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In his Truth Social tirade, Mr Trump slammed the August 2022 at his Florida home and private club.

“WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.

What’s he complaining about? Isn’t he the one who said the President can do no wrong?

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He’s not complaining. He’s establishing precedent.

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That seems like a dumb non-complaint that will nevertheless resonate with his paranoid base.

If you get pulled over for just rolling through a stop sign, did you know THE COP BRINGS THEIR GUN WITH THEM when they approach your car???

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Seems like a weird stance to try, considering how right-wing most police are.

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That was kind of my point. Trump is trying to speak to his base that has no problems with police violence or guns, but do somehow care when HE complains about how it affects HIM.

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Lethal? Don’t give me hope like that!

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82 points

Were they covered in pee? Asking for a friend.

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Tell Dmitry hey

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He says “watup?”

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Are you asking for LiquidGrue?

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There has never been an explanation of how a person who is a known rapist, known liar, known fraudster, known thief of classified documents, known seller of information which got operatives killed, is allowed to run for office. It defies explanation.

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I have an explanation:

Propaganda works really well.

The things you listed are what someone on the left thinks of Trump.

Someone who is: Tough on Crime™, Fights for Liberty™, Cares for Children™, a Successful Business Man™, Fights Wokeness™, Highly Intelligent™, Protects Democracy™, and Fights for Christianity™, is what those on the right are made to believe Trump is.

Propagandists are why Trump will win again…

I hate propagandists with every fiber of my being.

Not only do they give cover to this piece of shit, they make the right feel as if WE are oppressing and attacking them! They literally put us all in danger by making the right feel threatened by our existence.

This is NOT the same as us saying POLITICIANS on the right putting us in actual danger and actually oppressing us… One is saying Joe schmoe liberal is the danger, the other is saying Mitch Mcfuckbag in the Senate is a danger to us all.

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Someone who is: Tough on Crime™, Fights for Liberty™, Cares for Children™, a Successful Business Man™, Fights Wokeness™, Highly Intelligent™, Protects Democracy™, and Fights for Christianity™, is what those on the right are made to believe Trump is.

Even though each and every one of those things is a provably blatant lie.

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Protects Democracy™

That’s one that I don’t think right-wingers believe for a moment or care in the slightest about.

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“The Greeks were a bunch of woke gays anyway, good riddance” is what a Republican might say if they knew the Greeks invented democracy.

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I mean…none of those things are disqualifying for running for office, even if he were convicted of any crimes related to them, which he hasn’t been. Trump is a piece of shit, but yes he has a right to run for office. Now why people would still vote for him despite all that, is much more mysterious.

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he has a right to run for office.

The Republican party has allowed him to be their candidate for president.

They absolutely could choose to prevent him from having that role if they wanted to.

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And they don’t want that. Trump is extremely popular within the party. Not sure your point.

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The concept of AI weaponized mass propaganda on social media makes it less mysterious.

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They were lost long before AI was unleashed on them, get it right.

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Republicans see whatever they want in their candidates. They even bend to them. I mean “who here has never paid for a prostitute?” Is now something they say to defend Trump. There are no values, their foundation is nothing but their own reflections, and there is no meeting them in the middle, they just move the goal post (which pretty much makes Democrats enablers).

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They even bend to them. I mean “who here has never paid for a prostitute?” Is now something they say to defend Trump.

My favorite was when they started chanting “Real men wear diapers!” when it was revealed in court that Donald shits himself and has to wear a diaper.

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I think the issue is, if we were to make laws saying you cant run for president if you are convicted of a crime or suspected or whatever, it would give incentives to politicians to try to frame or imprison their political rivals. Then there are things like our drug laws that disproportionately target certain groups. All those people would be barred from running too.

It’s definitely an issue that needs to be resolved. One of so many…please help

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None of those are legally disqualifying. That’s the explanation.

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The judges he picked said the presidential office isn’t an office under the constitution so it is up to Republicans whether or not he runs

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Democrats vote for candidates they love; Republicans vote for a party they love.

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Republicans vote for who is going to do the most damage to America and “own the libs”

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Democrats vote for candidates they love

Love? For me that’s rare. It’s usually me voting for the lesser of two evils.

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And that’s why democrat candidates struggle to maintain voters. There are very few lovable democrats, so they don’t get votes. With republicans, it doesn’t matter if the individual candidates are lovable, because they’ll get the party vote regardless.

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Money. The answer is money.

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people have been screaming the answer at you, yet you ignore it. The American middle class was gutted by outsourcing labor and they’re not happy about it. It couldn’t get more simple.

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But that’s a non-answer since Trump’s party wants to make a lot of that worse

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It’s still an answer since most people base their vote on emotions and identity, not rational evaluation of policy.

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do you think they even care anymore? They lost everything, they just want to see the world burn. Again, I’m truly shocked by how you all lack empathy and fail to see the obvious.

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And yet no one died. Weird…

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You know that’s what Trump wasn’t talking about, and thus what I wasn’t talking about.

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What are you talking about then? His claim they were authorized to use deadly force?

I’m probably daft and missed the joke.

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They could have. We all know that the president can authorize killing his political opponents. I was told that was very cool.

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For all those who did not read or at least skim the article. FlyingSquirrel is referencing Trumps claims that the FBI was authorized to use deadly force when conducting their UnCoNsTiTuTiOnAl raid.

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*FlyingSquid

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It’s okay. I don’t mind being a squirrel.

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*Flying Squid 🙃

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For those of you who are confused about what FlyingSquid is talking about, Trump claims the FBI agents were authorized to use lethal force.

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You don’t know that.

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I absolutely do. If someone had died, Trump would never have shut the fuck up about it.

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Hell nobody died and he still hasn’t shut the fuck up about it.

The man has never shut the fuck up about anything, ever.

Well except for his currently underway trial that he was totally going to testify in, that the defense just rested their case without him testifying in. Because his lawyers know that not only can he not shut the fuck up, he can’t make it through 3 sentences without telling at least one blatantly obvious lie, and that is a generally unadvisable thing to do when you are under oath.

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Unless Trump himself died, and now he is a double.

Edit: I think we should post this conspiracy theory on 4chan.

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He won in 2016 and still brings that up

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So what days of the week is it that the FBI aren’t allowed to use deadly force?

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It’s dependent on wealth, not date.

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They actually use a two point ruler method. One axis is wealth. The other that family guy skin color test.

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that family guy skin color test

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