Why should they bother to? We already know that the penalty for not divesting is nothing.

Who cares. Let him fuck it up and burn it all down. It’s all corrupt anyways, the faster he does that, the faster half these dumb ass hicks see that he wasn’t the answer and change their next vote just vote GOP anyway. Even if then dems take power, rewrite everything and put kill switches in to make sure this never they change nothing, go back to the status quo, then wonder why it happens again.

Fixed that for you.

Sad to say, I’m an American.

And yes, I did know that. But it’s my understanding that this was agreed to in an attempt to pre-emptively appease an incoming Trump administration, but I could be wrong on that part. But whether or not that’s the case, Trump still originally agreed to not put the tariffs in place because of this, until he changed his mind.

In order for those to be connected, women would have to have more difficulty in producing that proof than men (which may be the case, but the article doesn’t show that).

Just for clarification, this part has been answered in other articles discussing this subject. Married women would have a tougher time meeting proof-of-citizenship requirements if they took their husbands’ name (which happens 99.9% of the time) because their birth certificate would still have their maiden name. Since the voting rolls contain their married name and not their maiden name, the names wouldn’t match which would be grounds for removal from rolls. This would be made worse for those women who were married recently, as it’s more likely that even more documentation such as a drivers’ license would also still contain their maiden name and would therefore not be considered acceptable proof.

Women would have to provide additional documentation (such as a marriage license), but it’s expected that this alone would cause some women to consider it not worth the hassle and therefore not bother voting.

P.s., there are definitely plenty of conservative women too stupid or unwilling to admit to themselves that the conservative position is women as second class citizens, but I wanted to respond with the perspective I’ve heard from people who seemed to be more honest.

Sadly, there are women who openly embrace this line of thinking. Particularly those who were raised in ultra-religious households where women being subservient to men in all matters is the norm, and have no problems forcing those views on the secular women that they view as “whores”. Mostly, it’s a subconscious way of lashing out against the fact that they themselves have been oppressed for their whole lives and therefore feel better being the oppressor instead of the oppressed. But they are out there.

If they see costs go up as a result of the repubs not voting to stop the tarrifs, a neuron might fire. they’ll blame Biden.

Fixed that for you.

the US. can never again be trusted with any agreement or deal

This already holds true now. The trade agreement between the US and Canada is the one that he signed. He went back on it anyway. And then after you guys appeased him by dedicating $1.3 billion to a nonexistent fentanyl issue, he did it again.

This should absolutely scare the shit out of literally everybody.

You can literally be disappeared into an El Salvadoran prison, with no charge or due process, and even on the off chance that there is someone willing to fight on your behalf while you rot in a foreign prison, the courts are literally powerless to do anything about it. The Trump administration is literally saying that yeah, they may send some people who aren’t actually gang members down there, but if there’s a mistake, that’s your problem.

And even if Trump does ask for your return (spoiler alert: This will happen exactly zero times), the Salvador government may not even play ball. They may not even know which one of the tens of thousands of prisoners there he even is. And that’s assuming you haven’t been killed by one of the literally 79 other cellmates you have or you haven’t died of some kind of disease due to the conditions there in the process.

If you for one second think that this won’t eventually apply to US citizens or Trump’s enemies, you haven’t been paying attention.

The courts are doing nothing to stop it. The GOP have bent the knee. And what’s worst is that a not-insignificant portion of the population is welcoming this with thunderous applause. But this is the world we live in now. Cross Trump, and he will find someone to say that you’re a Venezuelan gang member and have you shipped off to El Salvador where you will never return no matter what kind of money and resources you have. This is the United States.

The rest of the free world needs to start cutting ties with the US. Because it’s only going to get much, much worse from here.

It’s worse than that.

Oopsie, we fucked up your life. Too bad. Sucks to be you.

He can’t run as VP because he is ineligible to be President. VP is the only position in the line of succession that can’t be skipped. Anyone chosen as VP must also be eligible to be President.

The easiest way for them to do it is to go the “Casino” route. Put in some sock puppet as President and have Trump be the “senior advisor” that’s calling the shots behind the scenes. Kinda like they’re doing now with Musk.

Don’t even bother. Just look in the nightstand drawer. They’re right there, where the bibles used to be. And if you look on the desk, there’s a convenient menu of services available for those interested in a little light corruption.

This “loophole” wouldn’t work. There are plenty of people in the line of succession that are ineligible to be President either due to being too young or being foreign-born. First, if it gets to the point where one of them would even become President, we have much bigger problems to worry about. Second, those people that would be ineligible would simply be skipped over for the next person in line who’s actually eligible.

Sure, they could use the same backwards logic and hand-waving of Constitutional amendments that they’ve been using all along, but at that point they might as well just make an exception for the 22nd amendment and call it a day. If they’re just planning to hand-wave away the rules anyway, why go through all those extra steps when just saying that the 22nd amendment is unenforceable would be quicker, easier, and accomplish the same thing?

The AI summary is excellent, but probably limited its bullet points to what was directly discussed in the article. There are a couple of other points that should be added to the list.

• Harvard and Yale have also made policy changes and removed employees in capitulation to Trump in an effort to avoid being targeted similar to what happened to Columbia.

• Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski made a trip to Mar-A-Lago to apologize to Trump for past news coverage and promised to cover him more favorably in hopes to avoid Trump’s retribution.

Ok, I’m missing something. There’s some shady money laundering tactic going on here. Just not seeing where it is. Can someone explain to me what the point of this is?

In other words, Wisconsin’s anti-vote-buying laws are unenforceable and vote buying is perfectly legal in Wisconsin.

So I guess if you’re looking to score a few extra bucks when the next election comes around, just put up your vote on Ebay and let the politicians bid on it.

Without a constitutional amendment, it’s not going to happen.

Do you think the Constitution is a magical, sentient, self-enforcing entity? If the people entrusted with enforcing the Constitution are unable or unwilling to do so, the Constitution is just a really old piece of paper.

Even the secret service will intervene, following the orders of the legitimate president over Trump.

The same could be said for the media, our politicians, our universities, etc. Every institution that people said would hold the line against this kind of autocratic takeover has opted to roll over and play dead instead.

Even if there is no election, the 25th amendment continues to operate, and there is still a valid line of succession. Trump’s and Vance’s terms end in January, 2029. Trump is out.

See above. If your statement were true, then we wouldn’t even have a President Trump because the 14th amendment would also have continued to operate and disqualify him from even running. But instead they just handwaved the 14th amendment away as unenforceable (read: Inconvenient). Someone has to actually invoke the 25th amendment, and Trump has purged anyone with the authority to do so.

Plus, the 25th amendment is intended for Presidents who are functionally unable to perform their duties. Coma patients. Severe stroke victims. Medical conditions. Stuff like that. And in case you don’t know, even if someone does try to invoke the 25th, all Trump has to do is basically show up and say “I am able to perform my duties” under his own power, and the invocation is automatically nullified.

Trump is a functional moron, and is terrible at the job, but he meets the minimum standards to remain in power under the 25th amendment. It’s not supposed to be an out against Presidents who do the job badly, it’s supposed to be a remedy for those who are physically unable to do the job at all. Trump does not meet that criteria.

Without an election, all House seats would be vacant, so there would be no Speaker. The line then goes to the President pro tempore of the Senate. Since only 1/3 of Senate terms expire in any election year, there is still a functioning Senate. It can select a “President pro tempore of the Senate”, who is 4th in line for the Presidency.

If there is an Electoral College, its votes cannot be certified by a non-existent House of Representatives, which means a president cannot be selected. However, the Senate certifies the EC votes for the Vice President, and/or selects the Vice President if the votes cannot be certified for some reason.

With either the senate-selected Vice President, or the senate-selected President pro tempore of the Senate, there will be a non-Trump president in the White House in January, 2029.

If we’re at a point where Trump suspends elections, none of this would apply any longer. Who remains in power would be dictated by who’s currently in power. Again, the Constitution is not a magical self-enforcing document. If the people in power are unwilling to enforce it, it becomes a really old piece of paper.

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I like the term chaos facism to describe it, but the author is looking too deeply into things. Trump thinking the way the author believes would imply that Trump does things like think or plan.

Trump is only taking the advice Steve Bannon gave him, which is some pretty damn good advice if you’re looking to do an authoritarian takeover. Ignore laws. Do whatever you want and let the justice system try to keep up with you. Move so fast that the justice system, the media, and the people can’t keep up with it all so by the time they’re done even processing one thing, five more have made it completely under the radar. And on the chance that something does blow up in your face? Do something random, disruptive, and distracting that others have to deal with. Threaten to take over Tuvalu. Who cares why. Let everyone else be focused on figuring out what the hell you’re talking about and force them to spend time and resources dealing with that diplomatic disaster while you go back to whatever other things you actually care about. Did one of your cronies do something embarrasingly stupid? Just announce a 380% tax on coffee grounds or something. Not that you care about coffee. It’s just something to dangle out there in case the rubes start getting a little too uppity and need a distraction.

And that’s pretty much what Trump is doing. He does things so fast that the media and justice system can’t keep up with it all. Why do you think he’s pushing to eliminate nationwide injunctions? Because if one of his policies impacts a million people, he wants the justice system to have to deal with a million separate cases, not just one. And there’s only so much news that can be crammed on the front page of a website. Reporters can only push out so many Youtube clips.

And it works well.

How many colleges have bent the knee to Trump? If you’re just saying Columbia, you’re wrong. Harvard and Yale have done the same thing. It just flew under the radar. And by the time you’re reading this, other colleges may have done the same.

How many law firms have bent the knee to Trump? Not just the two reported in the media, but how many others have flown under the radar?

How many times has Trump directly ignored or defied a court order without consequence?

How many people have been illegally deported from the US without due process?

And if you answer those questions, are you 100% confident in your answer? Or do you think your answer may be too low?

That’s chaos facism. Make it so nobody even knows what the fuck is going on from one minute to the next, let alone be able to do something about it.

I’m dumbfounded. Completely dumbfounded.

Trump is literally telling French companies operating in France that they have to comply with his Executive Orders.

French companies. In France. How fucking arrogant do you have to be?

Between insulting Denmark, threatening Greenland, and now trying to tell French companies how to conduct business, the entirety of Europe needs to start collectively standing up and telling Trump exactly how far he can go fuck off. Because he is not going to stop. If this goes unanswered, he will consider your ignorance as capitulation and therefore weakness and start making more batfuck stupid demands and act as if he genuinely believes he rules over your country.

Mark my words, Trump’s next step is ordering tariffs on something from France because of their DEI policies. I give it 7 days.

You seriously think that any other world leader in history wouldn’t consider what Vance did a declaration of war because he didn’t file the right paperwork?

At the very, very least, he would have been militarily escorted out of the country and had his base seized.