Generally, “I did illegal thing because my lawyer advised me to do illegal thing (also I have power to compel my legal team to say whatever I want)” is not a GREAT defense.

Actually lowering prices would require regulation, and he’s built his entire corporate campaign on “we’re getting rid of every regulation”. Much easier to make them look lower in comparison.

Ah yes, the imprecatory Psalms.

Yeah, a hundred million people displacing to…wherever is going to put a lot of refugee crises to shame. Even a tenth of that would constitute a huge problem. I feel that this is Miller trying to pretext death camps and mass murder.

Engineering too. A huge chunk of my company’s design engineering staff are H-1B because you can get away with paying a lot less.

Nah, that’s a little too savvy for Trump directly. We can infer, from stories given to us, that he literally just sold secrets over the dinner table at Mar-A-Lago in his first term.

This is my thought. The admin (not Trump because I don’t think he can plan more than five minutes ahead right now) is either going to launch a false-flag, or deploy a nuke. Maybe both, so we can say “look, we SAID Iran had nukes!”

The FBI director is a podcaster, the HHS secretary is…whatever RFK Jr did before (the word “failson” comes to mind).

Oh that’s easy. Turns out everyone on the board is now a landlord for like 100 properties each, they’re all simply ADMINISTERED through the corporation, for which each board member pays a modest fee.

We have nukes. Trump is desperate for ANYTHING to make his mark. Being the first president since Truman to deploy one would be something I could see him doing.

No no, Lindsey Graham was pretty clear that this is a war for oil. You can extract oil from a fallout zone, you just need a large amount of workers who you don’t care about. Wonder where they might find those.

Also no way to enforce. DOJ won’t bother and they know it.

Nah, if we’re comparing them to feudal failsons, these are the sorts of kids that nobles would send off to become monks. They wouldn’t be any good at ruling effectively or really doing much, but they’d be in a monastery and out of the way.

The issue is the precedent. It means my state can do it. Nevada can do it. Texas can do it.

Never mind that the CIA’s role doesn’t only include surveillance. What’s to stop another governor or lawmaker from deciding the Florida Intelligence Services need assassination protocols, to start killing off anti-Florida assets? What’s to stop them deciding they need sabotage capabilities to destroy infrastructure that is detrimental to the Florida way of life?

Actually this is effectively how it works.

Same as “President has speech for if astronauts die on Moon”. Pretty easy to prep ahead and simply fill in the blanks, so to speak.

Remember that one of the biggest internal dangers to average people in Nazi Germany was literally children. The Hitler Youth and the girl’s group that I can’t remember the name of literally turned kids into snitches against each other, against neighbors, against parents, everyone. This was all dressed in the clothes of “being a good citizen”.

No no, you can’t call it that because Kavanaugh hates that they’re associated with him.

So do it as often as possible and remind people of it.

Yeah, there’s no “he’s too valuable to die” in this. Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

I feel like even if he does get impeached, he might simply…ignore it. Not for long, not with literally everyone else salivating at the thought of being king instead of him, but he could theoretically ignore it, the enforcement mechanisms to remove him forcibly from power (like the military or the DOJ) are pretty clearly compromised.