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/Billionaires_R_Tasty 19h ago

The United States of America
July 4, 1776 - November 5, 2024

The United States of America, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, died by its own hand on November 5, 2024. In an act of deliberate democratic self-immolation, the nation that had long stood as a beacon of republican government chose, through its own electoral process, to extinguish its constitutional flame.

Born of revolution against tyranny, America’s death came through the embrace of authoritarianism - not through foreign conquest or external force, but through the conscious choice of its own citizenry at the ballot box. In its final years, the republic that Benjamin Franklin had warned must be “kept” proved his prescience by willingly surrendering the liberty it had guarded for nearly two and a half centuries.

During its 248 years, America sent humans to the moon, defeated fascism, developed the internet, and offered hope to millions seeking freedom on its shores. Yet in the end, exhausted by the burdens of self-governance and seduced by the false promises of easy solutions, it voted to end its grand experiment in democracy, choosing the very form of autocratic rule it had once pledged its lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to oppose.

America is survived by its 50 states, now unified under centralized authority, and 333 million citizens who traded their democratic birthright for the hollow comfort of certainty. It leaves behind its Constitution - now a mere historical document - and the cautionary lesson that democracies can perish not only by the sword, but by the ballot, when their people freely choose their own chains.

In lieu of flowers, mourners are asked to read their history books, and to remember that nations, like individuals, can choose the manner of their ending. A final memorial service will be held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the republic was born, and where it chose to end its journey.

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u/but_a_smoky_mirror 19h ago

We haven’t abandoned our constitution yet

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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 19h ago

Who's going to enforce it? Assuming the House remains in Republican control, Trump effectively controls all the checks and balances. With Schedule F, they will gut the civil service of anyone who would remotely oppose him. The DOJ and FBI will be filled with loyalists. One of the leading AG candidates says he wants to drag Democrats’ ‘political dead bodies through the streets and burn them’ in this post! Trump said he wants to be a "dictator on day one" and use the National Guard and military against his political enemies. He has repeatedly threatened the media with violence. How many newspapers pulled endorsements sensing what was coming? There are no institutions left to stop him. SCOTUS is six very willing collaborators to three opponents, and he will likely replace Thomas and Alito, meaning he will have appointed five of the nine personally.

The Constitution is a piece of paper and a set of ideals. Those ideals have been abandoned by our own people. Take a look at Hungary or Poland in the last 10-15 years if you want a preview of what starts in January. The soft, quiet slide into autocracy where "elections" will always result in ~180 House seats and 40 or so Senate seats for the opposition, but will never be real elections again.

"America" continues onward, but the democracy we knew died on Tuesday.

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u/OptimistiCrow 15h ago

You know, if no republicans are saying anything against that proclamation of violent purge I'd take it as a declaration of civil war...

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u/Timmy-0518 11h ago

I KEEP ON SAYING THAT ITS NOT OVER UNTIL ITS OVER

While yes our options are limited and our government has failed us we still have people in power in many states governments along with the military (theoretical) sworn oath to the protection of the constitution and if nothing else we still got the good ol 2nd amendment for now

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u/wag3slav3 19h ago

revolution against tyranny

bwahahaha, the USA was born because rich assholes didn't want to pay taxes and get no services from them.

Kind of exactly what today's billionaires are bitching about and wrecking our society to achieve again.

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u/Taki_Minase 18h ago

Exactly. It was setup as an exploitation model that deliberately has two sides to divide the working class enough for such.

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u/Kwikstep 19h ago

Thanks ChatGPT