j4remi wrote:Capn'O wrote:I'll leave all time rankings to the historians but he is absolutely doing a dry run on executing absolute power over his political opponents. That was made clear in Washington, Portland, and elsewhere. He is figuring out who (agencies) will help him and who won't, as well as the extent of his opposition. In DHS, he has an ally as well as with many local law enforcement agencies and his conspiracy militia goons in the general public. His institutional opposition is still bent at opposing using the levers of our democracy, which doesn't work to your advantage vs. a person who has no regard for those levers.
I also put the need for his removal at dire.
Yeah, I think there's probably some interesting discussion to be had about Trump vs Jackson and others but the present problem is Trump. At the end of the day, the fact that the current president can be debated against the absolute worst president's in history is all that needs to be said for the time being...get this dude out of office and then we can let the historians weigh-in. He could be out in 3 months but the lowest lows aren't even necessarily fully known yet and might not have even been reached (the election could be an absolute disaster).
Edit: I have an entirely speculative hot take on why Trump did the "vote by mail AND in person" stuff recently...basically trying to get a voter fraud stat boost and then claim it was Dem voters. He's potentially dumb enough to just say that ish out of cluelessness but it's a good way to continue to galvanize problems on election day regardless.
The problem is that if it’s all people voting for him, then that kind of defeats his whole argument since it will all be his supporters voting. It’s also pretty idiotic because not only will those ballots be thrown out, it’s a federal offense and they’ll get prosecuted. Getting Federal and State charges to own the Libs! Truly smooth brained thinking here.
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