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bigtree

(92,410 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:13 PM Friday

Let's be frank. This president could shoot and murder someone on U.S. streets and get away with it

...with the present balance of power in the legislature and the courts.

He's just killed 11 people in international waters using the same provably false claim he's used against Venezuelan immigrants here in the U.S. of being drug gang members, without presenting a shred of proof.

The maga majority on the sitting Supreme Court has granted this president invented immunity for 'official acts,' and he's using that impunity to trample all over Americans, and now, ostensibly, wherever in the world he chooses using his own warped view of history, events, and circumstances to place this country in an offensive posture against everyone except the dictatorial regimes that have been regarded as military adversaries by successive presidents for decades; Democratic and republican.

This is the result of unbridled, unchecked power assumed by just one man, and it's not going to end tomorrow. Anyone and everyone who openly opposes this regime is in danger, to the degree that their very lives may be at risk.

It's not as if they even have to directly confront Trump, he's a roving danger with an eye toward hurting people he opposes for any variety of reasons, and he's wielding the power we pay for to perpetrate this totalitarianism against Americans and others in his and his administration's autocratic sights.

There is no justice or relief in sight as the maga majority on the Court that enabled Trump into office and granted him these invented immunities are still in place to enable him even further.

It's a crime against democracy that we're all forced to wait like peasants for their final judgment on EVERYTHING essential and vital to our democracy; this Supreme Court majority having already demonstrated their contempt for the people and our ELECTED legislature by knocking down lower court rulings against Donald Trump like kings, without any explanation at all.

There are no rights that can be defended with surety against this abusive and coercive government, and we are all at an incredible risk of being completely devastated, to the point of losing our very lives and livelihoods, by a government concerned only with what THEY want, and whatever this president decides.

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Let's be frank. This president could shoot and murder someone on U.S. streets and get away with it (Original Post) bigtree Friday OP
If he does it, I hope it's RFK Jr. Ocelot II Friday #1
I look forward to two years of continuous impeachment hearings following the midterms Fiendish Thingy Friday #2
Oh, and so sorry.....FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, a kennedy Friday #3
He basically had someone killed at his own rally with his fake ear injury Iris Friday #4
He's totally out of control. greatauntoftriplets Friday #5
Venezuela is calling the "attack" a creation of AI GreenWave Friday #6
The next logical step in this progression Diraven Friday #7
At the risk of sounding like a broken record....these people are fascists. BlueTsunami2018 Friday #8

Fiendish Thingy

(20,645 posts)
2. I look forward to two years of continuous impeachment hearings following the midterms
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:21 PM
Friday

If Dems resist having hearings because “been there, done that”, then they don’t deserve to gain the majority.

a kennedy

(34,328 posts)
3. Oh, and so sorry.....FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM, FAWK HIM,
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:23 PM
Friday

🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

greatauntoftriplets

(178,175 posts)
5. He's totally out of control.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:39 PM
Friday

And he's only going to get worse the more he's allowed to get away with his crimes.

GreenWave

(11,457 posts)
6. Venezuela is calling the "attack" a creation of AI
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 08:42 PM
Friday
El Gobierno de Venezuela acusó al de Estados Unidos de crear con inteligencia artificial el video publicado este martes por el presidente del país norteamericano, Donald Trump, con imágenes del anunciado ataque contra una embarcación que, según Washington, trasladaba drogas y había salido de la nación suramericana.

https://www.prensalibre.com/internacional/como-reacciono-venezuela-al-ataque-de-ee-uu-contra-supuestos-miembros-del-tren-de-aragua-en-el-atlantico/?cx_testId=28&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

Let's see if I can translate this puppy" The government of Venezuela accused the United States of creating an artificial intelligence video published this Tuesday by the President of the North American county, Donald Trump, with images of the announced attack against a boat that according to Washington was carrying drugs and had left the South American nation.

Diraven

(1,537 posts)
7. The next logical step in this progression
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:02 PM
Friday

If it's already perfectly legal and acceptable to summarily execute suspected gang members in international waters, it's just a matter of time before they decide it's ok to do the same within our own country. Just have to call them "terrorists". And after that even more groups will be labeled terrorists too ...

BlueTsunami2018

(4,581 posts)
8. At the risk of sounding like a broken record....these people are fascists.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:33 PM
Friday

And there’s only one way to deal with fascists. I think deep down everyone here knows this. I know there are a lot of pacifists here and I sympathize with that stance but that’s just not going to cut it, not against these guys.

This is going to end badly for everyone but it’ll be so much worse than if we don’t fight these assholes. And we should be doing it right now.

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