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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 104 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More specifically, child rapist. As well as rapist of women.

[–] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

And based on some of the alleged quotes from the man himself that hes said to his victims about making their whole family dissappear if they ever reported him, possibly murderer as well. If not directly, by giving the order and paying the murderers.

It's going to be decades before we learn the full scope of what hes done, and Ill bet you even then, there will be people that defend him and claim its all fake news, even after hes roasting for eternity in one of the lower circles of hell.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We don't need fucking Trump's permission to vote.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

No person needs permission from a leader to vote.

Leaders are elected first in the hearts and minds of the people and then at the ballot box.

A leader can try to take away the ballot box, but they can’t take away people’s will and leaders who forget this will ultimately lose one way or another.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

If you're in a state with mail-in voting, you need the federal government to carry those ballots, and he just told USPS to interfere, so

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[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Goddamn I want to leave this country, but no one wants immigrants from the US and I don't blame them

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep, most countries are going to refuse American refugees. We'll just have to stay here, and fight back.

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (5 children)

As I've said, many a time, once dictatorship's instantiated, he'll not just remove the vote from all non-Republicans, he'll de-naturalize all non-Republicans, then they can be ICE'd..

making it criminal to do ANY trade with "illegals"/woke.

I found out that he & Miller had a 1-MILLION deportations quota on ICE, for their 1st year..

You're too far in nazi territory, when you're doing that kind of shit .. there's no pretending that away, any more than there's any pretending-away Israel's admission that it's annexing territory from Lebanon, once it's got Hamas controlled/down..

Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Millei.. same fundamental-values, they're demonstrating..

& the fools who are "certain" that social-pressure will prevent the tippingpoint from being crossed..

..solving the wrong problem, while helping the enemy that is walking our world into its "secondary-crime-scene", for our world's butchery..

The Great Filter's actual! This century is it..

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[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Apparently it’s a goal of 100 million removals, nearly one in three of us.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

That is what will result in North America by 7y after the tippingpoint is crossed.

1/3 gone.

By the end of WW3, after, .. I expect only 100-million left alive, planetwide, in 2085.

IF humankind survives The Great Filter..

If you've ever seen a street-drugs-addict die by their held-by-their-unconscious-mind addiction, you've seen what humankind is about to be doing,

.. only at planet-scale.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Lmaoo I never thought of the Great Filter as a political thing potentially, I always thought of it as a technological thing like industrialization or disease or something. Interesting

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[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wake up every single day thanking the stars I’m not an American. What a fucking disaster this country is. Vote for a rapist, get raped, I guess.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (14 children)

You think the oligarchs that put Trump in office will stop with the US? Better keep an eye on your own politicians

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[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elections are 100% controlled by the states, there is nothing they can do to force states to comply with this stupid shit. Trump is an utter fucking moron.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A bunch of states are going to kowtow to him anyway, a judge is going to declare it unconstitutional, Trump's going to throw a hissyfit & bomb Djibouti or some shit as distraction and Congress is going to pass it anyway.

Trump is an utter moron, being supported by utter morons, with utter morons calling rational people "the real morons" for daring to ask "wait, what?"

I'm tired, and I can't weld good enough to make a Killdozer...

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[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

States are well within their power to ignore most of this. They don't answer to the executive branch.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The elephant in the room is him ordering the postal service not to deliver ballots from people not on the federal approved voter list. The postal service isn't state ran. Trump doesn't have direct control over who the post master is, but the board that selects the post master is mostly empty seats so I guess he could flood it with sycophants with support from congress and appoint a new post master if this one puts up any resistance.

It also seeks to bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state’s approved list.

Legal experts noted other potential flaws with the order. David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the Postal Service is run by a board of governors [not state governors] and the president has no power to tell it what mail it can and cannot deliver.

A spokesperson for USPS said Tuesday the agency will review the order. Trump has sought to bring the independent agency under more presidential control, proposing to fold it under the Commerce Department — whose secretary, Howard Lutnick, was on hand for Tuesday’s signing.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (14 children)

The USPS can be bypassed through strategic and frequent placement of ballot dropboxes. I already didn't use the postal service after the bullshit Trump tried to pull in 2020. It's better to use the dropboxes in every way except for one, and in my case it's only a block to get to the dropbox so it doesn't even apply.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're a registered Democrat, you're going to get a late night visit from ICE.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

castle doctrine gonna suck for ice

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Own a modern firearm to shoot fascists foot soldiers, as the founding fathers intended...

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck that we tally ho.

They are not prepared to deal with cannons. Or revolutionary war recreationists

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump can make all the lists he wants, he doesn't get to say shit about how the states run their elections or decide whether or not he accepts their results. Those results are officially certified by the electors of each state and Congress counts the electoral votes, NOT Trump. Federal office holders cannot be electors.

We literally had an attempted coup on Jan 6th 2020 to prevent those electors from doing their jobs. They were unsuccessful.

[–] habitualcynic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nailed it. And to quibble, Jan 6th 2021 :)

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[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

States rights blah blah blah right?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

we are a christian country!!! oh you can't minister to our detainees.

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Democrats are currently furrowing their brows, drafting stern letters, and making appeals to norms and traditions.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

they got to ride that thin line of not alienating the fence sitters of genocide and not genocide, and still pretend to care to feed their vote blue no matter who base

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[–] Worthess@discuss.online 13 points 1 month ago
[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Aren't the state's responsible for running the election system?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah there's this pesky little thing called the constitution that explains that.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, until the Scabrous SCROTUS says the president is as well.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And the wheels of justice shall turn slowly. In December 2027, they'll rule that people should have been allowed to vote in November 2026

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So quickly? I was thinking the ruling would come down 4-5 years after the event

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Was I being too optimistic?

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuck, this whole scenario is going to end in a lot of violence isn't it...

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[–] FatherPeanut@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

He's absolutely gonna push congress to legislate a National Voter ID system within a month of elections, isn't he?

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[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Federal elections, instead of state elections?

So that means no more electoral college, right? Right?

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