Like the entire USA doesn’t have a way to remove this guy on a technicality at least?
If the entire US wanted him gone, he wouldn’t have taken off to begin with. The problem is that big swaths of the country are absolutely Q-pilled on this guy. They genuinely believe his schtick (thanks, in no small part, to a fully compliant corporate media and a complicit religious movement).
Past that, there’s a mushy middle that feels utterly powerless. I’m sitting here on my couch in Houston. I don’t have any way to get rid of my shitty mayor, much less my fascist President. The issue isn’t finding a technicality. The issue is that bureaucrats in the US aren’t seriously interested in doing a coup. Comey/Mueller aren’t coming to save anyone. Hell, much of the police state is in the bag for this guy in one way or another. We’ve got enough Pam Bondis and Tulsi Gabbards and Ken Paxtons and Pete Hegseths and Michael Flynns bouncing around the branches of government that nominally provide national security to buffer out the opposition.
It comes down to the fundamental problem of the American system of governance. We weren’t that far off the mark from outright fascism under Reagan or Truman. Trump’s crassness and ignominity are not, themselves, sufficient to get him removed from office. He’ll get away with trying to seize control of Greenland for the same reason Bush Jr got away with invading Iraq and LBJ got away with invading Vietnam and McKinley got away with invading the Philippines. Because this is who we are as a country. We’re a big military that steals shit from the periphery to enrich the elites in our imperial core.
We’re an Imperial Power full of violent, invasion-loving thugs, rapists, and looters. We’re doing what we’ve always done.
If the entire US wanted him gone, he wouldn’t have taken off to begin with. The problem is that big swaths of the country are absolutely Q-pilled on this guy. They genuinely believe his schtick (thanks, in no small part, to a fully compliant corporate media and a complicit religious movement).
Past that, there’s a mushy middle that feels utterly powerless. I’m sitting here on my couch in Houston. I don’t have any way to get rid of my shitty mayor, much less my fascist President. The issue isn’t finding a technicality. The issue is that bureaucrats in the US aren’t seriously interested in doing a coup. Comey/Mueller aren’t coming to save anyone. Hell, much of the police state is in the bag for this guy in one way or another. We’ve got enough Pam Bondis and Tulsi Gabbards and Ken Paxtons and Pete Hegseths and Michael Flynns bouncing around the branches of government that nominally provide national security to buffer out the opposition.
It comes down to the fundamental problem of the American system of governance. We weren’t that far off the mark from outright fascism under Reagan or Truman. Trump’s crassness and ignominity are not, themselves, sufficient to get him removed from office. He’ll get away with trying to seize control of Greenland for the same reason Bush Jr got away with invading Iraq and LBJ got away with invading Vietnam and McKinley got away with invading the Philippines. Because this is who we are as a country. We’re a big military that steals shit from the periphery to enrich the elites in our imperial core.
We’re an Imperial Power full of violent, invasion-loving thugs, rapists, and looters. We’re doing what we’ve always done.