I think everyone in this thread needs to re-watch the scene where Littlefinger and Cercei discuss power.
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Whattt? Is Trump saying that the US of A, the "greatest" country in the world, can't engage in its secondmost favourite activity which is literally suing people?
Not picking favourites, but the Biden administration, not even the Clinton administration, had this "skill issue".
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Impeachment doesn't require a congressional vote either then
Just a pull of an index finger.
I thought this was how he was elected.
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Lol.
America the brave is sitting by while a fat, orange felon rapist shits on our Constitution and tanks our economy.
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That's such a coincidence. Some guillotining could be done without trials too!
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
That's metal af.
*should
Some guillotining should be done without trials too.
Add it to the list of impeachable charges, we will give orange man a trial regardless.
Imagine impeachment actually being relevant.
You forgot his first term didn’t you? Lol
Articles of Impeachment need to be filed every week, add to the list of charges each time because there is plenty new every week.
A record of what happened > nothing
Wow! Imagine all the grandstanding that people will do with "records of what happened" while hoping that people vote differently next time!
I don't have all the answers, but isn't it obvious if the choice is Impeachment without removal vs no Impeachment? And the whole without removal isn't even guaranteed.
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Records don't mean shit when the ruling party is actively destroying records of things they don't like. History is written by the victors, and it's happening in real-time right now.
History is written by the victors, and it’s happening in real-time right now.
I am not declaring them the victors yet.
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Cool. Records. Awesome.
Impeachment is not an exclusive thing. Other avenues are still valid?
The US CAN, you fucking asswipe. You don't WANT to.
You are like a petulant child, only caring about what you want, you narcissistic prick.
Holding trial for the millions of people Trump wants to deport runs the very real and obvious possibility that not all the judges will rubber-stamp the deportations. In fact, you might start running into judges who deliberately obstruct the process because they have a visceral disgust for the practice of mass deportation.
Can't have that, because the goal is to ethnically cleanse the country. Once Trump decides deporting people to El Salvadorian death camps is too difficult / expensive, we're going to start seeing them spring up all over the interior of the country as well.
Key words there being "it wants to deport".
The problem isn't the trials, it's the selection criteria.
In other words, Trump says he can deport anyone he wants without trial.
Better make sure you always have your passport and birth certificate on you. And even then, that might not protect you.
ICE agents don't know nor care to know how to read, let alone how to ask for a passport.
If you are approached suspiciously by men in black, have your gun at the ready.
Better still, avoid travelling in the US and hope the Americans can reclaim their country from Trump and his merry band of fascists.
Better make sure you always have your passport and birth certificate on you.
Won't save you from an ICE that's happy to tear them up and deport you anyway. This isn't a legalist regime. Residential "legality" is just a talking point to justify totalitarianism.
If you believe a piece of paper is going to be a shield against a bunch of thugs with guns, you're going to be in for a hard and sharp awakening when people you know and love end up on the next round of deportation lists.
Won't work. That kind of evidence would be presented at a trial. For your average ICE agent, your documentation, and lack of criminal record makes it obvious that you have ties to a powerful street gang who is hiding your crimes.
This is literally what ICE has argued in the past few months.
Yeah. They literally said that that the lack of evidence is actually the evidence, and that it is proof of a hyperintelligent criminal who has lead a life of crime without ever being caught. And that is why they have no criminal records... because they are criminals who haven't been caught yet!
You should probably also make sure to have a copy at home in case they take it from you
I haven been to the US since the end of 2019.
I’m a citizen, but live abroad with my wife. I will be visiting my family this fall and I’m so happy my birth certificate is here. I’m totally bringing it with me just to be safe.
Is your wife from a background that could be remotely linked to something "bad" by crazy radicals?
that basically boils down to being from any part of the world that constitutes as Brown, Socialist, Controlled by China, or Controlled by Europe, in the Radical's view.
She’s not joining me on the trip. We debated about it while Biden was still in office and mainly decided that I’d just be catching up with friends and family and her getting a visa and a plane ticket is too costly and time consuming.
After current events, it was a no brainer.
Then we should reform our immigration policy so we can tax them right? That's the only carrot on a stick I think they conservatives might take.
They do pay taxes. This weird myth that immigrants somehow all live and work in the US for free is silly. They pay income tax if they work, they pay sales tax when they buy things, they pay property tax if they own a home or help someone financially who does.
Yeah, Elon and Bezos really need that money for important things. Like to fake sending plastic millionaires into space
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