Two years of a lame duck presidency would be a breath of fresh air after the last two.
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It would be very funny to see the 2027 Congress pushing the bipartian "Infinity Money for Israel Act" which Trump vetos out of spite.
But like so much else with The Don, it's gonna be TACO Tuesday every time he suffers a marginal amount of pressure.
Pig Boy has been talking about cutting funding for Israel. It's not clear to me why, but it might be that he expects Netanyahu's coalition to lose power and he wants to punish the infinitesimally less genocidal opposition. Or he blames Netanyahu for the Iran war debacle and the US election wipeout. Of course, nothing can ever be Trump's fault.
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He’s not gonna stop shitting himself
Okay maybe not a breath of fresh air for the people in his immediate vicinity..
"Obama has shit in my Depends again! Natalie, it's changing time!"
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He will still steal and deal and executive order.
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You’ll always be Mr. Pedo to me.
Sore loser who cares more about his ego than the american people.
Exactly.
Shit will stay bad, undeniably bad.
And I'm 2 years Dems get to campaign on hypotheticals for how much progressive policy would have helped if we had a progressive president.
The were looking at 2/3s majoritie to get a lot done, and insulation from remaining neoliberals who won't vote with the party
It's honestly the best path to super majorities, because we don't have to try and get some stuff accomplished the next two years, there's zero expectation that trump will let anything pass. So even if nothing gets fixed, it will still just help Dems.
He'll always be Mr. Pedo to me
Believe it or not, that's the ideal outcome short of impeachment.
The economy is fucked, and we have proof his government has been lying about the numbers. An obstructionist Trump lets Dems continue to rightly blame him for it, and Republicans with any luck take it on the chin again in 2028.
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18 U.S. Code § 594 - Intimidation of voters
He's above the law, lol. You think this'll be the thing that gets him in trouble? I'm sure he commits a crime like this every single day. The legal system just doesn't apply to 99% of rich people.
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This is literally just threatening to do the thing that everyone already knew he was going to do.
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Bring on the government shutdowns
Yep! Let's play the "no budget will be passed until ICE is completely disbanded" game. Sounds fun.
Honestly it might be worth it just to get the supreme court to rule that the government can't shut down because it refuses to authorize funding to itself
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Beats the ever-loving fuck out of whatever the fuck he's doing now.
It'd be pretty cool if the Democratic Party had fewer Republicans in it. I suspect this Haley Stevens revelation today is but a visible pimple with a several-pound, teeth-and hair-laden conjoined twin lurking underneath. If true, expect more of the same from the orange scrotum.
[Biden's term] mcconnell: "We're going to block any meaningful legislation just to make him look bad"
[orange pedo's 2nd term]the orange pedo: "if I don't get my way I'll veto everything the Dems try to pass"
And which one claims to be the party for Americans again?
I'd rather good laws be vetoed than bad laws be enacted
Best Republicans can do, veto good laws, letting only bad ones be enacted.
Veto away, Krasnov. By all means, please make Republicans look like incompetent fools for the next 2 years so we can sweep in 2028 too. After that, maybe finally we can get some shit done and prosecute the fascists (if the corporate masters are willing to indulge us, of course).
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Just imagine if he did nothing the last two years, but just coasted along, letting Biden's work continue.
Things would have been fine.
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He might turn into "Mr. Impeached" rather quickly.
He's already been impeached. Twice. It takes too many members of congress to actually remove him though.
I mean that implies he would not veto something if they did. Which is obviously not true. So an empty threat, keep voting.
Still better than being Mr Tariff and Mr Pedo. Tell him his terms are acceptable.
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We're pretty close to being in "Mr Veto gets overridden" territory. Senate Republicans up for re-election in 2028 are going to be strongly tempted to defect from their party line in the interest of not being thrown out by the electorate. We only need 6 to jump ship for an override.
How about Mr. inmate? Let’s try that out instead…
He’s at the dementia stage where he signs anything when a pen is handed to him. He’s not making his own decisions any longer.
Unfortunately he has enough handlers to keep him doing roughly what they want him to do.
like when turtle man nearly voted wrong.
So, an obstructionist. I thought if Americans have spoken, there was no recourse but to do what they want.
But that only seems to apply to conservatives, even if they don't get the popular vote, though.
When Democrats win, the cons do everything possible to obstruct.
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