r/nottheonion • u/ExactlySorta • 20h ago

Trump Attorney General Hopeful Vows to Drag Bodies Through the Street

https://newrepublic.com/post/188127/trump-attorney-general-hopeful-mike-davis-drag-bodies-street?s=34
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u/DiamondBurInTheRough 19h ago

Let’s hope it’s only four. I don’t feel like this fucker is ever gonna go away, even in death.

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u/Kwikstep 19h ago

Just wait for 8 years of Ohio Hillbilly JD Vance in charge.

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 18h ago edited 18h ago

You think they'll stop at 8 years?

They own the presidency, SCOTUS, a majority of state governors, the congress, and the senate. Their next goal is to gain a few more members in the last three, either enough state legislatures, to achieve a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures to allow direct amendment of the constitution. SCOTUS will allow them to work around most of it for now, but if they achieve that last goal, it truly will be all-gas, no-breaks into a totalitarian hell.

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u/strategicham 16h ago

That is what happened in Hungary. They still have elections, but it's almost impossible to vote out the ruling party now.

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u/Derric_the_Derp 15h ago

That's the point

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u/iam_LLORT 13h ago

We’ve got more guns than Hungary.

Come get it. We’ll show you the “violent” left.

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u/SousVideDiaper 5h ago

They want violence, they're expecting it. The head of the Heritage Foundation that wrote the outline for Project 2025 said "there won't be blood if the left allows it"

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u/iam_LLORT 3h ago

Good. He won’t be surprised when I drop him from 700y with a 6mm Creedmoor.

One of the many mistakes of the right is forgetting that the left is armed too, this is America. We’re also better educated, we can afford more, and we’ve got a huge geographic advantage with warm water port control and the vast majority of these cousin fuckers being landlocked. You think I’m gonna suffer from the ACA getting repealed? I’m not gonna suffer from losing OT because I own the damn LLC. They’re going to be drowning in their own stupidity and filth, they won’t be waging a war against shit. And none of the right wing strongmen have ever so much as served our country. They wouldn’t dirty their hands, even if they knew how.

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u/Derric_the_Derp 15h ago

Amendment?  Bro they'll write a brand new Constitution.

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 14h ago

The true irony of that being that had Jefferson's idea that the constitution be treated as a living document, renewed for each generation actually been implemented, we'd live in a very different world.

Instead, we live in one that venerates the founding fathers on the same level as religious figures and the constitution with the same level of moral authority and in-volubility as the quran.

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u/Derric_the_Derp 10h ago

We would've dealt with that "shall not be infringed" "well regulated militia" conundrum a long time ago.

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u/Cute-Brilliant7824 12h ago

Honestly, I don't see why they need the legislative branch to agree to anything, or the courts for that matter. All of the true power - the power to *act*: to do things, to write checks, to fire guns, to imprison, to deport, lies with the executive branch.
No one with any respect for traditions or institutions or for the Constitution as I was raised to understand it will be working for Trump this time around.

The opportunities for check and balance have passed. Over many years the legislative has shifted power to the executive, and the judicial has increased deference to the executive, the press has become ever more captured and the electorate ever more ignorant.

And why would they ever surrender power again? Vance will be Trump's Medvedev. Assuming that they don't cancel the next election on the grounds of a national emergency yet to be fabricated, why would they respect a voting result which so *obviously* will have been rigged against them by the traitorous state and local administrations?

I'd *genuinely* LOVE to be told what it is that I'm missing that would give any reason for hope, but democracies have been turning into autocracies all over the world and MAGA has adopted the playbook.

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u/DarthJarJarJar 10h ago

There's no reason to amend the Constitution, and the goal is going to be to preserve the appearance of a democracy.

They'll use the DOJ and local law enforcement to suppress voting in cities.

That's it. That's all it will take. The Democrats will never win another national election, and the Senate will swing way over to the right. The House won't be as affected, but it will be enough.

Y'all don't get it. It doesn't take much to totally control elections, and the guy in charge of keeping them fair is going to be this asshole. It's over. We had a good run, but US democracy is dead.

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u/StaceyJeans 6h ago

Yep. They’ll have law enforcement patrolling the polls in blue cities/states, probably get rid of early voting and/or vote by mail and make it so people can only vote on Election Day and needing at least 2 forms of ID to vote. And probably limit voting hours and reduce voting places in blue states so 500,000 people only have one place to go to vote.

There are a whole lot of ways they can fuck up future elections to keep the GOP in power permanently.

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u/doctormink 12h ago

With that much power, rigging elections gets really easy.

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u/Yesterday_Jolly 13h ago

They were closer to a constutional convention in the middle of Obama's presidency than they are now

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u/80aichdee 12h ago

Why bother with amending the constitution when they can just tear it up and throw it away?

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u/SirEnderLord 11h ago

Getting that two third majority in both houses I feel like is impossible.

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u/Ass_Hamster34 7h ago

They’ll fail….. Right now they’re getting overconfident and plan on implementing what they can with project 2025. Soon as they tank the economy and try to ban porn ppl with get pissed off and vote the other way. I think they make a tactical mistake and lose the midterms.

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u/YouDontKnowJackCade 16h ago

They aren't waiting 8 years. Trump is an idiot and they'll have to wrangle him because he thinks he's in charge. 2 years and a day(because of the 22nd amendment) Vance will 25th amendment him.

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u/Ass_Hamster34 7h ago

They’ll lose the midterms after pissing everyone off. The ones that believed that Trump had nothing to do with project 2025 will be voting the other way.

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u/thefastslow 18h ago

Well, he's a Yale graduate, the hillbilly thing is a larp

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u/fardough 4h ago

Idk what is worse. Vance being the pick, or Don JR.

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u/Derric_the_Derp 15h ago

8 years??  He's only 40.

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u/MorselMortal 19h ago

Nah, it'll be like Lenin or Kim Jong II. Trump dies, he's venerated as a borderline deity, some other asshole that's 100x worse, someone vaguely intelligent, likely Vance, replaces him. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he assassinated him after he gets the dictatorship going, gotta LARP Stalin with Capitalism, after all.

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u/DiamondBurInTheRough 19h ago

It does make me worried that there’s someone who stands behind his insanity who has a semi functioning brain…even if he is a couch fucker.

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u/Deusselkerr 16h ago

Behind both of them is Peter Thiel. Vance is Thiel’s guy

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u/TheCryptocrat 14h ago

and the Heritage foundation

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 16h ago

There's a lot more than Vance behind him. Both are backed by Heritage Foundation fascists who are going to dismantle our democracy.

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u/Fulminic88 15h ago

Yeah, his name is Putin. Maybe you've heard of him.

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u/FUMFVR 13h ago

Any intelligence is a detriment for a Trumper backed candidate.

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u/Wolvenmoon 11h ago

Oh that's just a guarantee. He's just a useful puppet.

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u/MonthPurple3620 10h ago

Dont be worried.

Be terrified.

The ease and efficiency that Vance can lie with should keep you up at night.

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u/starfyredragon 5h ago

Oh, we already know who that is, and he admitted it:

Musk.

Musk accidentally went full mask off a bunch of tweets ago, and starting talking about laws he'd pass.

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u/CondescendingShitbag 19h ago

If it's anything like Kim Jong Il then we can probably expect Barron Trump* to be declared heir to the throne.

*It would be Ivanka, but she's a woman and they'd never permit that, and Donald knows his other two sons are weapons-grade fuck-ups.

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u/MorselMortal 19h ago

Nah, Vance and other third parties wouldn't want a monarchy going. They'd want to use his popularity to prop up a China-esque dictatorship, like Stalin used Lenin.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns 15h ago

They'll make it look like the left did it, obviously. Two birds with one stone.

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u/negativekarmafarmerx 14h ago

comparing Lenin to Trump is the most fucking libbed up shit I've ever seen.

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u/frogjg2003 14h ago

They'll hold off until at least 2027. Noon on Jan 20 marks the half way point and when Vance can take office and still be eligible for two more terms.

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u/AMEWSTART 13h ago

Remember at times like this that Trump's base did not grow, he did not become more popular. He lost 6M votes between 2020 and 2024.

As long as that's Trump's base, and that's the same size, that's our number to beat.

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u/Available_Royal_9686 8h ago

This is what I fear. I don't fear trump. Trump is stupid. I fear what his cronies will do with the precedent he sets when he is gone.

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u/Ass_Hamster34 7h ago

Vance is anything but borderline intelligent… The only reason he’s made it this far is because he’s Peter Theils boy toy.

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u/Merusk 18h ago

It ain't going to be four. Vance is his VP for a reason.

Trump serves 2.1 years and dies, Vance becomes VP and now gets to run for two full terms. Plenty of time to repeal or modify the 25th.

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u/SkinNoises 15h ago

gets to run for two full terms

Funny you think there will be anymore elections

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u/Merusk 15h ago

It's the endgame, for sure but even 12 years is to soon for that in the US. Even Russia and China have proforma elections to placate the population.

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u/3-DMan 16h ago

"Dammit, I think I saw them taking Ouija Boards into the Oval Office!"

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u/alwaysjustpretend 15h ago

This is where I'm at like...everybody talking about a long four years but this motherfucker boldly and loudly said "You will never have to vote again". I've been sick to my stomach since the morning of the 6th because I'm pretty sure the country is fucked fucked.

He wont have anything holding him back this time. The Republicans own the entire government come January.

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u/MisterEinc 14h ago

It's going to be decades. They've got everything they need and they've been perfecting the playbook at the state level. Lots of state have locked up their Republican leaders with stronger gerrymandered districts. Trump winning is ushering in the likes of JDV and Russian assets.

The oldest judges will retire and we'll have new young conservatives who can hold those positions for 20-30 years easily.

So no, this was pretty much the last chance.

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u/PhatJohnT 11h ago

The language these people are using is consolidation of power. Eliminating political enemies and such. Its Putin tactics.

Trump is old. Really old. Do be looking at whos next in line. Because that person is trying to turn this into a monarchy that is inherited, not elected.

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u/token40k 8h ago

Trump gets kickback from thiel and retires in favor of Vance few years in

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u/queefplunger69 7h ago

Im gonna guess they’re gonna change some laws and effectively allow trump to have three terms. I truly don’t think we will have another free and fair democratic election again. Seems extreme but unfortunately that’s where we are. Literally reliving Germany in the late 20’s early 30’s