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Nixon had the decency to resign, Trump will drive us all 6ft under without any hesitation.
Nixon was not decent. The difference was that a Senator (Goldwater) told Nixon point blank that he was getting impeached and the senate had the votes to convict and remove.
Like most government officials "retirement" is getting fired.
They also didn't have Faux "News", hate radio, or the Internet back then, either.
What's so fucked up is that POS of a FCC chairman just celebrated making it even worse than it already was for truth.
Fox was started precisely because the moneybags never wanted a Republican president held to account again.
I'm pretty sure Trump would give the order to launch the nukes and kill us all in that situation.
That's why he's firing the top military people. They won't follow illegal (and reprehensible) orders, so he knows they won't bomb blue states.
absurd claim even as a die-hard cynic.
He won't nuke his top money makers, California and NY pay for half of the US military already
Trump 100% does not think that way.
Man bankrupted casinos, he has failed upwards most of his life and I don't doubt he'd try some shit on CA and NY if he thought he could get away with it. It's not their economies stopping him, its knowledge he might have to face consrquences if he did something too excessive, and as his brain liquifies I find myself wondering how long before he thinks the odds are okay.
It doesn't matter how Trump thinks, the US military isn't going to nuke their own homes, don't be ridiculous
I have to hope the people with access would refuse to obey these illegal orders.
By that point, if Americans STILL think they can vote and avoid violence then the American public really us beyond hope.
I genuinely think he's by far the most likely president in this country's history to launch ICBMs if he knows he is fucked. Which was a conclusion myself and any non-moron also came to in 2015.
He is really old now. A good cold, covid, a peanut or even a strong fart could do him in.