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Takket

(21,555 posts)
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 05:36 PM Feb 2020

What is now "legal" for the next president?

Just wondering what it is now legal for the next president to do, based on established challenges drumpf has made to the separation of powers..........

1. The president can now declare anything a national emergency and reroute funding from anywhere to combat it. On day one the next Dem president can declare a climate and gun violence emergency and begin rerouting money as they desire to combat these problems.

2. The next Dem president can use Congressionally appropriated funds to further the well-being of said Democrat by imposing demands on foreign countries to help support their presidency. A good example is the next Dem president could withdraw all financial support for Israel and leave them on their own in the middle east unless Israel turns over and and all information they have on "corrupt" activities of GOP members in Israel.

3. The next Dem president is free to work with any foreign power to create mass propaganda campaigns against the GOP outside of the election and finance laws of the US.

any others?

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kimbutgar

(21,127 posts)
1. Rebukes can never object to a Democratic president ever again after the abomination of MF45
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 05:40 PM
Feb 2020

We can tell rebukes to STFU forever now. High deficits, getting rid of regulations that affect our air, water and food safety. Wrecking international relations, human rights violations, abuse of a Geneva conventions etc. they can no longer object as they have shown themselves to be the true hypocrites.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. No.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 05:41 PM
Feb 2020

Only a GOP President can do any or all of these things.

Just as if Trump loses, and the GOP loses the Senate as well, the GOP will say that the most important thing to do will be to bring down the deficit by cutting social programs.

And the media will immediately focus on the deficit.

Walleye

(31,008 posts)
3. Maybe a few foreign governments
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 06:09 PM
Feb 2020

would be happy to work with our possible next president to help us defeat the current one?

kentuck

(111,078 posts)
4. If we are stupid enough to put in another president like this one...
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 06:14 PM
Feb 2020

Of course, we said that with George W.

Dan

(3,546 posts)
7. Hell let's go all out dictator.
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 06:21 PM
Feb 2020

Investigate the Senate and House GOP members.

Arrest and intern GOP members that were part of the POTUS coverup.

All lawyers involved in the Trump coverup - take steps to remove their licenses. Where their licenses cannot be removed - restrict all Federal Government agencies from doing business with their firms (potential national security risk).

Freeze the assets of the RNC - until and unless they can establish that they are free of foreign entanglements.

Freeze Moscow Mitch’s assets - due to RICO act - establish collusion between his assets and the Chinese government.

Intern and investigate David Nunces to determine if he was acting as a foreign agent while a member of Congress.

Provide the Iranians with Bill Barr’s foreign schedule (Hahahaha).

Release Trump’s taxes, school transcripts and publish all the hidden documents.

Investigate Trump’s kids - release the full Mueller documents (unpredicted where possible).

Reinvestigate to verify the accuracy of our latest addition to the Supreme Court.

Declare Murdoch (Fox) a national security threat, give him $1 and a day to leave the country. Confiscate all his assets and make FOX news an independent public broadcasting venture.

Take steps to increase the size of the SCOTUS by 8 members (all very young and diverse).

Forbid by law active duty military members from the general staff from being part of the President’s cabinet (we now understand their lack of free will due to their training).

Form another department that would be charged with oversight of high government officials corruption - charged only with ensuring our national security, independent of POTUS oversight, with absolute power.

Have a national vote that would let all the citizens determine if we should let the south succeed, failing that, if the rest of us can succeed from the South.

Then I would laugh my ass off.

<on edit> - I would provide free copies of Andrew Yang’s book “The War on Normal People” to all citizens AND require Civics to be taught in High School again.

SamKnause

(13,091 posts)
10. What is "legal" for a republican will become illegal for a democratic president.
Sun Feb 2, 2020, 01:42 AM
Feb 2020

The republicans have been playing this game for decades.

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