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Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners (www.rawstory.com)

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 201 points 4 months ago

Bruh the only politician who has been flattened in the past 24 hours was Ebrahim Raisi.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

Bruh the only politician who has been flattened in the past 24 hours was Ebrahim Raisi.

too soon. also... was he flattened? or is he more of a smear?

[-] Woovie@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

It's schmear, we are civilized here.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

too soon

No such thing.

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[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 195 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's actually illegal to threaten the president. It's not protected speech.

[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 95 points 4 months ago

And what are the consequences for Mr trump?

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 73 points 4 months ago

Based on his record, a few articles snd forum posts explaining what should happen, all of which will be ignored by the legal system, there won't even be a baliff giving Mr. Trump a heavy slap, which seems apropriate with how Mr. Trump behaves.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Maybe a judge issues a $1,000 scolding and begs him not to do it again.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

None, as always. He's the embodiment of how broken the "justice" system is.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

He’s the embodiment of how broken the “justice” system is.

Nothing broken about the (so-called) "justice" system. It's working exactly as designed.

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[-] hoch@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

According to the headline, he is to be flattened.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He constructed it a little cleverly: Said that if it was a Republican, they'd be in the electric chair. I don't think it was criminal.

Of course, he also openly tried to have his own vice president killed, and collects non-murder-related felonies like bottles for recycling, and at least so far all of that has been mostly okay of him to do, so I'm not sure how much it matters. 😕

[+] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 164 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] WhatIsThePointAnyway@lemmy.world 86 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It’s because they are righties posing as lefties or straight up from troll farms. The billionaire class along with Russia and China - all have a vested interest in seeing Biden fail. Trump serves their interests.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago

Don't forget Israel. Netanyahu would love to get Trump back so he can show the world what a genocide actually looks like.

The tankie trolls don't even realize they've gone full mossad. Useful idiots.

[+] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] WhatIsThePointAnyway@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Sadly, the way the electoral college works, they only have to convince a few thousand people in key states and it could swing things hard. Trump has a basically bulletproof lock on his base, so this kind of Biden bashing is only going to pick up to try to sway people who likely aren’t paying that much attention. The right is throwing everything they can at this election. It’s worse than 2016 when Trump was a wild card. They are more organized and dangerous this time.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

This is important. Our system is so fucked that the only votes that matter are a few thousand people in a few swing states.

Let that sink in for a minute. A few thousand people, in a country of 340 million, will decide if we have a boring, mildly effective hypocrite as president or a raging racist rapist bent on our collective destruction. I’m not telling people to stay home, every single person who is able, should vote for Biden. But 99% of our presidential votes are meaningless.

The electoral college has got to go. Reminder that the last republican to win the popular vote in a presidential election was George W. Bush in 2004, and that was almost certainly because of 9/11. Extreme right-wing ideas are not popular with the majority of Americans, but the system is set up so the crazies get to grab power anyway. Minority rule is the antithesis of what this place is supposed to be about.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Not as much. But I do notice you on every trump post insisting people are screaming both sides... and others taking legitimate criticism of biden as people screaming both sides.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

But I do notice you on every trump post insisting people are screaming both sides…

"Both sides" is just one of those things centrists say when they know they're wrong but don't want to change.

[-] ExtraPartsLeft@kbin.social 10 points 4 months ago

Also my co-workers and conservative family love to say it whenever a Republican does something illegal or immoral. It's a scape goat they throw out when they get backed into a corner and can't face the fact that they're wrong.

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[-] baru@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

But I do notice you on every trump post insisting people are screaming both sides

Another common tactic/fallacy is exaggerating the claim. Example: saying something "screams" about "both sides". The bit about screaming is unneeded and is just added to make it easy to argue against it.

and others taking legitimate criticism of biden as people screaming both sides

That's not the same and not what is meant as "both sides". And again, people aren't screaming. I'd maybe take your comment more seriously if it didn't ignore things while adding a fallacy to discuss a common fallacy.

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[-] KroninJ@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Both sides are not the same, but they are both corrupt. The message of "both are the same" needs to be more specific.

The right side takes away rights, the left helps people. That's great! Only while the decisions cater to things wanted. They only do what will get them in office.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 54 points 4 months ago

How corrupt is Joe Biden? The guy's famous for being in the Senate for 30 years and never getting rich. Is he squeaky clean? I don't know, but characterizing the situation as "both sides are corrupt" is close to disinformation.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

You're saying that the bullshit artist formerly known as The Senator From MBNA isn't corrupt?

The guy who's received more in bribes from AIPAC throughput his career than his current net worth and has to be dragged kicking and screaming to not participate in Israel's genocide even as over 60% of the people who voted for him are against it?

The guy who, after decades of promoting Amtrak (the company, never its workers) and railway companies in general took away the constitutional right to strike from rail workers, forcing them to accept a deal almost identical to the one from corporate that they had already overwhelmingly rejected?

The guy whose infrastructure deal, which the party preposterously touts as the best bill against climate change ever, makes any new renewable energy generation contingent on expanding federal fossil fuel leases manyfold and gives away public infrastructure to for-profit companies?

The guy whose solution to police brutality is to throw more money at cops?

The guy who, as a successful and ambitious politician moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware, a tiny state that just so happens to be the most corporate friendly one in the entire country, the one where most major corporations are registered in spite of being physically based elsewhere?

THAT'S the one you're saying isn't and never has been corrupt? Fucking REALLY?

That he doesn't officially have a lot of money for a successful politician isn't proof that he's not corrupt.

He could be stashing most of his money in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands or one of the growing number of US tax shelter states.

He could be bribable with relatively small amounts of money.

He could just simply be bad at saving.

Either way, there's NO way that Biden isn't corrupt as fuck. That's just not possible given his words and actions of the past 50+ years and today.

Oh and before you hit me with the usual Trump whataboutism: YES the Mango Mussolini is much worse in just about every way, including the amount and blatancy of corruption.

That Trump is indisputably worse is irrelevant to how corrupt Biden is.

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

One uses a feather, the other beats you with a frozen chicken, but both are the same because they're using poultry products.

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[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 97 points 4 months ago

“MSNBC Hosts Express Mild Disapproval for Thing That Trump Will Face Zero Consequences for Saying”

There, fixed the headline.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 4 months ago

"MSNBC hosts... Oh nevermind. No one, left, right, or center, cares what they have to say on that network."

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago

What was he flattened with?

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 50 points 4 months ago

Flattened is what finally happens after you’ve been slammed too many times

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Or POUNDED.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

SLAMMED!

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[-] SloppySol@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

Flattery?

[-] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Applause

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

fLaTtEnEd

i'm so fucking tired

[-] enleeten@discuss.online 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I wonder if the Secret Service has evaluated scenarios where a former president tries to assassinate the sitting president?

It's probably not totally impossible given the history of humanity with kings and warlords and whatnot.

[-] theparadox@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's not "tries to assassinate" it's "tries to have assassinated". Something tells me Trump couldn't assassinate a stuff deer.

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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

This is more like "won't somebody rid me of this troublesome president?"

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[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mildly verbally criticized = flattened

How about a headline where he is arrested, held, charged, tried, and convicted? All much more convincing verbage.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Authoritarian strongman makes veiled threat against political opponent, followers feign ignorance

In other news, the sky is still blue

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 27 points 4 months ago

Trump flattened

With a hydraulic press?

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

like and subscribe!

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

That is a terrible thing to suggest, how sick and cruel to treat a hydraulic press in such a way. Even in jest!

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 4 months ago

Just compare him to Hitler already and be done with it, pussy-assed media.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

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