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Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by laidoffamazon on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:33PM (#40850970)
I think you're overestimating the impact that will have on whatever he would decide to do, given the events of today.
Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by austin-cheney on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:42PM (#40851062)
The only official act that could, in theory, bypass this is a declaration of Martial Law that moves out the next inauguration. This has not been tested and likely wouldn’t work.

Just because a crazy mob attacked congress at the behest of Trump does not mean official institutions would do so even if so ordered.

Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by laidoffamazon on Monday July 01, 2024 @06:20PM (#40851440)
Him and his supporters have said openly that they want to refill the institutions, including the military [0], with politically aligned appointees.

[0] https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-vows-fire-generals-push-...

Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by austin-cheney on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:04PM (#40852593)
Yes, he has said all kinds of nonsense that had no means to ever materialize. For example I don’t see Mexico paying for a border wall.
Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by BadHumans on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:32PM (#40852734)
By reclassifying all these individuals as Schedule F, he actually has the means to do this and it is a key part of Project 2025. During his first term, he enacted Schedule F and it was repealed by the Biden admin. Trump intends on reintroducing it in a second term. So he has the means to make this one re-materialize and this time he'll actually have the staff to replace people with.
Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by laidoffamazon on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:29PM (#40852716)
“Attempted murder. Now honestly what is that? Can you win a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?”

It's fundamentally dishonest - and also somewhat delusional - to discount threats even if they didn't come to pass one time. People doubted Trump would try to hold onto office, until he did.

Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by austin-cheney on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:50PM (#40852823)
I don’t doubt Trump will try to do the nonsense he says. I do doubt he has the means to persuade educated persons to do such things.
Re:Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for offic... by laidoffamazon on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:17PM (#40852956)
Again, this is less of a concern for him now that he will have sycophants in his orbit now that he's run out of people that will say no to him.

As an aside, I also have doubts that a chimpanzee would be able to successfully disable the safety an AK47. But it would be idiotic to leave that to chance and give one a loaded AK47 anyway.