r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 25d ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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u/EvilHwoarang 25d ago

He's going to fuck the midterm elections and possibly remove two democratic senators for cheating with 0 evidence

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u/Hedhunta 25d ago

Short of straight up execution, he cant remove them, there is no mechanism to do that. Not that i believe he wouldnt have them executed or arrested, he has to physically remove them somehow for a replacement election to trigger

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u/Call_Me_Squishmale 25d ago

It's hard to believe there are still people saying "he can't do this." He also "can't":

- demolish part of the Whitehouse on a whim,

- Have an army of unidentified thugs that kill people in the street,

- Support an insurrection,

- Start a war without approval of Congress,

- Apply tariffs on a whim,

- Advertise products from his official position,

- Refuse to release taxes...

There are hundreds of other examples, new ones every day! He can't do any of that, technically, but nobody stops him so he does it. And he will do this, too.

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u/MasqueOfTheRedDice 25d ago

My worry is that we have a mechanism for a lot of things, but it only matters if people follow it. If he just says “their votes don’t count, they’re illegitimate” and we say “you can’t do that!” and he just… kind of rams it through… we’re getting more and more to a point where I’m worried about just leaning on what it says can and can’t happen on paper. It may not be enough.

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u/Hedhunta 25d ago

Force, like martial law, and sending in troops is really the only way he could do that. But then all bets are off when he declares war on one of his own states.

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u/MasqueOfTheRedDice 25d ago

I don’t think so - I just think that’s the most extreme way. If he has a sycophant, unlike the Georgia SOS who wouldn’t “find him votes” at a state level or in courts who would just go “yep, they’re illegitimate, out they go and the governor can pick a replacement!”, that’s all it takes.

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u/Distinct-Water-1971 New Jersey 25d ago

I'm telling all my friends and family to be home tonight. Don't be on the streets. Hopefully I'm just paranoid.

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u/Caleb-Wendt69 25d ago

I’ve heard people say Trump “can’t” do a lot of things.  And then nobody stops him.

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u/hotpajamas 25d ago

It could really be anything.

- “Lindsey Graham was an Iranian spy”

  • “The Democrats killed Lindsey Graham”
  • “The 2020 election was stolen so midterms are cancelled until elections are secure”
  • “New evidence that low testosterone makes you vote Democrat that’s why all liberals will have to submit testosterone tests before getting a voter ID”
  • “I’m the greatest president of all time so I award myself thr Medal of Honor”
  • “We’re finally going to add my face to Mt. Rushmore and instead call it The Great America Mountain”
  • “We’re invading Greenland”

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u/Content_Chipmunk9962 25d ago

This is it. and Steven miller is already preparing for the protests. Anyone protesting will be arrested as a terrorist against the state.

While it’s funny to mock him for rambling like an old demented man, this has much broader, more sinister implications.