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European leaders throw support behind Zelenskyy after heated Trump meeting
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"Sorry Russia, you're going to have to step up and remove your corrupt leaders and I'll be happy when you do"
Fucking how? Organize? Organize what, a fucking civil war? Sorry you're a "bit pissed" that 70% of Americans have to live under a captured techno-fascist state they didn't vote for.
You really don't understand how America works if you think we can hold some magical snap election or wave our pea-shooter 2nd amendment shotguns in the face of the largest and most advanced military in the world...
This doesn't get solved without major moves by internal government factions or foreign intervention, no matter how warm and fuzzy videos of a big protest will make you feel.
The UK expelled a disastrous Prime Minister in 50 days in 2022. Trump is doing fundamental damage to your country far worse than Truss did and you're telling me the 70% of the American people are powerless until the next election and just have to watch it happen on TV? It's pathetic.
Your representation is failing to do their constitutional duty. The voice of 70% of the people can't be ignored if it's united. That's why you all need to come together in real life and not inside social media. Start campaigning. Start protesting. Start being angry.
Yes, in terms of any official political mechanisms to remove him. Its not pathetic, it's how our constitution works! He would need to be betrayed by about 1/3 of the hundreds of party members who just worked to install him. These representatives aren't from locations people want to see massive protests at, those cities are already blue.
My elected representatives are not republicans, am I supposed to move to another state to protest on their behalf? Are we gonna get millions of people waving their picket signs in the potato fields of Idaho? There aren't even mechanisms to remove their representatives before their term is up. The GOP can just skip the angry town halls and vacation at Mar-a-Lago until the coup is done.
This is the exact type holier than thou bullshit I'm sick of. These are the mechanisms baked into our constitution; the voting population has made their vote. Any removal from office would happen by red state electors acting in good faith to protect the rule of law, and they've spent multiple decades proving they want to do the opposite.
You have just as much power to fly to any random red US state and protest somebody who doesn't represent you and can't be legally removed from office. What the fuck is your excuse?
Edit: all of that official removal process would only work under the assumption that Trump would concede to them. The SCOTUS ruled last year he could have the traitors locked up or executed for treason, so long as his stack of personally appointed judges approved. (There are no constitutional mechanisms for us to remove these judges BTW, they aren't even elected)
Sure, that might work. Oh and that "largest and most advanced military" is made up of those same people who you think are 70% of the population. Maybe see what happens when people actually take some action, instead of just giving up and bitching about it.
The military skews right. Strongly. That's a big part of the problem.
The military is also under direct attack.
The Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs is being replaced by a Lieutenant General that, according to Trump, got the job through being a sycophant who wore a MAGA hat with his uniform.
There's a lot of troops under leaders that will find that abhorrent.
What? Not that I have seen. And even if they did, you think people don't have an issue with this as long as they are "on the right"? You can not out of one side of your mouth say "70% of americans don't want this" and from the other "But there is nothing we can do, they are too many" (I know this was not you but that other dood, but the idea is the same)
The military is primarily compromised of poor rural folks. Conservatives outnumber liberals 2 to 1. I'm not sure what direction the other quarter (nonvoters) would break.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/10/17/troops-see-rising-political-tension-in-the-ranks-poll-shows/
Please tell us how tensions rise if everyone in the armed forces agree? You also realize this is a poll, and that it also breaks down very different by branches and that is a touch more pressing. Say you have all the marines and army willing to put jackboots on necks but the air force or navy says "no". Hell what happens if just the doods who run the Triad are like super gay and pissed off, this idea that there is no 5th column possible is funny in its absurdity.
Isn't that what all your guns are for? Killing your government, should they become dictatorial?
You have to really drink the kool-aid to believe that shit. If the weapons they allowed us to keep were a threat to anything other than soft targets and school children they wouldn't let us keep them