> Claims to be the land of Free Speech and the First Amendment.
> Can't make jokes about assassinating the US President.
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They may have also meant using the 25th amendment to remove the president like their legal system allows for if Congress and the Senate weren't completely bought by the fascist billionaire class that owns the presidency as well.
That's not going to happen.
JD would love it though. Guy cannot wait to get promoted and gets a lil pep in his step every time Trump has yet another mystery hospital visit. Literally the only upside of Trump making it through his full term is that JD wouldn't get the satisfaction of being president.
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it's funny, we know what you're talking about. We can't say what your talking about as that may involve a meeting with the SS if you are american.
Funny thing is, you could mean Schutzstaffel, or Secret Service. No way to know in modern America.
Tomato / tomahto
dictätor dictátor?
The American Schutzstaffel, or ASS.
Rather than a front page obit wouldn't it be great if Congress and Senate just did their job and legally removed him.
I concur. The fact that his death seems like the only way we will be rid of him is a bigger problem than trump.
What about the next person who does all this. Like Vance ?
Vance does not have the cult leader credentials. If he pulled a "Let's take Greenland" out of his ass, he wouldn't have the same spell to keep 30% of approval.
That's why many authoritarian regimes fall after the death of the charismatic leader.
And yes, the root cause of Trump appearing in the political scene go beyond himself and point towards structural problems of US society. But now he has this power, it's a fact that his death will cause a great loss to the political power of the MAGA movement, and it'll be very hard for any successor to keep this coalition in power, specially considering they're already fighting among themselves.
Congress was envisioned to jealously guard their own power. They have been eager to abdicate their power and responsibility to the Executive to avoid political fallout (so that they can stay in office capitalizing off the position) for decades before Trump was on the scene.
The Supreme Court has absolutely no legal oversight, and even publication of their corruption has not moved them to impose any code of ethics on themselves.
The two parties both conspire to deliver us to the same monied interests, just with different flavors of icing on top.
Trump is the culmination of the rot in the system, he is not the source of it. There is no realistic way for the system to go on, even if Trump keels over tomorrow. Regardless of if Vance can command the cult when Trump dies, the system must be greatly reformed/ overhauled.
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It's nice to see that the "in minecraft" meme has evolved to not even mentioning what to do at all, that we all just know fairly well anyway.
It's NOT illegal to say "with a mortar launcher' because it's definitely an incomplete sentence.
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Someone did try, but he missed, ensuring his win unfortunately...
I seriously doubt it was an actual attempt. Funny how fast his ear healed.
It's well known that SS protocol during an active shooter situation is to allow the presumed target to rise above all the bodies protecting him, while making a perfectly timed fist raised gesture directly to the camera that happened to snap the perfect shot of the ketchup packet bursting.
Duh.
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With not the slightest mark left behind!
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Isn't this what you guys have guns for?
I hope people are organising at the very least.
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A friend of mine says it proves JFK wasn't a CIA conspiracy, bcs if it was...what about now?
Because he's the type of guy the CIA wanted in charge and JFK wasn't.
I agree.
The front page of every newspaper in the country has never so desperately needed an obituary on it.
Now I know what you might be thinking: never? What about that one time in the 1940s? Not even then, because even if that fucker LIVED he was on the cusp of capture. He was no longer a threat even before his obituary showed up
This time I have no faith or hope that the threat may actually be nullified at all otherwise.
It's NOT illegal to form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation with a distinct name, flag, anthem and coat of arms and such (and you can still pay taxes to the current US government and call that "aid"). Forming a micronation is NOT the same as being a sovereign citizen.
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It would be super funny.
To anyone reading this: Russian, Chinese, (even American) bots and agitators are astroturfing all over social media to get America to spin out into more violence. It's been well documented for almost a decade now. Please think about "who" (or what) is posting all these calls to violence.
Defending oneself from being attacked is different than actively committing violence unprovoked. Please just think about this. Having said all that, every American should still arm themselves and know how to use it.
State violence is still violence, so self defense still applies.
Defending oneself from being attacked is different than actively committing violence unprovoked.
You don't consider the provocation to be real? What part of being shot in the face could be misinterpreted?
If there's no legal method to oppose all the unlawful shit the administration is doing violence is all that's left. Democrats need to get off their asses and start doing something or shit is going to hit the fan. It's not like any of Trump's goons have a problem being violent or killing people.
Well the rest of the world wanted the us population to learn from the 2016-2020 idiots first term, but instead they said "Fuck you, cunts. Lol" and then the majority of them either voted for that thing, or enabled it by not voting or protest voting. So that option is off the table.
Trying to appease the orange paedo does fuck all because he's basically a schoolyard bully. Give him an inch and he'll then rape your daughter then blame you for doing it. So the appeasement option is off the table.
There's absolutely no chance any fucker over there has the spine to bring him to justice. So that option is off the table.
The fact is the obese imbecile is so demented and broken that nothing will work.
When something is broken you either fix it, which is impossible. Or get rid of it...which is where we are now.
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At some point it's just self defence.
-Good
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