The Republican Supreme Court to rule that the 14th amendment and state's right to run their own elections is invalid.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-insurrection-trump-2024-election-397a481d2886b64bba06b24ff3d03f37 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot.
A definitive ruling for Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president, would largely end efforts in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot.
Conservative and liberal justices alike questioned during arguments Thursday whether Trump can be disqualified from being president again because of his efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, ending with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Their main concern was whether Congress must act before states can invoke a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again. There also were questions about whether the president is covered by the provision.
Without such congressional legislation, Justice Elena Kagan was among several justices who wanted to know “why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States.”
The outcome could reflect a broad consensus of the court, and it could come quickly.
Eight of the nine justices suggested that they were open to at least some of the arguments made by Jonathan Mitchell, Trump’s lawyer at the Supreme Court. Trump could win his case if the court finds just one of those arguments persuasive.
Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded like she might vote to uphold the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that found that Trump “engaged in insurrection” and is ineligible to be president. The state court ruled Trump should not be on the ballot for the state’s Republican primary on March 5.
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In another sign of trouble for the Colorado voters who sued to remove Trump from the ballot, the justices spent almost no time talking about whether Trump actually “engaged in insurrection” following the 2020 election. Lawyer Jason Murray, representing the voters, pressed the point that Trump incited the Capitol attack to prevent the peaceful handover of power “for the first time in history.” Mitchell argued that the Capitol riot was not an insurrection and, even if it was, Trump did not participate. Trump, speaking to reporters after the proceedings, called the Supreme Court argument “a beautiful thing to watch in many respects,” even as he complained about the case being brought in the first place. “I hope that democracy in this country will continue,” he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The justices heard more than two hours of history-laden arguments in their first case considering Section 3 of the 14th amendment. It sets up precisely the kind of case that the court likes to avoid, one in which it is the final arbiter of a political dispute. Chief Justice John Roberts worried that a ruling against Trump would prompt efforts to disqualify other candidates, “and surely some of those will succeed.” Trump’s lawyers argue that the amendment can’t be used to keep Trump off the ballot for several reasons. For one thing, they contend the Jan. 6 riot wasn’t an insurrection, and even if it was, Trump did not participate. The wording of the amendment also excludes the presidency and candidates running for president, they say. Even if they are wrong about all of that, they argue that Congress must pass legislation to reinvigorate Section 3.
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The lawyers for Republican and independent voters who sued to remove Trump’s name from the Colorado ballot counter that there is ample evidence that the events of Jan. 6 constituted an insurrection and that Trump incited it. They say it would be absurd to apply Section 3 to everything but the presidency or that Trump is somehow exempt. And the provision needs no enabling legislation, they argue. A decision upholding the Colorado decision would amount to a declaration from the Supreme Court that Trump did engage in insurrection and is barred by the 14th Amendment from holding office again. That would allow states to keep him off the ballot and imperil his campaign. The justices could opt for a less conclusive outcome, but with the knowledge that the issue could return to them, perhaps after the general election in November and in the midst of a full-blown constitutional crisis. Trump is separately appealing to state court a ruling by Maine’s Democratic secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, that he was ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot over his role in the Capitol attack. Both the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine secretary of state’s rulings are on hold until the appeals play out. The court has signaled it will try to act quickly, dramatically shortening the period in which it receives written briefing and holds arguments in the courtroom. People began lining up outside the court on Wednesday hoping to snag one of the few seats allotted to the public. “This is a landmark decision and I want to be in the room where it happened, to quote ‘Hamilton,’” said Susan Acker of Cincinnati, Ohio, who was in line with two friends. The issues may be novel, but Trump is no stranger to the justices, three of whom Trump appointed when he was president. They have considered many Trump-related cases in recent years, declining to embrace his claims of fraud in the 2020 election and refusing to shield tax records from Congress and prosecutors in New York.
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>>1264959 Demofascists BTFO.
Trying to steal Putin's tactics of just banning your opponent didn't work.
They'll be big mad.
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Before the Supreme Court is even finished deciding this case, the justices almost certainly will be dealing with another appeal from Trump, who is expected to seek an emergency order to keep his election subversion trial on hold so he can appeal lower-court rulings that he is not immune from criminal charges. In April, the court also will hear an appeal from one of the more than 1,200 people charged in the Capitol riot. The case could upend a charge prosecutors have brought against more than 300 people, including Trump. The court last played so central a role in presidential politics in its 5-4 decision that effectively ended the disputed 2000 election in favor of George W. Bush. Justice Clarence Thomas is the only member of the court who also took part in Bush v. Gore. Thomas has ignored calls by some Democratic lawmakers to step aside from the case because his wife, Ginni, supported Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election results and attended the rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters.
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>>1264959 Right wingers: We believe in state's rights!... to do what we want and nothing else!
Remember when all of the trumpist state AGs got together and tried to get SCOTUS to tell Pennsylvania how to run it's elections after the votes had already been counted? I'm honestly surprised they didn't do it.
ready aim FIRE, EAT LEAD PORKY
another nail in the coffin of american democracy. it was a grand experiment, but us commies will get our day of the firing squad soon,.
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>>1265118 The US is NOT just a democratic experiment with some deficits.
Ask the indigenous peoples, ask Latin American countries, ask the rest of the world with 800 military units around the world in over 100 countries. and Special Operations in over 142 countries with 193 countries in the United Nations. Come on man...
There needs to be an acknowledgment of the United States as an Empire and understanding their lies and crimes will not live forever. Sooner or later the truth will surface. You reap what you sow. The internal decay, distrust, paranoia, attempts to make America "great again" is a sign of decline, and is symptomatic of disintegration.
What’s Needed to get us out of this mess? Love, Justice, Integrity, Honesty, Solidarity based on morality and spirituality. But that shit seems like a lost cause at this point.
Maybe set-up a nice cabin out the chaos zones, learn to grow your own food, collect your own water. Else you are just going to fall with it..
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Anyone can run for president. That does not mean they can be elected. This has always been the case, numbnuts. Gus Hall ran for president five times on the American Communist Party ticket. EVen if by some amazing deal he got the majority of votes, he would not be sworn in.
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>>1265139 >Anyone can run for president. Did you read the Constitution?
It's pathetic how the Republican judges excuses for Trump boil down to slippery slope and trying to downplay Trump's coup.
I mean, it's expected the court is biased in Trump's favor, but the question always was how they'd betray their principles and oath.
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>>1265143 I love this idea of “ if you take us off the ballot for treason it can happen to you too !!!” Like yea no shit that’s why we don’t commit treason XD
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https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-saves-trump-lawyer/ The Republican supreme court justices already doing damage control for Trump.
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>>1265144 Trump and his people using slippery slope to maintain power isn't even a new thing. They made the same argument when people were tearing down statues honoring the traitorous confederacy and John Oliver had a perfect retort.
https://youtu.be/J5b_-TZwQ0I?si=XX58WYcL6IHpMUQn&t=999 Anonymous
>>1264959 Just be a good sport after losing. That's all we ask. No stormed capitols. No throwing out votes. Just be normal.
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>>126514 the equivalent of the why can’t you just be normal meme lol Anonymous
>>1265147 The most insulting thing is when someone says 'let the voters decide'
The voters did decide in 2020, then Trump tried to stage a coup.
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>>1264959 It was a foregone conclusion. Can't disqualify someone for committing a crime for which there is no conviction. This was obvious to anyone with even a basic understanding of the law.
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>>1265164 True, allowing people to vote is a threat to our democracy.
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>>1265164 So no problem with them deciding now?
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>>1265164 Voters didn't decide at all.
At the very least there was a pointed propaganda campaign by corporations to terrify retards into voting for Bidet.
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>>1265188 Insult people all you want ALL votes count. Not just the ones you want
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now hold on a gosh darn minute, are you saying the people who ratfucked the constitution during bush v gore who later got installed in the supreme court are now going to ratfuck the constitution again for current republican frontrunner? damn this shit is crazy yo
read, aim, unload, ok, porky we all deserve a 2nd chance
read, aim, unload, ok, porky we all deserve a 2nd chance Fri 09 Feb 2024 07:37:36 No. 1265197 Report >>1265138 >The US is NOT just a democratic experiment with some deficits. Th US democracy is not the problem, it's human nature.
The US has done much damage, a lot in the name of good, but the damage isn't as much as most countries and empires have done.
>Love, Justice, Integrity, Honesty, Solidarity based on morality and spirituality Human nature has all of that, and the opposite.
The core of humanity will be tested in the next 100 yrs like it's never been tested before.
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>1265197 /x/ tier
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>>1265197 You think the fall will take up to 100 years ? 20 tops and that’s being generous. Hell the outcome of this general election will probably start a civil war. If we don’t start one over the border first.
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>>1265223 Doubtful. But it would be nice to see the US oligarchs disrupted and lose influence.
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>>1265223 >We Lmao. Anon you've exposed yourself as a desperate shill for too many years.
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>>1264967 >Justice Clarence Thomas is the only member of the court who also took part in Bush v. Gore. He was the only one on the court, but Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were on the legal team for the Republicans.
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>>1265235 Royal we. As in the United States
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>>1265188 This coming from the Russians is rich
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>>1265252 You're royally shitting up the internet and it's too obvious
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>>1265147 >Just be a good sport after losing. That's all we ask. No cooky collusion conspiracy theories. No multi-year probes to attempt to invalidate the election that go nowhere. No crying about the electoral college. No referring to the president as a villain from a YA novel. Just be normal. Tu quoque continues to be a bitch for leftoids
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>>1265262 So everything the fascist right did, including staging a coup.
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Coupfag is back, I see.
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>>1264959 You set yourselves up with this by saying one state can't sue another for rigging a presidential election. Now the union dissolves and you live in the leftist hell you made for yourself.
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>>1265062 Pennsylvania rigged its election and that hideous tranny was given a literal admiral rank for facilitating it.
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>>1265118 Yeah and what happens when the right has more guns than you? Get Rittenhoused, faggot.
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>>1265272 Never happened. It's projection from the left to cover up them organizing and bailing out open communist revolutionaries to seize the country for them...which failed because it turns out communists are total pussies who folded like a damp towel the moment they encountered cops who hadn't been told to stand down or right wing boomers looking for a fight.
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>>1265329 you're not even trying anymore
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>>1264959 Dear America, the world is laughing at you. Your policitical system aka popularity vote is a joke. Lets all hope Trump is found ineligible to run or is murdered shortly.
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>>1265324 Chud headcanon is so wild
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>>1265138 >Noooo the palefaces made us give up child sex slavery and ritually mutilating the bodies of enemy tribesmen (and women and children) we brutally murdered because we believed it would mutilate them in the afterlife! The white man did nothing wrong.
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>>1265143 >If we say coup enough a peaceful protest will become a coup From the people who told you a man can become a woman if he puts on a dress (but gender roles and stereotypes aren't real, chud).
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>>1265146 Tearing down statues of American war dead, heroes, and founders to put up statues of criminal nogs is a slippery slope in what way, exactly? Also nobody cares what Brits think, we beat them.
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>>1265344 >No retort I accept your concession, now you must accept that you will never be a real woman and the same goes for the rest of your filthy troonkind. Also I am an ethnic and religious minority, so if you disagree with me you're automatically a bigot. ;)
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>>1265333 Are you denying it happened or trying to slant it in some other way?
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>>1265358 denying your fantasy? just keep it to yourself next time weirdo
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Trump should have the right to use a M240 to mow down neocons, democrats and the communist filth infecting DC.
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OP skips over the bit in the article where it says all the justices except Sotomayor are in apparent agreement. Pretends it's a "Republican Supreme Court" ruling. You couldn't be more dishonest. These are the snakes you're dealing with.
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>>1265372 He deliberately edited that part of the article out of the post and wrote his sown headline to paint a different picture. What a sack of shit. These people pretend to care about misinfo on the internet.
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>>1265329 Nah, they did, the only problem was not arresting them all at the capitol along with those in the government who took part in Trump's coup.
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>>1264959 its not a 'court'
its an unelected third house, and always has been.
they arent enforcing the law, they enforce their political opinion, which since most of them are conservatives, will support trump. this was always going to happen and its ludicrous that anyone ever thought otherwise.
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>>1265482 It makes you wonder why liberals don't refer to it as the Republican Supreme Court, and the people like Alito as Republican Justice Alito.
It would be the best way to both troll and delegitimize their political power.
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>>1265359 How is it a fantasy when it's real though? How sad, you've been reduced from "our revolution is inevitable chuds" to "K-Kamala never bailed out antifa, the Long March through the Institutions w-was just a joke bro!"
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>>1265361 We all should. Remember, communists aren't people. They don't believe in human rights and therefore you are morally correct in not acknowledging their rights.
>>1265372 >>1265375 Holy shit I didn't catch that. What a piece of shit.
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>>1265481 Those patriots, political martyrs all, were arrested and held indefinitely in prison for "trespassing" by the illegitimate Biden administration. The only thing they did wrong was not bring guns and ropes and go Full Pinochet.
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>>1265485 Do it and we can get this farce over and just burn every Democrat state for a second time.
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>>1265492 can i make up your backstory since you're doing mine?
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>>1265496 >Responds to correct name with violence. Pure Conservatism.
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>>1265494 Only thing illegitimite is Trump and the
Republicans. They are ruining the country with their hate speech and fabricated stories the right wing sheep are believing. Lots of talk here about democrat communism in America where'as this is actually socialism. If there are any communists and dictatorship its Trump and the republicans because they want to hold all the power above our heads and steal our money. Time to invest in some poly-sci education and not conspiracy theories & confirmation bias.
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>>1265496 Speaking of burning, did you know it was Canada that burned down the whitehouse during the war of 1812? If Trump wins the republican nomination, can actually run for president (lets all hope he gets barred from running) and gets elected i hope they do it again and lock Trump inside when its happening. And yes, i am republican but he's the worst thing that qctually happened to our party and to America.
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>>1265197 Not human nature, American nature. The rest of the world is looking at the antics of your binfire of a country in morbid curiosity.
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>>1265535 >Think a peaceful protest was a coup >Spend 3 years spitting hates everywhere >Advocate for making the opposition illegal and to jail it >Complain the other side fabricate stores and speak hate Anonymous
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>>1265578 When did you become the damage control spokesman for the coup leaders?
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>>1265578 The willful ignorance you display in calling it a peaceful protest. You know we have eyes and can watch the videos of Trump supporters beating cops with flags with Trumps face and name in them. You know we can easily pull up the videos of Trump supporters breaking and crawling through windows. You know we can watch the videos of Trump supporters chanting to hang the vice president. You know we can watch the videos of Ashley Babbitt climbing through a window and threatening an armed cop who was over and over commanding her to stand down.
You can not watch the recorded events of that day and call it a peaceful protest. Not in good faith. Not when the people are literally draped in Trump’s name and face as they commit crimes while cheering on his words.
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>>1265588 There was supposed to be like 40k hours of video. Did that ever come out ? I can’t find it. Not arguing just actually curious
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>>1265588 It was mostly peaceful, chud.
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>>1265590 If January 6th is peaceful, then the standard must be that most riots that occurred in US are also peaceful.
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>>1265591 If the Summer 2020 BLM riots are peaceful, then the standard must be that most riots that occurred in US are also peaceful, including Jan 6th
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>>1265594 but you're still going to whine about one and cheer on violence in the other. reminder nobody intended to hang anybody during the months of blm civil unrest
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>>1265598 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled >At least 11 Americans have been killed while participating in political demonstrations this year and another 14 have died in other incidents linked to political unrest, according to new data from a non-profit monitoring political unrest in the United States. >Nine of the people killed during protests were demonstrators taking part in Black Lives Matter protests. Two were conservatives killed after pro-Trump “patriot rallies”. All but one were killed by fellow citizens. Anonymous
>>1265602 and nobody cheers those people on. and they're in jail, but nobody is claiming they're feds false flagging a 100% peaceful event
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>>1265594 Certainly, which is why I think there need to be more than the couple hundred of people to be arrested for vandalizing bystanders' properties. Which is also why I think people should be arrested for staging a riot that seeks to vandalize part of the parliament building and seek violent resolutions to politicians inside.
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>>1265598 You mean the Boogaloo Riots?
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>>1265605 >and nobody cheers those people on The entire left and MSM was cheering them on as "anti-Trump demonstrators".
>but nobody is claiming they're feds false flagging a 100% peaceful event Two posts later
>>1265607 >You mean the Boogaloo Riots? Lmao, like pottery
>>1265606 >parliament building We don't have a parliament, yuropoor
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>>1265611 >The entire left and MSM was cheering them on as "anti-Trump demonstrators". no, nobody was cheering on murderers in the news anon. but that's quite a bombastic lie. and there's proof stupid nihilist came and started shit, along with other people caught up in looting. that's not crying "feds" like qtards do with their own
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>>1265611 I'm sorry, I meant congress building.
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>>1265613 >no Yes
>nobody was cheering on murderers in the news anon. There were multiple threads on /news/ celebrating the riots and rioters. The MSM's implicitly supported them when they said they were "fiery but peaceful" while people were literally looting and committing arson.
Denial wont save you, cope
>>1265615 Sorry, I meant "fuck off and go apply for MAID" you waste of space.
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>>1265618 you're going to keep pretending nobody takes accountability so you don't have to either, but just know trump won't bail you out
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>>1265619 >you're going to keep pretending nobody takes accountability This you?
>>1265607 >You mean the Boogaloo Riots? Blaming anybody but BLM for the BLM riots is taking accountability? Lmao
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>>1265622 i guess you can't read
>and there's proof stupid nihilist came and started shit, along with other people caught up in looting. that's not crying "feds" like qtards do with their own Anonymous
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>>1265578 >Think a peaceful protest was a coup This is what Republicans are trying to frame BLM to create a false equivalency with their failed coup.
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>>1265493 The republican party is pseudo communists but yet you support them and hate communists? Time to fact chceck youraelf (with actual facts, not confirmation bias).
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>>1265578 I never mentioned anything about a 'coup' in my post, where did you gwt that from? Oh yeah, you fabricated it just like a good republican. fyi, im also a republican but will not support the embarrassing Trump regime. All I can say to you is Bahaa, Bahaa, your a good sheep, or maybe should call you a bovine cause your the cash cow lining the pockets of the corrupt & thieving republicans. Death to Trump.
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>>1265146 Are you just gonna ignore all the statues of Thomas Jefferson and other American notables that have been torn down since then? The second they started running low on confederate statues they moved right on to "muh slave owners" and other such nonsense.
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>>1265687 >unanimous vote to relocate statue >The original statue still sits on display in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC. sounds like a non issue
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>>1265691 It would only be an issue if it were a statue of Marx.
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>>1265696 Why are fascists always so obsessed with Marx?
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>>1265699 Collectivist authoritarians love him because he promised free shit for losers.
Thus communism is a never dying idea that fascinates those who love to steal by power of the government.
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>>1265701 As opposed to the fascists who want to just lord everyone else and are currently running the Republican party?
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>>1265702 >As opposed to the fascists who want to just lord everyone else and are currently running the Republican party? and who love and support a nation with a taxidermied marxist leader in a mausoleum
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>>1265702 I don't think you understand what fascism is, therefore I accept your concession.
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>>1265706 Fascism is when people do things I don't like
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>>1265707 That is the current definition the people most likely to use the word "fascist" believe, yes.
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>>1265706 kys, MAGA is a dumb fuck American version of a fascist movement.
You tried to install Trump as a dictator and cheer on his calls to arrest all his political enemies. Q Anon directly borrows from fascist tropes like Jewish blood libel and the day of the rope.
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>>1264959 Death to Trump
Death to MAGA
Death to the Republican party
Jews rape kids
>>1265762 That’s nice dear
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Bernie was the compromise
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>>1265720 Blackpill: contemporary US is analogous to the fall of Weimar.
Whitepill: contemporary US is analogous to the fall of Weimar.
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>>1265781 You have more in common with Israeli scum than any real American, traitor faggot. Go try your coup again.
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>>1265762 Trump is a nigger, but you gotta' chill.