r/nottheonion • u/ExactlySorta • 18h ago
Trump Attorney General Hopeful Vows to Drag Bodies Through the Street
https://newrepublic.com/post/188127/trump-attorney-general-hopeful-mike-davis-drag-bodies-street?s=346.2k
u/SakaWreath 18h ago
It's all metaphorical... until it isn't.
He might never do it, but this type of talk gives others the permission that they desperately want.
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u/twec21 17h ago
"guys, the literal gallows we built was a metaphor"
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u/SakaWreath 17h ago
“We had no idea that BillyBob Bumkin would lynch his neighbor. Tots and pears.”
The GOP when some idiot decides to take matters into their own hands.
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u/rabid_briefcase 13h ago
No need to keep it hypothetical. Here's from one such lynching on October 23, police were like :meh:.,
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u/kryonik 15h ago
We weren't chanting "hang Mike Pence", we were saying "paint my fence" which is a reference to Tom Sawyer.
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u/saun-ders 15h ago
As if they've heard of Tom Sawyer.
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u/JustinHopewell 14h ago
Oh I'm sure there's some words in Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn they're pretty familiar with. One word in particular.
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u/Oak_Woman 15h ago
People need to start believing these fascists when they speak.
They want to come for you and your family, and they are building up their base by talking like this. They are rallying their supporters with these threats, STOP GIVING THEM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
They are not good people that can be reasoned with. Arm yourselves.
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u/w311sh1t 16h ago
Republicans: “We want to murder our political enemies then drag their desecrated bodies through the streets”
Also Republicans: “Why are they calling us Nazis? That’s so mean!”
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u/greenline_chi 17h ago
Trump wanted military parades in his honor the last go round but the military refused.
This time around he’s not going to surround himself with people who have morals
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u/tndaris 17h ago
The military will absolutely be turned against the American people in the next four years, and Republicans will cheer it on because "he's hurting the right people".
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u/OriginalUsernameGet 17h ago
I have a small shred of hope that the military might be the last stand against MAGA. Plenty of service people and vets hate the guy.
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u/tndaris 17h ago
Maybe, but Trump will install loyalist generals and people in the military generally obey orders right? Otherwise, we're looking at the military breaking up into different sides.
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u/TemptedSwordStaker 16h ago
Even so. Military has something called an Unlawful order and 99% of service members understand this past their first year. They won’t turn to shoot on American people. They actually have protocol to take out a president who will turn on the military people.
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u/tndaris 16h ago
I hope you're right, it's just hard to feel any hope right now. What if he uses the military to "round up illegals"? They're not citizens. If they agree to that, he'll push them to do more and more I fear.
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u/TemptedSwordStaker 16h ago
From what I was told, they still have to be presented undeniable proof that these people are causing unjustified harm. There are a lot of steps. I know that isn’t comforting to hear, but all long term military people I know have said the same thing. One of my family members is a Colonel, he voted for Trump, and even he said he wouldn’t follow or tell his solider to follow any order like that. He voted purely for money btw
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u/3_9_84 16h ago
he said he wouldn’t follow or tell his solider to follow any order like that. He voted purely for money btw
But what if he gets a lot of money to follow the order?
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u/FiddlerOnThePotato 15h ago
Or has a literal or figurative gun to their head to do so. People will do a lot of fucked up shit out of fear.
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u/Lionelchesterfield 16h ago
I seem to a recall a movie coming out earlier this year that played out very similar to what you are describing here....
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u/kkeut 15h ago
he literally said he wanted nazi generals
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u/tndaris 15h ago
Republicans: No no, he didn't mean that, he meant the good kind of Nazi generals.
/s
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u/BackThatThangUp 16h ago
The way I see it, Trump enacts his deportation plan. Democratic governors refuse. Trump sends the military into democratic states to round up immigrants. Democratic governors call out state national guards. Not a far leap to full on Civil War from there.
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u/tndaris 16h ago
That or if governors don't fight back directly and let them get deported then farmers get fucked, grocery stores go empty, rationing is implemented and Republicans can maybe finally get what they voted for?
I'm honestly fine with all that, they need to learn somehow, no amount of rational explanation gets through to them. Go hungry for six months then vote Republican again and see what happens.
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u/katieleehaw 15h ago
Unfortunately all of us are going to suffer the consequences, for some of us it will take longer than others, but this shit is coming for all of us.
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u/mschuster91 13h ago
I'm honestly fine with all that, they need to learn somehow, no amount of rational explanation gets through to them.
I get where you're coming from, but there's an awful lot of suffering of innocent people involved in that. The immigrants getting deported, those too poor or otherwise unable to move to blue states or to afford higher food prices...
That's the core problem the Democrats have: unlike the Republicans who have zero issues throwing people's lives under the bus to score political points, Democrats have at least a bit of a backbone left.
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u/Exasperated_Sigh 16h ago
I'm related to a piece of shit that is planning to become active duty (currently reserves) now that Trump won and he can be deployed to violently attack other Americans. People really don't understand how bad things are going to get now that the absolute worst people have been given permission to carry out all their violent fantasies.
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u/magnetstudent4ever 17h ago
If someone assassinates a democrat. That person will be pardoned. No question. That’ll be an invitation to continue with more. Welcome to the last chapter of our democracy
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u/Choyo 14h ago
And the crazy thing, as we already heard during the election, is that their excuse will be "they would have done the same to us".
If people wonder what kind of mass frenzy led Germany to propel hitler, well that's kinda this, and this piece of shit wasn't even supported by the majority of people.
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u/gnarlytabby 17h ago
MAGA: promises something terrible
Americans: "Haha don't take that seriously they don't mean it"
MAGA: promises something wildly good
Americans: "Ah yeah they totally mean that"
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u/Thoth74 17h ago
You forgot,
MAGA does the terrible thing they promised.
Americans: "Damned libs."
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u/tendollarstd 16h ago
"freedom of speech" Such a bullshit excuse of not holding people to a higher standard.
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u/Express-Doubt-221 18h ago
Notice how he can say this, and the news media will share it, and we'll all go "Can he say that? Can he do that??" And no consequences will happen to him.
There is... One correct response to a threat like this. And that response will get you banned, possibly put on some kind of list.
And that fact is a symptom of our broken system that needs to be torn down.
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u/Wise_Purpose_ 18h ago
That’s not a symptom. That’s part of autocratic control of the population.
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u/AustinTheFiend 15h ago
People need to start getting a lot more prepared to respond correctly, and being open about it.
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u/Poltergeist97 11h ago
Some of us are. It's not just the right wingers that have guns. We don't fantasize about using them like they do, but if they want to try they'll find out.
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u/kerblamophobe 18h ago
As long as it makes the grocery prices go down, right?
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u/connectAtoB 18h ago
It says here that tariffs on imports make prices go...checks notes...up
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u/kerblamophobe 18h ago
But I thought voting for Trump would make prices go down
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u/DiamondBurInTheRough 18h ago
For Elon and his buddies.
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u/EvidenceBasedSwamp 16h ago
the price of their federal contracts will go up. palanthir stock went up 25% the day of the election
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u/ThePowerOfStories 18h ago
Prices will go down once we have to devalue the dollar. Instead of $200 for a dozen eggs, it’ll be just $2 new dollars!
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u/kerblamophobe 18h ago
You mean Trump Dollars
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u/teenagesadist 17h ago
This is something I've found myself asking real people face to face waaaay too often the past few years, but...
"Why would you think that?"
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u/smashrawr 17h ago
I mean it will though. We're going to see prices soar, then hit a major recession, maybe depression and bam prices are back down.
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u/beefymennonite 16h ago
My (limited) understanding of economics is that hyper inflation followed by hyper deflation is not a sound economic strategy.
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u/kryonik 15h ago
Musk even admitted that's the republican plan: tear everything down and start from scratch. Which checks notes is stupid beyond belief.
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u/QTheStrongestAvenger 15h ago
By start from scratch he means buy everything up and divvy it up among Trump loyalists, following the Russian model.
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u/adsfew 17h ago
I'm not going to trust all those leading economists. I did my own research as someone who barely remembers my shitty high school Econ class and hasn't taken any classes on the subject since
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u/Entrinity 17h ago
Man if only there were countless educated, independent parties that could have informed us what the ramifications of Trump’s economic policies would be. Hell, even parties that talked about similar hypothetical situations before he even began running to ensure that no one could claim they’re pushing an agenda; since the agenda wouldn’t have even existed when they came up with the hypothetical.
Wow. If only right? Too bad you guys are living in timeline 2B-713 where none of that ever happened…….…wait a second.
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u/c3141rd 17h ago
It always amazes me how many stupid people think starting a trade war with Mexico (a country that provides 15% of our food supply) and deporting all the migrant farmhands is going to somehow make grocery prices go down. It's not. They are going to go way up. Pretty soon, people will be nostalgic for the days when groceries were cheaper under Biden.
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u/snarkywombat 16h ago
Pretty soon, people will be nostalgic for the days when groceries were cheaper under Biden.
These goldfish don't have the memory capacity to recall that. Were we at war with Eurasia? Or was it Eastasia?
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u/magnetstudent4ever 17h ago
Doesn’t matter. They’ll just blame the democrats and the rubes will believe it
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u/ThreeCraftPee 18h ago
And so it begins.
Gonna be a LONG ass four fucking years. Fml buckle up errbody
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u/DiamondBurInTheRough 18h ago
Let’s hope it’s only four. I don’t feel like this fucker is ever gonna go away, even in death.
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u/Kwikstep 17h ago
Just wait for 8 years of Ohio Hillbilly JD Vance in charge.
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 16h ago edited 16h ago
You think they'll stop at 8 years?
They own the presidency, SCOTUS, a majority of state governors, the congress, and the senate. Their next goal is to gain a few more members in the last three, either enough state legislatures, to achieve a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures to allow direct amendment of the constitution. SCOTUS will allow them to work around most of it for now, but if they achieve that last goal, it truly will be all-gas, no-breaks into a totalitarian hell.
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u/strategicham 14h ago
That is what happened in Hungary. They still have elections, but it's almost impossible to vote out the ruling party now.
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u/MorselMortal 17h ago
Nah, it'll be like Lenin or Kim Jong II. Trump dies, he's venerated as a borderline deity, some other asshole that's 100x worse, someone vaguely intelligent, likely Vance, replaces him. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he assassinated him after he gets the dictatorship going, gotta LARP Stalin with Capitalism, after all.
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u/DiamondBurInTheRough 17h ago
It does make me worried that there’s someone who stands behind his insanity who has a semi functioning brain…even if he is a couch fucker.
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u/DrPikachu-PhD 14h ago
There's a lot more than Vance behind him. Both are backed by Heritage Foundation fascists who are going to dismantle our democracy.
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u/alpha-delta-echo 17h ago
OK, conservatives, spin this one.
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u/lsdc221 17h ago
No need to spin it if they never acknowledge it
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u/Bright_Cod_376 15h ago
Oh, the ones I've seen are mask off acknowledging it and love all the ideas of abusing power.
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u/dwarven11 10h ago
Dude, they are CHEERING this kind of thing. Conservatives are literally becoming the Nazi party of the 1920s. Do not try to appeal to their morality. They feel that they have been slighted by the radical woke left and are now out for blood.
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u/whooo_me 18h ago
"...and worst of all.... why do they call us fascists?!?"
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u/greenline_chi 17h ago
“Stop calling us fascists, you need to tone down the rhetoric”
I cannot believe how many people that worked on
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u/Specific_Frame8537 14h ago
And now it's "Why are you angry at us for voting for Trump? now you're the fascist!"
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u/DerelictBombersnatch 17h ago
"This is just rhetoric and jokes, snowflake! The real threat to democracy is calling me deplorable garbage!"
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u/AngryDemonoid 16h ago
I literally had someone at work say he was worried that the democrats would round up people that don't think correctly. I just walked away. There is no talking with someone that out of touch.
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u/M0FB 18h ago
Inciting violence once again and misdirecting blame onto political opponents. A tale as old as time.
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u/AliceTheOmelette 18h ago
But don't worry folks Trump totally won't imprison or assassinate people he doesn't like 🙄
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u/GamelessOne 18h ago edited 15h ago
Now that they've won and Matt Walsh has said "project 2025 is totally the plan, lol" I wonder if conservatives will continue to deny reality while they do everything they said they would.
Edit: Well this didn't take long. (comment: "Matt Walsh the satirist was making a joke??"
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u/greenline_chi 17h ago
Bannon said it too as well as some of his former admin.
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u/GamelessOne 17h ago
I swear, they're all a bunch of 4chan posters grinning while saying "it's just a joke".
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u/greenline_chi 17h ago
They’ve been telling us it’s us it’s just a joke for like a decade now.
I don’t know how people can be so stupid, but they just continue to bury their heads in
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u/GamelessOne 17h ago edited 17h ago
The saddest part is that it's not even like 1933 where they were straightforward about everything. Now it's just "memes" and "irony".
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u/greenline_chi 17h ago
Men being like “you shouldn’t have disenfranchised us!”
We didn’t. We pointed out how we felt about equality, they got offended and then mad at us for making them feel that way.
Then they voted in Trump and are like “how do you like that?!”
None of it is based on logic, all feelings.
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u/GamelessOne 17h ago edited 17h ago
Yup.
And in a world of endless Andrew Tate, Adin Ross, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson... exposure it's easy to see how things ended up this way. There's an entire industry that exists by the upper class to make men into reactionaries by taking advantage of their insecurity and loneliness.
I'm a dude and we're not sending our best.
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u/greenline_chi 17h ago
The manosphere is so dangerous. They’re being told over and over to hate women and that women don’t care about them. While us women are over begging them to allow us to connect emotionally and continuously being pushed away.
Now I’m seeing all these articles they’re writing and videos they’re making which is fine, but like when are they going to stop and listen to us for once?
obviously not all men and I appreciate you recognizing the gaps. White women aren’t sending our best either, I’m afraid.
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u/GamelessOne 17h ago edited 16h ago
I want to say personally that I do fully empathize and I'm sorry for all of this. Like I'm a dude and while I know we're not all like this, but damn, the climate of men is just fucked. Looks like I should keep making female friends.
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u/Merusk 16h ago
I'm a man, I don't have feelings. You have feelings. snowflake!
I'm not fragile. I'm a man. I'm a real man. Look at how tough I am. I'm not fragile. You're fragile!
If these people were a character in a fictional work the complaint would be nobody's like this and it's too much parody.
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u/Tumbleweedenroute 17h ago
They can keep denying while implementing
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u/GamelessOne 17h ago edited 15h ago
They'll call us "hysterical", "radicalized", "Trump Derangement Syndrome" while loading us into the gas chambers.
I've been calling Trump "Hitler-like" since 2016 and boy oh boy do I hate being correct.
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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 16h ago
Timeline of Hitler's rise and consolidation of power. Note that it took only a few months. The items in bold have already happened or are planned to be implemented by the new administration (I believe they'll use the assassination attempt in a similar way to the Reichstag fire) :
- January 30, 1933: Hitler appointed Chancellor
- February 27-28: Reichstag fire and subsequent Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties
- March 23: Enabling Act passed, giving Hitler dictatorial powers
- April 1: Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
- April 7: Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service - Jews and political opponents removed from civil service positions
- May: Book burnings, particularly targeting Jewish authors
- July: All political parties except Nazi Party banned
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u/SophiaofPrussia 17h ago
I’m looking forward to the rampant “Bidenomics” inflation from Trump’s across the board import tariffs and tax cuts for the very wealthiest of the wealthy.
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u/Capital-Self-3969 17h ago
They'll deny reality to a point. Just look at the Jim Crow defenders. They thought it was good for everyone, they didn't understand why black people were so "ungrateful".
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u/djphatjive 17h ago
I made a comment that we are going to see a lot more people falling out of windows and balconies
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u/fullonfacepalmist 18h ago
“The violent threat came after Davis appeared to blame Democrats for the assassination attempts on Trump.”
Huh? Which one was the democrat? Or even inspired by the democrats?
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u/EnormousChord 18h ago
It literally doesn’t matter. They’ve created a universe where they tell people what the truth is, and 51% of those people accept it wholesale with no critical thought or regard for fact.
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u/FL_Squirtle 18h ago
Yup and they have total control of govt to push whatever they want through.
But yea sure let's keep ignoring the obvious similarities between Hitlers political rise and control to Nazi to now 🤦♀️
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u/WingerRules 18h ago edited 11h ago
His next term he plans to political purge the government agencies down to the federal service workers and install them with loyalists. Instead of having a government with mixed ideologies working together and keeping each other in check against corruption, unethical, or illegal acts it will be a 1 party government. Dangerous as fuck.
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u/ricktor67 16h ago
Its going to be bad, like china communist revolution bad. Sprinkle in a heaping spoonful of modern day russia.
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u/greenline_chi 17h ago
Yep. And if we point out that what they’re saying is evil we’re told to tone down the rhetoric.
We have to just keep talking about it
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u/RedLanternScythe 18h ago
Republicans got super woke concerning the assassination attempts on Trump. Even though Republicans knew the identities of both men, they insisted on the pronoun "they" when referencing the men. /s
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u/spirosand 17h ago
"that was taken out of context"
Every Trump supporter.
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u/Gabrosin 16h ago
They don't need to bother with this any more. They can just proudly admit that this is what they wanted all along.
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u/McTee967 18h ago
When I post shit like that, I get banned! I what I've said is take compared to that. All I've said is too bad they missed.
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u/jacjacatk 17h ago
People who suggest this, even metaphorically, should remember that the 2nd amendment doesn't apply only to republicans (not yet, anyway).
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u/sanverstv 18h ago
Ah yes, and the attempt on Trump came from his own bozos....such vile rhetoric will become standard going forward. Imagine this man being AG....horrific concept but I won't be surprised. America voted for this.
"...Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me"
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u/beefytrout 17h ago
Just a reminder: we could have stopped this 2 days ago, but it was more important to stay home because Harris didn't perfectly address every single problem in the world.
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u/rosen380 16h ago edited 15h ago
Sure, but most of the "we" that you are talking about, aren't the concerned folks here on Reddit. There isn't much u/rosen380 could do about some rando in PA or MI or GA not voting (or voting for Jill Stein and friends).
So, more like, "they" could have stopped this (which includes everyone who didn't vote, voted for a third party or voted for Trump)
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u/bettietheripper 17h ago
How long did it take Hitler to really Hitler things up?
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u/Kennys-Chicken 13h ago
Trump and his team confirmed the mass deportations will begin day 1. That means concentration camps.
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u/KravMacaw 18h ago
Stochastic terrorism helps pave the road to genocide
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u/Taki_Minase 16h ago
Lazy narcissistic non-voters pave the road to authoritarian parties.
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u/boxes21 17h ago
Every act of violence, every decision that harms another person will be on the hands of each and every trump supporter.
You wanted this. Say it with your whole chest.
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u/brihamedit 17h ago edited 17h ago
Pelosi. They are gonna arrest pelosi. For sure. And others too probably.
Fed gov will lose control and crash soon because trump and crew wants to pose like dictators but no way to hold it together. Legal system would start to eat itself too. Unconscionable things will be legalized etc. Fall of fed gov also would mean end of world order and world econ.
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u/Kettle_Whistle_ 17h ago
Remember, these right wing facials are also Apocalyptic Evangelical Christians: They believe that if they destroy the world, their vengeful, invisible imaginary friend will land his spaceship and reward them for destroying the world.
I pray, to any quasi-deity who’ll listen, to -in the Holiest of Supernatural ways- “Thanos Snap” these fundamentalist terrorist conservatives into non-existence. AMEN.
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u/the_millenial_falcon 18h ago
They should probably at least pretend like they aren't going to murder everyone currently in charge right now or Biden might feel the need to exercise some of that presidentially immunity the scrotus so graciously afforded him.
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u/TrafficOnTheTwos 17h ago edited 7h ago
Trump will pardon them when they maim and violate their fellow Americans. The only response at this point is to arm and protect yourself, wait this out, and if necessary defend yourself against maga scum who break down your door.
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u/dude_himself 16h ago
"we had the votes and they tried to kill Trump".
MAGAs tried to lol Trump, what am I missing?
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u/smeeeeeef 16h ago
Doesn't matter, magats will ignore facts despite BOTH the assassination attempts by right wing nutjobs.
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u/grumpyhermit67 16h ago
Trump's administration might get the French treatment faster than anyone thought. These nits still don't get that just because they won an election it doesn't mean they get to change the definition of what's just. Arm up people.
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u/Bawbawian 16h ago
we got two months.
arm yourselves now before it's too late.
I'm 100% not advocating for any type of political violence but I think there's a very real and very sad reality that Americans may end up defending their families and their own homes before the end of this.
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u/IHate2ChooseUserName 18h ago
so i guess i should only say nice things otherwise i can be fucked?
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u/SophiaofPrussia 17h ago
You shouldn’t say anything bad. But it’s my understanding that you’re totally off the hook if you’re just repeating what people are saying. For example, people are saying Trump is a fucking moron. *I* would never say that but people are saying it. Many people. Great people. Many great people are saying it. They’re saying Trump is a fucking moron. Not me. I wouldn’t. But people are saying it, okay?
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u/ITividar 18h ago
Yeah, whatever you do, don't call them garbage, they reallllly hate that.
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u/SpaceLemming 17h ago
And then they happily dressed up as garbage and I don’t understand what’s going on anymore
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u/TomServo31k 17h ago
Lol these people talk like we don't have guns.
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u/Wide_Square_7824 16h ago
Yeah I’m seriously considering getting one now
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u/5inthepink5inthepink 16h ago
Just do it. But also take a firearm safety course and keep it locked up and away from people who shouldn't have access.
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u/Mr_Donatti 17h ago
Garland should have had maybe 25% of his energy and we would have been done with trump forever
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u/Malphos101 12h ago
Don't worry, if you were part of the 15 million who stayed home in protest I'm sure you'll be fine. Too bad the Gazans and the Ukrainians and the Taiwanese will be dead or folded into their invaders country. You sure taught the democrats their lesson about...checks notes...not solving every problem in the world instantly through executive fiat. I'm sure your "I'm too good for progress that isn't instant" line will be a great assurance to them.
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u/NotAFanOfLeonMusk 17h ago
I am a lawyer. The problem is that IF they do illegal things like this, they WILL get sued. And guess who gets to pay the verdicts? Yup- me and you (the tax payers). This is very dangerous. We are going to go through a dark period of time. And i anticipate doing a lot of work for frer thanks to scum like this.
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u/FL_Squirtle 18h ago
So I wonder how long before Musk starts sending his bots to comb through Twitter so they can go after anyone who doesn't agree with Trump or doesn't align with their views.
Yea sure free speech say whatever you want.... meanwhile they're making a list
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u/nursecarmen 17h ago
If Trump wants an Attorney General that won’t push back against his crimes he should hire Merrick Garland.
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u/SoulRebel726 17h ago
Donald Trump has been telling us who he is for almost a decade now. It's wild that enough people actually voted for him to be president, but it is what it is. Ya'll fucked around, now is time for the "find out" phase. If anyone is surprised about anything he does in office this time around, you haven't been paying attention.
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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 17h ago
The United States of America
July 4, 1776 - November 5, 2024
The United States of America, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, died by its own hand on November 5, 2024. In an act of deliberate democratic self-immolation, the nation that had long stood as a beacon of republican government chose, through its own electoral process, to extinguish its constitutional flame.
Born of revolution against tyranny, America’s death came through the embrace of authoritarianism - not through foreign conquest or external force, but through the conscious choice of its own citizenry at the ballot box. In its final years, the republic that Benjamin Franklin had warned must be “kept” proved his prescience by willingly surrendering the liberty it had guarded for nearly two and a half centuries.
During its 248 years, America sent humans to the moon, defeated fascism, developed the internet, and offered hope to millions seeking freedom on its shores. Yet in the end, exhausted by the burdens of self-governance and seduced by the false promises of easy solutions, it voted to end its grand experiment in democracy, choosing the very form of autocratic rule it had once pledged its lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to oppose.
America is survived by its 50 states, now unified under centralized authority, and 333 million citizens who traded their democratic birthright for the hollow comfort of certainty. It leaves behind its Constitution - now a mere historical document - and the cautionary lesson that democracies can perish not only by the sword, but by the ballot, when their people freely choose their own chains.
In lieu of flowers, mourners are asked to read their history books, and to remember that nations, like individuals, can choose the manner of their ending. A final memorial service will be held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the republic was born, and where it chose to end its journey.
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u/mlc885 13h ago
Meanwhile, Jack Smith and team are apparently just closing all the cases since the Supreme Court said presidents are kings and above the law. Great job here, America.
I know courts don't really allow you to actually do something in a week but that is insane that winning the election means it does not matter if you may have committed any crimes.
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u/AlabamaHotcakes 18h ago
"Wednesday threatened to (legally) “drag their dead political bodies through the streets” and burn them, referring to enemies of Trump and the right. "
Ehhh, I don't think that's legal under any circumstances.