This is what happens when you don't bring the fucking hammer down on violent authoritarian fascists. Who has to die to make it clear that this sack of shit needs to be bound and gagged while his trial proceeds?
The fact that he’s still campaigning with ninety fucking Federal charges against him is absolutely absurd.
Ninety-one. Accuracy is important.
Garland would have to care and treats him and other Republicans with kid gloves. The kid whom leaked documents was insta-prison. Yet Trump sold out the entire country and the DOJ is Zz z.
Yeah Snowden is still hiding out in countries that don’t extradite to us. Manning is free, but it’s pretty clear that her time in prison had serious lasting damage to her mind. Both of them had good reasons to leak and did their best to minimize unnecessary damage. Meanwhile this chucklefuck is campaigning and threatening.
If democracy dies it will be because we punished those who broke the rules to strengthen it and defended those who broke the rules to destroy it.
That last sentence is so true that it’s chilling.
Playing devils advocate here, Trump has a history of wriggling out of what looked like slam dunk cases against him, and being an ex-president comes with truck loads of political baggage, so the DOJ might just be playing things extra-careful. It would make sense for them to double and triple check everything, dot all their i's and cross all their t's, and make sure everything is as utterly airtight as they can make it. The real danger is that they don't go so slow that the whole thing becomes moot because they took so long that Trump managed to make himself dictator in chief.
That's not a problem. Anyone can campaign at any time. That's totally legal and fine.
What's absolutely absurd is the level of support he still gets from Republicans! He owns them.
If some former Democrat president did this stuff the support from Democrats for that person would be near zero. No one would consider such a candidacy even remotely within the realm of possibility.
Republicans just don't give a shit about corruption. Some will see this statement and say, "no, they care about it when it's not one of their people" but that's 100% the same thing. Corruption is all about picking winners and losers based on what your side thinks of them.
I mean, we've literally already established that overt corruption "just makes you smart."
This is what republicans are voting for. They are fine with corruption if it means they win.
Its crazy how much leeway he is getting. Back during the Bush years a guy in my town had a hang bush sign on a cardboard cutout of him hanging from a tree. The dude was arrested and held for "terrorist threats." The same was not true of similar threats made toward Obama. This was in liberal western Washington. The fascists have always gotten handled with kid gloves in this country and it seriously needs to be addressed if we have any hope of coming out the other side.
But if we start punishing rich people for crimes, what's next? Punishing other rich people for their crimes?
Yeah, the only thing the rich truly fear is consequences for their actions.
Daily reminder to fucking kill the rich
Orange shitstain's record already includes 1M+ Americans dead from his bullshit handling of covid
Who has to die to make it clear that this sack of shit needs to be bound and gagged while his trial proceeds?
Chairman Milley, obviously. RTFA! \s
I can’t believe half the country wants to vote for this deranged sleazebag.
From an outside perspective I have been waiting for years for the USA to go "haha gotcha! We pranked the whole world!".
Please hurry.
Believe me, when this piece of rancid filth ends up behind bars, most of us will be as relieved as you.
Remember, he only won in the first place because our stupid fucking electoral college system screwed the country. Most of us never wanted him, and can't wait to see him in a jumpsuit that matches his stupid skin.
Believe me, when this piece of rancid filth ends up behind bars, most of us will be as relieved as you.
I won't be relieved, because at that point there will be thousands (millions?) of irate, brainwashed acolytes who are told that he is an innocent political prisoner, and that their country has turned against them, and the only thing they can do is turn violent and become terrorists.
Conservatives have decided Trump is the person who most accurately represents them.
It’s true, unfortunately. He’s a perfect distillation of Republican attitudes.
The GOP is less than 1/3 the voting population, so your disbelief is understandable and reasonable. The largest voting bloc is independent, by a significant margin. These articles are a bit misleading, as they try to fit everyone into GOP or DEM, but the Gallup poll showed, "Now, political independents (41%) greatly outnumber Republican (28%) and Democratic (28%) identifiers."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/467897/party-preferences-evenly-split-2022-shift-gop.aspx
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/poll-largest-percentage-americans-independents/
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/17/poll-americans-independent-republican-democrat
This is yet another example of terroristic threats against federal officials. The FBI really should get on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_government_officials_of_the_United_States
Since we're adding wiki articles, this sort of threat feeds into the idea of Stochastic Terrorism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
credit to @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz who posted it before
“Floats the idea”, as if this were just a normal idea that any prospective president might ask around about.
All the sanatized language makes me wonder if there's a rule against saying someone is "absolutely out of their mind" in a headline.
"Insane Former President Wants to Execute Military Officer for Personal Reasons"
I don't understand how this man is not in prison. This shit is fucked.
Far as I know, there's no law against stochastic terrorism. Hard as it would be to write and enforce, fuck me, this is the real deal.
Hang tight. I'm feeling pretty good he's going behind bars. There's just too much against him, and the offense is as prepared as it has ever been in American history.
Death thread against a federal employee? And everyone is fine with that?
He just Floated the idea, its not like he actually,um-Quick, Buzz, Biden Jr's Laptop!!!
You see silly only when a liberal makes a joke about it is it serious! But it's ok if you're a Republican.
So fucking tired of this guy. And the asshat is not even in office. I sure hope this total loser does not "win" again. I'm not sure our country will survive this time.
But Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”
What does ”in times gone by” (emphasis mine) mean in this context?
He’s doing the old fascist thing of reminiscing about the good old days that never existed.
A time that has already passed. The olden days. The before-fore times.
Basically, he is using words that are supposed to sound like he is from Downton Abbey or some shit.
I have a theory that he doesn't write half the shit on his social media site. The same with exTwitter, when he was still on that platform.
Its a nice reminder of just what the Trump Presidency was actually like. Just pure chaos and impulse.
Exceptionally stressful time for our nation and people.
Trump ~~Floats the idea of Executing~~ Calls for Volunteers to Murder Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley
fixed it
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