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Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails

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Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails

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Too bad the house is controlled by fascists who will prevent any amending of this law. And shame on the democrats for not foreseeing this and trying to get some amendments through when they had the chance (assuming the Republicans in the senate would have let them, since Manchin and Sinema refused to buck the filibuster for any reason).
- They agreed to change the rules for a debt ceiling vote,bucking the filibuster for that
  
  You're right, I forgot about that case. Though that was a weird one that didn't hinge on those two, and was a one time deal struck with Mitch McConnell and ten other Republicans. And so would have been able to overcome a filibuster anyways. So the bill for the filibuster one time exemption had technically 61 in support, so was a bit of a fake exemption. It was a way for Republicans to vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling but technically they could say they didn't, because the debt ceiling bill itself they later voted against (even though they had voted to lift the filibuster requirement from that bill). It was all optics. I doubt the Republicans would have allowed an insurrection act amendment to be tacked on.
  Manchin and Sinema also did oppose filibuster exemptions when it actually counted for many other things, including voting rights, abortion rights, DC and Puerto Rico state hood, among other democratic priorities.
This is incredibly concerning because he's also planning to purge the civil service and military of anybody who might object. It's a recipe for a rapid and total end to democracy in the US.
Trump is out. He will not return.
- Just like he was never going to win in 2016 in the first place?
- His supporters tried to forcefully make him president when he lost the election in 2020. If he loses this next election, they'll probably try again, and possibly with better results since it's clear we won't try very hard to stop them
  
  It is not clear that “we won’t try very hard to stop them”.
  In fact, we are now prepared to stop them.
- He will not return.
  Up to you Americans to ensure this will be true.
- The polling suggests it's far closer than you think:
  https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
  
  Polling this early is stupid, but I stand by what I said. He is out.
- Why? Because the US is noble and benevolent?
  Please. Go to your nearest ALL AMERICAN tent city where we leave our own neighbors to die of exposure and police brutality for the crime of being sub optimal capital batteries and then wax poetic about how we'll do the right thing in the end.
  I'll vote for Biden again, just as I did Clinton before that. I do so as if I am attending a funeral. There is never a candidate in either of the only 2 major parties worth voting for, only degrees of greed enablers. I do so out of a feeling of duty to try to influence the least harm of all bad options.
  Most Americans don't have such a sense of duty in the face of bleak options though. I'm voting for Biden, but I'd bet on Trump winning, because our people are awful.
  Not their fault, our owner class has used their media they own and educational curriculum they set from Kindergarten to Colleges of Economics to turn us into greedy little gremlins that hate and work against one another (muh healthy capitalist competition!) for private profit and necessary division of their livestock. But we still are horrible, hateful, petty, spiteful, selfish people, not a society in any meaningful sense as a result. Thats why we got Trump once, that's why he has a strong chance again. Remember what his brand is. Remember what his gameshow was about? Yeah, that's who we are. Wealth class sycophants begging for daddy oligarch's approval. Then we wonder why our leaders are almost entirely for sale through their pacs.
  
  Damn that last paragraph is spot on.
  
  for the crime of being sub optimal capital batteries
  Well put.
- Foolish take. It may be your last political prediction.
  
  Foolish you say. So you think he will be reelected?

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