I just worry I’ll have to be concerned about the radiation exposure from leaving my nuclear fallout shelter to post my absentee ballot…assuming Trump doesn’t decide that Democrats should have their citizenship stripped and make me ineligible to vote altogether.
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Exactly. Let Trump be Trump while the establishment runs things.
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changing where the extremes are
[/quote]This is why I brought up climate change, and why I’m worried about civil liberties in the US. The effort against civil liberties is currently around the SJW straw man, pushing the extreme closer to the truth as more extreme to allow complacency around the other extreme. It was also the climate change strategy bought and paid for in the 80s.
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Well, you should have thought of that before you voted him in as president.
And when I say you, I of course don’t mean you (the sentence just doesn’t quite read as well if I use they), I mean all the idiots who thought that Clinton’s alleged corruption was even as close to what Trump’s is going to be.
I hope reality slowly rolls over this guy and crushes him.
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In Japan, there are many people living without Japanese (or any) citizenship. These people’s ancestors were largely kidnapped during WWII and turned into slaves. I don’t know the full story behind this, but it is sad. When I lived there, I had a friend who fell into this category. Every two years, she needed to renew her permanent residency card and she needed a visa to leave the country.
Recently, however, she was granted Japanese citizenship, even though she spent the first 40+ years of her life without a home country.
Of course, this is the kind of thing that will make America great (again).
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The 13 stripe thing is right at the end…
Scalia (!!!) was great on this one point:
Scalia’s finest moment of the day came when Drew claimed that flag burners destroy the flag’s “symbolic effect” by desecrating it. This argument, Scalia noted, is contradictory: Johnson wouldn’t have burned the flag—and Texas wouldn’t have cared about his actions—unless the flag were “a very good symbol.” Texas, Scalia explained, didn’t “just want a symbol”; it wanted “a venerated symbol.” And the First Amendment doesn’t let the government promote its message by censoring its citizens.
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Weird shit happens during war time and I can understand how complexities like this can cause huge problems. This is, of course, far different than Dear Leader saying “you burned a flag, your [sic] stripped of your citizenship!”
#trumplogic ftw
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It’s always wartime, friend!
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The US Flag will be utterly and completely desecrated in January. Burning flags will be the way to keep warm in the coming apocalypse.
I for one do not want to live in AmeriKKKa.
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Does Trump know that taking someone’s citizenship away is unconstitutional? Does he care?
Answers:
- No
- No
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You say “the Constitutuon” as if it has its own police to enforce it. When the establishment is not willing to defend it, it might as well cease to exist.
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You’ve got to begrudgingly respect judge Scalia who said
and
Now Trump shares the sentiment about wanting to jail flag burners, but Trump obviously has in his mind that he plans on being a tyrant king and so can do whatever the hell he likes.
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Also relevant:
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Noted, and agreed.
As another example along the lines of the one @werdnagreb posted:
Woah, what a weaselly summary by the NYT. The “proposal” absolutely is in conflict with multiple supreme court decisions. There is no “appears to be” about it. It’s especially weird given that the actual article has no such waffling.
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I submit to you this film, Mr. Trump, made in the four days following your election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipkIbQuVRz8
Cuff me.
I really feel at this point there is such an air of uncertainty about him, few people on the right want to show their hand.
If it’s a train wreck from the get-go, and he’s impeached within a few months, who wants to be riding along?
If he seizes control with an iron fist and his opponents start getting locked up, who wants to be in jail?
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Fear at all levels keeps the rank and file in line.
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