• @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    “I wasn’t calling for violence when one of my supporters did violence to these people. I said citizen arrest. They misinterpreted when they thought I wanted violence. The knock-on effect of chilling any future prosecutions also isn’t what I wanted.”

  • Maeve
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    I’m watching a coup so slo mo, it’s dragging out for almost four years, while Congress, the courts and doj do nothing.

  • donuts
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    1352 years ago

    This dude gets more unhinged and desperate every passing day, but a huge chunk of Americans just can’t see it. It’s crazy.

    • TechyDad
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      192 years ago

      For a way too large group, his being unhinged bigoted rants are a selling point, not a liability.

      For way too many others, they don’t care about his unhinged rants because he’s pledging to hurt OTHER people, not them.

      The former are bad, but aren’t enough to sweep Trump into power. The latter, though, could help Trump attain power and then will act shocked when they get targeted.

    • be_excellent_to_each_other
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      I think a lot of them do see it, but he pisses off the libs and seems to be promising to hurt the people they want to be hurt, so they are OK with that.

  • @[email protected]
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    592 years ago

    The Judge after a Right Wing Terrorist puts a bullet in his head: “Let this $10000 fine be a warning to NOT let this happen again!”

  • @[email protected]
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    292 years ago

    Translation: “The legal system isn’t sufficiently stacked in my favour anymore like all the previous hearings were, so somebody move to illegal means of nudging the results while I hide behind plausible deniability in saying that I did not mean that at all.”

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s actually better. He didn’t write the comment, he just re-shared it, boosting the visibility. This is his typical MO. “Lots of people are saying the thing. I didn’t say the thing.” Until the judges tell him flat out to stop using his social media accounts or they’ll throw him in jail, he’s going to keep doing this shit.

  • Optional
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    The judge created this. By slapping him on the wrist, ever so gently, he is absolutely going to get more of it.

    Wise TF up judge. Jail. No posting anything about the trial, your court, or anyone involved. You are not dealing with a normal person. He’s a demented sociopath. You can not allow this.

    • Maeve
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      102 years ago

      Constitution provides gallows. But we see what’s happened, what hasn’t, and to what extent, for whom.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      If you lock him up for this, he becomes a “martyr”. It needs to go through the process slowly for it to hit right. Give him enough rope.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    Trump is a damn criminal fascist grifter. The day he leaves our lives, I’ll do a goddamn dance.

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      Be careful with what you wish for. Hugo Chavez once said “I am more dangerous dead than alive,” and he was right.

      Edit: downvoted by first world peeps. Well, I really hope I’m wrong.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        At this point, with all of the bullshit his cult believes, he’ll become a martyr whatever happens (other than him winning). I don’t see this going anywhere other than fascism or a civil war, it’s just a matter of how long does it take to get there.

    • themeatbridge
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      If he’s not in America, he’s not much use to Russia. If he fled, the US would freeze his assets and seize his properties. All of his value would shrivel like his penis in a Siberian pool.

  • BabyWah
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    Please just vote this buffoon out. I beg of you as a European. Please vote him out and make him irrelevant in every way possible. Just stop this madness.

      • BabyWah
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        Yes, but I meant next year. Because it’s like I’m in 2016 again. Everybody thinks Hillary is going to win and NO WAY anyone would vote for this loser. But with Biden this time.

      • @[email protected]
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        152 years ago

        Member when he basically told hillary to fuck off and shut up because she lost and we shouldn’t have to hear from her anymore? Member when his supporters said they’d have backed off and accepted it if he lost?

        God I wish this asshat followed his own advice, but a grifting amoral asshole will always do the grifting amoral asshole thing and cultists gotta cultist…

        I’m so sick of living here, but I have no marketable skills to offer other countries…

    • @[email protected]
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      We already did. He’s trying to get voted back in. I’m afraid nothing short of him not existing any more will release his death grip on the GOP.

      • @[email protected]
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        nothing short of him not existing anymore

        And the thing of it is is that this is exactly accurate. The man could die from anything and there would be a small but not insignificant crowd of people prepared to make him a martyr, claiming it was some “deep state” assassination

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          Yeah, but at least they wouldn’t be able to vote for him any more. The hate he represents was there before him and will be there after he’s gone.

          • @[email protected]
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            Weird hypothetical: what if he dies, but he’s still getting votes? My guess is that there’s a decent portion of his supporters that would vote for his corpse, maybe assuming it’s some conspiracy and that he’ll rise from the dead. I mean he wouldn’t be able to take the oath of office, but would congress have to invoke the 25th amendment if a dead person wins the election?

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              I’m sure he’d still get votes after dying, but not enough to actually be elected. If he died while the election was going on and won, I think the vice president would become president, just as if he’d died in office.