• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    The stupidity is not that Trump wants to do this

    The stupidity is that behaviour like this has been normalized by the American public and American leadership

    They’re all taking steps to degrading and destroying themselves and no one ever wants to do much to stop it.

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        30 some states have voter sponsored ballot initiatives, most are constitutional amendments, a few are just statutory, I’ve never heard of recalling a legislature with that process, which takes over a year to make happen, from getting signatures from voters, getting those validated, having electoral commissions ok the vote, then waiting for the actual vote.

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          the link I posted says 26 states have voter-initiated ballot measures, but 5 of those 26 only allow for constitutional amendments or vetoing statutes, not writing new statutes which I should have been more clear is what I was referring to.

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            It appears you are correct, I had read 30 some, but all enshitified search is giving me is 26, as is now the case, all sources provided are citing the same statitstic it appears, the sources being machine written by and large.

            It islikely not incorrect in this case, just saying, search sucks now, I know it can work better, because it did. Google eats bags of diseased geriatric flacid dicks. It’s gross. Like, if you want to eat bags of dicks, they could do better. But I digress.

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    It’s easy to laugh at his stupidity and tantrums

    People should be concerned about his tame DOJ and other jurisdictions falsifying charges against those who he hates

    If I were a gambling man, I would wager that there will be arrests before too long

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    “Expel”

    But he can’t - esp. not across party lines. Last time I looked the US government still called itself democratic.

    But it’s becoming the normal way of doing politics over there? At least for his constituency I guess. They really believe POTUS should have the right to do this Expelling. It not being possible then becomes an example of how the other side “weaponizes” the law.

    I like that “deranged” is now a standard adjective in most any Trump article.

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      Buddy, we are through the looking glass.

      He can do pretty much whatever the fuck he wants because nobody is stopping him.

      Watch him literally “deport” these people

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      We’re in fascism times.

      Trump can legally kill people. Literally. He can point a gun in 5th Avenue and shoot someone and New York Court, SCOTUS, and his base, will all let him.

      We cannot make arguments as if laws apply to this man because they simply don’t.

      So when he says words like “expel”, we need to understand that he will try everything in his power, including things that are illegal to normal people like you and me, to accomplish his will.

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        Trump can legally kill people.

        I think that’s hyperbole, but yeah, that SCOTUS ruling was and still is pretty horrifying.

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    I mean at this point the Republican reps allowing this to continue are actively engaged in this treason. They’ll need to be held just as culpable as the admin.

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      Impeachable offense?!? Are you serious? This dude needs to be DEPOSED AND IMPRISONED not impeached.

      We are so fucked if people still think this way

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      Add it to the pile. Though the pile is kinda pointless when they aren’t impeaching him for any of it.

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      I’m not sure declaring his enemies in a constitutionally separate branch of government as “fired” counts as a high crime or misdemeanor, but if he tries to falsely imprison them or impede their official duties it sure is.

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        counts as a high crime or misdemeanor

        That’s the fun part. Congress decides what high crimes and misdemeanors are. If they want to, they can impeach and remove him for picking his nose. Anything they can get enough votes for will count.

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    I can just see him laying on the floor of the Oval Office, pounding his little fists and kicking his little feet and crying, “But I want to expeeeeeeeeeeel him!!”