• sandbox
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    310 days ago

    They might think this is edgy but it’s actually very damaging to the US. Not only will no other country ever take this administration seriously, but if the government breaks their own laws, then other countries will also feel comfortable breaking laws

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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    The most heavily armed country in the world is run by someone with the emotional intelligence of a rhubarb and a cohort of sycophants. This is gonna bode well.

  • @[email protected]
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    312 days ago

    That official White House X-account is really something. The utter shamelessness combined with the harrowing inhumanity would make Goebbels blush.

    At the same time it is so honest and clear about the Trump administration’s perspective on things it’s refreshing. They don’t hold back, there is no secret agenda, they just put it all out in the open for the Americans and the whole world to see. They really feel invincible.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 days ago

      Because they know something the rest of us don’t - that they will never have to pander for votes ever again, because there will never be another election on the country.

        • @[email protected]
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          012 days ago

          I think that judges have had enough. Boasberg of DDC has already released a criminal contempt order and by the looks of it, Xinis of Maryland district is also getting pretty pissed.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 days ago

            The question, though, is what the judiciary is going to do with these seemingly inevitable contempt rulings. Let’s just say I’m not terribly excited about the prospect of fines unless that’s just the opening salvo.

    • makyo
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      012 days ago

      I just hope they alienate enough people fast enough that we can see an actual effective check to this rogue administration. They’re taking a lot of power pretty fast but also burning a lot of bridges.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        I don’t see how this attempt to speed-run a dictatorship is going to work well for them. You’re supposed to turn up the heat slowly, so the frog doesn’t notice that they’re boiling until it’s too late.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        I’m afraid they might burn more than bridges if they are opposed by an actual effective check.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 days ago

      I wouldn’t say there is no secret agenda. It’s clear the administration is not in the loop of what the secret agenda is. Their blatant anti-everything-non-white and overall incompetence and ignorance is enough right now to keep the divide and conquer going.

  • @[email protected]
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    811 days ago

    So let me know when you want to organize international brigades. John brown clubs are welcome to connect with me.

  • @[email protected]
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    712 days ago

    Omg. I just realized this is really from The white house???!!??

    I thought this was some stupid meme… Omg

    I just can’t even…omg

        • @[email protected]
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          212 days ago

          A service that proxies and cleans xitters content so musk doesn’t get the money from the few advertisers left in that cesspool

          • @[email protected]
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            111 days ago

            It also enables a few of the older features, like being able to read replies to a Tweet, now that the website formerly known as Twitter bars it if you’re not logged in.

      • @[email protected]
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        Oh dear fuck i looked at it and they made a covid.gov site that claims that covid originated from lab in Wuhan and was leaked. That fringe conspiracy now being peddled by the white house.

        • @[email protected]
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          211 days ago

          That’s actually not unlikely, but the way china handles critical information we will never be sure.

          I imagine they also have other false claims on there that are much worse though.

          • @[email protected]
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            511 days ago

            Yeah, it’s one thing to make it known that it is a possible explanation, it’s another to claim that it is a fact without evidence.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 days ago

      You’re not alone. I see this shit and I say aloud “woww” and pass my phone to my partner. I’ve never seen such unhinged shit from the official white house communications team.

      This is stuff any self-respecting 15yo would be embarrassed to post. I know they have been posting other cringey memes recently too. Seems like the person managing the account came straight from 4chan.

  • FLeX
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    411 days ago

    The MAGA-sect comments are really frightening. Big resemblance to the Waffen-SS supporters like back in the day.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 days ago

      Yeah send me the meme bro, i dont see the muricans getting their guns yet, they have to be starving

      • @[email protected]
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        311 days ago

        They’re gonna be at the Canadian border blocking aid from entering in through Montana to reach the starving Wyomingans.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 days ago

          I will watch it on tikkyok for the lolz, through some kind of non tikytoky interface that protects me from elon musk or google or whoever owns the stream. Maybe eztv.

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    So…

    When he does come back, how fucking weak and stupid is Trump going to look?

    He seems to think this is some liberal bullshit, he doesn’t even realize that he’s crossed the line

    • @[email protected]
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      511 days ago

      I’m remembering his full-page ads calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5.

      Garcia and his family have slam-dunk civil cases against Trump in both his personal and professional capacities.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 days ago

          Even if the courts are all in, you need someone in law enforcement willing to act against him.

          Jack Smith is out of office.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 days ago

            FYI, Federal Justices can hire special prosecutors & deputize citizens as federal marshals, they don’t actually need the DoJ to administer justice.

            The Presidental pardon is the only issue here, but kidnapping is also a state crime.

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              111 days ago

              They would have to declare him illegitimate and thus intelligible to grant pardon. Which he is under the 14th amendment.

              They would also need to ignore the supreme court, but if we ever get that far, it goes without saying.

              • @[email protected]
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                211 days ago

                The president cannot pardon a state crime. Kidnapping is both a state and a federal crime. If convicted in state court, the president is powerless to pardon.

  • @[email protected]
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    312 days ago

    They’re already openly saying there will never be another administration after this, either one way or another.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        They know, that’s why the oligarchs will prop another one.

        I am of the opinion that Trump is a pazi should shit hits the fan. The billionaires-- the true rulers-- will be scot free if the American people decide to rise up.

        • @[email protected]
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          211 days ago

          That’s a good point, but I don’t think Vance has the charisma to step into Trump’s boots. For all of Donald’s faults, and there are many, he is a very charismatic person. He has (or had depending on his level of senility) a natural skill at making people around him like him when he wants to. I don’t think Vance has those skills and without Trump to rally around MAGA as we know it won’t live past Trump. Now a form neo-MAGA can emerge, or it can crumble but thankfully JD doesn’t have what it takes to carry Trump’s torch.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 days ago

            If the system gets rigged enough, Trump won’t be necessary. Cultists will not drop their position and they have infinite money and all the media to keep this “magic” going.

          • @[email protected]
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            011 days ago

            I obviously have a different definition of “charismatic” to many other people, because Trump has zero charisma in my eyes. He was repugnant in the 80s and he’s repugnant today.

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              That’s because you’re not a vapid narcissist who only ever uses people and are probably a boring regular everyday person who can see that bullshit from a mile away. I still think he has high charisma, but yeah he’s definitely not rolling 30s like other big personalities.

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      https://www.britannica.com/question/What-major-events-took-place-during-the-Reign-of-Terror

      Laws were passed that defined those who should be arrested as counterrevolutionaries, and committees of surveillance were set up to identify suspects and issue arrest warrants. Later laws suspended the rights of suspects to both legal assistance and public trials and mandated execution of all those who were found guilty.

      Please do not romanticise such a horrendous period. If you hate McCarthyism, then you should absolutely despise this one.

      Being labeled as the enemy during a revolution often means prison / torture / death, even if you’re innocent !