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This is assuming that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans would do nothing to piss him off, just as they have done nothing up to this point.
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He could arrest James Comey and accuse him of crimes of the "deep state". | |
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He could cut Social Security and Medicare to help balance the budget. | |
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He could drop a nuclear weapon an an enemy or an ally. | |
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He could declare the Democratic Party an enemy of the state. | |
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He could invite Vladimir Putin for a visit to celebrate the Fourth of July. | |
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He could have Hillary Clinton arrested and ask for the death penalty. | |
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He could cut off all food stamps and aid to poor people in this country, including SSI. | |
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He could fire all the Joint Chiefs of Staff and appoint his own. | |
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None of the above | |
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All of the above | |
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0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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FoxNewsSucks
(10,747 posts)He's providing cover for republicons to do their dirty work unobserved.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)For better or for worse, the one thing he COULD DO would be to unleash our nuclear arsenal.
Let us hope that it doesnt come to that.
-Laelth
empedocles
(15,751 posts)that possibility out.
During 9/11 crisis, Cheney ordered all planes shot down, that did not obey his order.
Cheney: Order to Shoot Down Hijacked 9/11 Planes ...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cheney-order-to...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday defended his Sept. 11, 2001, order to shoot down hijacked planes over Washington, saying the call was "necessary.'
During 9/11 crisis, Cheney ordered all planes shot down, that did not obey his order.
The military sent all the planes out to sea - and the orders were not followed.
[That was a more difficult, spontaneous response by the military].
There is hope.
I trust our military NOT to get us all killed. I suspect that our military would defy orders to launch nuclear weapons absent a pre-existing, armed, global conflict.
But you never know. It would only take a couple of MAGAts following the Presidents orders to create a global disaster.
-Laelth
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)uponit7771
(91,308 posts)... broken lies.