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      At this point we are the only consequence he can get. Congress refuses to act, courts do, but he started to ignore them, institutions are gutted.

      This unfortunately won’t end without us going on the streets.

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      A short history of what happens to Presidents in Peru From 2000 to now.

      Alberto Fujimori July 1990 to November 2000      (10 years +) Imprisoned,  Corruption and crimes against humanity.

      Valentin Panaigua November 2000 to July 2001      (9 months) Transitional President

      Alejandro Toledo July 2001 to July 2006          (5 years) Extradited, money laundering, collusion.

      Alan Garcia July 2006 to July 2011          (5 years) Suicide, accused of bribery and corruption.

      Ollanta Humala July 2011 to July 2016          (5 years) Imprisoned, accused of bribery and corruption. That’s two Presidents in a row!

      Pedro Kuczynski July 2016 to March 2018                 (almost 2 years) Under House arrest, accused of bribery. At least there is no corruption (charges).

      Martin Vizcarra March 2018 to November 2020     (2 ½ years +) Ousted in Coup. Accusations of moral competence.

      Manuel Merino SIX DAYS                                (6 DAYS) Resigned due to protests and riots.

      Francisco Sagasti November 2020 to July 2021      (9 months) Transitional President

      Pedro Castillo July 2021 to December 2022              (1 ½ years) Detained. In custody, attempt to dissolve Congress.

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    Walmart is way too entrenched to switch. They own the supply chain from the soil to the store. They write half the ag bills.

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    Dictator for day 1

    Special operation for 3 days

    I’m beginning to think they don’t understand time

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    It’s easy. If there’s too much pushback, he’s “just joking.” Then he’ll do it anyway. He “doesn’t want to,” but he “has to for national security.” Then he’ll talk about how “foreign governments don’t want me to be president because I’m too good, America has never been greater, China wants me out. They’ve put viruses in the those vote counting things. You can’t trust an election. The whole system needs to be fixed. It’s war. It’s too dangerous to have an election in war time. Our enemies are paying people to vote illegally. They look like us now. They’re smart. They’re really evil, but they’re smart these Chinese. They look like us and sound like us. <lightbulb moment> They have Canadians coming down here and stuffing ballots and they look like us. Those Canadians really sneaky, they look like us. It’s true. They look like us. And their country is so terrible, it’s sad, Canada, they have no money. They totally relied on us and I shut it all down. They were stealing from us with their tariffs. Do you remember that? They were stealing from us, and I shut them down, and now they’re broke. It’s so sad. So sad. But now they take money from China and stuff our ballots. And China gets in there with their computers and their viruses, they’re really smart those Chinese. Ching chong ping pong and they’re inside the computer. I don’t know how they do it but they do it. It’s true, they just go right inside our counting things, because our guys are so dumb. They really are. It’s all immigrants in our universities and they can’t keep up with these Chinese. But they wouldn’t listen to me. I kept saying, ‘we have to stop with all these immigrant students.’ But did they stop? No, because they didn’t believe me. They didn’t believe me! And now we have all these immigrant students, and they’re so dumb. It’s sad how dumb they are. And our guys can’t keep up because there’s so many of them. They send them over in waves. <lightbulb> It’s like an invasion. Wave after wave of these immigrants, they say they’re students, but it’s an invasion. That’s what it is, an invasion. Because we’re at war, and we can’t have an election when we’re at war because it’s not safe. So I’ll stay president, because I’m the best. It’ll be great. I’m great. I really am. Look how I shut down Canada. They’ll be begging us to take them over any day now. They’re already saying it, Canadians. They hate their government. So weak. Their Governor doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s so bad. So we’ll rescue the Canadians. That’s what I’ll do, I’ll rescue the Canadians. We’ll get them one way or another. Because they’re attacking us. They’re sneaky you know. Those Canadians. They look like us and they’re stuffing our ballots. They do it all the time. So we can’t have an election. I want to have an election. I really do. I want to. But we can’t. We just can’t. We’re at war. We can’t do it.”

    Sorry 'boot that, eh.

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          I would if I could.

          I can’t, so I’m passing the friendly advice on. Been writing and working in communications for years, not trying to be an ass, but literally if you want your points better understood, you have to give the reader “pauses” in their mental dialogue.

          Someone made fun of me several decades ago for it, I was butthurt, but I got better. I pass it forward.

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    What Contempt? The people who Defend The Constitution after a School Shooting that leaves SCORES of 6 Year Olds DEAD are FULLY on Board with this!

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    Everything he does is what dictators do. Somebody explain to me why America has collectively allowed him to run the country

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        Which he absolutely should do, and to rub it in even harder get some Kenyan tribesmen to do a traditional African dance. Really fuck with them as hard as humanly possible.

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      Fox News etc had the stupider republicans convinced that Obama was going to declare martial law to get a third term. This was something I had family members scared of.

      Every accusation is a projection…

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      They’re trying to wittle it down to non-consecutive terms so it ONLY applies to Trump, but I agree. Run Michele as President and Barack as VP. Show them what thefuck is what.

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          They’re literally trying to specify “non-consecutive”. Barack already had his two terms do is not eligible.

          They’re just throwing shit at the wall at this point.

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            Oh. I thought since his third wouldn’t be consecutive with his first two, it’d be legal. I guess it depends on how they define consecutive.

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              You don’t include future possibilities in requirements to get to that future possibility.

              “Hasn’t already served two consecutive terms” doesn’t care if the third would be non-consecutive.