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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 167 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Can this motherfucker just have a coronary already? Where are those etsy witches again when you need them.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 72 points 6 months ago

He may be protected by a force field of evil, like Kissinger was.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 46 points 6 months ago

If prayer worked, he'd be dead so many times over. Probably before 1980.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t like anyone in the line of succession, but they at least largely lack the charisma, or whatever it is, that Trump has to attract his base.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 months ago

It is, at best, another draw on the Uno pile. Then we just hope we didn't buy the "Oops all Hitler's" set.

[–] silicon@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Quick someone keep sending 'hamburders' to the white house daily.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All it would take is one brave McDonald's worker...

Though I'm picturing Stephen Miller as Trump's "McD's taster" and he makes him taste every fillet-o-fish first before eating it himself.

In which case, win/win.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago

And double deep fried buckets of KFC.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

He had a stroke on TV on 9/11. Not there yet but we're close.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 117 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I want to make sure that people aren't killed

THEN STOP KILLING PEOPLE YOU ORANGE CHEETO CLOWN

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He means to make sure the right people aren't being killed.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even then, they already aren't.

He wants no less than to start killing everyone else, en masse.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 89 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"If I had to enact it, I'd do that. If people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that. I mean, I want to make sure that people aren't killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe," he added.

But people already are being killed. By ICE.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Those are colored people, they don't count in MAGA's eyes

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

He means white people.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 82 points 6 months ago (2 children)

.... and the rest of the US government just stands there like an idiot

This orange idiot doesn't have any power ... only the power that is given to him, offered to him or allowed to him. He isn't an all powerful God-King .... it's an entire organization of people in government that allow all this idiocy to happen.

This leader just represents everything wrong with American government. What a bunch of idiots. I wouldn't mind all this if it would just affect America but these morons are on track to destabilize the entire world.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, our influence isn't exactly a good thing at the moment but most of the rest of the world seems to be doing a pretty good job of destabilizing on its own. We're just further down the path than they are.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 13 points 6 months ago

Hell look at the UK. Arguably been spearheading the charge in a lot of ways for other fascist countries to follow the path of.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

That's called, "leading the way". American exceptionalism, baby!

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The longer this is allowed to go on the more I find myself rooting for a military coup where they just purge 80% of the (remaining) government and all of the billionaire class that brought this on and we just start over.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Military coup = christian nationalist death squads targeting brown and queer people and then leftists who dont fight back. Not really something to ultimately wish for

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 70 points 6 months ago

"floats the idea" like declaring martial law and suspending elections was ever NOT the plan. Gfy.

[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 63 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Donald J. Trump is a rapist and a pedophile. He is a traitor to the US. Trump is the end of America.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

He's a traitor. It used to be punished with capital punishment. America forgot.

[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Thank you. I added it in.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ha. Bastard will invoke the Insurrection act for a related cause in 1992, human rights for minority populations.

But the only thing getting damaged this time is the fascist ego.

There are no buissnes being looted. The only assaults are federal enforcement, and the only arson so far has been MAGA on a judge's home.

His invasion of Chicago isn't going as they hoped. The government shut down without the ability to confidently restart it. Trump's body is probably more grafted sacrificial children and cybernetic implants keeping him barely alive. There's a looming economic crash. Inflation is beyond his control and it's all on purpose and the people know it.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 6 months ago

Yep. If he was competent, he would have declared the insurrection act in January, maybe early February after building up a casus belli

He could have ridden that momentum all the way through, by the time people got upset they'd be afraid

Now? It's too late. No one is buying it, no one has an appetite for it. He doesn't have the momentum to blow past the courts, no one in his administration has the conviction to put their balls on the table, and so we have this weak, performative version of a takeover that appeals to no one

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Invoking the insurrection act against the most powerful and populous states in the union without even a figleaf of justification would be a wild unforced error.

Things must be worse for the fasc than we thought if they're making telegraphing desperation moves like this

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 months ago

They're being blamed for the shutdown and the economic self-inflicted self-own. So they're holding more of the bag than Dems right now and even the cult isn't happy with the Epstein files non-release. They've still got their cult beast on a leash but it's upset and needs some meat to distract it and aim it at something/someone else like Mamdani.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago

I'm curious as to why you think it would backfire?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 25 points 6 months ago

Your last voted president America

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

This right here is the setup for another civil war. I think that as long as Trump is president civil war is inevitable.

[–] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

These guys keep pretending certain cities are not safe. Even if they weren't, what The Annoying Orange is doing is not helping anything.

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Trump floats

I highly doubt that.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I'd be more surprised if he sank. Fat is bouyant, and he's got a lot of it.

[–] spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention all the hot air

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 10 points 6 months ago

But he's full of shit, that's gotta counter some of that buoyancy.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 points 6 months ago

The smelliest shit floats to the top. Go figure.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 16 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately maiming police officers, threatening to hang the vice president, and smearing poop in the halls of the US capitol are perfectly fine, but existing peacefully in Chicago on any given Tuesday is a crime against humanity

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Hopefully on himself

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago

All he has to do is lie. He knows how to do that.