Let this be a lesson to anyone who thinks they have the right to make Trump look bad. You are just as expendable, so keep your heads down and your opinions to yourself.

Blocking all progress on climate change in order to squeeze every last ounce of profit out of the fossil fuel industry…and then watching the world burn from their private orbital habitat.

“Partly”?

What a way to galvanize the opposition against you.

Well, yeah. It’s upside down. What did they expect?

Birds of a feather…

So, I guess we can safely assume that all the redacted names in those files, refer to Trump?

It’s only a piece of paper with words in it, if no one is willing to stand up and defend it. We the People can enforce it.

Ukraine isn’t a member of NATO. If it was, do you honestly think Europe wouldn’t have gotten directly involved by now? They’ve already declared their unconditional support, and have donated billions of dollars worth of military hardware to their defense. The commitment is there.

Canada on the other hand, is a founding member of NATO. And Greenland is the sovereign territory of another. If the US attacks either one of them, it will trigger article 5 of the charter. The rest of NATO will have no choice but to respond, or leave the alliance…which would immediately open them up to attack from Russia. And they would be forced to defend themselves alone. There is no way any of them would be that stupid. Not with Russia on one side, and the US on the other. It would be suicide.

And you think the US won’t attack one of their allies, at some point? They’ve already said they would if they don’t get what they want from Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland. Any one of those potential conflicts would lead to wider war.

They wouldn’t be the ones recognized by the international community, though. That would most likely go to the Palestinian Authority. They’ve always been preferred over Hamas.

I think you are mistaking “conflict avoidance” with “appeasement”. The rest of the western world is trying to avoid open conflict with those countries…the US included. If the US, Russia or China were to attack any of them, though…there would be war. And the so-called “fascist world” are not capable of remaining functionally united. They’ll stab each other in the back as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

If that’s the case, then things will eventually lead to another world war. A country as powerful as the US deciding to go full-fascist, will not be tolerated by other world powers for long.

Actually, the way they worded that decision made it sound like they wanted to hear how they would go about doing this…“legally”. Meaning, what rationale could they come up with, that wouldn’t violate the 14th amendment. They are willing to entertain arguments to that effect, but aren’t just going to sign off on a direct violation of the Constitution.

This latest outline from the Trump administration doesn’t do that. It just elaborates on what they would do, if they were allowed to proceed, anyway. But it says nothing about how they would actually circumvent the 14th amendment.

And at some point, you will also get civil war. It’s one thing for Trump to use legal slight-of-hand to look for loopholes in the Constitution…but it’s another thing entirely for him to simply violate it.

There is nothing in the legal framework of the United States that allows any president to simply overrule a Constitutional amendment. The 2nd amendment exists to protect the others from an autocratic tyrant.

That doesn’t explain how they plan to get around the 14th amendment, though. It just outlines what they plan to do, once they have.

None of that explains how they plan to get around the Constitution, though…which is very clear in its interpretation.

Do you mean, has a Republican state government ever been replaced by a Democratic majority? Not in recent history…at least as far as I can remember.

Or do you mean, has one state ever tried to sue another state, over the way they manage their own election infrastructure? The answer to that would be “no”. They can’t. Each state controls its own elections.

Republican states have recently tried to sue Democratic states for making it too easy for people to vote in Federal elections…but not the other way around. Those lawsuits never went to court, due to the fact that they had no legal merit.

Is that why it’s getting so downvoted?

Technically, yes…but we’ll allow it, because fuck T-Mobile. Carry on the wayward, son.