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2naSalit

(86,524 posts)
4. Depends on what we do.
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 01:34 PM
Feb 2020

At this point, voting is not enough. We will be protesting and should be every moment we possibly can.

CrispyQ

(36,453 posts)
5. We should jam the phone lines of the Congressional switchboard instead.
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 01:58 PM
Feb 2020

It takes less time to make a few calls, and it actually impacts them, unlike a protest or march, which they ignore. Not that protests and marches don't have their place in the resistance, but people need to call their members of Congress every week, not just when some key legislation is being voted on. I make calls every Monday morning. It takes about 15 minutes to compose a brief message & make the calls.

The last time we jammed the Congressional switchboard was the financial crisis of 2008. Are we there yet?

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
6. he may "attempt" to use low yield tactical nukes but I don't even think he could get away with
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 02:10 PM
Feb 2020

that unless we were nuked first.

rampartc

(5,403 posts)
11. i think he would be cheered by a bipartisan congress
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 05:33 PM
Feb 2020

if he launched on iran, yemen, maybe even Venezuela. do you think that nascar crowd would disapprove?

I hope i'm wrong, I hope we never find out.

LiberalArkie

(15,709 posts)
14. Judging by their war votes in the past, I would say just about all of congress has their
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 07:33 PM
Feb 2020

portfolios in military, financial and pharmaceutical stocks.

Oldem

(833 posts)
7. Here are two actions that could stop him.
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 02:24 PM
Feb 2020

1. Section four of the 25th amendment, if implemented....
2. Military refusal to follow an order for a nuclear attack....
a. Presumably, such an order from the president would be legal, so a military refusal to act would deepen our already Constitutional mess.
b. Third world, get ready for a new member.

I agree that he's unstable enough to try it, and I'm not hopeful that either remedy I've listed would actually be applied. Also, I'm not at all happy about the prospect of a President Pence. (But he should be easier to beat in Nov.)

sandensea

(21,621 posts)
9. And at that point, he will be removed by the short hairs
Sun Feb 16, 2020, 03:27 PM
Feb 2020

He, his cronies, his brood - and especially Incestvanka.

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