• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    Hey guys, there is a lot of troll baiting in this thread. You’ve been doing a great job of not falling for it, so I’m not going to lock it. Newbies to this thread, check the times of when it was made and if it brings up the distant past a lot, those are good clues. Leave one comment at most to save everyone’s sanity.

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      “hey buddy, you know how you’re the president of a country here, right?”

      “Yes I’m the most beautiful, fluctuant, prescient president of all time, so says the people. I don’t know if it’s true, but that’s what people are saying”

      “Uh… Ok? Anyways, how would you like to be president of a whole fucking planet?!?”

      “This is what the world needs, a leader to take it into dysplasia. Who else could do it but me? This new one world government and state will need a name. Well call it fantasia, and it will be wonderful.”

      “Sure, sure, fantasia sounds beautiful. We’ve already built you the thrown right here. Strap in, your sovereignty”

      “I’m going to turn this wasteland, into, you know, a utopia for all rich white Americans”

      “Uh huh” tightens seat harness “you snug Mr. President?”

      “Well I think you’re a loser because this is too tight. You’re fired, get me someone who can make this right.”

      “Oh I am making it right, sir, just give me a second, I apologize.” Leaves capsule

      [Starship explosion noises]

      “Fackin whoops”

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    You guys are funny… the top donor to several Democrat politicians is AIPAC. I’d venture to say at least 50% of Democrat representatives support attacking Iran on behalf of Israel. Blue MAGA has been obliviously claiming that people saying he shouldn’t attack Iran are Russian bots.

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      lemmy.world has the reputation of spinning around an answer and never getting to it.

      AIPAC is in charge of both reds and blues when it comes to foreign policy and even some parts of the internal policy.

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        Cheaper to just “forget” to set up the ramp and let him faceplant on the runway getting out of a plane.

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        I’m not saying we should actually make a realistic attempt (according to various videos of actual rocket scientists, it’s virtually impossible anyway), but we could “try”.

        You know, as a treat.

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      To be fair, Clinton did take advantage of an intern in a relationship where the power dynamic meant there could never be meaningful consent, and then he lied about it under oath.

      Two things can be true: it was a political hit job where they were just out to get Clinton on anything they could. But also, Clinton did a shitty thing, was caught, then lied about it.

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        LOL, compare to now having a convicted felon as president, lied about it, then already committed several crimes after being elected and keeps lying about it. Who cares about a blow job…

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        Cum stains can be washed out of you get em soon enough, but this rag could be frisbee’d at a wall and it’d shatter at this point.

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        Cum stain? It was a full term pregnancy that gave birth to a big giant orange piece of shit.

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    Then every president should be impeached. Dem leadership wouldn’t pursue this because they know it puts some of their own at risk

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      Every president that I can remember (starting with Reagan) should have been impeached and later prosecuted for war crimes.

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      What? Democrat presidents aren’t at risk of impeachment? You mean like Bill Clinton?! lmfao and they weren’t trying to do the same to Obama and Biden for their entire terms? But they won’t do it to the next one as long as Trump isn’t impeached for a 3rd time?

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          Illegally! Amendment 13, Section 3:

          No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

          No such vote was held. The disability was not removed. Allowing the tried and convicted insurrectionist Donald Trump to appear on any ballot for any public position, State or Federal, after he was convicted of insurrection against the United States was the beginning of the Constitutional crisis we are now mired in and all of Congress is complicit.

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            That isn’t what he was convicted of. The charges brought that could’ve made this true were related to the 2023 federal indictment consisting of:

            four criminal charges of conspiring to defraud the government and disenfranchise voters, and corruptly obstructing an official proceeding.

            However, on November 25, 2024 Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the case without prejudice.

            The felonies he was convicted for were related to the March 2023 state indictment “The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump” which consisted of:

            34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in the first degree related to payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

            At no point has he been convicted of having:

            engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

            He was convicted of being a fraudster, con-man, liar and sex pest but not for being an insurrectionist. This isn’t a “illegal” problem, it’s a classic case of dual tier justice and the consequences thereof. The justice system is beyond fucked, and has been for a long time. Solutions will not be coming from that line of reasoning.

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    The cop at the protest yawns, unslings his 40mm LMT™ weapon, loads another rubber bullet into it, looks around the crowd for another reporter, aims, and shoots her in the head.

    Idealistic youngling: “Wow, that cop just shot a woman in the head with a rubber bullet, he could totally be charged for that!”

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      After “shoots her in the head” you forgot “poses for the cameras”

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        It certainly looks as though they’ve pretty thoroughly shat the bed. I suspect they fell for their own propaganda about all the freedom and how they’re the best country in the world etc, forgot that those are just words.

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          To Americans, their national heroes are just Disney characters without families, jobs, or dreams who never actually had anything to lose and whose victories were guaranteed.

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    Lol, no it isn’t. Ever since Cold War times, the law has been that the president can not only launch missiles, but even deploy troops on the ground, without congressional approval. There’s a limit on how long the troops can be deployed, iirc, but once you’ve started a ground invasion it’s a bit late.

    Obviously it’s unconstitutional, but there’s no legal precedent that would say so. If you think this is the first time this has happened, you really need to learn more about history. The US never formally declared war on Vietnam, for example.