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Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Take 'Unquestioned Power' Following No Kings Protests | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] Des@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it's weird how threatened they are by those protests. i can't figure out if it's just them "trolling" or they are actually threatened by a bunch of (mostly) libs just having a street fair

it's like, you are supposed to let the libs enjoy their playpen and ignore it but they can't help but get wound up into searing white hot rage by even the basic pressure relief valve stuff

really interesting times. i don't think we use historical fascists as a good weather vane for what might be coming, because everything is so twisted and brain poisoned from the internet.

it's like society was forced into a kind of ad hoc gesalt consiousness and we are all swinging back and forth trapped inside a demented sociopaths inner monologue and intrusive thoughts

[–] Red_October@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s faux outrage to appease their supporters. The No Kings Protest brought to you by the democratic party and fuckin wallmart are exactly what they want. They get nothing done, they’re nonviolent, they placate liberals and fixate their attention, and they’re an instagram moment for millennials and gen x with their “blah blah brunch” signs. What everyone was seeing in L.A. at the time the original no kings was announced is the opposite of what they want. People burning cop cars because they are losing their relatives the fucking gestapo getting shitloads of support and attention from the public. Notice how they’re doing this one while Chicago and Illinois are going down? Literally Nazis pulling children out of houses? Calling liberals snakes is an insult to snakes.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

everyone who knew the outrage machine was just bullshitting for votes is dead, your fox news granddad runs the country now

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I feel like these people were begging for some sort of great left wing uprising on the scale of George Floyd in 2020 that would allow them to go full scorched Earth on their opponents and since they haven’t gotten it they need to lathe it into existence.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Noo don't be violent at the protests it's just giving Drumpf what he wants!

Drumpf: [does whatever the fuck he wants regardless]

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Ah! Well, nevertheless

[–] Moonstruck_Theorist@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

The President Has Claimed PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure the Democrats will fight tooth and nail to ensure that Israel will still be able to exterminate its neighbors

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Fight harder for em than their country. Even circumventing congress

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

Thank God this article points out that that would be illegal!

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

I feel like his brain is too pudding to remember to actually do it, and he'll have forgotten 5 minutes after that quote.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Barron Trump buys put options on Spirit Halloween 30 minutes before the Insurrection Act is invoked (they sell the inflatable frog costumes)

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The truanon sub was being weird about the costumes and very few seemed to realize that irs October and costumes are readily available

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Also a lot of people probably still have random inflatable costumes in their attic or garage. I did see quite a few frogs at NKD but I saw a lot of other random ones as well.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

maybe i was wrong yesterday about protests maybe they will accomplish something after all 🙃

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

sorry, but my money is on the Alien and Sedition act. Odds are +300

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

i mean, go for it bruh. the sooner he demonstrates that there are zero checks on executive power at all, that it was always theater and there's no reason to have a legislative or judicial branch at all, that all activity inside the US lives or dies by executive decree.... we can get this charade over with.

A C C E L E R A T E

i'm just amazed by how pissed he seems to be about symbolic protest theater.

[–] Clippy@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

maybe should have been "no emperors", instead of "no kings".

but in seriousness, yikes.

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

"No more court cases... no more anything" sounds like a Hero who achieved great power before turning to nihilism and deciding to end the world.