‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech
‘Maybe we should go after you’ Trump threatens ABC reporter asking about free speech
There was period of time during Trump's last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of "not the onion" headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.
I remember one was like "Judge determines woman can't prove she didn't want to be set on fire."
This would fit in nicely.
Huh.......I'm trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn't want to be set on fire.
I can't think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also.....how did THAT headline happen???
The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn't know she didn't want to participate.
Most of the time when weird questions like that involving consent come up, I assume it probably involved some kind of sex thing.
my lay person understanding of the law is that in situations like these you don't need to prove what should be so overwhelmingly self-evident
there's probably some Latin phrase for it a lawyer would just know but when a thing is so far away from a gray area of reasonableness you're fine
you shouldn't need hard evidence, people as a rule don't like to set themselves on fire
If you don't want to be called a Nazi, stop doing Nazi shit you sack of human shit.
Trump always had this knack of revealing his intentions when he thought he could just hit back at people.
That's nothing new.
But what he reveals is indeed getting worse every day, or at least: every day of 2025 it is much worse than before that.
This, ladies and germs, is narcissistic dictatorial megalomania. Let's hope it he won't last long.
I hoped it wouldn't last long back in January.
And that was like 10-15 years ago
Let's hope it won't last long.
Just hoping he goes away doesn't strike me as a good strategy. So probably that's what the Democrats will go with.
Also, dementia
In Washington, nobody dared to go out on the streets or eat in restaurants.
Oh remember restaurants? So lovely how it used to be you know. The restaurants. Of course they were shut down by the terrible crime and the covid.
Of course I’m a very good driver . . . yeah. Uh oh. Fart.
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Trump is using the "bully pulpit" to bully people out of their constitutional rights.
Ah yes, open threats leveraging intentional division, like a true leader
[insert “where are the epstein files” gif]
Any asshole posting about a "general strike" with no support fund and no organization of their strikers is a fed.
The second is there to defend the first.
Anytime you win, you know it when he starts talking about how hot the country is
Ho boy, these are going to be a long...agonizing...tedious 3.3 years.
I always assumed America would swiftly deal with a racist fascist criminal megalomaniac.
Boy was I wrong.
This nation is WEAK.
Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.
That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.
Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.
We also literally imported their scientists
Are you referring to purging facists after Nazi Germany fell?
Well, I guess the Soviet Union didn't really help there.
Why would they deal with racists? USA as a whole never stopped being racist.
True but name a country that has
edit: cool, downvotes and not one answer. like being on reddit again
just no one is gonna be there like for Luigi, if we Americans had any balls he'd either be out of jail or someone broke him out, no balls, especially if you're a dumb fuck Republican, hey trump imma shit on your grave you orange POS, come get me, boom shaka laka
We should all get together and shit on that orange fuck's grave when he's good and dead.
Turns out conservatives were just waiting for one evil and horrible enough all along.
And the Democrats... Jesus Christ are they useless. They roll over at the very sound of a stiff breeze.
I'd call America a nation of bitches, but bitches have a backbone.
The USA is distracted with treats. It's economy is the imperial core of the planet. That fact affords Trump some time before the masses realize what's going on.
Remember that the Nazis made the economy temporarily better for the in-group. They actually allowed socialist benefits for the German workforce before clamping down on that during WWII.
Trump isn't making the economy better for anyone though. He's screwing everyone over, and channeling that hate towards anything else but him and his base.
Just as we've seen with Charlie Kirk's murder and Candace Owen's conspiracy theory to blame it all on Israel, the Right can fracture very easily. I don't think this Admin will make it to the height of the Nazis. Their own incompetence and marriage to the rich will sew the seeds of their demise. Of course, anti-fascists throwing wrenches in things doesn't hurt either.
This is what I keep expecting, but there has been minimal pushback on all the horrible economic policies and somehow the economy is mostly shrugging it off.