Can we stop calling insurrectionists “rioters”?
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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Can we stop calling a coup "storming"?
Would you like it more if you knew that they're the ones who used the term because it's a fascist dogwhistle?
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He wants to indict Biden, whilst simultaneously creating / wanting freedom to never be charged with anything when you're president. Which has to happen before he's able to become president again.
Which would mean that Biden could simply direct SEAL Team 6 to execute Trump with impunity, solving the problem.
But the ruling won't happen till AFTER T gets re-elected (or cheats his way in), when Biden wouldnt be pres anymore. Delay, delay, delay is the game.
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Isn't there something in the rule book that the president can avert dangers against the U.S. by force...?
Biden should file Amicus brief with SCOTUS presidential immunity case saying if they are so ok with what Trump's lawyers are saying, he has Seal Team 6 standing by awaiting their ruling.
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Rules for thee, not for me!
He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants
A few months later, farmers are surprised there are no cheap workers anymore to help in the fields. Farmers get in (more) financial problems, prices start to rise in the supermarket as supply shrinks. Trump blames Democrats for his actions. Rural voters get more angry.
This sort of played out in Australia where everyone also hates the scary immigrants, except it was when backpackers stopped coming during the height of covid. Once the farms ran out of people to exploit and realised there weren't many Australians willing to go live in a shed in the middle of nowhere and get paid a criminally low wage they all started freaking out. They even started 'importing' labour lol. And of course the response is 'nobody wants to work anymore.'
UK had the same with Brexit. Kick out all the scary foreigners, found out there were a lot less people willing to harvest, wait tables or drive trucks for the wages being offered. Last I heard, there are still no people to do those jobs, just less business.
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Have you seen the amounts of chaos farmers are able to cause?
Examples in France, the Netherlands and recently Germany?
You do not want that shit in the USA, because your farmers are not only equipped with heavy machinery but firearms as well. If they start blockading critical interstate or transit roads just to make a point, I think it is likely to end in deaths.
We've had one situation where a moment of panic resulted in a police officer opening fire on a kid driving a tractor. No one got hurt but because of how our law works, every time a firearm is used by regular law enforcement, a criminal investigation is opened. And the officer was charged with attempted manslaughter.
Would this have happened in the states, I'd have expected a different outcome.
This is already happening, you can find articles about it all over red America.
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He will construct “freedom cities” filled with flying cars
Is that a joke?
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Trump pulls pages out of other people’s handbooks. His MAGA bullshit was Reagan’s. Now in 2024 he’s walking in Hitler’s footsteps. I’m not saying ”Hitler” as a buzz word. I’m saying it, because he’s literally doing it. His whole schtick is Hitler’s and his* base are lapping it up like mindless fools. Open your eyes and reject authoritarian assholes like Trump. It’s all fun and games until the things you believe in are eventually taken from you. I might not agree with everything others do, but I sure as fuck believe in people’s rights to determine what’s right for themselves. Trump and all his cronies believe they know what’s right for others — they don’t. They know what’s right for themselves. If you want to vote for Trump, vote for him. But don’t think that something you hold dear won’t eventually be attacked by him or people like him.
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Yep. January 6th was his Beer Hall Putsch. A failed coup. But Hitler got what Trump should have been getting, i.e. a prison sentence for treason.
Then again, perhaps that prison sentence was one of the things that gave him so much power later on.
There are some significant differences too, though. Hitler was 34 years old, and a war veteran at the time of his first coup. Trump was 74, and he was the first US president without prior military or government experience.
I hope he dies of syphilis.
I just hope he dies period. With extreme prejudice
The only thing I'm sure he will do is ensure that he keeps the power for the rest of his life. USA will have his first dictator!!
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Maybe we will get the Bell Riots after all.
What a shit hole and waste of flesh this man is composed of.
I try really hard to believe that assassination is not a solution
You know, it makes the guy a martyr, and riles up his followers.
But they seem pretty riled up already.
And they and he are really, really wanting to make America a totalitarian state
And if they did, America would break up.
It would be a generally bad result, maybe good for California.
Actually I hear a lot about liberals with guns, I guess the left lacks armed idiots
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Freedom Cities? With Flying Cars?
I feel like he's drinking out of Musk's juice box
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He will be more aggressive than the first term for sure.
Dont forget building an iron dome!
Biden with no message of hope and other than he is not Trump. That is sure one dangerous way to try to save democracy. Trump is the worst option. Biden still has a small amount of time to course correct and try to connect with people other than fear.
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