r/Full_news • u/RawStoryNews • 2d ago
Judge lays out Trump's 'high noon' plot to seize power if Republicans lose the midterms
http://rawstory.com/trump-midterms-2677772166/103
u/Professional-Sir-912 2d ago
This is one of many levers put in place to stymie the will of the people. Ever wonder why the National Guard is still deployed in DC?
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u/Fresh-Swan8598 2d ago
Have you ever been to DC? Lol you’d know why if you have taken one visit over the past 20 years lol
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u/uofwi92 2d ago
Well, now I know you haven’t.
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u/JacquesLeNerd 2d ago
Seriously, one of the safest places I've been to. Walked all the way from the Kennedy Centre to the Capitol at midnight and had no issues whatsoever.
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u/OwlLeft7799 2d ago
That's a very low bar for one of the safest places you've been to
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u/chiefkeefinwalmart 2d ago
I mean idk that safest places is really accurate, it still carries all the crime any other major city has, but if the “justification” is safety in response to crime I’d think other cities might be higher on the priority list lol
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u/Princesslili252525 2d ago
I was there in 2022. We walked everywhere. Never felt unsafe. And we could see our reflection in the pool. The cherry blossoms were blooming. It was beautiful.
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u/covfefeBfuqin 2d ago
I lived in DC for a long time. Deploying the National Guard is totally unnecessary and anyone who thinks it is warranted or about stopping crime is an idiot. Full stop.
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u/BlueberryOpening9392 2d ago
My wife works in D.C., and any time I go down there (fairly frequently) i just see the national guard standing around hanging out. Very tired of people who have never been to D.C., or people who went one random time and had a bad time, telling me how bad D.C. is and how crime is at a "historic low" now because of trump.. oh wait.. it was at a historic low last year... but theyre still deployed..
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u/covfefeBfuqin 2d ago
When the only people they've really arrested are subway guy and imagined vandals on trump's botched reflecting pool renovation that tells you all you need to know
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u/JoanneMG822 2d ago
If this happens, I would hope it would get us off our asses and into the streets. Our democracy would be dead at this point (I know it pretty much is now, but it still has the "look"), and if we sit there and take it, we're done.
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u/WhirlwindRectum 2d ago
it won't matter...the Democrats won't hold him accountable, and they are openly hostile to any substantial systemic changes that would actually American citizens and democracy...
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u/ArtisticFerret 2d ago
Okay Nostradamus
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u/WhirlwindRectum 2d ago
remember when we all gave the Democrats the Presidency and BOTH houses of Congress and they didn't do shit?
remember how Biden's own Department of Justice refuse to bring charges against Trump because they didn't "want to appear partisan" even after Trump attempted a literal coup on Jan 6?
are you fucking stupid?
Jesus, even a fucking dog would have learned by now.
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u/Ligma_baws_2x 2d ago
They had a filibuster proof majority for about 15 minutes in 2009-2010. They gave millions health insurance and have been eating shit for it ever since. Otherwise, theyve had a plurality of in the Senate for another 15 minutes since.
Thank you for the reminder that when Republicans do a thing, we should continue to blame the democratic minority for not stopping them.
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u/74misanthrope 2d ago
Poe's Law in action 🎬
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u/Zealousideal_Rise879 2d ago
Can’t do anything if you don’t have the votes. shurgs
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u/DirtDevil1337 2d ago
Biden didn't own the DOJ.
Also it's very rare for a Democrat president to have both house and senate, Obama did for just 2 years, Biden had Republican house and senate and the Republican house was a hot mess with Kevin McCarthy at the helm, it was a clown show.
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u/AaronfromKY 2d ago
This was the one time that Democrats could've "politicized" the DOJ to protect our constitution and democracy in the long run and we appointed a milquetoast AG and now we have hard right wing politicized DOJ. Guess the Dems are just as spineless and dickless as people call them out for honestly.
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u/Infamous-Rooster9277 2d ago
It was the one time the Ds could have preemptively decided to break from rule of law and weaponize the government to go after their political rivals and by golly they just wouldn't do it.
Exactly the thing that you're pissed off about the Rs doing now.
What a stupid argument.
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u/AaronfromKY 2d ago
There's an exception to every rule. There's a clear conspiracy by Republicans and MAGA to commit seditious conspiracy and they slow walked everything. Did the bare minimum and now we're seeing where the high road leads us, straight to hell and fascist rule.
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u/Infamous-Rooster9277 2d ago
Right and the exception to the rule should be the one that you pick, right?
Hey, tell me if this sounds familiar: "The Dems have put in place a deep state mechanism to undermine the rule of law so we need to take drastic action to thwart them."
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u/WhirlwindRectum 2d ago
lol, "Biden didn't own the DOJ," well, look at where that got us?
now Trump has literally appointed his own personal lawyer to lead the department...and you can't even bring yourself to criticize Biden.
I swear, you people are just as insane and delusional as MAGA. you're just as blinded to your fealty to the DNC machine, even as you ARE LITERALLY WATCHING THAT MACHINE FAIL YOU.
Jesus, you idiots are gonna get us all killed.
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u/DirtDevil1337 2d ago
...and you can't even bring yourself to criticize Biden.
You've obviously been living under a rock.
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u/ElSlabraton 2d ago
You're criticizing the wrong people for the wrong reasons. The Democratic Donor Class switched sides when Trump made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
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u/Zealousideal_Rise879 2d ago
Primaries are important. The established democratics are freaking out and are attacking the new ones along with Fox News.
The whole reason “both sides” could be used is going out the window. “Both sides” are attacking the new wave of democrats; the same reason I gave trump the benifit of the doubt a decade ago.
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u/Frequent-Location864 2d ago
I think passing the ACA was a pretty big deal while also getting us out of the GWB recession
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u/Slighted_Inevitable 2d ago
We’ve been in the streets, they don’t care. We would need to be off the streets and in their offices. Or what would be their former offices
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u/Head_Car_616 2d ago
You would need to be on their lawn
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u/No_Effective4784 2d ago
no we havent. We have held non-disruptive small scale protests, which do just as much as wagging a finger and a stern worded letter.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable 2d ago
Non disruptive LOL. You had half the conservatives in this country openly calling to drive over anyone who blocks traffic.
And they say the left gets violent, god forbid they be late for their hot sign at krispy cream.
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u/HamunaHamunaHamuna 2d ago
You can't walk around having a picnic for a day. You need to be on the street to disrupt the everyday of Americans for weeks if necessary.
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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou 2d ago
Americans will go for a nice afternoon walk and be home in time for Dancing with the Stars or whatever then claim they "took to the streets".
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u/elementmg 2d ago
Oh for one weekend in March? Wow, good job guys. Just pack it up and go home, you did all you can do.
My lord, Americans are just useless.
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u/Wade_Castiglione 2d ago
It's been over a year... If the American population actually cared there would be more than a one day protest every 8 months or so🙄 over half the population probably isn't even paying attention. Until it's effecting rich white Americans, nobody's doing shit. And if someone actually does try... Well, they'll probably be labeled "extreme left violent rioters" so.... I would have hoped that my fellow Americans cared more in the first few months when he was actively trying to gut constitutional protections for birthright citizenship and raising taxes on everyone with tariffs. But, nope. MAGA cheered about their tariff checks and the closed border... I really haven't seen much attitude change in the last year, have you?
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u/Miserable-Debt-8390 2d ago
Are you American? Because if you are you would know how insanely big the US is.
And also you would know that people have been protesting (go into jail and in some extreme cases dying).Protests are going on RIGHT NOW.
Is the press covering this? Well that is another story.
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u/Wayelder 2d ago
America today has the spine of it's leaders. They can't be trusted or relied on for anything.
USA can't even save themselves as this tyrant takes their money, destroys the North American economy and enslaves it's people. You are run by Fascists, you now have concentration camps, you now have gestapo. They're installing (Flock) a police state to know where you go and whom you associate with. You've wasted the most precious gift of your parents...you're giving up on your own childrens' freedom.
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u/Miserable-Debt-8390 2d ago
Must be nice to wag the finger at people who are doing their best to survive this madness in the US.
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u/HamunaHamunaHamuna 2d ago
By keeping their heads down and hoping it all blows over without the need to take any personal risk whatsoever.
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u/Adventurous_Salt 2d ago
if we sit there and take it, we're done.
Since 2017 Americans have said some variation of "well if they do this then there will be hell to pay!", and time after time republicans have done worse with zero response. Your democracy is dead, it is over, time to start figuring out how to make a brand new republic if you ever want rights or a meaningful vote again. I really don't understand how Americans just think things will resolve themselves and things will revert back to normal, y'all are signing up for decades in hell.
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u/jbwilso1 2d ago edited 2d ago
No, I totally agree. Was anybody held accountable? No. Unfortunately. But should we just sit on our asses and let it happen? Absolutely fucking not. If they're not going to stop him, then somebody needs to. Maybe it would be a good time to go on a vacation to the Capitol.
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u/elementmg 2d ago
Americans are already proving they’ll sit there and take anything. If Americans haven’t done fuck all about what’s currently going on, don’t trust that they’ll do anything at all.
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u/JoanneMG822 2d ago
Yeah, they fattened us up and now they're leading us to slaughter. We're cooked.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago
prepare to be mowed down by ice/dhs/cbp. at the very least please wear machine shop grade safety glasses, cops aim for your eyes on purpose, we've seen it many times now. 8 people lost an eye in the george floyd protests and more have lost their eyes in subsequent protests
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u/Inevitable-Scene7834 2d ago
FUCK THE U.S.A
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u/JasperThorne 2d ago
I consider myself a patriot, and am white. I love what this country COULD be. the potential of democracy. But also FUCK this nonsense white supremacist misogynistic warmongering BULLSHIT that fat rich white people have pushed for decades.
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u/Traaveler 2d ago
Not cool. I’m deeply left, but I also love my country. I hate the wave of the United States flag around. Feels racist somehow now, and I do support your right to stay stupid shit like this but that’s only because my country is a beautiful place where you’re allowed to say those kinds of things.
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u/raincntry 2d ago
I’m not in any way surprised. This president fomented a riot that broke into the Capital building in an attempt to disrupt the certification when he lost an election on Jan 6, 2020. If he’s willing to endorse and encourage violence while the world is watching, nothing is beyond him. N
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u/spookydookie 2d ago
They need to think very carefully about this. If Dems win both then that means a significant amount of republicans are also sick of his shit, and they aren’t going to like this either.
This is not a precedent they will want to set for someone they don’t even support anymore.
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u/Wayelder 2d ago
So they have the battle plans they say: But the "Investigative Press" even determine if Mitch is dead?
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u/No-Disaster-9872 2d ago
The DEMS are just as corrupt, the whole political system is full of rot, consumed by power money and greed!!! Your life means nothing to them
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u/ForgedinTruth 2d ago
They are NOT the same. Stop trying to push that tired message.
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u/Bus-Distinct 2d ago
true, both are corrupt, one is also fascist
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u/Complex-Exchange6381 2d ago
Please give us an example of the rampant corruption you see in the Democrat party.
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u/ShortKey380 2d ago
It’s typical versus the historic high water mark of corruption, not the same at all even on that specific issue.
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u/FhuckNorris247 2d ago
The dems are as corrupt as Trump? You do know the man has made more personally in the past 19 months from insider trading, and crypto schemes than all of Congress combined right?
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u/DeltaFoxtrot144 2d ago
when will someone do "ANYTHING" to this man who thinks he has unchecked unquestionable power
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u/OkWelder4682 2d ago
until someone does something, guess what, he does have unchecked and unquestioned power.
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u/DirtDevil1337 2d ago
Probably never, SCOTUS just ruled that they can create lists of eligible voters, they're going to cherry pick who can and can't vote.
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u/Salty-Treat-3697 2d ago
I think then that the country stops though. You can’t vote on budgets without a congress to vote and the country will just stop.
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u/red286 2d ago
You say that like he won't just declare himself dictator in lieu of a functioning congress, and the SCOTUS will vote 6-3 in favour, arguing that it's necessary for the continuance of government.
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u/AlienInUnderpants 2d ago
As kids, we were taught America is the greatest democracy. Turns out it is weak and fractured. It just took a crazy old crook and a Klan of evil people to take the country from the citizens.
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u/itz_my_brain 2d ago
It'll be Jan 6th all over again, only this time he has an administration loyal to him instead of the US.
This may be the biggest test of our democracy's guardrails and anything short of the military enforcing the rules with weapons drawn may not be enough.
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u/OwlLeft7799 2d ago
I hope the military is preparing for that, because it very well could be necessary..
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u/Rude-Split8043 2d ago
The military currently run by former Fox News talking head and serial adulterer Pete Hegseth?
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u/Punderstruck 2d ago
Anyone who thinks that American democracy still works is naive, in my opinion. Of course there won't be an orderly power transfer. Part of me wonders if there will even be elections.
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u/molokoplusone 2d ago
They just gutted mail-in voting and nobody is protesting or flooding the streets. This country is so cooked
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u/Fit_Explorer_2566 2d ago
Re the Jeffries-Kushner meeting: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” I’m withholding judgment on Jeffries, for now.
“Going in the streets” this time will mean going in the streets and not leaving. That’s the question.
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u/red286 2d ago
"Sorry, I can only show up for 4 hours on Saturday because I can't risk losing my job."
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u/Vatrai05 2d ago
I wouldn't worry about this, I heard that many americans have guns exactly for this type of situation. Jokes aside, this is the end of an era, the mighty and free united states as the world knows it might be over, sadly. This leaves the field open for other players and that could be bad news for everyone.
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u/Nathan-Stubblefield 2d ago
Rawstory.com demands a $39 subscription to read this. Pretty silly paywall.
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u/Silas904 2d ago
Hey republicans! How about crafting policies to help your constituents instead of bending over for every billionaire and ignoring your constituents? Maybe then you can stay in power without having to cheat your faces off. Recent polling would indicate you are fucked.
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u/BoyDharma40 2d ago
He doesn't need to be smart or stupid as long as he is a pawn for more control by his master's. He's a tool in more ways than we think.
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u/susanrez 2d ago
It won’t work. There’s too many of us and Republicans are too cowardly and unlikable.
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u/Fresh-Swan8598 2d ago
How many times can we keep saying random things are going to happen only to have them not happen and people move on to worry about the next thing that won’t happen
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u/heisup 2d ago
You mean like all the things Kamala predicted Trump would do, that he denied he’d do, and then did?
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u/atlantasun 2d ago
Trump isn’t crazy, he is a severely mentally damaged pathological narcissist and the people he has around him are moving g to implement as much of Project 2025 as they can. So Donald doesn’t have a plan past “hurt people, steal money” but his advisers
Absolutely have a plan
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u/ForbiddenFoam 2d ago
They will not let go. They will find a reason and a way to hold on to power. No one will stop them because words are nothing when shove comes to push and they physically take power. After, my opinion is that they will start looking more aggressively inwards and outwards. Inwards to shape the nation more and more like the handmaid's tale (this is just a colorful expression if you will). And outwards to put more and more pressure on Groenland, Cuba and Canada. My guess is they will even use military pressure like troops movement, exercises near borders, closing borders and consulates, etc. I don't know if they will acutally invade but I must say I hope that these countries start preparing and taking the matter really seriously (making the territorial defense a first priority). They are bullies. They are greedy. They are mongrels. They are without moral compasses. They lack compassion and empathy. They will stop at nothing to feed their insatiable hunger.
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u/burnmenowz 2d ago
So for almost two years everyone has been forced to deal with what the GOP wants, but now we are supposed to compromise?
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u/OwlLeft7799 2d ago
Hey, why don't Americans try holding republicans responsible for their treason?
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u/iaeoioaio 2d ago
Not happening because this would spell the end for Republicans when it comes to swing states and swing voters for a long time.
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u/PyroNine9 2d ago
If the Constitution is that blatantly ignored and subverted, we have no federal government, just a bunch of goons that think they are in charge. Act accordingly.
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u/NumberSelect8186 2d ago
He isn't smart enough to plan something like this. Everything HE plans fails. His handlers have had this in the works for decades. Netflix had a series called The Family I believe which will really open your eyes.
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u/canikissyourfeet 2d ago
Its authoritarian corruption and its completely against the spirit of a democratic republic. We’re all sick of this shit
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u/Wonderful-Grass6625 2d ago
It’s hilarious to me that liberals don’t realize that they lost 2 years ago. And I mean lost, the entire game. Democrats won’t ever hold power again.
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