Quote (ThatAlex @ Jun 1 2020 10:27pm)
For the record, martial law is one of the grossest government overreaches that the POTUS or federal government can do. It's the definition of big government. It's the type of shit Conservatives said Obama would do to stay in office.
We libtards need the help of our libertarian brethren right now to take down this tyrant, who said China showed the 'power of strength' when previously commenting on the Tiananmen Square massacre. We liberals offer our own share of disgusting statist overreaches but perhaps none more than the nonsense we have seen out of Trump and co today, with Tom Cotton threatening the 10st Airborne against US citizens today and Trump retweeting it.
I'm starting to get more confident that Trump will not stay in office. There's a lot of reasons why.
1. He has not had any signature legislation or accomplishments.
2. The country is in a serious state of unrest.
3. Republicans have just generally not been okay with his childishness since day 1. When I worked at a phlebotomist for a mostly rural servicing hospital I heard a ton of "I've voted Republican all my life but this is ridiculous" and it hasn't stopped.
4. He has had absolutely nothing good happen in the foreign arena, and has had many mishaps that very deeply embarrassed him.
5. He's starting doing "typical politician" things, like the backtracking on tweets and the walk to the church today.
6. Even with everything possible going right for him in 2016 he barely squeaked by with a 70k vote margin
7. He's taking a deeply authoritarian turn, and even a lot of Republicans aren't fine with that.
We've got 5 months to go, and a looooooooooot can happen, but Trump is at an insane deficit right now.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Jun 1 2020 09:55pm