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dabinatlast Saturday at 1:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Trump is a man who will push boundaries further and further until someone physically stops him from doing so. But you don’t need to justify anything if you have full control over people who would normally investigate, prosecute or restrict such things.

Then you put your thumb on the scale (i.e. Texas) so you don’t cede power to the other party in the midterms and then you never need to worry about consequences for your entire term.

It’s a bit more of a problem in 2028 but Trump is term-limited so that’s someone else’s problem.


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dizhnlast Saturday at 1:12 PM

> Trump is term-limited

There's a pretty well established Turkic solution to that. (Change the constitution. Claim the term limit applied to the old republic and it's your first term actually and go about your day)

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cm2187last Saturday at 1:18 PM

Hum hum... Bombing of Libya. Support for ISIS against Al Assad in Syria. Doesn't make what happened today right, but it is pretty myopic to see this as unique to Trump or unprecedented.

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