It's not illegal to burn the flag. Any flag.
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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More confederates should have had their heads blown off instead of lukewarm acceptance back into the union
Some say that the war would have lasted longer and guerrilla campaigns continues and more martyrs... but I say fuck em' hard. That type of shit deserves nothing. All the plantations should have been split snd given to armed black farmers that are under federal protection with extremely stringent gun control on the south for a few decades to prevent an uprising.
The files ARE the distraction
Trump rapes children.
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I don't understand how these commenters don't realize that. We already know he's in them, we already know he raped children, we already know they won't release any evidence of that willingly... What are they hoping to accomplish?
It's time to go out in the streets and demand his head in a basket, but they're insisting on simply asking him to release the evidence of his guilt instead of being angry at every new power consolidation move.
To be fair, I got enough anger for the man that I can I be both wanting the list released and being pissed at all the bullshit he does.
This comment is missing the magic technology called "both".
Where can I contribute to the legal fund?
Guy was already released actually
Y’all know this is just so they can replay clips of their “opposition” burning flags on Fox News. To vilify more people is the only goal here.
Funny. I can’t wait to fight a civil war against Fox News viewers. So we can be done with their genes. Not like the Jazzy militia will have any capabilities.
Trunp and Magats are such effing snowflakes they need a safe space.
Like prison?
How can you make an executive order like that? That’s not exactly an order.
That would need to be a law, passed by Congress.
This dude has gone so fucking nuts with executive orders left and right out the ass, that no one is even asking wtf? It’s not supposed to be the magical “I can do anything” card. But everyone is ok with this I guess…
It doesn't matter, Trump can legally do whatever he wants, he's a king. 1/3rd of the population of America believes that Trump can rule unilaterally. The other 2/3rds are scared of the first and they should be. Trump and MAGA have the executive branch, the judicial branch, the legislative branch, the armed forces, law enforcement, immigration enforcement, and wall street in their side. They only group not on Trump's side is the general public and it should be pretty obvious now that he doesn't have any use for the general public. Trump won. He's king of The United States of America, I suggest you start to think about what you're going to do about it.
Team Loser coming in hot today.
Everybody on that side is terrified their "friends" will kill them, and lots of them are looking for any excuses to get away. People are actively and successfully getting in his way constantly. He's backed down a whole bunch of times, in significant ways, and every victory goes unreported because the corporate news are all pussies, so, by definition, team good guy is doing much, much better than any news networks anywhere will report.
Way to help them.
Also, that fat dork will fall down the stairs and choke on mcdonalds, and then couch fucker is gonna have all the backstabbers targeting him, and it will be significantly easier to get them to all fight each other.
The US doesn't have a king now, and it's not going to.
Yeah, you know, except the general public does all the things that keep the country working.
Not saying a nationwide strike is easy, or even doable, but a week of that would have Wall Street power brokers contacting mercenary outfits for pricing on a presidential assassination.
My advice to Americans is to leave if they can
Running will do for a spell. But I intend to stay and (politically) fight.
Besides, I'm not sure anywhere is significantly better than USA for places to stand against it. No place with humans is immune to the disease of leader worship.
Iran was once a relatively tolerant democracy. Then the people who actually take their religion seriously took over.
Where do you propose those 300 million people go?
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Both congress and the Supreme Court handed ceded all their power to the executive branch. We have a dictator now, full stop. This country is run by the whims of a pedophile protecting (at best), rapist, criminal (convicted, not punished - REWARDED).
No, just the only people who can actually do something about it.
Most people don't know that it is the legislative branch that's supposed to create laws. Oh who am I kidding? Most Americans don't even know there are three branches of government.
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I smell a lawsuit.
That might actually be the point.
Oh good, it'll get up to the supreme court soon so we can hear about how the president can unilaterally say "fuck the constitution," actually.
Jesus Christ, what is wrong with humans
quite a bit, but right now the issue is more with american republicans
Jesus Christ, what is wrong with ~~humans~~ Americans?
Ftfy
That was fast, good on that guy. Will this be a watershed moment when his infernal majesty's decrees are challenged?
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