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gay picnic defence posted:It’s also the first time the transition has been an issue, apparently the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama transitions were seamless. I assume the earlier ones were mostly fine too. Funny how the issue with the transition of power is caused by the guy with the power going out, not the guy who will have the power coming in. Almost like it's an extremely flawed system. Nah let's just stick with it and not think about changing it for 250 years
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Johnny Aztec posted:I mean..... you used to could challenge someone to a duel and shoot them down Could you imagine a trump/Biden duel? They’d both fire on the count of one...and miss.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I mean..... you used to could challenge someone to a duel and shoot them down Pity they can't still do it. I have no love for Biden, but I'm pretty sure he'd have Trump beaten or running scared at the idea.
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Richard Cabeza posted:Could you imagine a trump/Biden duel? They’d both fire on the count of one...and miss. 
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Pretty sure Biden hasn't seen a muzzle loading musket since he was about 13 anyway.
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Nov 11, 2020 11:48
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Richard Cabeza posted:Could you imagine a trump/Biden duel? They’d both fire on the count of one...and miss. Chances are Trump would look into the barrel to see if it's loaded.
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Nov 11, 2020 11:49
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Carth Dookie posted:Pity they can't still do it. I have no love for Biden, but I'm pretty sure he'd have Trump beaten or running scared at the idea. I highly doubt Trump has ever fired a gun in his life.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I highly doubt Trump has ever fired a gun in his life. You say that, but Trump is pretty much known for his ability to fire effectively edit: Really, all these people going "he can DO THAT?" at Trump reassigning the staff of every bureau he can reach should not be surprised. Trump spent like 10 years firing people every thursday night on TV, he's had a lot of practice.
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CJacobs posted:You say that, but Trump is pretty much known for his ability to fire effectively On reality TV, maybe
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Johnny Aztec posted:I mean..... you used to could challenge someone to a duel and shoot them down Great post/av combo
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Trump appears to dislike hunting, and has called big-game trophy hunting a "horror show", so I doubt he's personally much for guns. His sons, on the other hand... Meanwhile, back at the ranch... https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1326390695649800192
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loving clickbait tweets. "YOU'LL BE SHOCKED ABOUT WHAT THIS ONE lovely LAWYER DID THIS TIME!"
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Richard Cabeza posted:Could you imagine a trump/Biden duel? They’d both fire on the count of one...and miss. I read once this is historically how most duels went because it was usually more about honor and saving face than actually wanting to cap someone. Sometimes though you'd get someone who thought they were in the face saving kind of duel who then just gets blasted by their opponant who is not.
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gay picnic defence posted:It’s also the first time the transition has been an issue, apparently the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama transitions were seamless. I assume the earlier ones were mostly fine too. I had a readup on Wikipedia last night and the ones that weren't started the civil war (Buchanan to Lincoln) and ended the Reconstruction Era (Grant to Hayes) so good luck with that America, can your second republic constitution not include the insane bits allowing anyone to be armed to the teeth and counting black people as 3/5 of white people tia
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Avirosb posted:Chances are Trump would look into the barrel to see if it's loaded. 
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Avirosb posted:Chances are Trump would look into the barrel to see if it's loaded. Lol
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Avirosb posted:Chances are Trump would look into the barrel to see if it's loaded. 
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Lol. Remember when trumpf kept talking about missiles he called "super dupers" and the defense department eventually had to explain to people what the gently caress he was rambling on about?
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Beachcomber posted:In the 1700s travel was very slow. It would take at least a week for some of the electors to arrive in DC. The transition period in the 1700s was even longer, it was reduced by a constitutional amendment in the early 1900s but for whatever reason they decided it should still be over 2 months
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Shanghaied posted:Constitutionally, his current terms ends on Jan 20 whether there's a new president or not. There is no room for interpretation at all - POTUS and VP are elected to four-year terms. It's the second sentence in Article 2. If neither Biden nor Trump becomes president, then hello President Pelosi! lol he's already not accepted the result of an election, what makes you think he's going to accept the THE DEMOCRATS!! kicking him out of the white house just because it's in the constitution The question is really whether or not he has enough of a backing to maintain power and, to be honest, the republicans are lining up behind him from what I can see. I don't like doom posting but god drat America is in an extremely bad situation
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Nov 11, 2020 12:24
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It really is something how Trump can bring to light all of these issues that have never really been an issue before because we've literally never had a worse president
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Nov 11, 2020 12:26
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Sure would love to see the line of 80 year old senate Republicans try and stop the secret service from dragging trump from the white house
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:You know what time it is I absolutely cannot wait to see what you find there on January 20th. 
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Beachcomber posted:In the 1700s travel was very slow. Imagine being stuck at the airport back in 1776. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgzVARrPu4
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Need more lols.. Tweet you fat gently caress
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Garrand posted:Sure would love to see the line of 80 year old senate Republicans try and stop the secret service from dragging trump from the white house what about a bunch of right wing militias? like yeah these guys are stupid as gently caress and disorganized, but fundamentally one side (including, presumably, people in the secret service) will think twice between firing on their own people and the other side literally won't even hesitate for a split second if they think it'll keep them in power. Seventy million people voted for a giant fascist pissbaby lmao
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If a militia tries to storm the white house to 'protect' Trump, they're getting shot
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Garrand posted:If a militia tries to storm the white house to 'protect' Trump, they're getting shot by the other militias.
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Now that I think about it, there is no reason why this would end on January 20th. He can set himself up as the anti-president in Mar-a-Lago and keep farting out lawsuits and pretend to be the real president till 2024. Give orders to the Biden cabinet over twitter, make interview rounds on Fox News, meet with neonnazi party leaders in Europe as "the president", hold presidential rallies, etc. AFAIK there is no law that prohibits you to claim you are the president of the united states of america on social media
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abigserve posted:lol he's already not accepted the result of an election, what makes you think he's going to accept the THE DEMOCRATS!! kicking him out of the white house just because it's in the constitution Hey I don't think he cares about the constitution either. But all the doomers ITT keep bring up the various constitutional loopholes that he could use to remain in power, which just seems unnecessary and contradictory: If he has the support, why not just seize power outright? Why bother with the loopholes? His supporters are not gonna care whether its constitutional. And if he doesn't have the support, no amount of loopholes are going to disguise the blatant unconstitutionality of his actions, so why would he bother with loopholes?
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GABA ghoul posted:Now that I think about it, there is no reason why this would end on January 20th. He can set himself up as the anti-president in Mar-a-Lago and keep farting out lawsuits and pretend to be the real president till 2024. Give orders to the Biden cabinet over twitter, make interview rounds on Fox News, meet with neonnazi party leaders in Europe as "the president", hold presidential rallies, etc. AFAIK there is no law that prohibits you to claim you are the president of the united states of america on social media Fox News business plan spotted.
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Shanghaied posted:Hey I don't think he cares about the constitution either. But all the doomers ITT keep bring up the various constitutional loopholes that he could use to remain in power, which just seems unnecessary and contradictory: Even Tin-Pot dictators smear a thin veneer of "democracy" to add a whiff of legitimacy to their rule.
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Shanghaied posted:Hey I don't think he cares about the constitution either. But all the doomers ITT keep bring up the various constitutional loopholes that he could use to remain in power, which just seems unnecessary and contradictory: If he's able to prevent enough EC votes from being cast, he doesn't need the military. If he fails, he'll probably try ordering the military to arrest or just plain shoot democratic leaders. His voting base would love it. I bet much of the military would support it to.
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I keep forgetting that the election was only a week ago. So much has happened since, it feels like it should be close to Jan 20th already. lol
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If, and it'a a big if, his lawsuits work, and somehow he is sworn in for a second legal term. This would do irreversible damage to America and her image worldwide. Not that Trump, or even the majority of Americans would care, but nobody would even pay lip service to respecting American democracy. Trade deals would slowly start to dry up, any sort of legitimacy that anyone American said on the global scale would be gone. And this is before all of the stupid, fascist, and petty things he would do over the next four years, "I think New York should be called Trumptown. Make it so. " etc.
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GABA ghoul posted:Now that I think about it, there is no reason why this would end on January 20th. He can set himself up as the anti-president in Mar-a-Lago and keep farting out lawsuits and pretend to be the real president till 2024. Give orders to the Biden cabinet over twitter, make interview rounds on Fox News, meet with neonnazi party leaders in Europe as "the president", hold presidential rallies, etc. AFAIK there is no law that prohibits you to claim you are the president of the united states of america on social media only if you discount impersonating a federal officer under 18 U.S. Code § 912 quote:Whoever falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, and acts as such, or in such pretended character demands or obtains any money, paper, document, or thing of value, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. but yeah, toss it on the pile
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Good morning everyone. Please enjoy this lol if you haven't already. https://twitter.com/NickLutsko/status/1326375815572025344
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DickParasite posted:If he's able to prevent enough EC votes from being cast, he doesn't need the military. If he fails, he'll probably try ordering the military to arrest or just plain shoot democratic leaders. His voting base would love it. I bet much of the military would support it to. Bullshit. The right can posture but this nation is still rattled over law enforcement and past military shootings (Kent state). The military will not open fire unless fired on. That’s an illegal order and officers will get fragged if they order 20 year olds to fire on civilians.
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Shanghaied posted:Hey I don't think he cares about the constitution either. But all the doomers ITT keep bring up the various constitutional loopholes that he could use to remain in power, which just seems unnecessary and contradictory: He needs some platform to push the conspiracy theories that keep his base on his side. He can't go full dictator because then he's only left with the extremists and the fringe, of which you can't control a country with. But if he gets 70 million people - who already want him to stay in the office, keep in mind - to shrug and be like "well, maybe he should stay president until all they sort out the fraud allegations" then there's no way to drag him out without effectively tearing the country apart in the process
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Richard Cabeza posted:Bullshit. The right can posture but this nation is still rattled over law enforcement and past military shootings (Kent state). The military will not open fire unless fired on. That’s an illegal order and officers will get fragged if they order 20 year olds to fire on civilians. Lotta chuds in the army would just love to shoot some liberals. And there're plenty of guns in America's cities. Whose to say who fired first? Also, from the wiki on Kent State: "A Gallup Poll taken the day after the shootings reportedly showed that 58 percent of respondents blamed the students, 11 percent blamed the National Guard and 31 percent expressed no opinion.[51] " Do not count on the army to do the right thing. e: think of how all the chuds and the conservative media react every time the cops kill an unarmed black guy. Fox will say Antifa shot at are brave soldiers, the soldiers responded appropriately, etc... DickParasite fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Nov 11, 2020 |
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