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Orrex

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35. When the people are denied legal and non-violent means of effecting change,

Reply to LilElf70 (Original post)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:36 PM

Oct 14

then the people will find other means of effecting change.

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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 Wednesday #37

Oh no. So sorry.... pat_k Wednesday #39

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

When an animal noise came from my computer, my dog used to check things out all around my desk. pat_k Wednesday #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 Wednesday #36

He totally copied that from me. Orrex Wednesday #38