222 points

The last one didn’t work, so that makes sense

Good god, why is he a free man

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124 points

Why is he allowed to run for president?

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143 points

Because this country has a festering fascism problem

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88 points

Perpetuated by an education problem

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7 points

Always has been.

Nazis modeled their final solution after various aspects of slavery. Disney, Ford, trump ,and many other prominent Americans supported fascism and Hitler.

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24 points

blatant corruption that no one’s doing anything about

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52 points

Because Russian money has infiltrated The Supremacy Court

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Also the Senate. McTurtleFucker tanked both impeachments and then said that it was up to the legal system to hold him to account.

They knew what they were doing, and the whole fucking party is complicit.

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33 points

Corruption, due to the traitor John Roberts and his decision in Citizens United.

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17 points

Because they have managed to subvert the US legal system. Not that the other side made it particularly hard for them.

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10 points

Hopefully this time with a competent President in the White House, a proper response will take place to any traitors. Maybe some more of these whackos can become martyrs for agent orange.

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6 points

I don’t understand why he’s not in prison after being found guilty. What happened to sentencing?

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It was delayed till September as the judge needs to look at evidence admitted in the case that may now fall under the Supreme Courts made up presidential immunity ruling. Trump’s team is trying to argue that the case should be tossed because evidence of things Trump did while in office were used during the trial (even though the crime started while he was only a candidate and was all admitted into evidence prior to this newly manufactured ruling).

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8 points

white collar crimes are notoriously lax on criminal punishment when it comes to anything that isn’t fines.

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Bin Laden didn’t have shit on how much this guy is a threat to American democracy.

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bin laden was an accelerationist and made it much easier for this orange sack of sh*t to, decades later, cleave the insane from a divided and distracted america.

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2 points

Bin Laden was evil Dr. Strange. Saw millions of realities and chose the path that leads to Trump to destroy the USA.

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31 points

Merrick Garland.

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7 points

First was not a well planned attack. It was only a trial to see what would happen if they send a mob to the White House.

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9 points

This time he won’t have the advantage of already being in the white house and having the legitimacy of already running the government. I’m sure that will make things harder as well

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72 points

The previous crop of insurrectionist losers got treated with kid gloves, so there would be no claim of political retribution. Kamala gets elected, the new ones will face a black woman prosecutor. Do you really want to be on the receiving end of that?

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They’ll just paint her as racist against white people - there’s always some bullshit spun they can parrot to their drones. But fuck em - they are weak and scared. I’ve not been this hopeful for the future of America in a hot minute - so I cannot wait to get out there and vote for Madam President Harris.

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10 points

I mean, actual racism being called out for generations has been habitually and systemically ignored. In the same way, demonstrably false charges can also be ignored.

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2 points

I don’t disagree. But magachuds

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0 points

And yet we’ve made progress.

Never go back

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47 points

didn’t he start shouting “they cheated!!!” months or years before the 2020 election too?

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39 points

The moment his polling was behind, just like this.

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27 points

He was screaming it was rigged after he won in 2016

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And before

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69 points

This man is a terrorist attacking America and so are his voters. They should be treated as such and put in jail.

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Ah yes, let’s combine is violent rhetoric with claims of jailing people for committing the crime of…falling for a conman and voting for him.

That’s the spirit.

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It may have started as falling for a conman. But at a certain point, you have to ask yourself at what point is each individual responsible for his threats to democracy.

You either are a willing and active participant or you are willfully ignorant.

I’ve met people on both sides of that spectrum and I’ll tell you right now, they no longer can claim they fell to his con.

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Until someone actually breaks a law, suggesting that people should.be jailed for who they vote for is something I expect out of an idiotic authoritarians mouth, like trump.

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12 points

Dude just stated that voting for him is a vote for ending democracy

Jail for terrorists

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I’ve seen plenty of people trying to justify it trying to convince themselves, and others, that this is not what he said. I’ve not seen a single person say it’s good that he would do that, but those people probably should be watched closely.

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1 point

They committed a crime. They should go to jail no matter how badly they go kicking and screaming. Who cares what Fox News says about it. Just get the National Guard ready. Why all the games to protect criminals?

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3 points

I was responding to someone saying we should jail people for voting for trump. That’s not a crime, just stupidity.

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0 points

says probably a centrist who has ignored every violent rhetoric the right has used for the last decade.

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0 points

If you have to make up a position to make someone wrong, you can rest assured even you realize you don’t have an actual argument.

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18 points

Yeah he should go all the way. Also, only the most badass alpha maga supporters wear their name, phone number and SSN printed on their shirts in large letters while they do it, completed with some thin blue line flags, a punisher skull, and a no regrats tattoo

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