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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. And I am being serious.

When JD Vance has a Congress that will back him (which he will have in 10 months), he, and a majority of the Cabinet, can invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment. He can declare the President incapable of performing his duties, and step up to the plate. Congress then has the opportunity to decide whether to support his coup, or reinstate Trump to the presidency.

To be successful, he will have to immediately blame Trump for attempting to block the midterm elections, and appoint a special prosecutor to look into the full scope of Trump's numerous, unadjudicated crimes.

For (most) of the next 10 months, JD Vance will have to continue to appear to support Trump's presidency, and Trump will have to continue his own Trumpiness.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hell also have to pull off the VP debate and appear somewhat reasonable for 10 months. While still supporting the administration. It'll be a balancing act, he can't be a full on cheerleader and switch at the last second.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

US politicians doing their jobs, serving and representing the American people.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 94 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Now that the corpos and billionaires know that they can be openly and brazenly corrupt and greatly accelerate their schemes, we will never see a return to the politics of old where hiding it minimized profit regardless of who the next puppet figurehead is. You cannot un-ring the bell.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's basically this.

With the US' bonkers electoral system, and abysmal education levels, you're pretty much cooked.

You have an oligarchy, a captured state, a corporatocracy. Oligarchs tell voters to vote for the leader who will benefit them most.

Research suggests that it doesn't actually take that many people to convince those oligarchs that another leader will be in their best interests. For example, if 3% of people who regularly buy things from Amazon and visit facebook and use ChatGPT, stopped doing those three things indefinitely by switching to alternatives, that would likely be enough.

However, I just don't believe that's achievable.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (9 children)

yes, a General Strike... if the people of the USA stop working for a week, that would be enough to cripple the Orange pedophile supporters

In the meantime, you can do very easy stuff like deleting your Meta (Facebook, Instagram, etc), Google, Xitter and Amazon accounts... but that seems like too much to ask of the American people... better descend further into fascism and drag the world down than stop using X

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Three things: 1. A general strike. 2. Vote them out in the mid-terms this November. 3. Full scale revolution.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vote? Mid-terms? We've got an optimist here.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nah, I'm no optimist. You've just given up too early.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

The Orange pedophile already executed a coup to not give up the power on his first term... expecting he would give up power willingly now is just "ignorant and proud of it"

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Not necessarily given up. I just don't think this entire facade called democracy will solve anything. I'm entirely open to other solutions, like the ones you suggested.

Though it should also be noted I don't live in the USA, so I won't be standing side by side with you guys. Not physically anyway.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Though it should also be noted I don’t live in the USA, so I won’t be standing side by side with you guys. Not physically anyway.

In lieu of that, please petition your government to immediately recognize and support any future uprising against the US government.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Vote anyway. If we can't organize to vote our credibility to strike doesn't exist

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

You're right, votes havent mattered probably since computerized voting machines have existed.

But still, do it anyway. You never know.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I guess it should be noted as well...I don't live in the USA and am not American. What are the odds we're all discussing America as foreigners? That would be too crazy, even for this timeline. All the best.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Being allowed to run again, despite being a felon highlights a glaring gap in the ability of US politics to prevent shit like this from happening.

In the UK some right wing manosphere influencer keeps saying how he's gonna run for Mayor of London (Ant Middleton).

People are gleefully pointing out that his convictions for assaulting a police officer and tax evasion bar him from the role.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Excluding people from running for office because of criminal conviction provides an incentive for authoritarians in power to prosecute their political opponents, so it's a question that definitely has two sides. :/

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Exactly. By the same reasoning, there is no reason to bar felons from voting, or even incarcerated citizens. Prisoners have as much right to government representation as anyone else.

Voting is a basic right in this nation, and it should not be removed for ANY reason. We should be automatically registered to vote at birth, with the registration automatically validating on your 18th birthday. You shouldn't have to register, declare a party, or prove your identity. If you are an American citizen, you can vote, period.

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[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

And this is where ensuring total independence of the judiciary comes in.

Its insane to me that the president can pick a Supreme Court judge.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes those people's necks just start squirting randomly.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 days ago

"Everyone's saying it..."

[–] Man_kind@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes. Maga gets tremendous power from 2 main sources. 1. Money. 2. Social media, and also religion, but not much you can do about that.

So, like Kimmel situation, disney had profit in firing him, once peiple boycotted, it did not, so had to bring him back.

You need to make siding with trump non-profitable.

That means, you, an individual, even if you think your choices dont matter, you need to boycott every company that supports trump, no matter how hard it hurts you. Now, it does t need to be a complete boycott. But as much as possible. For example, there are suitable replacements for chrome, and google search. But not really for YouTube. You don't need the stock for these companies to be zero. You just need the projections to be significantly negative.

This is especially important for the social media maga controls.

They are using it to brainwash others. Not you. They know you cant be persuaded to become maga. So they let you think it is free, and subtly control what you're allowed to see, and they corrupt young people, spread lies, teach to hate women, etc... they wont show the ones they are brainwashing all the truths you know about maga.

They have this power because everyone continues to use their platforms. So number one thing is to stop using meta, twitter, and tiktok, no matter how much you love those. Force people to use signal if they want to contact you, not WhatsApp.

Organize irl, whatever local movement you align with that fits into being pro democracy and freedom and equality for all.

When people organize, they can donate, and fund. This lets you go and protest on congress' front lawn. You can have buses, trains, free food, things people need to come and go, and create a sustained peaceful protest. And MAGA will see that. The administration will be forced to call them paid actors. So be vocal. Get pro democracy flags for your car. Put them up in your homes. Maga can control what the brainwashed see on social media, but not irl. So you need to be vocal irl. Social media makes everyone think all the world agrees with them.

Do all of those things, and trump will lose tremendous power.

Even if you act alone. Make the sacrifice. Show by example, and remember those videos of one man dancing alone, and then another joins and another, and once people see the movement they join in. Start the wave.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 days ago

1/3 of US renters not paying their rent in a coördinated strike for one month would unwind a lot of landlord loans and collapse Wall Street which is where Trump stores his wealth.

[–] lmmarsano@group.lt 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vote enough non-Republicans into Congress, impeach, and convict? Wait for whatever is turning his skin purple to take its course?

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Kind of had 4 years to get that shit figure out and still fumbled.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, and Dem voters are pissed as Hell about it. If we hand them the House and Senate in November, and Schmuck & Jeffries continue with their MAGA comedy act, then we'll be forced to take matters into our own hands, and when that happens, any treasonous Democrats like them will go down right along with the MAGAs.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

4? Closer to 200

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[–] redsand@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Bring back the McRib. Im serious

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you implying that he would eat one and then suffer a heart attack?

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[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

I suggest this.

Edit: to clarify nonviolent protests, at least 3.5% of the population.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's been long established that a small percentage can lead to a "Tipping Point" and cause a trend that can grow and take over. People like Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Penn have written excellent books about the concept. This article is interesting because it is directly ties the idea to non-violent protests.

People have been watching the No Kings protests, for exactly this reason. With a population of 335 million, 3.5% is about 12 million people, and the No Kings protests have been drawing around 8 million, and will probably draw more in the future. Add to that all the sympathetic protesters at home, and we have to be at that 3.5% goal, and probably beyond it.

I'm one of those homebound protesters. I'm NEVER going to go to a protest, but that doesn't mean I'm not as militant as they are. At my age, I'd be a liability at a protest, but I can work my keyboard, and spread sourced news and anti-MAGA propaganda in equal measure. Thats my DAILY contribution to the fight, and it's just as important as showing up to monthly or quarterly protests.

Add people like me to the No Kings protesters, and we are certainly beyond the 3.5% required to cause a tipping point, and it really feels like it is happening. They are losing nearly every court case, including tariffs, MAHA, and more. What little support there was for this war has fully collapsed. He has broken every campaign promise to people who LOVE to repeat "Promises Made, Promises Kept." Today, EVERY SINGLE MAGA knows that's not true at all.

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[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Vote in better Congresspeople who will vote to remove him from office. The problem is the people. Always has been.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People yes, but also the system is extremely fucked up and stacked against people. If you are unlucky to be born in bumfuck Alabama, you'll grow up with your asshole priest telling you lies, your TV / Radio telling you lies, your patents telling you lies because they too were lied to and your school being underfunded and shitty.

It's a vicious cycle that we allowed to get to a point of no return and it is not easy for somone to get out of it.

And this is by design, the elites used religion and propaganda to brainwash a huge swath of people.

I honestly think even they are surprised how well they did, because they were afraid they went too far when Trump got into office the first time.

They thought they had pushed their luck and now a fully open conman rapists was the leader of their party.

But, the brainwashing was too strong and complete, the cult members are literally cheering him on as he's killing people.

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[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In November he's going to try and steel the election, if we effective block that, his days are numbered, so get organized locally.

Sorry lone wolves, you had your shot and and all your incoherent takes achieved was a poll boost for him.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Dude helmed one of the biggest child sex trafficking rings in history, whipped his loyalists into a coup attempt with false claims of “stolen election”, suffered no consequences for that, came back promising revenge, pardoned his convicted loyalists, turned them into a private army that has been given carte blanche to murder peaceful opposition, is operating death camps, has kidnapped and murdered the leaders of foreign countries with impunity, routinely ignores those in his own party and Supreme Court when they occasionally oppose him, is threatening all sorts of voter suppression (up to cancelling elections), defies the Constitution by calling for a third term, is backed by a cabal of the most wealthy and powerful individuals in the nation who are also clients of his child sex trafficking ring, is beloved by the nation’s police forces, has seized total control of the military, and has already ignored every check and balance that exists because he can. You can flip the entire Congress blue but unless they find someone who can physically extricate him and his cronies from their positions, he can ignore every impeachment, court order, and protest if he says “nah, I’m staying”. You really think his backers have worked this hard to gain control just to lose it in two years to the will of the people, the people they know would have a helluva time matching them blow for blow to force his removal?

Don’t not vote, but don’t be so assured winning at the polls translates into the first step of over-throwing the regime. I mean, what are you going to do if voters say “time for you to go” and his response is “fuck you, make me”?

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[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

It's a long shot/hail mary but you could hope that the CIA will boot him out.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

storming the gates would be a pretty stupid idea if i recall correctly

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[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Looks like America (and the rest of the world) has to suffer him at this stage, unless they go full coup de tar mode.

I wonder what the future leaders will look like for Russia, USA and China...

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[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Republicans need to go blue. They’re going to target purple areas for election fraud- deep red states need to go “That’s it, we’re done. You won’t do anything, so we’re changing parties.” They can fix small elections but can’t fix the whole country.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago

Nothing significant is going to change with either of the two parties, both are bought by AIPAC and will continue to do Israel's bidding as long as this system exists

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[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

With some luck diabeties or aneurysm. He looks ripe for it.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

No

So lets do that

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