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Punishment can include and is not limited to death.
I think there's a bit of a sobering moment that we have a Presidential candidate that is calling for specific names to be held to a firing squad.
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He tried to get Pence killed four years ago. We've known for at least that long that this is who Trump is. Republicans don't care.
Hey, they may be handing the country over to Fascism, but at least the people they hate will suffer!
Yes, my life may suck, but at least I’m not a woke gay pride critical gender theory non-white lefty lib that believes in human rights.
/sarcasm
It’s depressing because honestly I am just sad for the people that get into the conspiracies
They do care. This is exactly what they want, a maniacal dictator who will kill all the "others" to implement a religious ethnostate
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Donald: we need a Night of the Long Knives.
SCOTUS: let us open the kitchen drawer for you.
The guy that avoided drafting, is Putin's bitch and said vetetans who died in the war were loosers.
"Loser" Why is that so hard for so many people?
I assume because it has the "oo" sound. "Loser" looks like it rhymes with "hoser".
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bit of a sobering moment
That’s why I’m investing and drinking lots of alcohol. Who wants to be sober as society collapses?
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The trump/Hitler comparison is becoming less ridiculous
It was never ridiculous, people just weren't able or willing to look into the future far enough. If someone said this would happen back in 2016 you'd be ridiculed.
And now look where we are.
Can we please just label the republican party a domestic terrorist organization already?
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How bout we jail this insurrectionist for high crimes against the United States
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Even Hitler waited a little bit before making it clear he was going to purge
The more I think about trump saying that he could shoot someone in broad daylight in front of millions, and not lose a single supporter….. the more I think he was right.
Bone Spurs is 78 and grotesque.
He only has so much time, you dig?
His dad lived to 93. -_-
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
Lol, the angry orange wants to punish the turtle man who covered for him. You pick the best allies there turtle boy!
It would be schadenfreude to see Donald execute McConnell, but I wouldn't be able to really enjoy it.
He's on his way out, anyway, so the time it would have been a benefit is gone.
Well I for one look forward to fleeing our upcoming dictatorship
Why? If the imperial core isn’t safe, no where is.
Right? The American military is unparalleled in its ability to find you, especially when you carry a ~~tracking device/data collector~~ cell phone.
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Military tribunals? Sounds like some of his article 2 powers with absolute immunity now, their use cannot be questioned. Go to town Trump, say the conservatives on the supreme court.
He’s literally telling us what he’s going to do with a second term and we’re still not taking this asshat seriously. Like I said, we seem to be asleep at the wheel.
just a bunch of cowards really
Biden and co will literally get hunted down by Trump's goons if he doesn't use his new powers to do what needs to be done
Hah, I expect that Mitch McConnell is still going to vote for him.
Of course. So will Pence.
Wonderful.
The delusional Q Anon 'secret military tribunals any day now' belief now stands a reasonable chance of actually happening.
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What, no Hillary Clinton? Is he trying to lose again?
Surely, surely, a significant portion of conservative voters can see that this isn't what democracy should look like, even if they're ardent republican supporters.
republican allegiance is to the bible, not the constitution. they say a lot of things about the constitution, but in the end, they just want christo-fascism. some of them are true believers in the make believe, others just use to justify their own cruelty.
either way, their motives don't matter. it's all about what we're going to do about it.
When your neighbor waves a loaded gun in your face, do you whine about how no neighbors should be behaving like that? Is that effective? That's basically begging for morality.
Stop preaching morality to your foes. The servatives are too far gone. The billionaires are too far gone.
No more hopium and copium.
We need to wake up to what IS, as opposed to what we wish it were.
If morality could solve any socioeconomic imbalance, billionaires would ban and outlaw morality.
The fact that morality is always promoted and no one went to prison or was assassinated for promoting morality means one of two things: either a) morality doesn't exist and can't work even in principle, and instead we have a bullshit narrative to make people more timid and more self-doubting to make from them more manageable subjects, or b) real actual morality does exist, and when taught WOULD threaten the billionaires and other exploiters, and thus WOULD effectively produce societies centered on broad wellbeing, but we were never exposed to it in religion or in any university level class.
If it's b) then such morality isn't based on begging and pleading with the unwilling and uninterested parties. And also if it's b) then preaching such morality would be viewed as a threat to today's trash status quo and a threat to the morbidly wealthy billionaires.
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Would be a reaaaal shame if someone interpreted this as a threat to the rule of law that necessitated some kind of presidential act. There's gotta be plenty of realistic ways to fuck with him in an official capacity.
Not doing it would be literally suicidal on Biden's part.
Can’t wait to see Biden take the “high road” and just sit back and let this play out and get himself executed. 🤦♀️
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This country went from undecided on the death penalty to openly embracing presidential hit squads seemingly over night. The right is saying who is on their list while the left is saying they should make one. Good times ahead.
We live in the worst time line.
Wow does he realize that by doing this he's basically making it self defence for Biden to anticipate him?
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Liz Cheney is not an enemy combatant. If this is Trump's definition of one, that as an authoritarian any dissent to his will is considered treason, then he'll still need to change the rules of military tribunals to allow prosecution of non-combatant civilians. In case anyone hasn't read it, Wikipedia has a page on Military tribunals in the United States - Wikipedia
It's curious Trump seems to believe that mere political dissent equates to enemy combat and physical violence. Imagine what he must think about Jan 6 that he has been keeping to himself. Can anyone say "project"?
He's saying he must be given a military tribunal as an enemy combatant?
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mr. Trump, using his account on Truth Social on Sunday, promoted two posts from other users of the site that called for the jailing of his perceived political enemies.
One post that he circulated on Sunday singled out Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman who is a Republican critic of Mr. Trump’s, and called for her to be prosecuted by a type of military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.
A separate post included photos of 15 former and current elected officials that said, in all-capital letters, “they should be going to jail on Monday not Steve Bannon!” Those officials included Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, Mr. Pence, Mr. Schumer and Mr. McConnell — the top leaders in the Senate — and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker.
The list in the second post also had members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including Ms. Cheney and the former Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger, another Republican, and the Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Pete Aguilar, Zoe Lofgren and Bennie Thompson, who chaired the committee.
The Biden campaign denounced the posts in a statement, saying that Mr. Trump “is doubling down on threats to our democracy,” adding that “the Supreme Court has now paved the way for him to do exactly what he is saying he will if he wins.”
Ms. Cheney responded with her own social media post on Sunday evening, saying “Donald — This is the type of thing that demonstrates yet again that you are not a stable adult — and are not fit for office.”
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