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u/Sam_Eu_Sou 2d ago
Also, if a bad government takes away your civil rights and you're waiting on a "good one" to restore them -- even if they manage to do so, you've made no real progress.
You're just in a fcking time loop. :-/
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u/prpslydistracted 2d ago
We used to ... it isn't just one criminally inspired President it is the political party that wholeheartedly supports him to do this. Destroy the party, destroy the President who lied his way into the Presidency.
The GOP is inherently evil and he is their cult leader.
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u/shewantsrevenge75 2d ago
who lied his way into the Presidency.
Don't you mean bought his way in?
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u/oneofmanyany 2d ago
Trump lied and lies all the time. He said that the 2020 election was stolen. He said Obama didn't have a birth certificate -among many other lies.
Now Trump will start saying that the Stock Market is way up, even though it is way down. Trump thinks if he repeats something over and over again, he can overcome reality. And he is right regarding his supporters. But I will never believe anything he says.
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u/Rodharet50399 1d ago
The cult of Trump is a distraction from the true evil. Drilled down on Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. Vance is a more terrifying character than Trump, and they all must go.
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u/prpslydistracted 1d ago
They're on board for the destruction but neither them or any other billionaire is President. He's one-person wrecking ball bringing the stupid and fearful horde along with him. He'll start hearing from CEOs other than Musk the deeper their stock tanks; it will be so bad there will be no recovery.
Major Depression, food shortages, massive layoffs and homelessness ... worldwide. If I were part of the White House press that accompanies him around on AF One, I would seriously think about taking commercial transportation.
It used to be looney people who tried to assassinate the President; now the whole world wants to see him gone, not just terrorists. Since Trump thinks Signal is a fine means of communication to discuss sensitive war plans and security, then he fired the most experienced and effective head of security on the advice of a crazed woman; it's going to get terribly bad terribly fast.
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u/Reneeisme 2d ago
Laws are like money. They are only worth what we say they are worth. We built the laws to prevent any one person from taking our rights away. We built a system of checks and balances to protect those laws and rights. And now a big chunk of the country has decided those checks and balances don't mean anything, and rights are gifts. If you don't agree with that, you have to do something to protect the laws we already have, which are perfectly adequate so long as we all abide by them.
Electing a man who doesn't think he had to abide by ANY law, is your first mistake. No law or system you can make will protect you from a King, if enough people decide a king is what they want.
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u/ajtrns 2d ago
it's implied that all rights are inalienable in spirit but materially dependent on the just behavior of your fellow humans. there exists no other system.
certainly there exist other ways of triggering mass enforcement/safeguarding of rights when a dictator arises. current way has failed.
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u/nofunatallthisguy 1d ago
Even if it is academic, this is important. Your inalienable rights do not exist because of the constitution or the supreme court, your inalienable rights pre-exist these institutions that merely serve to divine them, nothing more.
That doesn't help anyone preserve their bodily autonomy in practice, I know. But at least the theory is there.
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u/EducationalBrick2831 2d ago
Drumpfs Removal and Trampling on our Rights does in no way make any of it Legal! His "Executive Orders" are also in NO WAY, Legal. We just have the Bottom of the Swamp that he Appointed knowing full well they're all YES men & women. We also have Corrupt ICE and ALL its "Police" that are no more the THUGS with a Badge. None of them need to Follow Illegal Orders but they do, because they are Rotten little people.
This is all Exactly as Hitler did and Thousands Followed his Agenda. Then Cry "They just followed orders"
Illegal Orders are Not Orders at all. I hope our Military will do their Duties and Refuse that Traitors Illegal Orders when they come, and they will !
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u/lordmwahaha 2d ago
It quite literally means nothing that it’s “not legal”, because no one is upholding the law. There is literally a legal judgement in place that Trump CANNOT be considered to have broken the law while he is president. He has total immunity. He can do whatever the fuck he wants.
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u/EducationalBrick2831 1d ago
Yes I agree. But we all know that Supreme court Doc is 100% Trash. Yes they're using it. But in my book it's still illegal. They stacked the court with Lying Clowns as Biased as hell and don't care they sat in Congress and Lied in front of the entire world! It's truly sickening.
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u/BurtonDesque 2d ago
This is a nice sentiment but, as we see presently, no system is proof against deliberate sustained malice.
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u/vpblackheart 2d ago
I've been asking that myself.
How can 3 crackpots:
Basically destroy our entire systems of checks and balances in 2 months?
Eliminate critical government functions and fire important employees?
Insult foreign leaders and threaten them with force?
Reverse important laws and rights that people depend upon for healthcare, due process, financial stability, all while insulting people and ruining lives?
Thinking tariffs and destroying the stock market will make the US better?
It hurts to see this taking place while ⅓ of our country wanted this to happen. 😢
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u/oneofmanyany 2d ago
This summarizes beautifully why I have been so worried. We have all lost rights under this president. The only way we will get them back is if he is prosecuted but the Supreme Court has screwed us over on that.
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u/Lefty-boomer 2d ago
Agree. If we get Trump and the GOP out things need to be codified and strengthened so this cannot happen
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u/Able-Campaign1370 2d ago
We voted our rights away.
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u/littlebeach5555 1d ago
It’s not that simple. This plan has been in motion for the last 25 years. Our rights, jobs, culture, freedoms have been eroding for a while. Trump is just the clown in the suit.
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u/ChellPotato 1d ago
Our country is finding out the hard way that there is no real recourse when a president just does what he wants and doesn't care about how things are SUPPOSED to be done.
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u/hungeringforthename 2d ago
Anarchy is the only way. Any governmental structure that allows people to hold hierarchical power enforced by violence will inevitably be used by bad actors to further their own ambitions at the expense of anyone whom it is convenient to crush underfoot.
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u/jarandhel 2d ago
So skip straight to anarchy, where bad actors can crush the weak underfoot directly with no government to stop them?
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u/Nearby_Star9532 2d ago
That was the intention and the power of the constitution and separate branches of government, by and for the people. What we have now is a wanna be dictator.
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u/DocumentExternal6240 2d ago
Totally agree. Democracy is the power of the people.
We, the people….