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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Please don't elect Temu Trump (Pierre Poilievre) or Trump's useful idiot Doug Ford.

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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 93 points 11 months ago

If Trump wants to be a king then he should be treated like a king >:3

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I was just thinking of that...

To the guillotine!

[-] torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

The only cut to federal spending I’m willing to accept.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago

Louis XVI was a king... 👀

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 57 points 11 months ago

“Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king”

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 45 points 11 months ago

Does anyone disagree with this? There is no longer much difference between the US president and a king. He literally has the right to simply legally kill people and congress and the judicial branch have little will or power to interrupt any of his shenanigans. I think king is a closer to correct term than president. Fascist dictator would be the closest, but I think he prefers the term king.

[-] dx1@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Congress has the power to impeach him and remove him from office. Of course, like the last 10 or so war criminal presidents of the U.S., they don't. Likewise, the courts have the power to neuter his presidency - and had the power to put him in prison - but don't, and didn't.

The precise reason why the solution has always been total system replacement. From within or without.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Wish granted, I think he's going to overhaul the system but not all change is good change.

[-] Saurok@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

A finger curls on the monkey's paw.

[-] dx1@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I would edit it to say:

The precise reason why the solution has always been total replacement of the system with direct democracy. From within or without.

I have some faith that we'd see the economic outcomes we want with direct votes for measures vs. votes for politicians, due to the amount of involvement required.

[-] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For every american that takes pride in their constitution (and especially the 2nd amendment whiners that complain about tyranny), your word will be worth less than Putin's if you don't depose this tyrant.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Remember a couple of years ago when Biden just made it illegal for rail workers to strike?
Just pointing out that this king shit didn't start with Trump, it's just gone even more off the rails.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago

It was under Biden that presidential immunity went out of control too. Biden effectively set the stage for the downfall of democracy.

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Oh, he prefers king? Fascist dictator it is then.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well Trump can say whatever he wants, whether he actually can do what he says is another matter. In this case for example, congestion pricing has simply continued as before because Trump doesn't have power to change the laws of New York. When it comes to killing people, government employees are subject to the same rules as everyone else about unlawful killing, even if they were ordered by the president. Of course Trump can pardon his assassins for federal crimes, but states can still prosecute them and if nothing else the victims can still use deadly force to defend themselves without being guilty of a crime.

So legally speaking, Trump isn't so much a king as just some fat, old, possibly mentally-challenged man who can't be punished for things.

But in the technical sense, we're all kings and can do whatever we want. We've just agreed as a society that if people do certain things we all unite to help put them in a cage or whatever.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 11 months ago

What a fucking moron.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago

Behold... The REPUBLICAN party!

(also, RIP traffic in NYC, I hope this pushes them over the edge to just ban most private traffic in the city and become the New Amsterdam again)

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 21 points 11 months ago

With all the hand wringing about Threads, Truth Social has to be the worst mastodon server by far. Good thing federation is turned off lol.

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Is this a joke I don't get? TS has nothing to do with Mastodon.

[-] Sternburgexport@feddit.org 15 points 11 months ago

Did he stop congestion pricing now? Or did he "stop" it like he "stopped" the russian-ukrainian war?

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

Think he our savior? Make him a crown of thorns

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago

Dont!! Then he will do connections to jesus!!

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

He held up a bible upside down and that was enough. Folks already wanted to make a book of trump for the Bible.

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah i know

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Iesus Nazarenus Rex Romanae. That's how that went right?

[-] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

There’s only one true king in America…his greatest hits album is available on Apple Music…

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

I didn't know burger king made an album!

[-] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

I'm so glad BB King and Elvis aren't around to see this bullshit.

[-] iriyan@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Johnie Rotten? King is gone but not forgotten

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

I noticed the weird general compulsion of anglos to call someone king or queen without any reason, just as general praise, and it's especially hard to understand in case of USA where their loudly proclaim their "republicanism". Sounds like freudian slip so massive it got normalised in common language.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

~~Please remove the body shaming comment, or we will remove the post.~~

ty!

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago

That's reasonable. Done!

[-] Bosht@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You missed the part where the White House official posted an AI pic with the king quote and his stupid face wearing a crown

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
[-] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i sometimes get amazed about how trumpism 2.0 is one big circle j*rk. (albeit with people really suffering with their edgelording)

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

It's like a South Park episode, except you couldn't make this up. It's beyond satire.

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