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W. Michael Johnson's avatar

This is useful and well-written. It's good for us all to be reminded of the rules we have agreed on, because the orange führer doesn't have any rules.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

Unfortunately, the Bloated Yam has six tools to avoid obeying the Constitution:

1. Emergency decrees

2. Insurrection Act

3. Recess Appointments

4. Acting Appointments

5. Executive Orders

6. Martial Law

Where do you think we live? Some kind of democracy? This is Donald Trump's America! The people just told us so...

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Pamela Hilliard Owens's avatar

He will probably try them all, but he won’t be as successful as he thinks he will be.

Only 65% of the people voted, and he got less than 50% of the vote. He also had the 2nd smallest popular margin since 2000 (Al Gore). He does NOT have a “mandate,” and many non-MAGA Republicans are fighting him. It only takes four “No’s” in the Senate to lose support for something.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

My belief — I’ll be posting my views on the future soon enough — is that the Bloated Yam, hating, disliking, and ignorant of the Constitution, will do what I posted, and simply go around it.

The non-MAGA Republicans will find themselves in “protective custody” in those migrant detention camps, or suffer “falls from high buildings,” or “tragic muggings” in Washington DC.

Remember, Putin is running America’s law enforcement operations now. We are just a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin.

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