'HANG THEM' -- Trump reacts to Democratic lawmakers' video appeal to military
https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/hang-them-president-donald-trump-reacts-democratic-lawmakers-video-appeal-military-intelligence-truth-social-media-seditious
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ryokimball@infosec.pub · 167 pts · 267d
They are outright admitting their orders are unlawful?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 267d
Nah.
Their rationale starts with the belief that all of Trump's orders are lawful, because he's the president and a president can do anything.
So their issue would be that saying that isn't true, is unlawful.
Which is obviously hypocritical because they acted like Biden and Obama were Stalin and Mao level authoritarians and multiple sherrifs and other red state officials flat out refused to follow orders from the Fed.
By their logic now, all those people shouldve been hung.
But when Trump's out of office they'll change their tune again
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 267d
If it weren't for double standards, the Republicans would have none whatsoever
utopianfiat@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 267d
Our standards are the best, folks. They're so good, they call them, you know what they call them? I know you know, the lying media knows, but folks they call them "double standards". Can you believe it? Standards so good they're double. And listen, when we put America First, our standards will triple, even quadruple.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 267d
God damnit, I could hear that comment.
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
this was just missing a "clean-beautiful-double standards"
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
But the reason shit is so fucked, is the neoliberal wing took over the Dem party and their only problem with a strong fed is they didn't control it.
Instead of fighting against the centralization of power, they went along with it because 50% of the time they got the keys.
And the oligarchs that funded both sides were cool with it for the same reason the US was cool with installing puppet dictators in the ME.
You want centralized power in a puppet state because the more you concentrate the bribe the more the person will do for it.
It's not impossible to buy off ~550 politicians to own the federal government, but it's easier to just buy off the president.
Just like it's easier to buy off a single federal government, than 52 state/territories.
Which is kind of the whole reason we as citizens should want the power distributed as much as possible, which includes unfreezing the number of House seats and putting more power in state governments.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 267d
And resizing SCOTUS
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 1 pts · 267d
Shifting power toward the Presidency has been going on far longer than there were neoliberals. It goes back to the early days of the country.
You are hyper-fixated on one particular boogeyman. Heretics and apostates have always been more hated than infidels.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
Not really...
There was a short bump after the civil war.
But after that it's all been relatively recent.
Even the stuff FDR was doing was mostly about funding states and projects that helped them.
The consolidation of power in the fed has been about 50 years which is recent on a country's timeline.
MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 267d
To be fair, the supreme court recently said exactly that. We literally have a king now.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 267d
They are outright admitting their orders are unlawful.
FIFU
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 267d
They're markedly leaving that word out when they discuss this.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 136 pts · 267d
The fuck is wrong with Americans?
If any other president had said the things he said over the past couple of months, the country would have exploded and a president either legally or through mass protest removed from office.
What's so special about this orange nutjob?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 73 pts · 267d
I wish I could fucking tell you. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 267d
It's been the downfall of empires before, and America isnt anything special. Just unchecked and unchallenged humans greed and corruption taking its next logical steps.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 267d
There have been tons of massive protests, the average American doesn't support this crap and they're doing what they can
The question should be the fuck is wrong with America's police officers, service members, judges, and lawmakers and other elected officials
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 267d
He doesn't care about your protests. He literally created a video of himself shitting on them and declaring himself king. It works in functioning democracies, but walking down the street with a sign will not stop a fascist intent on absolute power.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 267d
Nothing, really. He's not doing anything other piece of trash authoritarians haven't done before. And he's not doing it as effectively as many of them did.
What's special is that we live in a country whose populace is so ignorant and hateful that a high enough percentage of the population supports this basic ass bitch because he says basic ass hateful shit that he has remained protected by them.
The issue isn't Trump. Our society could have easily kept him just a whiny little rich bitch like all the other whiny little rich bitches. The issue is our society because we didn't.
Believe me. There is nothing special about this loser.
lowside@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
There is nothing special about him. Assholes like him are a dime a dozen.
The real issue is generations of brainwashing and propaganda. On a micro scale we are individuals with free will and personal responsibility. But on a macro scale, when we are looking at the population as a whole, it's so compleatly beyond people just being bad. They are like this because they have been conditioned to be like this. Taught to be like this. Turned into this.
I'm not saying that people are not responsible for their choices and actions. I am saying that the problem is so widespread that the we need to address the cause and not get stuck at just being mad at and blaming the individual.
American society now is the result of a fuck ton of social engineering by the wealthy elite trying to extract as much work and money out of the world as possible. We are living in the capitalist dream right now.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 267d
He has done it so much and gotten away with it, it's been normalized.
January 6th (aka, the insurrection) should have been a wake up call for everyone. A lot of people don't care about their country or God or whatever else they claim. Many just care about community.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 267d
A country full of stupid, small-minded, selfish, arrogant, angry, racist, misogynists elect a stupid, small-minded, selfish, arrogant, angry, racist, misogynist... How could this have happened?
ronl2k@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 266d
Misogynists? People need to be reminded that non-black women voted in large numbers for Trump.
wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 266d
Women can be misogynists. Many women suffer from internalized misogyny.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 267d
People arent hungry, yet.
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 267d
Oh, they are. But you underestimate the power of opioids, police state, etc. in preventing that hunger from turning into action.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 267d
the jiu-jitsu propaganda machine is coming for everyone. Watch for the signs: nutjobbery, incompetence, fascism.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 266d
"through mass protest removed from office."
I laughed aloud at this. You should do a bit more research on how the US works.
pigup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 267d
Americans in flyover country are really really fucking stupid, yet are very well funded gov subsidies. Evil exploits this major US weakness.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 267d
I think part of the problem is people assume he's going to die soon and so aren't motivated to try and remove him from office. But even if he dies soon, I fear things will get worse. JD Vance is potentially just as bad or worse. And other people involved, like Stephen Miller, could eventually become president if nothing is done to prosecute all the people involved in this clownshow
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 266d
Nothing is special about Trump. The American people are special. I know cause I'm one of them. Fuck this place. I love my country but fuck this place and all the narcissistic scumbags that live here.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 266d
We are bathed in a Douglas Adams SEP field.
No one will do anything if is or might be Someone Else's Problem.
it's a bad combination of lazy, cowardly
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 267d
Nothing is a special about the Cheeto Man. He is not a means to some end, as though his specialty is bringing about some change which nobody else could have. Cheeto Man is an end in himself. He’s the result of where we have been headed for a long time. Circumstances were right for a man like Cheeto Man, and now here he is. It’s like when the weather man tells you circumstances are just right for rain — that means it’s probably going to rain.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 267d
My personal theory is that there is just so many people and so much land that one person can care about and that area is about the size and population of the average US state or European country. Once you get to the size of the US or China or Russia or even India it’s too big for people to care. Very few people in NYC give a shit about what is happening in LA on a day to day basis.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
I don’t know if it’s a lack of caring, but the distance certainly makes MEANINGFUL action for most Americans out of reach. Just marching in say Boulder, CO does jack shit in Washington, D.C.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 103 pts · 267d
When is the majority of this country going to grasp that we are dealing with an actual, real life traitor?
Is it going to be one of those things where it isn't generally recognized until way after the fact when historians/teachers/students are studying the time period?
It's pretty fucking obvious.
He INCITECD AN INSURRECTION. He is ADVOCATING FOR HANGING POLITICIANS FOR ADHERING TO THE CONSTITUTION.
unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 267d
Maybe when he sets off a nuke in Chicago … but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 266d
You mean Chiraq? Hell it's such a lawless hellhole up there they should glass it just to get rid of the libtards. That's what Sean Hannity told me anyway.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 267d
I fear that if things somehow miraculously go back to normal in the Untied States, absolutely nothing will have been learned, these chucklefucks won't be prosecuted, no laws will change to prevent a fascist regime, and millions of Americans will carry on oblivious that anything out of the ordinary happened
oppy1984@lemdro.id · 76 pts · 267d
The only people who would get mad about telling the troops to refuse illegal orders, are the people who plan to issue illegal orders.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 60 pts · 267d
Trump: “Hang them for sedition!”
Commentator: “That is of course nonsense. The President doesn’t have the authority to …”
Supreme court: “As the President is a sovereign, he has absolute authority to issue death sentences for any reason” (6-3 majority)
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 267d
Yeap and there go. Buy ammo ladies and gentlemen.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 267d
That ruling would also be blatant permission to commit genocide
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 266d
Yeah, Genocide is their end-goal. They've already been setting up the camps.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 266d
There might already be executions happening at the camps. People have gone missing from them with no explanation. I wanna see people demand answers with the same energy they demand the epstein files
5too@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
Wasn't there just a story yesterday, where they keep finding hanging "suicides" that were hogtied? Trying to find it again, thought that was in the camps
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 267d
Quiet, piggy.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 44 pts · 267d
For context:
The video was posted on twitter, but I'm attaching it below.
xyzzy@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 267d
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 267d
and Dems need to tone down their violent rhetoric btw
elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 267d
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 267d
if they had balls every dem politicians who could run for next election should say that they will pardon anyone who gets arrested or in trouble for disobeying illegal orders.
jdredbeard@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 267d
Set aside Dems for a moment. When will the media give any of these scandals any deserving attention? Bush, Obama, Biden got raked by the media for weeks for the slightest misspeak
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 267d
They obviously won't... All the American media outlets are being consolidated under right wing ownership. To the extent we ever had fair reporting, that's over.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 267d
Yeah they do that because the people who own the media know two things:
The Dems will get criticised by both people left of them and people right of them, so raking them over the coals generates a lot of outrage which equals to clicks and views.
They can use this public perception pressure to ensure they keep passing policies that are, if not aligned with, don't affect the super rich owners and donators. Because the media owners can always dial up the jingoism and get the republicans elected again at the subsequent end of second term election.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 267d
They are all complicit, however I cannot comment on that, because I have not watched tv or followed main stream media in a decade. I have ground news, which is great (I do have some complaints about it, it isn't perfect but no point venting here). So I personally cannot complain about them too much.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 267d
Obama got slammed for wearing a tan suit
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 266d
Trump got slammed for looking at Bubba the Right Way®
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 267d
Well, you see, we're chasing the clicks and stale news doesn't get the clicks. And Trump constantly makes fresh news to chase those clicks with. Gotta get those clicks! WE NEED THOSE CLICKS!
jaykrown@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 267d
drump is going to get what mussolini got if we keep heading in this direction
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 266d
He's already deserved it for a long time now.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 267d
I wish I was that optimistic but who the fuck is going to make it happen?
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 266d
The tired, hungry, and poor?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 266d
Not you with that attitude, that's for sure
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 266d
I don't think the attitude that Trump and his cronies will inevitably face their just deserts helps either. Someone has to make it happen or it isn't going to.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 266d
Lotta guns in the US. What percentage of people need to be pushed toward the edge until one with the correct means and circumstances snaps?
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 267d
So here we are...
Maeve@kbin.earth · 21 pts · 267d
J6ers didn't hang...
Linktank@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 267d
But boy howdy should they have.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 267d
Still can...
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 267d
Next Dem regime needs to, using the full authority of the President to do whatever the hell he wants consequence free, immediately have all Jan 6’ers executed day one. That way the problem is permanently solved.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 266d
Yeah, dunno how any of that or similar is ever gonna happen in this "country", NGL. 🙃
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 267d
And Reddit banned me for 7 days when I said this dude should get the death penalty.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 267d
If you haven't noticed yet, that's because it is a tool of the regime that exists to pacify and propagandize its enormous userbase.
jerk_splerkin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
I got a permanent ban for telling someone on an nfl team sub that they were a stupid fucking idiot. Wtf?
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 266d
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 266d
I pray every day I see his obituary
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 14 pts · 267d
Might want to check yourself there Blowjob Rosenberg
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 266d
Just more sensationalism to keep everyone’s mind off the Epstein files if you ask me.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 266d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 267d
He is afraid that people explain to the military the current state of the law? Like he hoped he could order them to do illegal things, and they would compüly, not knowing any better?
BTW: The Nuremberg trials started on this day 80 years ago. I hope you guys prepare your version of it then Trump is over.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 267d
Only if there's a revolution, because the democrats aren't gonna do shit to hold these people accountable
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 266d
Trump is a cartoon villain who should have nothing to do with serious matters. He should be gone. J.D. Vance scares me way more than Trump though, and he'd be the next mole to pop up after Orange Julius Caesar.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 266d
Frankly I think we missed the window for the good version of him dying - especially if he dies abruptly in a way that could be spun into suspicion
ameancow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 266d
Im not really talking about things like USAID, I'm talking about his consolidation of power broadly and the normalization of the abuse of presidential power
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 267d
krasnov out here trying to build a bigger distraction
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 267d
If anyone should be getting hanged for anything, it's Pedonald for all of his many crimes, including plotting a coup while stoking an insurrection.
But it's always projection with the conservatives.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 266d
Everyday I ask myself how the democrats failed to have his ass in prison immediately. We all saw him committing sedition on tv! They also literally had a mountain of evidence he trafficked and raped children. How do the democrats always fail the simplest task to hold anyone accountable?
MBech@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 266d
Because then they'd have to hold themselves accountable too. They're just as crooked as the fascists, they're just better at hiding it, and are being paid by people with different agendas.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 267d
Hang HIM
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 266d
Going to need a strong rope. I feel that using barbed wire as the rope would be a better option...
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 266d
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and right wing lunatics.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 266d
"Shit fruit falls close to the shit tree"
Sir James Lahey.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 267d
Hang Him!
arsCynic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 266d
I wonder what Marcus Aurelius would do with this tyrannical pissant. I mean come on, he also must've had a limit to stoicism.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 266d
Considering he let Commodus succeed him, presumably not much.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
Trump is a lunatic
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
They said you was hung!
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 267d
tym@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 267d
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 0 pts · 267d
He looks like a retarded balding hamster.