as he’s killing people.
I get that and I could see that as an excuse maybe 10-15 years ago, but my thinking is that in the age of regular internet availability, nation-wide, there is less of an excuse to be ignorant and it’s more of a choice at this point about whether you are informed or not.
It is got you because you are not in their bubble. The tech oligarchy has fully isolated the cult of MAGA.
Cults in the past had to be in a physical compound to keep the lie going, but today you have X, Facebook and FOX News which does not let any outside information in.
And let’s be real, your racist grandpa doesn’t know about lemmy or how to make an account or how to spot news slop.
Again, his highschool education barely thought him evolution, and critical thinking skills were not on the curriculum.
