Not much civilians can do about it…
There are only 3 groups of people who can do anything:
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Congress could impeach, again. But they won’t with Mike Johnson in charge. Even if they did, there wouldn’t be the 67 votes in the Senate to convict.
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J.D. Vance could start the 25th Amendment process, but he’s out of the country sucking up to Victor Orbán:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv16lq2rp1o
- The military could refuse all illegal orders and stage a coup.
Average citizens can vote out all the Republicans… in 7 months…
I wish our country was able to do what the French do, but I would have to drive the length of three entire Frances before I made it to DC to protest. I don’t have the freedom or the finances to do that.
In theory, if we all stopped working and spending, it would stop within days. The system is set up to make that extremely difficult, risky and painful, but in theory we could get change through overwhelming collective action.
Stop within days, but Trump is threatening action tonight, which is why I say there’s nothing civilians can do about it.
I have a different suggestion
Lemmy always wants a revolution, but here’s the problem, you need someone to lead and organize it and there is absolutely nobody in that position.
Particularly if Trump goes ahead with his action of destroying Iran tonight. There is no organized civilian resistance to that and even if you started organizing today, it would be months before you could overturn a sitting President, if at all.
non-statesians on lemmy want statesians to go die at the problem because that is one more method that means they don’t have to get off their asses
Yup, or alternatively, bad actors in Russia or China itching for a new US Civil War.
As a musician, here’s my position. The last civil war had some pretty awesome music and I have some bands I would like to nominate. Hell, most of them aren’t even me.
Until I make up my mind,
AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS
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Y’know who are really complicit? Belgians! Yeah. That’s right!
Because I don’t live there either and also don’t know how any of their politics works.
Trump wanted to sneeze at the opinion of the people. I think Americans can’t do anything. They tried to protest, but it didn’t help
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