Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.

According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.

In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”

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One failed coup, on trial for insurrection and planning the next one.
Welcome to this episode of “Dumb Criminals”.

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Technically if he wins the election it wouldn’t be insurrection, but anyone trying to stop him would be.

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The President swears an oath to defend the Constitution, which includes the Bill of Rights.

Implementing Project 2025 would still be an insurrection.

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He won’t win.

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As an outsider looking in I’m not so confident

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I’ve heard that one before. Didn’t turn out well.

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I said that the first time around. I’m hoping it remains true though.

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I pray to the gods you’re true

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84 points

I’m so sick of these treasonous jackals.

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Fascist power fantasy. No need to sugarcoat it.

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conservative

fascist

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a conservative power fantasy

Yeah, but if people think this is harmless and don’t go vote, this might become true anyway

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73 points

Is america really this retarded?

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Trump lost the popular vote last time but still got enough state victories to win with Electoral College votes, and he is less popular now than then, but his base is very vocal and with so many adults disassociating themselves with the Republican Party it makes it a very bottom of the barrel pool for candidates.

The problem is there is only one other national party with any chance of winning, and their candidate just gave more weapons to the nation currently bombing children’s hospitals and refugee camps.

So while the average US Citizen might be better than this, our ancestors built a system and our elders corrupted it to the point where a large enough coalition of below average people can destroy the nation. Yes, we’re really that stupid.

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The problem is media capture and people not realizing how they are being bamboozled, not anything else.

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Oh no, it absolutely is bigotry. Bigotry is the root of how those people think and it’s the mindset the fascists are exploiting.

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It’s racism plain and simple…

Remember when Joe the Plumber claimed that deep down “Everyone wants a white Republican president again!”

He specified White.

Same reason why I knew that Ben Carson’s lead was going to vanish as soon as the debates began. Not because he isn’t a good debater. I mean he’s got the pseudoscience crowd on lock along with the pseudo intellectual. But it was very obvious that when the Republican base saw what color doctor Ben Carson is yeah that’s going to be the end of it.

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My sister in law: Ahem, fake news. Checkmate librul.

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Also my extremely gay ex-online friend who used to be a Democrat until he hit himself on the head with 4chan:

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Your average American voter is apparently a goldfish.

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Contrary to popular belief, goldfish don’t have bad memory.

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I’d prefer goldfish to American voters. Goldfish have their priorities straight. They’ll remember who drops the pellets and who said they’d drop pellets but never did.

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They also don’t prefer small tanks.

You’re literally killing them with their own piss by using such small fish tanks.

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15 points

Its even retarder than that

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About 40% is yes…which is enough to cause serious issues.

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There’s a good documentary on this - Idiocracy.

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Yet those people were smarter than his supporters. they saw someone smart and decided to put him in power.

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Not a good example because Camacho literally acknowledged that there was a problem and then put the smartest man in the world towards fixing it.

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Oh god. It’s worse than Idiocracy.

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7 points

Yes. Kill me, please.

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Correct

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Not all Americans, but a surprising amount of them. And the “liberal media” with their both-sidering horse race nonsense is not even pretending to try to make the situation any better.

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Evidently yes. I can’t even wrap my head around it. I will die before ever fully understanding how any grown and evidently sane adult could ever look at Donald Trump and say to themselves, “yeah, that’s the guy I want for my president!” I just can’t fathom it. I’ve had years to think about it but it still simply does not compute.

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Man, I was hoping that since we’re obviously gonna end up with a dystopia, that it would be a cyberpunk one, but here we are, gonna be stuck with a regular boring ass dictatorship.

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At least people will understand why we are revolting. Convincing the world of your cause is usually the hard part.

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