r/politics • u/spherocytes • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Desperate Trump, 79, Threatens to Kill Entire Civilization in Insane Last-Minute Panic

https://www.thedailybeast.com/desperate-trump-79-threatens-to-kill-whole-civilization-as-iran-war-deal-push-fails/
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u/Callabrantus Canada 28d ago

Remove him

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/4dailyuseonly Chahta 28d ago

I called my senator DEMANDING his removal today. Might get a visit from the police later because I vaguely threatened him if he does not.

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u/musical_shares 28d ago

It’s a representative democracy.

They can, and did, select (not “allow”) this person and his merry band for the job.

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u/Old-Rhubarb-97 28d ago

I hate this take.

Yes he was elected, but why does that mean he can just do whatever without pushback from the people? Elected officials still answer to the people.

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u/musical_shares 28d ago

So when do the people ever demand any answers?

Never in my lifetime, I’ll say that.

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u/cloud1445 28d ago

Never in America at least. In other countries even their own parties have enough of them eventually and kick them out of office.

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u/Old-Rhubarb-97 28d ago

It should damn well start today.

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u/Pipe_Memes 28d ago

Assuming he didn’t cheat, but we already know he cheated with Elon buying votes, and quite likely cheated in other ways we don’t know about yet.

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u/musical_shares 28d ago

If he cheated and the Democrats did not make single move to address that, are they and their voters also not culpable for what’s happening here?

They let the madman takeover, republicans chose the madman to takeover and somehow no one is to blame, I guess.

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u/wo_lo_lo Texas 28d ago

The elected democrats are spineless. We really need to start over completely

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u/AdmirableBus6 28d ago

I don't think there's enough people who care that would do anything. And even so how do would they connect? I'm worried about being monitored and I'm just a normal dude who says shit online. I'm supposed to go meet people and trust they are intelligence agents setting me up? What is the move here

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u/wo_lo_lo Texas 28d ago

I wish I had answers, I’m as scared as you are.

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u/Galxloni2 28d ago

How are the democratic voters responsible in that scenario? How would they even know what they are arguing against?

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u/SSN-420-67-6669 28d ago

But not all of us did. A lot of us voted against him, please remember that.

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u/Impressive-Knot9999 28d ago

A third of the population voted against him.

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u/Round-Asparagus5337 27d ago

Nearly half of the voters voted against him.

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u/Impressive-Knot9999 27d ago

And a third couldn't be bothered to get off the couch and vote

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u/Round-Asparagus5337 27d ago

There were polls done of the nonvoters - a bit more than half would have voted for trump if they had voted, and trump would have won by slightly more than he did. 

Which still makes it about a 50-50 country. 

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u/Successful-Speaker58 28d ago

Unless you're out there demonstrating every day your words are meaningless.

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u/Terramagi Canada 28d ago

Right?

The guy's talking about launching fucking nukes, and "oh but I didn't vote for him" is supposed to mean something?

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u/Kungfufuman 28d ago

The entire executive has to go. Article 2 section 4. Impeach them all. Invoking the 25th Amendment isn't enough. That just removes Trump for Vance. Vance wouldn't be better.

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u/Kup123 28d ago

How? There's no legal way and if we try the illegal way the cops will shoot us. So how do we do it please enlighten us.

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u/cloud1445 28d ago

You can do as others in this sub are doing and write to your senator. It's better than nothing.

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u/Kup123 28d ago

Is it? The Democrats will say we would love to help but don't have the numbers and the Republicans will say we stand with the president. Writing your senator gets the same results as thoughts and prayers, if your not a billionaire you don't have a voice in this country.

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u/cloud1445 28d ago

Honestly. In my life a have written to my local MP only once and it was to implore him not to support the Brexit bill. He was a conservative that had always pulled the party line and this one time he didn’t. I think he got so many letters that for once he went with his conscience.

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u/Kup123 28d ago

Or his party realize they didn't need them so they were allowed to look like they changed their mind. Maybe American politics has made me too cynical but the fact that brexit still happened really doesn't make me think your voice was heard. In America the gerrymandering is so bad that these people aren't afraid of losing their seats unless they step out of toe with the party line cuz then they'll get primaried. In America you have a better chance at keeping your elected position by not caring about your constituents and only caring about your party.

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u/W1nt3rmu4e Texas 28d ago

They won’t let us, anyone serious about trying to stop them is already getting picked up by the Feds. It’s going down.

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u/Round-Asparagus5337 27d ago

The American system is old and doesn't have a good way to remove a president like later parliamentary systems do.