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"That 81 year old is way too old for the job, vote for our 78 year old!" is a bold strategy
That’s the best part. Why is trump even running… he looks so tired.
Because his options literally are win or go to jail
His only chance at avoiding prison time for his many, many crimes committed while in office last time necessitate that he become President again, even though it was quite clear in 2016 that he was surprised he actually won and didn't want to do the job.
If he gets elected, all of those active indictments gets swept away on Day 1 and the SCOTUS has already paved the way for him to be "exonerated".
A vote for Trump is a vote for justice denied.
Especially when he'll be older in 2028 than Biden is now.
Although I'll wager the job is harder on Biden than it is on Trump, on the grounds that Trump doesn't actually bother to do it. He just played golf and signed shit for other people without looking at it.
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Do Republicans just want to destabilize the country until it’s destroyed?
Literally yes. That is fascism. Palingenetic ultranationalism.
destroy it and then rebuild it according project 2025, sounds on brand.
I don’t think they want to put the time or effort into rebuilding anything.
The Koch brother's plan was to invest in state races to win enough legislatures and governors to call a new constitutional convention, and have enough anarcho-capitalist stooges to formally reshape the country as their libertarian oligarchy utopia where the rest of us are just indentured serfs.
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Yeah bro, where you been?
They just want to destabilize it until they can steal power, but if anything gets destroyed along the way they'll just blame the libs
Yes
Since Nixon
Conservatives will turn to authoritarianism when democracy doesn't work for them.
They did that a long time ago so why are you phrasing this like it's a future transition?
Yes they do.
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The Republicans were calling for President Elect Biden to resign even while their leader was staging a violent coup to end the Republic.
The fascist GOP can get fucked. What they want should be irrelevant and their very presence opposed.
From a foreigner, this is undoubtedly true, unless you goal is secretly to have a king.
Given our Supreme Court ruling that a US president can't commit crimes, they're not being very secret about their goal of making the US a dictatorship.
None of it... Is secret... The trump calls. Even to the fucking election investigator in Georgia!? The paperwork.
It's all there. Any American who supports trump today is either literally special needs level education (and haven't looked at or understood thr tapes) or publicly admitting they would prefer monarchy with trump.
Pretty sad when non-Americans seem to understand the severity of this threat better than people here.
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I hope biden passes a few 'Official Acts' before he heads out.
Unless he resigns, he’s still president until January 20, 2025. So we will see; he’s got nothing to lose, AND presidential immunity.
Usually I’d say someone in his position has absolutely nothing to lose, but being he’s such a … typical guy, he won’t do anything and go down in history as a footnote.
Well if Harris is running couldn't any unpopular thing that Biden does potentially be tied to her?
Repeat after me: “I condemn President Biden dropping Clarence Thomas into a dildo shredder, but I respect the supreme court decision of total presidential immunity.”
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Like sending a few choice SCOTUS judges to gitmo
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The republicans want Biden to resign so they can immediately attack Harris for simutaneously having no record and attack anything she attempts to accomplish.
If Joe Biden resigned the republicans would say "not enough! You have to commit sepukku on live TV! COWARD!"
If he had resigned that would have put in Harris as the incumbent and given her a big boost. Do they really want that?
They're flinging bad faith criticisms at the wall and seeing what sticks, they haven't thought that far ahead
They are currently in the position to force through their pick of a VP.
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So Republicans want to make Harris the first woman president asap? How progressive of them.
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Speaker Mike Johnson is not fit to be a speaker, so there who cares ?
Yeah I bet the want him to resign. Untethered by reelection he might actually do something they don’t like.
You can't satisfy it Republicans so don't bother trying. Well, unless you use Grindr during the RNC. Then you can probably satisfy Republicans.
You couldn't pay me enough to fuck someone who gets on stage and tells everyone that their neighbors and people like me shouldn't exist.
You have to be nicer and more friendly than that.
If Biden where to step down now, and Harris takes over till elections. Does that count as her first term?
It would allow her to campaign as incumbent. Although not having the office does mean more time.
I believe you can still run for two full terms if you were president for less than two years. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
You are correct
No. Interm president does not count toward elected presidential terms afaik
Two years is the limit. You can be president for up to 10 years. 2 filing out the previous term and 8 being elected to the office twice.
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