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[–] [email protected] 140 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

He's not complaining. He's establishing precedent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Were they covered in pee? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

He says "watup?"

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (5 children)

And yet no one died. Weird...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

*FlyingSquirrel

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago

The former president, in a typically loud post on his social media platform Truth Social, claimed that FBI agents had been authorized to use ‘deadly force’ during the raid of his Florida property

Yet another missed opportunity by Merrick Garland's Department of Justice.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's dependent on wealth, not date.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All he does is lash out and shit his Depends. He is literally a toddler

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Rage against it all you like, the people have spoken. One of the definitions of "literally" is literally "figuratively" now.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Literally has officially been a contranym for a few years now.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

Also McDonald Trump

"Please don't be too nice," he said to the audience in Long Island, New York.

"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’" he said.

"When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head]," Trump continued, mimicking the motion. "Like, 'Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.' I said, 'You can take the hand away, OK?'

"I have to tell you, you know, the laws are so horrendously stacked against us, because for years and years, they've been made to protect the criminal. Totally made to protect the criminal. Not the officers. You do something wrong, you're in more jeopardy than they are," he added.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

Lashes out = pouts like a spoilt lil baby

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It is strange he never gets flak for the amount of excuses he has for every situation. It is always someone or some group who is against him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action"

What's the one millionth time...

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this enough to lock him away and make him irrelevant again? …probably not

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean make him more popular with the pro-russian anti-vax Qanut base? Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you think locking him up would make him more popular, you fundamentally don't understand Republicans. They value power and hierarchy. They value doing things and getting away with them.

They are not like Democrats and liberals who value ideas. There are no Republican martyrs. When Nixon resigned, Republicans stopped talking to him.

Don't you remember how quiet it was when Biden was elected? Trump couldn't get on TV anymore. Maybe he would call in to a show or two, but he didn't have any rallies and nobody interviewed him. When Republicans go to jail nobody supports them, because they value hierarchy.

The whole point of hierarchy is that you're untouchable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Exactly. As soon as he's out of sight he's forgotten about. There won't be any martyrdom if he goes to jail. They'll just move on to whoever the angry talking heads stear them towards.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (34 children)

[he] claimed that FBI agents had been authorized to use ‘deadly force’ during the raid of his Florida property

God, I wish that happened.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

I mean, aren't they always? If someone starts shooting at an FBI agent they're not going to call their field office for permission to shoot back.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Honestly, the most shocking thing for me about that search was the fact they've never reported finding CSAM anywhere along with the classified docs. I seriously expected no less of him.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Any statement that begins with WOW!!! Is going to be followed with complete bullshit. Trump isn’t even trying to obscure his gaslighting anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

'Lashes out' every time I see this shit I just imagine him throwing a tantrum like the petulant geriatric child he is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

MAGA God, "Let those who do not raw dog pornstars while thier wife is at home taking care of their newborn in her own personal bedroom and store classified material in thier pesonal bedrooms where thier wife will not sleep with them, cast the first stone"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Maybe his bedroom is just where be conducted his meetings... More hush payments will be necessary.

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