If it didn't hurt, he wouldn't cry.
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Trump is gearing up to purge but there are way too many guns in this country for that. His solution will be to start taking peoples guns. Finally despot gun control.
If you were waiting until it got to actual concentration camps before you were willing to call this fascism, well, here you go.
The camps aren't on American soil so it's only sparkling fascism.
The majority of the Nazis camps were not in Germany, so this is still “going by the book” as it were.
Yeah, I also should have used "sparkling authoritarianism" it would have been funnier and more contextual.
I'm curious how bad it needs to get? I hope we can pull through but Democrats don't inspire much confidence.
We need to remember that we're We the People. Fuck the Democratic politicians if they won't fight for us. Fuck the traitor Republican politicians if they threaten us.
We still have our 2nd amendment right. Use it or lose it right?
Maje sure you have enough food and ammo
Exactly. The power lies with the people and always has. Don't rely on an ineffectual party to save you. You have to do it yourselves.
Ask 1930s Germans how bad it needs to get.
Id argue Americans are even more gaslit and deluded than they were with modern for profit media combined with captured government pulpits.
I truly think the average American would sooner burn their own children alive than protest/disempower their capitalist fascist oppressors gutting their very lives for an extra nickel. For profit media says the fault of our problems are all the powerless homeless neighbors we've all collectively betrayed lowering property values with their continued immoral existence as they produce no value other than to scare everyone else back to their jobs every day.
Wouldn't want to be accused of being a filthy SOCIAList that wants to be part of a SOCiety after all. Why live together when we can die alone at each other's throats hoping the next lottery ticket or third side gig will make us a big winnah!
I will never, never forget all the domestic politicians using their pulpits when covid hit to assure everyone that they will do everything possible to protect our beloved ~~society people children future~~ economy, with basically no pushback 🤮
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MAGA:
- Vandalise Tesla. ✋ Terrorist
- Vandalise the U.S. Capitol. 👌 Patriot
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Taking top secret documents to the shitter 👍 President.
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is usually perspective.
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People's reaction: "This is tyranny!"
The reality: This is delusional.
Trump doesn't have the power to give that kind of order and any official carrying it out can be convicted and imprisoned under state law that Trump can't pardon them for. He actually doesn't understand this despite being president once already because he either always has been removed*, or got that way due to some sort of dementia.
*I mean that in the medical sense, not as an insult.
Trump literally and blatantly committed treason. I'm sure we'll get around to doing something about that soon.
So, do the people who, in this hypothetical scenario, get sent there wait it out in that prison for the U.S. courts to argue the case, charge and convict the low level officials, and then.. send a bailiff or strongly worded letter to El Salvador?
I hope you're right, but they will likely try. And the Rule of law has been eroded more and more. They already openly defied a court order to send Venezuelan people to the El Salvador work camp. They gloated about it, too.
And that was all without due process. Some even had hearings scheduled and still got deported into slavery.
Now that he successfully tested the waters with this, I'm not so sure about trusting the rule of law in the US.
That's ...
Odd? I can't wrap my head around the lack of coherent threats anymore.
Like I knew it was going to be bad, but I expected more action and less, uh, I guess stupid statements? Like is this drug fueled, or is it just idiots talking? Idiots talking while on drugs?
I'm a Jesus Loving Family Values Republican and I have NO PROBLEM with him Sending my Wife and Children to a Terrorism Camp in EL SALVADOR!
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