It appears that the only legal force that can save us are the Republican majorities in Congress.

[OAITW r.2.0]

When will a coalition of House/Senate Republicans announce their departure from their respective caucuses? That's what we are reduced to.

[yourout]

1. Sadly true.

[cachukis]

2. Where we are.

[Bluethroughu]

3. We've got alot of members of the military both active and retired.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. They are not a legal remedy, though. Righteous? Oh yeah.

[Bluethroughu]

7. How do you cure a takeover of the Constitution by a dictator,

The Supreme Court gave a blessing to? Their ruling on immunity and Amd 14sec 3 was contradictory tobthecexpress language in the Constitution, that coupled with the billions here and abroad they've taken money from so much so, they had to change the law so they could not be held accoutable.

This IS LAWLESSNESS, and people are dying, irreparable harm is done over and over.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Good questions. I don't think the framer's understood a future Trump and business over country.

Founding fathers were cognizant of what corporations could do to undermine the Country. That's why they had to appear in front of Congress to determine if their licenses would be renewed.

[BOSSHOG]

5. If only republicans loved their children

[msongs]

6. dems should quit talking at trump and hang everything on repub repub repub, repub tariffs, repub death camps etc

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. ABSOLUTELY. They are responsible.

They are the collaborative Dr. Frankenstein that came up with Trump. Could have stopped him twice in 2017 and 2020,,,,but they didn't. They aided and abetted both of his campaigns. They are complicit, maybe kompromated..

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. Elections have consequences.

The harsh reality.

Many of them know better but are simply paralyzed with fear over losing their jobs or worse. The rest are true believers in this authoritarian horseshit.

These people are not going to save us. They can’t even save themselves.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Adam Kissinger and Liz Cheney put Country first.

Hey Sue (2 term). Collins, my Senator....how about you stop being concerned and announce your Independence? Join Angus.

Margaret Chase Smith might even high five you,

[Bettie]

10. If that's the case

we are SO fucked, because Republicans with spines or patriotism are vanishingly rare.

Pretty much zero. A few of them may talk a bit about not doing what he says, but then, they come to heel once they are told to.

They don't care about anything but their personal bottom line: how much is in their bank accounts.

Frankly, they are all acting as if they will never have to face another election.

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. They might need witness protection.

Think about that.

[kentuck]

11. Only if you believe in "majority rule"...

Like, in a democracy.

[OAITW r.2.0]

14. We, as a nation, seem to be the frog in a cold to boiling pot of water.

By the time we realized we are cooked, we are.

[SSJVegeta]

16. I think there should be a concerted, legitimate effort for liberals to primary republicans and move the party to the

Left.

Perhaps that's the only way we get Republicans to get on board with the rule of law.

[OAITW r.2.0]

17. How about run on a platform of Impeach Trump and hold Musk as his criminal accomplice?

[SSJVegeta]

24. I dont think thats a winner

Only cause that strategy tends to consolidate support within personality cults. And Trump has the most powerful personality cult outside of Bernie so far. If they ran as populist liberals on a Justice Dem-like platform, I could see marginal success.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. That's kind of silly

Shouldn’t we first try to move the Democratic Party to the left?

[SSJVegeta]

23. Cant we do both?

[Fiendish Thingy]

25. Well, since we are having a hard time just maintaining enough Dems to support the Dem agenda

I would say no, we can’t also spend resources to attempt to replace MAGA republicans with sane ones.

[SSJVegeta]

26. Who's resources?

[Fiendish Thingy]

27. The Democratic Party's

Whose resources were you suggesting be used to run liberal Republican candidates to challenge MAGA incumbents in the primaries?

Private citizens? They can’t compete with corporations and billionaires, and also support progressive Dem candidates.

[SSJVegeta]

29. Not advocating that.

Just individuals who can use their own money and -in the unlikely chance of a win, the republican party's.

Private citizens can do a lot more than most people give em credit. We almost got Bernie FWIW

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Your math is off

It wouldn’t take the Republican majorities , it would only take a small number of Republicans, joining with Dems, to create a veto proof majority to revoke Trump’s authority in these “emergency” powers, and if needed, to impeach him.

But, of course, that’s not going to happen.

We may see some defections as the midterms draw closer, especially from reps in swing districts, and especially if there is a severe recession.

But, in any case, there is always the people who, if things get bad enough (such as the collapse of SS and Medicare) will be united in opposition to the corrupt kakistocracy, and will rise up and take to the streets.

Read up on the 3.5% rule :

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

BTW, 3.5% of the American population is about 11 million people.

[OAITW r.2.0]

20. True, true.

I assumed DUer's understood that majorities become minorities in tight balances changes. We may need Presidential-level security for these people..

[Frasier Balzov]

21. They've waited decades for some of these initiatives.

I don't see them trying to stop or slow down their golden boy.

They're probably counting on him to rig the 2026 elections to save them from electoral catastophe.

[GoodRaisin]

22. Correct. If Krasnov administration and SCOTUS lock horns the only legal remedy

is impeachment and removal of Krasnov by Congress.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. I think we'll this uneasy stalemate

where SCOTUS rules but the administration doesn't follow most of the rulings or only partially so. This may continue until they are dumped from office.