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Grim Chieftain

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21. Excellent post, LilElf70

Reply to LilElf70 (Original post)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 06:29 PM

Oct 14

I ask the same questions each and every day. It appears the safeguards are gone. I like to be hopeful and optimistic, but the reality of our current situation is beyond horrific. It appears there are no Republicans left who put country above power. We are living in very, very dark times.

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He is destroying our country [View all] LilElf70 Oct 14 OP

Impeachment is the remedy. Congress as a tyrannical regime's co-conspirator... pat_k Oct 14 #1

Exactly right, the founding fathers envisioned a Congress of honorable men William Seger Oct 14 #10

"honorable men" is an oxymoron. The founders demonstrated an... littlemissmartypants Oct 14 #29

Commercials! slightlv Oct 14 #20

I love it! I envison more like this! pat_k Oct 14 #32

Well, Pat... slightlv Oct 15 #37

Oh no. So sorry.... pat_k Oct 15 #39

It's okay... it's now 1:30pm and I'm STILL laughing about it. slightlv Oct 15 #40

When an animal noise came from my computer, my dog used to check things out all around my desk. pat_k Oct 15 #41

Less of Trump is the only issue in 2026. Frasier Balzov Oct 14 #2

It's him and racist Judeo-Christian fundies in the GOP. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Oct 14 #3

Impeachment is no longer enough. Totally Tunsie Oct 14 #4

Better be prepared to NOT stop at one hanging then... Moostache Oct 14 #15

Prosecutions, certainly. More in reply #18 pat_k Oct 14 #19

Absolutely! We MUST include Stephen Miller in whatever design we make for trump. slightlv Oct 14 #22

I liked it when Obama called him "Steve" Miller! LSparkle Oct 14 #28

Prosecutions, certainly. pat_k Oct 14 #18

This, 1000x! slightlv Oct 14 #23

You're more eloquent than I, but I had similar thoughts in my post of 10/7: Totally Tunsie Oct 14 #31

No one to enforce it lame54 Oct 14 #5

They are following the Project 2025 guidebook. rubbersole Oct 14 #14

My Great-Grandfather is spinning in his grave slightlv Oct 14 #25

Most Rethuglican party members are now fully trumbotomized struggle4progress Oct 14 #6

The time to put in all those guardrails was in 2021. BlueTsunami2018 Oct 14 #7

Why can't he be stopped legally? tanyev Oct 14 #8

OR it would take more of the elected public realizing and understanding slightlv Oct 14 #26

Why can't he be stopped legally? MLWR Oct 14 #9

No one is coming to save us. Only we can save us. OMGWTF Oct 14 #11

How does that work? Cirsium Oct 14 #16

I LOVE it that so many countries are standing in solidarity with us slightlv Oct 14 #27

I don't mean to nitpick PatSeg Oct 14 #12

Watching all - points to EVERYTHING - from Panama. Tom Dyer Oct 14 #13

Like lame54 said, no one is willing to enforce MerryBlooms Oct 14 #17

Excellent post, LilElf70 Grim Chieftain Oct 14 #21

No shit, Sherlock MadMike47 Oct 14 #24

You're right, he is literally destroying our country. sop Oct 14 #30

Republicans have been destroying the country SocialDemocrat61 Oct 14 #33

Nicely put LilElf70 Oct 14 #34

When the people are denied legal and non-violent means of effecting change, Orrex Oct 14 #35

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy sop Oct 15 #36

He totally copied that from me. Orrex Oct 15 #38