Highlights: Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.

In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John Kelly, and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to people who have talked to him, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI and Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter said.

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      If he wins there’s literally only one thing left, and that’s the military choosing to reject his authority. If they don’t then your country is done for

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        If they don’t, the left will be forced to put the second amendment to the test and I pray to every single fucking god and goddess in existence that they reject gun control and arm themselves before that happens.

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    Why is it Trump can wish for unlimited punishment and we can’t wish GREATLY for his death?

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    Major Presidential candidates usually base their campaign on who they will help: the poor, the working class, the farmers, the ill, the veterans, etc. Trump is campaigning on who he will hurt.

  • Sure Trump can end the war.

    He will just say “I ended the war.”

    His gullible dipshit supporters will eat it up. Then he will never mention Ukraine again. He will ensure they receive no US aid, no US intelligence, and no American-led coordination within the international community.

    The Ukrainians will be annihilated and their children kidnapped to boost up the population in Russia. Putin will continue marching westward and threatening nuclear 3ar with all of Europe and the west.

    Trump can’t negotiate with Putin because they already agreed.

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      I would like to believe voters realize how fucked everyone is if he ever gets power again. I’d like to.

      Putin will probably go for another country after Ukraine and Trump will do nothing. Meanwhile he will be further dismantling the government until we basically have an unfettered oligarchy to a degree that makes Russia look like a beacon of democracy and honesty.

      Then the real persecution of minorities begins.

      Voting won’t be enough. We also need to be donating time or money to important campaigns and to efforts to get people to the polls.

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        You’d think. For some people, they have a solid appetite no matter what. I have “forgotten to eat” about three times in my 50+ years.

        Just assuming I theoretically did a lot of drugs when I was younger you can also assume I also allegedly kept up my habit of eating. Other more famous examples include John Belushi, Chris Farley, etc.

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          I wasn’t thinking about forgetting to eat. Stimulants like amphetamines boost your metabolism and make you more active. He’s clearly too fat and lazy to be on stimulants.

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            If you eat healthy, stimulants could in theory sort of “substitute” for some exercise to stay skinny. If you overeat and do not exercise, and eat shitty food, as Trump does, the amount of Adderall you’d need to snort to stay thin is more than enough to stop your heart cold.

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    yeah? i’m plannin on taking a dump after this cup of coffee. i like my odds better than his.