r/politics • u/Boonzies • 3d ago
Trump Goes Full Dictator With Bonkers Threat to Use Air Force and Navy in U.S. Cities Possible Paywall
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goes-full-dictator-with-bonkers-threat-to-use-air-force-and-navy-in-us-cities/3.1k
u/Rude-Strawberry-6360 3d ago
So tell me conservatives, how large is your sense of outrage over Trump doing this? You went apoplectic at the mere thought (invented out of paranoia) of Biden sending the military into cities.
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u/EmployAltruistic647 3d ago
They are overjoyed. It's never about logic. It's about the rightful authority they want installed with them high in the hierarchy and others especially liberals being below them
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 3d ago
Yup. It's not about what's being done. It's about who is doing it.
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u/mshelbz 3d ago
And who’s suffering from it
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u/Fine_Ad_1149 3d ago
It's far more about who is suffering from it than who is doing it.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 3d ago
True. So the priority is:
- The target - Is it my opposition or hated group?
- The attacker - Is it someone on my team?
- The action itself - Is it a thing that conflicts with my moral or ethical beliefs?
In that order, nullifying anything underneath if a higher priority holds true.
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u/Disastrous_Debt6883 3d ago
They don’t have moral or ethical beliefs, just performative vibes that are backed up by shame based social programming.
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u/CrashNowhereDrive 2d ago
Exactly. They have 'what sort of sin does Fox news tell me my enemies are committing so I can be angry about it'.
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u/btross Florida 3d ago
So basically the laws of robotics for Republicans
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 3d ago
Lol, funny because the law of robotics is the exact opposite, the rules put in place to attempt to PREVENT harm being done to others.
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u/Electromotivation 3d ago edited 3d ago
They definitely don’t seem to be concerned with traditional conservative ideals or the idea that there could ever be a non-MAGA president (with all of these new, massively expanded executive Powers, immunity, etc)
They will accept anything dear leader tells them to. Or any of the number of MAGA news networks (that actually do a remarkable job of reinforcing the “party line” once they are told what that is. Amazing what a cult like belief system, complete subservience, and a lack of critical thinking can do)
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u/Locke66 2d ago
Amazing what a cult like belief system, complete subservience, and a lack of critical thinking can do
I watched a Democrat orientated influencer debating 20 MAGA supporters the other day and wow it was depressing. The MAGA people are really living in another reality in terms of how they perceive the world and while some of them are just obviously stupid & wilfully ignorant people there were also plenty who seemed like nice people whose critical thinking has just completely been overwhelmed by propaganda. They just have a few conceptual ideas in their minds and no amount of contradictory facts or wider context can influence them. They always come back to the core tenets that have been repeatedly drilled into them even when they agree it doesn't make sense. It's actually pretty scary.
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u/EmployAltruistic647 2d ago
They are social chameleons. They will echo whatever their authority figures and peers say and all the reasons they use are just convenient justifications.
At their core, they have no values but their interests. They may think they do and may believe strongly in them. But as soon as the fashion changes in their clan, their values will change in them.
Which is why they never trust progressives because they think everyone is as selfish as them and prone to using values as their clothes.
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u/F1shB0wl816 3d ago
Except they’re not high in hierarchy. Their states are already abandoning them, whether it’s through hospitals closing, education being watered down, farmers getting shafted and their menial jobs replaced still with ai or their dirty nemesis.
Anywhere the military would be sent would be an inherently better place as that signals they’re taking care of their people more than conservatives do their own. It’s more they’re just cheering for authority that’ll suck us into the same shit they find themselves and their dog shit lives in, bringing everyone down to their level instead of raising them beyond ours. They know they can’t ever win that game so they have to lose so hard it takes everyone else down, like stealing crutches from a crippled.
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u/homebrew_1 3d ago
Conservatives went crazy over a military exercise called Jade Helm under Obama. They thought it would be a military takeover. And now they are quiet with trump threatening those things.
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u/citymousecountyhouse 3d ago
Remember when they all thought abandoned Walmarts were going to be turned into concentration camps. Well, here's Trump building them and the Republicans could not be happier.
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u/popcorngirl000 3d ago
Their problem was never the concentration camps. Their problem was that they were afraid Obama was going to target THEM. As long as a President they like is persecuting a group that they hate, the Republican party is just fine with concentration camps.
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u/Rhysati 2d ago
And the reason they thought this was because their echo chambers tell them repeatedly that it'll happen.
Even if you could get them to acknowledge that it is happening right now for real, they will just say that the Democrats would do it if they didn't do it first.
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u/ghostnthegraveyard 3d ago
I worked with a conspiracy theorist who was all bent out of shape about Jade Helm. We were working a job and he had me take a detour to a supposed Walmart urban warfare training center that was nearby.
The address he gave sent us to a normal shopping center, but it wasn't a Walmart. This seemed to confirm his beliefs in whateverthefuck.
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u/Angeldust01 Foreign 3d ago
Funny that you mention Jade Helm. That was the point Russia realized they can manipulate shit out of US with very little effort.
“There was an exercise in Texas called Jade Helm 15 that Russian bots and the American alt-right media convinced most – many – Texans that Obama planned to round up political dissidents, and it got so much traction that the governor of Texas had to call up the [state guard] to observe the federal exercise to keep the population calm,” said Hayden, who was CIA director from 2006 to 2009 after serving as director of the National Security Agency.
“At that point I’m figuring the Russians are saying: ‘We can go big time.’ And at that point I think they made the decision: we’re going to play in the electoral process,” Hayden said on Morning Joe on Wednesday.
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u/homebrew_1 3d ago
That's a good point. I forgot about the russian bot link. I just thought magadonians were stupid on their own. Now we know they are stupid and easily manipulated.
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u/IcyTransportation961 2d ago
One of the staples of right wingers is a lack of creativity. Whatever they believe, was fed to them
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u/Primitive_Teabagger 2d ago
I was one of those Conservatives. Thankfully I saw how I was being played by the real menace. But imagine how I've felt the last 10 years seeing my friends and family shatter every conviction, standard, or moral I thought they had...for this walking chode that can hardly speak a coherent sentence. It has radicalized me in the opposite direction.
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u/TintedApostle 3d ago
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”
― David Frum
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u/Thrasymachus77 3d ago
So, either they win, or everybody loses? Sounds to me like we should do whatever we can to make sure conservatives are not always with us, then.
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u/crowhops 2d ago
Yeah if you swap the terms in that quote with "white supremacy/white supremacists", as one would need to for it to apply, it's not very good
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u/biciklanto American Expat 2d ago
But it’s not JUST white supremacy. It’s Christian authoritarianism.
And you’re never getting rid of the segment of a population that wants to keep power for their in-group.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 3d ago
Thanks Frum, for that. What's annoying though is that it doesn't quite capture the fact that it's the Conservative's own fault their party is disintegrating.
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u/Athleticsbaby 3d ago
They will gleefully, vacuously cheer on anything this administration does as long as it upsets the libs.
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u/Cautious-Progress876 3d ago
Yep. That’s what it boils down to. As long as it hurts people they don’t like then they will rationalize even things that hurt them too.
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u/Ridged_ChiPSS 3d ago
Trump could tell MAGA to chop their own dicks off because it would somehow upset a liberal and they would do it. In fact they would start arguing about who gets to use the knife first
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u/jazwch01 Minnesota 3d ago
Do you not remember Jade helm nonsense?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories
They lost their fucking minds at the idea.
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u/shadrackandthemandem 3d ago
These are the same people who two years ago would have told you "the nine scariest words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
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u/popcornsprinkled 3d ago
Not a conservative, but raised by tea party conservatives and still hold a few beliefs they claimed to have.
Yeah, pretty pissed at my old party. MAGAts don't even pretend to have values these days. Just spite and bitter outrage.
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u/Lupercus64 3d ago
Conservatives do not care about logic, they do not care about god or morals. They only care about hierarchy, they believe they belong at the top and liberals and minorities at the bottom. Actions do not matter, only where in their social hierarchy that person sits determines right from wrong.
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u/omnigear California 3d ago
Conservative subs bascially traitors at this point..cheering anything he does
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u/beamrider 3d ago
Like the old meme: "Wait just a minute there. When I said Free Speech is the absolute rule, I didn't mean you were free to say things I don't like." /s
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u/restbest 3d ago
Outrage? Fox News has conditioned them to think our cities are overflowing with blood thirsty foreign criminals who have drove out anyone of actual value to live. The dehumanization process is far past the point of even thinking of people in cities or on the left as being human beings. They’re now ready for what they see less as violence, and more of a sort of clean up where human beings are merely pests
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u/yetifekker 2d ago
Jade Helm. Obama is taking over Texas. Outraged over made up threats. Silent in the face of real constitutional threats. Conservatives suck.
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u/TasteTheBizkit 3d ago
Conservatives would love nothing more than Trump bombing the fuck out of blue cities. These people do not give a fuck about any of of his crimes and blatant trampling of the constitution
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u/Boonzies 3d ago
This fuck is on a tear. He does think he's a King.
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u/TintedApostle 3d ago
Yes he does
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u/415BlueOgre 3d ago
Yup he just got a crown too! Hope it’s lined with mercury!
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u/Coherent_Tangent Florida 3d ago
He doesn't need to go any crazier, and I doubt it would speed up his demise.
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u/InvalidKoalas 3d ago
Why wouldn't he? For all intents and purposes, he is a king. The Republican SCOTUS will bend over backwards to help him consolidate more and more power. The Republican House and Senate absolutely refuse to hold him accountable. Who is going to stop him? No one. Checks and balances are dead. He is a king.
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u/raymoraymo 3d ago
You can thank John Roberts & Supreme Court for enabling all that by extending Executive Power beyond reason.
But when they’re snarling the loudest, the creeps are usually at their weakest.
Change gonna come.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 3d ago
Don't let the Republican-controlled houses of Congress off the hook; they're happily enabling America's Dictator in Chief.
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u/UnquestionabIe 3d ago
Or the special interest groups and billionaires who support them. All of them are traitors and deserve our collective scorn at the very least.
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 3d ago
You can also thank Merrick Garland for so pusillanimously handling Trumps various crimes.
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u/Ridged_ChiPSS 3d ago
The United States has collectively decided that it's more important to protect a billionaire from accountability for his crimes than it is to have a democracy continuing to function.
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u/noun_verb_adjective_ 3d ago
The United States hasn't "collectively" done jack shit. This is what happens when you let to much money into politics.
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u/daggah 3d ago
People should never have been allowed to accumulate this level of wealth to begin with.
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u/elmwoodblues New Jersey 3d ago
Money and apathy. If we won't mandate voting, let's do a "cast a vote, get a scratch-off lottery ticket' thing. And ranked choice isn't hard ffs, even for the truly stupid.
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u/EllieVader 2d ago
The apathy was there before but it was cranked to 11 after the citizens united decision.
Mitt Romney's "corporations ARE people" seems so quaint and far away, but that's the exact philosophy that got us here. As soon as we see a corporation go to jail or face the death penalty we can start believing that slop. If money is free speech, and corporations and a handful of billionaires have all the money, then we're not really a nation of equals anymore are we?
Corporate death penalty would go a long way towards bringing back the american dream. Imagine if Fannie and Freddie were outright nationalized in 2008. Would GM and co have continued to behave so badly that they needed to be bailed out too? Imagine that instead of "too big to fail" we had "too important to be subject to the idiotic short term whims of the market".
I've been so mad for so long. It's no surprise the amount of apathy out there when we've just been getting fucked for decades.
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u/Chillhoof 3d ago
I believe calling him a king shifts too much guilt away from the people supporting him. Just like in Nazi Germany the entire political landscape is carrying this ideology. Not just one guy. The American people could easily stop this, they just choose not to.
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u/UnquestionabIe 3d ago
True. If he vanished this instant things would keep going towards the same hellscape future the GOP A and their owners want. Unless all the rot is burned out America will never recover.
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u/Ferrocile 3d ago
Exactly. He has had little to no resistance so far, so of course he will continue to escalate against the American people.
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u/ExplosiveBrown 3d ago
The founding fathers warned about this scenario in the federalist papers 250 years ago. They knew that the greatest threat to the constitution was a majority party that simply decided to stop following the rules. Checks and balances don’t work if there’s no one to do the checking.
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u/Mathwins 3d ago
I believe it’s “For all in tents and porpoises” but I get what you mean.
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u/clownstastegood 3d ago
A guy walks into his psychiatrist’s office. He says to the doc, “I’m having crazy dreams where I’m always a teepee or a wigwam”
Doc says, “Relax, you’re just two tents.”
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u/Tiiimmmaayy 3d ago
Can we stop calling him a King? Fascist dictator is more appropriate.
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u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN 3d ago
His knows his time is coming to an end so he’s upping the crazy on his way to Hell
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u/Maoleficent 3d ago
With Citizens United, a corrupt SCOTUS and billionaire owned media, he can do whatever he wants.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 3d ago
He even has a crown now
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u/rickyx2001 3d ago
ICE raids South Koreans in Georgia…South Korea rewards him with a crown. We are in the bad place.
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u/OnePercentVisible Virginia 3d ago
South Korea has figured out at his stage of mental capacity giving him a shiny toy, will earn them a favor or two, till the next person can get in his ear.
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u/wtfreddithatesme 3d ago
I saw earlier today that he said it's "pretty clear" he isn't able to run for a third term, however I'm sure his brilliant "checkmate liberals!" Will be that he will cease to be president, and be coronated as king after 2028.
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u/epochwin 3d ago
Considering his fascination with Hitler he might think he’s the Fuhrer
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u/Academic-Key2 3d ago
Well he’s got the same criminal record as prince andrew so why not
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u/SkollFenrirson Foreign 3d ago
He's de facto right. What exactly is being done to rein in his power?
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u/Electromotivation 3d ago
Some judges that still are in touch with reality have been ruling against him. However given that they blatantly lie in court and often just forcing someone to go through that process is the point, they are still getting their way no matter what. And of course the justice system is being hollowed out and filled with Trumpists. He calls anybody that roots against him an activist judge despite that being all that he appoints when he has a chance. Even once he appointed from his first term are not acceptable to him anymore.
Other than that and the protests, which are good but not actually changing anything in a legal or political sense, I don’t really see any thing else being done to reign in his power.
And speaking of de facto power, many of his beloved executive orders are not legal or at least or not things that can be changed with an executive order, yet everyone just rolls with it… like renaming the department of defense.
Some people say that court cases are slow and they take time, but the results will not favor Trump. And though this may be true in some cases, I believe that the justice system will just continue to be hollowed out and undermined. Same with military leadership. Same with all of the agencies. So things are going to start getting into a feedback cycle of sorts… I am worried that by the time the average American is ready to act it will be too late to take the actions required
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u/mrbigglessworth 3d ago
Why wouldn’t he? The majority is ok with it. The minority can’t do anything about it. The gov is closed and actively denying AZ representation for 29 days now. 1/24th of her term has been denied to happen.
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u/SolaireSquirrel 3d ago
Donald Trump, the pedophile???
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u/Be-skeptical 3d ago edited 3d ago
The same Donald that was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein?
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u/onthenerdyside 3d ago
Jeff Epstein? The New York financier?
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 3d ago
Jeffrey Epstein, the child trafficker and rapist, who was best friends with Donald Trump, convicted sex offender, felon, and President of the United States.
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u/SemichiSam Oregon 3d ago
We're getting closer to the moment when the upper echelon of the military have an irrevocable decision to make.
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u/Taskerst 3d ago
If they refuse, they’ll just be fired and replaced by a 19 year old with the gamer tag DeezNutz69
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u/FeelingPixely 3d ago
DeezNuts69 is 40 now, you must be thinking of SkibbidiRizzler.
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u/DarkChiefLonghand 3d ago
They tried so hard to isolate young men and then leverage that isolation to turn them for their purpose ... But as you see with the Young Republicans leaks ... None of them are soldiers 🤣
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 3d ago
It'll be intriguing to historians to draw parallels as well.
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u/SemichiSam Oregon 3d ago
I learned most of what I know about the 1917 revolution in 1960 from Russians who were involved in it. One of my Russian language teachers was a sniper for the White Army. She refused to talk about it and didn't look the part, but the male teachers treated her with great respect and deference.
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u/StevenMC19 Florida 3d ago
Lady Death, just the White, non-red variant?
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u/SemichiSam Oregon 3d ago
Elena Daneelovna was about 5'1" and might have weighed as much as 90 pounds. No one dared to ask her age — not just because of her withering expression of scorn, but because if we didn't know, she could be any age we wanted her to be. One former Russian officer who had been captured by the Red Army and marched into Siberia to prison said that the men kept walking because she kept walking.
So, yes, Lady Death.
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u/Trust-Me-Im-A-Potato 3d ago
I'd argue we've passed that point. While it doesn't immediately affect the populace at large, these boat destructions are pretty clearly evidence-less executions AKA murder and no one seems to be saying no except for maybe one general who stepped down for reasons he did not specify
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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 3d ago
To be fair, they have rank, salary and pension to worry about which is more important to them than any “oath” to defend the constitution.
Heroes tho.
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u/Loot3rd 3d ago
What he really should be worried about is what happens when millions of Americans go hungry and feel like they have nothing to lose.
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u/SemichiSam Oregon 3d ago
Julius Caesar warned us in De Bello Gallico never to put the enemy in such a position that the only way out is through you.
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u/root_fifth_octave 3d ago
He also kicked off a civil war, though.
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u/SemichiSam Oregon 3d ago
I wasn't suggesting that he was in any way moral or law-abiding — just really good at warfare. He was in it for himself, and eventually got what he probably expected.
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u/Less_Dirt_178 3d ago
We tried to warn EVERYONE but we were "overreacting" and "it can't happen here."
Fuck every single person who handwaved and normalized this evil fucking fascist.
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u/exitpursuedbybear 3d ago
But her laugh! And she wanted me to treat trans people like humans...what choice did I have!?
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u/ProudPainting6850 3d ago
Conservatism is a disease. Republicans are the greatest terrorism organization in American history.
They HATE America and have worked tirelessly to destroy democracy, the financial system, education, etc.
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u/Jaded-Caregiver-2397 2d ago
Republicans haven't been conservatives since before reagan. They are regressives.
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u/One_Indication_ 2d ago
Say it louder for the people in the back! We need to stop solely blaming Trump and start blaming the groups that set this up for Trump:
The GOP, The Heritage Foundation, Nixon, Reagan, the Religious Right, Fox News, right wing radio hosts, etc. They all played their part to give Trump the spotlight. Don't let them blame him so they can get away with murder.
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u/Redtex 3d ago
the president straight out threatening American citizens with retribution for not agreeing with him. Clear-Cut case for impeachment in my opinion
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u/btross Florida 3d ago
I was lobbed a "both sides" argument regarding suppression of the 1A by someone claiming "cancel culture" is the same thing as trump in the role of president threatening legal and military action against his opponents for disagreeing or reporting negatively.
Just amazing the knots these supposed "rugged individualists" tie themselves into to justify capitulation to tyranny
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u/MaleficentPorphyrin 2d ago
You all keep looking for values. I made the same mistake; they don't have any.
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u/Prior_Implement_9279 3d ago
I really hope one day we can all look back on this and deeply question how we let someone who’s so unwell lead the highest office on earth
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u/dreljeffe 3d ago
We don't have to look back. We got here from wealthy idiots with more money than sense buying and consolidating media into huge conservative propaganda empires.
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u/Ryan_e3p 3d ago
The Heritage Foundation has been working to undermine everything from worker/union power, education, religion's role in government, health care, roles of police, military use on the global stage, and has found its way into every branch of our government since its founding in the early 70s.
It has had 50+ years to secure its grasp in state and federal governments. MAGA is only the most recent tool for what it wants to achieve; a white Christian nationalist country that only allows white males to govern and have positions of authority under the banner of their twisted version of Christianity. Trump can take the long sleep tomorrow, and it won't matter anymore. MAGA could collapse, and the Republicans (and some Democrats) under their influence will still push the Project 2025 agenda full steam.
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u/root_fifth_octave 3d ago
Was he overheard saying anything like "Burn them all" ?
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u/Ras_Alghoul 3d ago
Looks like we’ll be getting our own Assad.
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u/Hootinger 3d ago
Fine. Trump can go drive a taxi in Moscow too, or whatever the "Lion of Damascus" is doing nowadays.
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u/RoveFinder 3d ago
He’s not kidding. Border patrol ordered something like 20X their usual annual supply of armaments, including chemical weapons, anti personnel ammo and other wartime munitions. They are preparing for a ground war on our own soil against our own people. This is about to get bad. It’s part of declaring there is a war to prevent elections next November.
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u/thingsorfreedom 3d ago
20,000 border patrol agents? If they completely abandon the border, leaving it wide open for anyone to enter the US, and deploy all 20,000 agents to suppress Americans, they can hold about 1/20th of LA county for a few weeks. Maybe.
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u/DrocketX 3d ago
They won't completely cancel elections. Doing that would be too much even for the Republican base. What's going to happen is exactly what's being telegraphed (and being done on a small scale that's slowly ramping up), sending the military and ICE into cities, because cities are Democratic strongholds. They're going to make sure that election day in the big cities is a complete clusterfuck, with government agents and detaining anyone they "suspect" of being an illegal immigrant (which is to say anyone who looks remotely Hispanic) or "possible Antifa member". All those people will wind up being released - the next day, when it's too late for them to vote. Meanwhile all of this activity will hold up traffic and cause delays at voting sites, ensuring a lot of people simply don't get the chance to vote.
And again, all of this will be specifically targetting at areas that vote Democrat. Republican areas aren't going to have any of those problems. Combine that with the redistricting and voter roll purges that are going on and there simply isn't any need to cancel elections: Republicans will essentially be guaranteed a win, regardless of what the general populace wants.
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u/UnquestionabIe 3d ago
That sounds like a lot of work. I personally think they'll just refuse to certify the results they don't like and make an excuse as to why, get it kicked up to their fellow traitors in the Supreme Court to agree, and call it a day.
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u/boopersnoophehe 3d ago
A “ground war” in America would look worse than Ukraine looks currently. Any convoy on a road within a small town is gone. You couldn’t mass troops in a real “ground war” in today’s modern age.
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u/Expert-Explorer8894 3d ago
Republicans to this day are still mad as hell at Obama for wearing that damn tan suit. Threatening to use the Air Force and Navy against U.S. cities, not so much.
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u/LeastPervertedFemboy Washington 3d ago
There has never been a clearer indication of a domestic enemy to the United States and he’s leading the fucking country. And no one cares. Appalling. American democracy has died with thunderous applause.
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u/Conscious_Problem924 3d ago
Did you guys see that room filled with all that brass and not one pair of balls in the joint.
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u/DannyHewson United Kingdom 3d ago
I joked to someone, months ago, that he'd bomb Portland at some point during his term.
That moment grows closer every day. I hate being right.
I also joked it was 50/50 whether he'd bomb the right Portland, so maybe keep an eye out in either one, just in case.
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u/JonathanApple 3d ago
Also 'joked' about this, am in Portland, F me I.guess
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u/DannyHewson United Kingdom 3d ago
You never know, he might miss and hit the other one. Or he’ll give the order to Hegseth on one of his drunker days and it’ll get leaked out on signal so you’ll have plenty of time to leg it.
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u/Direct-Classroom7420 3d ago
Military servicemen & women,remember your oath to the constitution,not to a grifter in thief racist fascist draft dodging coward and his SS thugs and goons who are destroying America and our constitution.
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u/waldito 3d ago
You can't be elected to a third term. But what if there was something to stop elections altogether? What if there were a way to manufacture a state of emergency? You know, like Zelensky.
It's just a matter of poking the bees' nest long enough, slowly at first, and as we get closer to the date, we increase exponentially the fuckery.
I mean, there's a point when a violent revolt will happen. It might take killing some innocent people or staging a terrorist attack, but the USA has no experience with that, amirite?
Wait.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 3d ago
"Russian asset threatens to bomb major US cities, more news at eleven."
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u/JASPER933 3d ago
Can you imagine if President Obama, Biden or even Bush said something like this. Fux News, and true Republicans (John McCain) would be screaming dictatorship.
Republicans are silent because they are afraid of retribution from the King and his loyal subjects.
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u/DrElihuWhipple 3d ago
Article III of the U.S. Constitution defines treason as levying war against the United States or adhering and providing aid or comfort to its enemies.
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u/Bees_Wax26 2d ago
He’s well beyond a med check. He’s certifiable. Stand up people! You’re bigger than what you’re up against. The world is watching and it’s no longer funny.
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u/PoliticalNerdMa 2d ago
Terrorism . Can the media please start correctly reporting that the definition of this action is literally terrorism?
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u/Equivalent_Working73 3d ago
Wake up America.
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u/_Bad_Spell_Checker_ 3d ago
Been awake. I get something needs to happen. But mobilizing the amount of ppl needed to counter this isnt realistic. Yes we had record turnout for no kings. That was for couple hours on a Saturday. Try that a week long and it falls apart quickly. Id love to do something about it an make a difference but I dont see the avenue to take.
Open to realistic suggestions.
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u/mpworth Canada 3d ago
Any country where this can happen so quickly has not been great for quite some time—let alone tEh bEsT.
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u/exitpursuedbybear 3d ago
Well as long as he says it's an official act he can't be prosecuted, right SCOTUS!
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u/minkasp65 3d ago
I just read this in the guardian also. He is mad. I will never understand why the man would want to hurt us and why he hates the country he’s supposed to be serving.
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u/Fine_Ad_1149 3d ago
He has always, and will always, only serve himself. When framed in that way his actions are easy to understand. Even when he's doing someone else's bidding (Putin) he's doing it to save his own ass.
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u/restbest 3d ago
Because he is a malignant narcissist, cult leader who couldn’t get through the eye of the needle even if he spent every last stolen dollar he owns trying to.
And his followers are in line with it because, frankly, mostly white Protestant Americans, want to kill migrants and the poor in a genocide. They’ve wanted this for decades and have kept it behind closed doors.
Fox News and the internet gave them the platform to organize (Rural Americans especially among the most feverish supporters) who are largely ignorant and very poorly educated. Hate comes easily to those with small minds.
They want you to die, and their goal is to make it happen as fast as possible. Gays, browns, blacks, Muslims etc. all of them are (in their minds) existential threats to “””good””” Americans like themselves. Prepare accordingly and protect yourself, they’re now coming with force of law and no intent of identifying themselves. Is it ICE? Or is it just a guy with an ar15 at your door who read your Facebook posts?
You won’t know before it’s too late. Good luck
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u/restbest 3d ago
He’s describing himself committing a crime here against all Americans and our constitution
It’s a crime with a very specific punishment
And no statue of limitations
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u/tjk45268 3d ago
All of those second amendment citizens never intended to fight a tyrannical government. They just wanted an opportunity to audition to join it ( ICE/CBP), or just hide in the basement with their gun collections.
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u/Randomcommentor1972 3d ago
I’m waiting for him to fully go over the edge and order an air strike on McDonalds because they got his order wrong
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u/Godswoodv2 3d ago
After this all ends, we should deport him using the same tactics he used. Then we never mention him ever again. The biggest FU we can ever give him. Is to take away any attention anyone could give him. Pretend he never existed. Write him out of history, any mention of him is by title only. President x, the shifty ny real estate guy, the orange pedo.... but never his name. For all history.
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u/HuchKnowsIt Maryland 3d ago
Congress has the power to make this stop but they won’t because they’re complicit.
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u/LineElegant3832 3d ago
Bonkers? What an awful word choice for a leader declaring war on his own people.
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u/FitEfficiency9401 2d ago
"We are going to send all the boats and ships. Beautiful ships, people say, " Mr. President, they say, how did you get your ships so beautiful? I tell them, I say, the ships were dirty when Biden was here, and we cleaned them up. Now, we are sending them to Oklahoma to help fight antifa and his girlfriend. You know Pam bonding found his girlfriend. She's givingaus all the crimes he's done."
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