> Your ability to be convinced by arguments, or refusal thereof, is not an objective measure of the likelihood of future events.
Okay but that just makes both of us crazy speculators.
> If anyone had described to you the timeline of this administration from 2024 to now
I would have said it was a plausible but terrible misuse of the executive branch's authority that I hoped not to see. After the first administration, I definitely would not call it ridiculous. Basically everything he has done so far is exercising power we've been delegating to the executive branch.
> declare martial law
That's easier said than done. And even using actual law, in the form of the insurrection act, would not give him the power to undermine elections. This country had elections during the civil war, and we are not quite there yet.
> But if you think everyone is just engaging in "online rhetoric" then I think you're naive.
I am trying to be charitable. A lot of the rhetoric is over-the-top spinning everything for maximum doom. What is really happening is bad enough without trashing our credibility through easily disprovable statements.
And sure, maybe I'm just naive. We should chat about it again in late January 2029.
Okay but that just makes both of us crazy speculators.
> If anyone had described to you the timeline of this administration from 2024 to now
I would have said it was a plausible but terrible misuse of the executive branch's authority that I hoped not to see. After the first administration, I definitely would not call it ridiculous. Basically everything he has done so far is exercising power we've been delegating to the executive branch.
> declare martial law
That's easier said than done. And even using actual law, in the form of the insurrection act, would not give him the power to undermine elections. This country had elections during the civil war, and we are not quite there yet.
> But if you think everyone is just engaging in "online rhetoric" then I think you're naive.
I am trying to be charitable. A lot of the rhetoric is over-the-top spinning everything for maximum doom. What is really happening is bad enough without trashing our credibility through easily disprovable statements.
And sure, maybe I'm just naive. We should chat about it again in late January 2029.