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'We would call it a coup': watchdogs and Dems attack Elon Musk Treasury Department takeover
(www.usatoday.com)
Ah, you would, under some circumstances, huh? Amazing.
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We really don't have a mechanism for this.
Remove Trump? Vance takes over, same stuff happens.
Remove Trump and Vance? Mike Johnson takes over, same stuff happens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Chuck Grassley Republican
4 Secretary of State Marco Rubio Republican
5 Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Republican
6 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Republican
– Attorney General James McHenry Unknown
7 Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum Republican
– Secretary of Agriculture Gary Washington Unknown
–Secretary of Commerce Jeremy Pelter Unknown
–Secretary of Labor Vince Micone Unknown
–Secretary of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink Unknown
–Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Matt Ammon Unknown
8 Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Republican
9 Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Republican
– Secretary of Education Denise L. Carter Unknown
– Secretary of Veterans Affairs Todd B. Hunter Unknown
10 Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem Republican
Hang the first three and those who follow may take note.
No, I want to go back to French times and use the guillotine. Put their head on a pike on the White House lawn. A chilling reminder that heads will roll.
I realized this is just a wacky fantasy in a state that only attacks the poor and marginalized...
But you really gonna stop before Rubio?
Oh they attacked it? But did they SLAM it? I think slamming is the appropriate response here. That'll get em! \s
This is the only time in history that I will welcome, with open arms, the FBI, CIA, NSA, or even the military taking over the government. This has to stop, if they aren't, the USA will be no more. Line up the entire administration in the firing range.
Nuremberg trials be damned, do what the constitution demands: Complete eradication of domestic terrorists.
That is unless this is a CIA plot... /s