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> 2 years and 9 months remain

You think.

Peaceful transfers of power are always tricky in younger democracies.

My strong suspicion is that the current POTUS will leave the White House in a box. My hope is that this precedes the next election cycle.

Do you think the ThielVance will leave peacefully?

They don’t have the cult of personality to hold on to power in the same way djt does.

Who needs personality when you got your own stormtroopers with guns?

You need to stop the people with guns from killing you and your stormtroopers. That's what the Second Amendment is for.

The people who bay loudest about that second amendment have long signaled that they will kill to keep Trump in power. They've been salivating for an excuse to shoot democrats for decades. They have been openly advocating for the murder of democrats for ages. Democrat politicians were literally murdered in the past few years and they don't give a fuck, because they support it.

Trump is already well beyond the confines of the Constitution. If the 2A crowd gave a fuck about rights other than larping soldiers, they would have already marched on him. He has openly declared that guns should be taken away from people and that having a gun on you at a protest should justify shooting you. The 2A crowd continues to support him fully.

> He has openly declared that guns should be taken away from people and that having a gun on you at a protest should justify shooting you.

OK, I'm calling you on this one. Source please.

Donald Trump's first term included him saying, literally "Take the guns first, due process second"

https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-dona...

Here's about the second claim

https://time.com/7358403/nra-trump-clash-gun-carrying-rights...

"He shouldn't have been carrying a gun" says Trump about someone fully in compliance with US law, who never even drew his weapon. "You can't walk in with guns". It's up to you to look up discussions about Kyle Rittenhouse and what republicans and Trump supporters believed about bringing a gun to a protest not very long ago.

Elected twice by the "(2A rights) SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" crowd. You can bet they will continue to support him.

The standard dictatorial takeover of a democracy is to keep the elections and the presidency, but to add a supreme leader above the president, similar to what Iran or Russia or China is doing. So Trump would no longer be president, he would be supreme leader joining what the other world powers are doing.

> add a supreme leader above the president, similar to what Iran or Russia or China is doing

This is trivially debunked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia

Honest question, which modern democracies (there's been a few different forms) besides the UK are older than the US?

The word younger is implying to me that US would be considered the youngest in a list of current democracies, which I wasn't aware of.

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