America III: Going Deutsche

[cutmymilk]

Gotta love finally having someone Trump's up against be so plain speaking after the last 4 years:

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He speaks with the same cadence as Sprinsteen.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/sep/10/coronavirus-live-news-trump-says-he-perhaps-misled-americans-as-infections-rise-across-europe

Global deaths have passed 900,000

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/roger-stone-to-donald-trump-bring-in-martial-law-if-you-lose-election

A sign of the chaos to come?

[Cassius_Smoke]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-lose-election
A sign of the chaos to come?

I can actually see him doing this.

[MartyG]

Trump is a little yapping dog who believes he has more power than he actually does.

There aren't going to any leftwing protests if Biden wins, there are going to be leftwing street parties.

[briareos_kerensky]

I truly hope Republicans will wake up and put a stop to this lunacy.

[Asura]

I can actually see him doing this.

I can totally see it. And it scares me, honestly, because I have no idea what would happen. Will the military listen, if ordered to go to war with US's own democratic process - which, in effect, is essentially asking the military to go to war with the concept of civilian rule. Is that legal?

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/mike-bloomberg-spend-100m-biden-trump-florida

Bloomberg is to spend $100m solely on aiding Biden to win Florida

[kryss]

Luckily conscription is against the law in Canada, so if it kicks off down south, I should be okay.

Like you said Asura, it really all hinges on the military accepting the order or not.

[Neon Ignition]

Have to assume if he tried it that it wouldn't last long. He needs way too much to sustain it and it wouldn't give him an endless out. His biggest issue would be that whilst the Republicans have been all too eager to sell their souls to him over the last few years most of them are career politicians with ambitions who will intend to long outlast him, something that is over if they fall too extremely in his wake.

Likewise the mentality is very 'oo-ra 'murica' for his followers and whilst a chunk would march on regardless I'd imagine that him finally entirely destroying the constitution for his own short term neck would make the support to shakey to maintain the level of control he'd need. Within a very short amount of time, like weeks at best, he'd have to move toward a full on dictatorial take over of the US to secure his control and I think that's well beyond him whether he'd try it or not.

[MartyG]

I can totally see it. And it scares me, honestly, because I have no idea what would happen. Will the military listen, if ordered to go to war with US's own democratic process - which, in effect, is essentially asking the military to go to war with the concept of civilian rule. Is that legal?

Will the military listen to a commander-in-chief who's about to be kicked out of the White House ordering them to attack their own citizens celebrating the dimise of a terrible PoTUS?

I'm going with no.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris

Another Trump accuser though sadly we've already learnt these stories make no dent in his popularity

[QualityChimp]

TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday
"Trump executive orders also require removal of social media app WeChat from Apple and Google’s app stores in US

Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, said: “We have taken significant action to combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of US laws and regulations.”"

[Dogg Thang]

Only US companies are allowed spy on people's devices and collect and sell far more data than they should.

[MartyG]

Right, because 30 second videos of dancing cats on tween's phones exposes the nuclear bunker codes.

I guess he felt safe doing that because they're not of voting age.