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[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when he wouldn't put his hand in the Bible when he took his oath of office?

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This isn’t facebook, no one cares if he follows esoteric religious traditions.

The problem is that he won’t follow legal requirements that protect us normal people.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but it's funny that his base of evangelical Christians doesn't give a shit.

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Unsurprising because from what I've seen they don't give a shit about the actual teachings of Christ.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

You mean the brown Palestinian Jewish socialist? Yeah they would be hanging him if he came back.

[–] notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Immediately disqualified from office. Whoever stops this menace is going to be considered a national hero, regardless of their methods.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Dear Canada and Europe, please save us from the Republicans.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck that. I wanna know where all my sharpshooter vets are at. I'm a Navy Nuke. I don't have the skills to pull it off, but I'll give it the old college try if he comes to my neck of the woods. He is a clear and present domestic threat to The Constitution.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It's not just him. It's the infrastructure supporting the Nazi regime.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Do it yourself. Your people voted for it. Wether they voted for him or didnt vote. This is on your people.

Worst regards a german

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We saved you from the Third Reich. This would be repayment?

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 hours ago

Oooh there we go again the only thing you americans have, sweeping in in the last 2 years while making profit off of the war all the years before, and even being the reason for the nazis with willsons "be democratic somehow or we wont make peace", the great depression, enormouse amout of debt basicly killing the young and very fragile democracy before it began and so much more

You didnt do that alone. You came at the end. The resistance in germany, france, britain and all other occupied terretories, gave more.

The "debt" germany paid off years ago. Afghanistan, the numerouse desert wars, money we spend on the USA and we had our country destroyed thanks to the nazis.

Ww2 is all you americans know hm? Shouldnt have voted him in, he made it way clearer what his goals were than Adolf ever did

[–] Eggyhead 5 points 7 hours ago

Someone should make sure he at least knows what those words mean first.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well he's the president, so he should really get clear on that. Immediately.

[–] Thoven@lemdro.id 7 points 9 hours ago

He is clear on it, he just doesn't want to admit it

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 19 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

So the social contract is null and void.

And force is the only thing backing up power now with only resistance stopping it.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 206 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This comment, all by itself, is an impeachable offense. Sigh.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can you imagine if Obama said this? Did literally any of these things?

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Or Biden. Or Harris.

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He swore an oath to the very thing he doesn't give a shit about.

The constitutional crisis happened on swearing in day.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

He swore an oath to it, TWICE!

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The person being sworn in as President by the Chief Justice that day was ineligible for office according to the 14th Amendment section 3. And he could only do that because Congress neglected its Constitutional duty to enforce that provision.

That is all three branches of the government colluding to break the Constitution to put an ineligible man into the highest office.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

All three branches ran by his sycophants, the Republicans.

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Many things are impeachable offenses; but nothing is convictable.

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

It would be hilarious if instead of asking this, the reporter asked him to define "due process"

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 28 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"Of course I know what due process is. A lot of my friends are due process experts, and they're always telling me 'Donald, you do so much process. Nobody does process as brilliantly as you.'"

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

This is coming from the same administration that thought transgenic mice were transgender mice. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he actually comes out with something like this.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 9 points 19 hours ago

I noticed recently that the annotated constitution website suggests visitors to search "due process" in the search bar.

https://constitution.congress.gov/

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 97 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We treat him better than any criminal and he still cries about being treated unfairly... anyone else in America would be behind bars right now.

[–] ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We even have a real life example of this with all of the January 6th convictions resulting in jail time whereas his Highness was protected by a fascist judge who stalled the court proceedings at every opportunity.

Judge Aileen Cannon needs to be removed from her position, never be allowed to hold any judicial or public office position, and charged with obstruction of justice.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely, and it also didn't help that Merrick Garland (who, let me remind you, was only nominated for SCOTUS in the first place because Obama thought he was so conservative that not even McConnell could object to him) slow-walked the case for two years to begin with.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 23 hours ago

A jury of his peers literally found him guilty of several felonies.

Upon sentencing, the judge said, "Woopsie! I guess we can't put you in prison because you're a president now. Oh well."

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

Presidents should do something, like some form of oath, to uphold this kind of things. And pass a test to ensure they understand all the complicated words.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Someone fucking murder Trump already.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

If only, if only

-The Woodpecker sighs.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 28 points 1 day ago

Trump is just the highly visible part of a whole cancerous growth. All of the right wing, with its "outgroups to bind and in-groups to protect" worldview, needs to go.

[–] InsincereLogic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a foreigner, but the gun to attempt ratio surely doesn't add up statistically, surely? Those are rookie numbers, y'all gotta' pump those up!

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a bit of the bystander effect, and the fact that he's in office now, and not just protected by secret service. Bush Jr. Saw the White House get fortified into a military facility. It has fucking anti-aircraft defenses. Obama saw the motorcade get overhauled into a series of what amount to tanks. Supposedly the glass and armor can withstand at least one RPG hit( the type with the shaped charged that cuts through steel) .

Whatever defenses Trump didn't know he had in 2016, he knows about now and then some. A straight up assassination isn't feasible - even if you could get ahold of his actual schedule, the type of equipment you'd need to reach him is way out of the hands of your normal citizen.

And then, even if you could get your hands on that equipment - you have to be able to use it. That drastically narrows the number of people who can pull it off to pretty much exclusively former military. And most of that kind of stuff isn't "lone Wolf" stuff so now it's further reduced.

Further anyone who goes around and admits they have the Intel, the training, the equipment, and the plan to do it in any capacity online will probably be outed before they can pull it off.

The only way the Regime goes down is by popular resistance. The only way we get to popular resistance is through protesting in person and seeing the numbers and communicating without leaving traces.

It's happening, but it's slow because the US is so unfathomably spread out. It takes time to move people places where we are used to instant communication. The Regime knows this. That's why they send military convoys to arrest a guy posting flyers identifying HSI personnel. They can only delay at this point, but they're either too stupid to realize that every thing they try now adds fuel to the fire, or they intend for it to all fall apart anyway.

[–] InsincereLogic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek about it all, but I very much understand what you're saying and I do agree. I know the odds are very much not in favour of anyone who would attempt to "Lone Wolf" it, and expecting that too happen and solve all of the current issues plaguing the US isn't feasible.

I really do hope y'all can get through and past this, from one citizen of the world to another <3

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If that's not one of the first questions Monday morning from the White House Press pool they should all be fired. What other Oaths does he not know if needs to uphold? What other parts of the Constitution which he took an oath to defend and uphold does he not believe in?

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 6 points 19 hours ago

Well, as another example, he doesn't know what rhe Declaration of Independence is about. See timestamp 3:18. https://youtu.be/GBwCUPttprw

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Asked in the interview whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve due process as laid out in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, Trump was noncommittal.

“I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when pressed by Welker.

Do you need to be a lawyer to be aware of the Bill of Rights? He's been President for more than 4 total years, head of the executive branch charged with executing the law for the entire country, has a whole staff of lawyers advising him, and has, himself, pled the 5th (!) and he's still not even familiar with the 5th amendment?

[–] Batman@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Dementia is a path to many inconsistencies some consider to be... a big deal

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

And he's sworn to uphold the Constitution (though a serial liar like him is about as trustworthy as a fox watching the chicken house)

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If any other president ... Democrat or Republican ... had come out and said the things Turnip has said over the years, they would have lost their political careers by now

The problem isn't this orange idiot, the problem is the mass of people, politicians, funders, enablers and wealthy backers who want this moron in power. Turnip is a powerless fool .... it's the people who keep him power that are the problem

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Just wait till it affects him personally and he will.

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It already did and he got off scot-free because of it.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In classic Conservative fashion he benefited from due process when he needed it and now he wants to remove it so others can't benefit from it.

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[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

He obviously doesn't. Which constitution defying EO led anyone to believe he gives a single fuck??

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