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[RPGCrazied]

If Obama was saying stuff like this, he would be gone the same day right?

Both sides are the same?

 

[wildfire]

There are more people that don't agree with this nonsense (as popular vote proved). It's just hard to motivate them to get off their asses. Trump was the perfect rare mix of celebrity, non politician not in the system, voice of the "white oppressed" that was able to motivate one side of the country. It won't last.

If it was as bad as you think it is we would have elected McCain and Palin

Trump is motivating them.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/24/trump-congress-midterms-2018-237505

Yet as Republican strategists examine that special election, and one for a conservative Kansas seat a week earlier, they’re seeing evidence of a worrisome enthusiasm gap. In the run-up to the Georgia election, low-propensity Democratic voters — people who in years past did not consistently turn out to the polls — cast ballots at a rate nearly 7 percentage points higher than low-propensity Republicans, according to private polling by one Republican group.

In Kansas, the chasm was wider. Infrequent Democratic voters cast ballots at a rate of 9 percentage points higher than low-propensity Republicans did. The GOP nonetheless held the seat.

Unreliable democrats are starting to come out in greater numbers than unreliable Republicans. Not enough to change political seats but we're only 100 days in. Trump will motivate even more to vote during the midterms.

 

[Bleepey]

All I have to say is, it is an amazing thing that the drafters of the constitution really hated monarchy. They dispersed power and put in multiple means of stopping any single person running or ruining the country. It's actually amazing foresight. But if you think of the goal "no monarchs" they did everything they could to prevent one.

Legislative and executive power dispersed amongst the presidency, House, Senate. Judiciary separate. Then states have power as well (if 2/3 states call for constitutional convention, it can be amended). They basically divided power as much as possible.

That's why lawmaking is so frustrating, but no matter how much damage Trump does, he will not take down the republic. Pretty amazing foresight from people who had never seen a functioning democracy.

Where was the Electoral College when it came time to do its duty?

 

[DangerMouse]

That's exactly what a tyrannical fascist would say

This. And he keeps surviving despite saying this shit.

And 96% of Republicans would vote for him again.

Marinate in those juices.

This.

 

[danm999]

Friendship with Constitution ended. Authoritarianism is new Best Friend.