Hey remember when people said “we need a domestic terrorism statute” and people like me said “that would be super ripe for abuse for whatever lunatic is in power, would you want Trump to have that power” and you sneered at “slippery slope thinking”? Yeah, I remember, dipshit.
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President Trump says that he is going to label incidents of violence/vandalism at Tesla dealerships as “domestic terrorism.”
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One of these is a trash container. The other one is trash.
Laws will not constrain dictators. Only people acting honorably will.
There isn't one honorable person within 500 miles of Donald Trump and his minions are breaking 1000 laws every minute.
“It doesn’t matter if we give them laws that make it easy to attack protestors because I think they just will anyway” is unforgivably fucking moronic.
Trump is shredding the constitution in hundreds of clear ways. Republicans are bragging about breaking laws. We are past any individual law mattering. Article 1 is gone.
But so happy they are announcing it’s hurting the African snowflake.😎
I remember that lapse being a big deal, and people pretended it never happened.
It … didn’t come up much in my rural volunteer traffic cop career.
Any Republicans in Congress want to speak up about this or is their plan to just be part of the State Duma?
They're just setting Trump up with softballs.
The Republican motto is Do unto others first and with overwhelming force so they cannot do unto you.
I've seen some pathetic things in my time but this make me vomit out my arse.
I feel sorry for young men in America seeking a role model these days.
Oh, right. I believe he called it patriotism and pardoned all the goons and lunatics. Now I remember.
Witness the abuse of "libel" in attacks on media.
The abuse isn't the result of a law but a corrupt executive and corrupt judiciary that can be counted on to be ppartial.
Yes, poorly drafted laws invite abuse but there is no way to block a lawless regime with better laws.
But note how anti-discrimination laws are being used to preserve discrimination, as a result of a corrupt executive and judiciary.
And yes, we will hear from certain quarters that that this is why anti-discrimination laws are "bad".
Only a rabbit hole. We’re already so deep in it we’re forgetting what the sun feels like.
Even poor little old me can afford to refurbish my wardrobe every few years, so WTH is wrong with Mr. I'm Rich, So Very, Very Rich?? 🤔
except with less class
Long past time to provide a clear definition of "domestic terrorism."
I think we would’ve seen people put to the wall for what they tried to do; if the military was in charge.
For two, unless you wanted Biden to invoke martial law*, the military wouldn't have jurisdiction.
*Almost certainly starting a war in the process