If Trump wins, how hard would it be for him to have the government seize the assets of Bezos, Musk, and Thiel? Put them all under house arrest?
Close to impossible. There's this pesky "due process" deal, to mention the whole Fourth Amendment.
@mcfate @dauphin87
I don't think he's going to care about that and neither will his henchmen
Well, the entire court system is going to care about it. You can't just void amendments to the Constitution because they're getting in the way of your despotism.
I wouldn't assume that any of the nonpolitical employees of the DoJ would go along with it, either.
It's wild the lengths people will go to in order to catastrophize stuff to terrorize themselves with.
This is kind of like asking "How hard would it be to repeal the Law of Gravity?"
@mcfate @dauphin87
Sure you can if their all in on it
If EVERY Federal Judge is "in on it"? If the "originalists" on the Supreme Court rule that Amendments to the Constitution are just bullshit?
You know that people like Bezos, Thiel, and Musk have lawyers, right? Is Dickless ALSO going to somehow turn off their right to sue? Will he somehow make injunctions illegal?
This is preposterous. Why not go wild, and try telling me that if he's elected, he'll get the Grand Marshall of the Supreme Court to crown him King?
This is absolutely Louise Mensch-level stuff, and that is NOT a good place for you to be attempting to reason from.
@mcfate @dauphin87
You're acting as if the guardrails will still be in place. I just don't think that will be the case. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst
You're acting as if half the country isn't going to have voted against him and will be happy to just have their country stolen.
You're acting as if the Redumblicans will hold 100% of both Houses of Congress.
You're definitely acting as if the courts will no longer exist, and everyone in the Justice Department will have magically turned into a zombie or a robot.
He didn't do any of this nutty shit when he was IN office. Why not?
As long as we're fantasizing about improbabilities, if Dickless tries the things you seem to believe he will, and if there are no longer any "guardrails", what's to stop every Blue state from seceding, refusing to remit taxes, and starving Dickless' dictatorship for funds?
@mcfate @dauphin87
The military and the national guard
And they all will simply abandon their oaths to defend the Constitution you're imagining he's going to simply tear up without any repercussions and start executing illegal orders from a wannabe despot?
You have a pretty low opinion of our military, who aren't especially fond of him to begin with.
What happened the last time he made noises about using the military against US citizens?
They told him, "That's not going to happen, we're not COPS."
What's different THIS time?
@mcfate @dauphin87
You're acting like his presidency would be normal. Are you not paying attention?
Hey, if you can't conduct yourself like an adult, I can send you someplace where I won't have to deal with childishness.
I have disagreed with McFate a number of times and it was not difficult to live to tell the tale.
You have to understand that he is sincere, and if he disagrees with you, he sincerely disagrees with you.
And he is smart. More than smart, he is intelligent AND smart.
If you try to persuade him with rhetoric you are using the wrong tools because McFate is more of a data driven kind of guy.
McFate is a valuable guy to know and an opportunity to see other viewpoints.
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@Xponent_Rob @mcfate @dauphin87
He blocked me because he loves being confrontational but doesn't love when it's turned around on him