The Republicans were calling for President Elect Biden to resign even while their leader was staging a violent coup to end the Republic.
The fascist GOP can get fucked. What they want should be irrelevant and their very presence opposed.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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From a foreigner, this is undoubtedly true, unless you goal is secretly to have a king.
Given our Supreme Court ruling that a US president can't commit crimes, they're not being very secret about their goal of making the US a dictatorship.
None of it... Is secret... The trump calls. Even to the fucking election investigator in Georgia!? The paperwork.
It's all there. Any American who supports trump today is either literally special needs level education (and haven't looked at or understood thr tapes) or publicly admitting they would prefer monarchy with trump.
Pretty sad when non-Americans seem to understand the severity of this threat better than people here.
Most non-americans that finished school do.
Who cares what the Republikkkans say?
Putting equal emphasis on the opinions of both sides is what got us in this fuckhole to begin with. No matter how niche a voice, your opinion matters equal on any and all topics including reproductive health and climate mechanics.
"That 81 year old is way too old for the job, vote for our 78 year old!" is a bold strategy
Especially when he'll be older in 2028 than Biden is now.
Although I'll wager the job is harder on Biden than it is on Trump, on the grounds that Trump doesn't actually bother to do it. He just played golf and signed shit for other people without looking at it.
That’s the best part. Why is trump even running… he looks so tired.
Because his options literally are win or go to jail
His only chance at avoiding prison time for his many, many crimes committed while in office last time necessitate that he become President again, even though it was quite clear in 2016 that he was surprised he actually won and didn't want to do the job.
If he gets elected, all of those active indictments gets swept away on Day 1 and the SCOTUS has already paved the way for him to be "exonerated".
A vote for Trump is a vote for justice denied.
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If Joe Biden resigned the republicans would say "not enough! You have to commit sepukku on live TV! COWARD!"
Speaker Mike Johnson is not fit to be a speaker, so there who cares ?
So Republicans want to make Harris the first woman president asap? How progressive of them.
If she takes over now, and them beats Trump, would that count as her first term or second? Does it have to be a whole term to count?
If Biden were to resign (which he won’t), then she would assume the presidency as kind of zero-ith term; she could run for reelection twice. Two full terms.
For what purpose? Basically the same thing happened in the 1960s with Lyndon B. Johnson. For purposes of not being allowed to be elected more than twice, she would be eligible to run once more because of the text of the 22nd amendment ("and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once"). We are considerably less than two years away from the end of Biden's term.
You know, I completely forget there was an amendment on that. 2 years it is then.
Him stepping down now has no real advantage for the republicans other than causing a minor amount of chaos and time-wasting.
Mike Johnson moves one heartbeat closer to the Whitehouse in this hypothetical. And the remaining heartbeat would be on tour campaigning, which we've seen can expose someone to high velocity lead poisoning. Plus, Kamala would have to oversee an unplanned administration turnover, taking time and energy away from her campaigning efforts. It's all painfully obvious why they want this and none of it has to do with the good of the country
Do Republicans just want to destabilize the country until it’s destroyed?
Literally yes. That is fascism. Palingenetic ultranationalism.
destroy it and then rebuild it according project 2025, sounds on brand.
I don’t think they want to put the time or effort into rebuilding anything.
The Koch brother's plan was to invest in state races to win enough legislatures and governors to call a new constitutional convention, and have enough anarcho-capitalist stooges to formally reshape the country as their libertarian oligarchy utopia where the rest of us are just indentured serfs.
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Yeah bro, where you been?
Since Nixon
Yes they do.
They just want to destabilize it until they can steal power, but if anything gets destroyed along the way they'll just blame the libs
Yes
Conservatives will turn to authoritarianism when democracy doesn't work for them.
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Maga people sure do.
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The republicans want Biden to resign so they can immediately attack Harris for simutaneously having no record and attack anything she attempts to accomplish.
I hope biden passes a few 'Official Acts' before he heads out.
Like sending a few choice SCOTUS judges to gitmo
Unless he resigns, he’s still president until January 20, 2025. So we will see; he’s got nothing to lose, AND presidential immunity.
Usually I’d say someone in his position has absolutely nothing to lose, but being he’s such a … typical guy, he won’t do anything and go down in history as a footnote.
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Yeah I bet the want him to resign. Untethered by reelection he might actually do something they don’t like.
You can't satisfy it Republicans so don't bother trying. Well, unless you use Grindr during the RNC. Then you can probably satisfy Republicans.
You couldn't pay me enough to fuck someone who gets on stage and tells everyone that their neighbors and people like me shouldn't exist.
You have to be nicer and more friendly than that.
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