Doesn’t even know the presidential oath he pledged.

You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?

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    WHY IS THIS SHIT ALLOWED! THIS MAN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN ANY RESPONSIBLE POSITION! HE SHOULDN’T BE IN CHARGE OF A LEMONADE STAND MUCH LESS A COUNTRY! WHY DID AMERICA ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN! THE MAN DOESN’T WANT TO DO HIS JOB OF UPHOLDING THE CONSITUTION! THAT’S LIKE A DOCTOR SAYING THEY DON’T KNOW IF THEY HAVE TO ABIDE BY THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH! TRUMP AND ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS NEED TO BE TRIED FOR TREASON! WHY HAS THIS MADNESS GONE ON SO LONG!

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    He knows. He just hasn’t consolidated enough power yet to outright openly say he doesn’t give a shit. But keep waving those protest signs around guys. I’m sure that’ll slow him down.

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      That’s the issue isn’t it? Things aren’t bad enough that armed rebellion would be successful. If you tried you’d die and the vast majority will simply call you a terrorist and move on. Maybe you’ll get some popularity like luigi while the state works on executing you.

      So instead people protest, but at best that may swing one or two votes in congress, but not enough to stop anything.

      But as things get progressively worse and the state becomes more authoritarian revolution will also be harder as many will be tossed into a gulag before they can take up arms.

      Plus any armed resistance will be used as an excuse to declare martial law.

      Seems like a no win scenario. The current best chance is he has a stroke and Vance fails to govern effectively

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        The solution is to work towards forming and building up antifascist guerilla resistance blocks, so that when shit really starts getting too real for people, resistance groups are there ready to go

        Yes, it of course would have been better to do it all earlier, but as you said…

        It’s super frustrating, for sure. You can plainly see what’s gonna happen, and yet most people are too clueless to support it

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      The only time when “love and unity” isn’t the correct answer he uses it.

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    I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

    -President Trump, just this year.

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    Pressed whether his administration is following the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which says no person “shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” Trump said he wasn’t sure.

    “I don’t know. It seems – it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials,” he said. “We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.”

    It might say that? Might? This isn’t something that is debatable you hippopotamic dung heap. That’s what it fucking says.

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    I’d more believe he said he doesn’t know because he doesn’t know what it is but has been briefed about it. Instead of some tongue-in-cheek admission to further fascism. If he didn’t know and hadn’t been briefed I think he would’ve lied that he’s the expert on the Constitution.

    Still shouldn’t be president tho.

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    He doesn’t need to if no one holds him accountable. He should need to, legally, but, in the current environment, he doesn’t.

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    I always go back to that early coronavirus briefing where a reporter questioned his authority to dictate state government lockdown policies and he just sat there stunned, repeating “when you’re the president your authority is total because you have total authority, it’s total…” It’s been clear for years that this fucking guy never understood the job description, and rather than learning anything from experience, he’s having it rewritten. The constitution isn’t going to save us from that.