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It hurt hurt his feelings bigly. And if anyone, anywhere has ever hurt Donny's feelings then it is a national emergency.

It's an emergency because if he leaves it alone Republicans are going to tank hard in the midterms which will mean he loses power and might even be held accountable for his crimes.

He will just never get over the fact that he lost in 2020. And he's willing to make all of America suffer for his butthurt.

Because "emergencies" are the Wild cards given to the Executive Branch by Congress and SCOTUS. There's no clear definition and no boundaries until he's challenged in court or Congress overrules him.

Those are just called sharts.

He's the boy who cried wolf of presidents.

Speed run it all the way to the guillotines plz

Without the war, and the civility.

This would be where they burn down the ~~Reichstag~~ congress.

Both sides are the same so we should just not vote and let Trump win.

-Leftists

Where are these people who can deal with it?

Please, show some evidence that they actually exist. I don't need names and addresses, thats just opening them up as targets.

Do they exist? Because all I've seen is a lot of bitching and whining and declaring that no-one is good enough to do that.

This is absolutely the most important thing to keep in mind here.

Remember, this is a memo being circulated by Trump supporters. It's actual legal basis likely sits somewhere around "political fan-fiction."

The same thing happened in 2020. Trump supporters invented completely nonsensical legal justifications for how Trump could sieze power. None of them held water.

Can Trump just ignore the law and declare shit anyway? Sure. Self-coup is always an option in any democracy. But he is deeply unpopular; I don't really see that working out for him, although the process of it not working out certainly might be a very violent one.

Trump tried to self-coup in 2020, and the result absolutely fizzled. It was violent, and messy, and innocent people died, but in the grand scheme of attempted insurrections it was pretty fucking pathetic. He's got a cult of personality, but he's never actually done the work to build the kind of organized support he'd need for something like that.

I'm never going to tell Americans that the danger is over and everything is fine. There has probably never been a more dangerous time for American democracy. But don't mistake that danger for inevitability. While Trump is carving a path of destruction through your government, norms and institutions, he's also bleeding power every single day. You can win this.

The billionaire owned media is normalizing this on purpose.

This is exactly the Project 2025 playbook. Doing things by the law takes time. In that time, they do as they please.

That's a good point; think of all the other things they're normalizing this way as well.

For there to be consequences we would have to have a legislature not working for billionaires.

All of this comes down to billionaires buying their way out of having just one vote.

Doesn't there actually have to be a "National Emergency" before he can just "declare" one?

Yes, but here's the problem. Both the courts and Congress in their truly finite and limited wisdom have decided that only the president can determine what is an emergency.

Never underestimate the DNCs ability to run a candidate that the moderates couldn't even hold their nose to vote.

The idea that this ends with Trumps death is no different than leaning on the hope that someone else who isn’t you is going to stop any of this.

Yes, he looks terrible. Yes, it’s entirely possible we wake up tomorrow to news that he died in bed.

But consider what happens next. Peter Theil assumes the presidency through Vance. And Theil hates democracy.

And MAGA doesn’t worship his administration team. Only him.

Yup. MAGA doesn't have something similar to North Korea's Juche to save them because all Trump thinks about is himself.