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It’s actually illegal to threaten the president. It’s not protected speech.

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And what are the consequences for Mr trump?

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Based on his record, a few articles snd forum posts explaining what should happen, all of which will be ignored by the legal system, there won’t even be a baliff giving Mr. Trump a heavy slap, which seems apropriate with how Mr. Trump behaves.

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Maybe a judge issues a $1,000 scolding and begs him not to do it again.

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None, as always. He’s the embodiment of how broken the “justice” system is.

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He’s the embodiment of how broken the “justice” system is.

Nothing broken about the (so-called) “justice” system. It’s working exactly as designed.

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According to the headline, he is to be flattened.

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Then slammed, and flattened again, and then kneaded, rolled, blasted, and risen. Then he’s gonna get SLICED.

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A slap on the wrist with a soggy spaghetti.

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He constructed it a little cleverly: Said that if it was a Republican, they’d be in the electric chair. I don’t think it was criminal.

Of course, he also openly tried to have his own vice president killed, and collects non-murder-related felonies like bottles for recycling, and at least so far all of that has been mostly okay of him to do, so I’m not sure how much it matters. 😕

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Bruh the only politician who has been flattened in the past 24 hours was Ebrahim Raisi.

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Bruh the only politician who has been flattened in the past 24 hours was Ebrahim Raisi.

too soon. also… was he flattened? or is he more of a smear?

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It’s schmear, we are civilized here.

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Got a bagel?

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too soon

No such thing.

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or is he more of a smear?

More like a shit stain or a skidmark if you will.

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It’s because they are righties posing as lefties or straight up from troll farms. The billionaire class along with Russia and China - all have a vested interest in seeing Biden fail. Trump serves their interests.

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Don’t forget Israel. Netanyahu would love to get Trump back so he can show the world what a genocide actually looks like.

The tankie trolls don’t even realize they’ve gone full mossad. Useful idiots.

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Sadly, the way the electoral college works, they only have to convince a few thousand people in key states and it could swing things hard. Trump has a basically bulletproof lock on his base, so this kind of Biden bashing is only going to pick up to try to sway people who likely aren’t paying that much attention. The right is throwing everything they can at this election. It’s worse than 2016 when Trump was a wild card. They are more organized and dangerous this time.

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The point is to keep a rolling discussion. If people see something enough it enters the zeitgeist. As demonstrated when I introduced some nuanced memes to the meme community’s and was immediately banned.

The troll farms know how to control the discussion and lemmy is just another the_donald but now they let past the filter some discussion because they need an audience before they can subjugate them.

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That’s because they’re all bots.

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Not as much. But I do notice you on every trump post insisting people are screaming both sides… and others taking legitimate criticism of biden as people screaming both sides.

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But I do notice you on every trump post insisting people are screaming both sides…

“Both sides” is just one of those things centrists say when they know they’re wrong but don’t want to change.

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Also my co-workers and conservative family love to say it whenever a Republican does something illegal or immoral. It’s a scape goat they throw out when they get backed into a corner and can’t face the fact that they’re wrong.

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Funny. I call myselft a centerist and don’t do that. Progressive/leftists don’t consider me progressive leftist because Im not in lockstep with everything the particular leftist/progressive believes in and they are right. Im left of center which means im firmly a democrat as republicans are no were near center at all. If someone is saying both sides I don’t think they are anywhere near to center. Its like saying both sides with the ukraine/russia thing.

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But I do notice you on every trump post insisting people are screaming both sides

Another common tactic/fallacy is exaggerating the claim. Example: saying something “screams” about “both sides”. The bit about screaming is unneeded and is just added to make it easy to argue against it.

and others taking legitimate criticism of biden as people screaming both sides

That’s not the same and not what is meant as “both sides”. And again, people aren’t screaming. I’d maybe take your comment more seriously if it didn’t ignore things while adding a fallacy to discuss a common fallacy.

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Some people go out of their way to not understand or not see something.

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Both sides do have legitimate criticisms. It’s very important to be critical of elected leaders.

But there are for more severe criticisms on one side than the other.

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Both sides are not the same, but they are both corrupt. The message of “both are the same” needs to be more specific.

The right side takes away rights, the left helps people. That’s great! Only while the decisions cater to things wanted. They only do what will get them in office.

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How corrupt is Joe Biden? The guy’s famous for being in the Senate for 30 years and never getting rich. Is he squeaky clean? I don’t know, but characterizing the situation as “both sides are corrupt” is close to disinformation.

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You’re saying that the bullshit artist formerly known as The Senator From MBNA isn’t corrupt?

The guy who’s received more in bribes from AIPAC throughput his career than his current net worth and has to be dragged kicking and screaming to not participate in Israel’s genocide even as over 60% of the people who voted for him are against it?

The guy who, after decades of promoting Amtrak (the company, never its workers) and railway companies in general took away the constitutional right to strike from rail workers, forcing them to accept a deal almost identical to the one from corporate that they had already overwhelmingly rejected?

The guy whose infrastructure deal, which the party preposterously touts as the best bill against climate change ever, makes any new renewable energy generation contingent on expanding federal fossil fuel leases manyfold and gives away public infrastructure to for-profit companies?

The guy whose solution to police brutality is to throw more money at cops?

The guy who, as a successful and ambitious politician moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware, a tiny state that just so happens to be the most corporate friendly one in the entire country, the one where most major corporations are registered in spite of being physically based elsewhere?

THAT’S the one you’re saying isn’t and never has been corrupt? Fucking REALLY?

That he doesn’t officially have a lot of money for a successful politician isn’t proof that he’s not corrupt.

He could be stashing most of his money in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands or one of the growing number of US tax shelter states.

He could be bribable with relatively small amounts of money.

He could just simply be bad at saving.

Either way, there’s NO way that Biden isn’t corrupt as fuck. That’s just not possible given his words and actions of the past 50+ years and today.

Oh and before you hit me with the usual Trump whataboutism: YES the Mango Mussolini is much worse in just about every way, including the amount and blatancy of corruption.

That Trump is indisputably worse is irrelevant to how corrupt Biden is.

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One uses a feather, the other beats you with a frozen chicken, but both are the same because they’re using poultry products.

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“MSNBC Hosts Express Mild Disapproval for Thing That Trump Will Face Zero Consequences for Saying”

There, fixed the headline.

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“MSNBC hosts… Oh nevermind. No one, left, right, or center, cares what they have to say on that network.”

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Well at least nobody got slammed

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He was flattened, but since his skin is made stitched-together whoopee cushions, he sprang back into shape as the gas built up.

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