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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 25, 2025 at 8:52 am
(April 25, 2025 at 12:31 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Watergate was a walk in the park compared to this
Quote:Trump Directs Justice Dept. to Investigate ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash Engine
President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the fund-raising platform that powers virtually every Democratic candidate and cause. The move steps up Republicans’ effort to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure.
It was the third time in three weeks that Mr. Trump has directed the government to target a perceived political enemy. He has drastically expanded the use of his powers to try to damage domestic opponents, eroding a post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence far more than he ever did in his first term.
Mr. Trump’s action represents a threat to one of the key financial cogs of the left, potentially hindering Democrats’ ability to compete in elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/po...crats.html
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 25, 2025 at 9:10 am
(April 25, 2025 at 8:52 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (April 25, 2025 at 12:31 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Watergate was a walk in the park compared to this
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There will be no vote in 2028. Trump said ya won’t have to vote anymore.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 25, 2025 at 9:23 am
(April 25, 2025 at 9:10 am)h4ym4n Wrote: (April 25, 2025 at 8:52 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: If anyone thinks 2028 will be free and fair, I've got a big orange bridge for sale ... cheap.
There will be no vote in 2028. Trump said ya won’t have to vote anymore.
Well, he is working hard to make it impossible to vote.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 26, 2025 at 12:55 am
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The donalds evidence that massive fraud is going on..is that act blue actively monitors and identified a large number of hinky payment attempts that they didn't process.
The theory of the case being why anyone would follow the law that well if they weren't hiding something. Chef's kiss.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 26, 2025 at 3:43 am
DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, nobody is safe.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 26, 2025 at 3:51 am
Didn't America used to have this thing.... I think it was called laws?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 26, 2025 at 6:44 am
At this point I'm just wondering how this hasn't erupted into civil war yet...
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 26, 2025 at 6:51 am
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(April 26, 2025 at 6:44 am)Mr Greene Wrote: At this point I'm just wondering how this hasn't erupted into civil war yet...
I bet Trump would love an excuse to declare martial law and suspend elections.
Protests and lawsuits have been working. See this Rachel Maddow video for instances.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 26, 2025 at 7:04 am
(April 26, 2025 at 6:51 am)Alan V Wrote: (April 26, 2025 at 6:44 am)Mr Greene Wrote: At this point I'm just wondering how this hasn't erupted into civil war yet...
I bet Trump would love an excuse to declare martial law and suspend elections.
Protests and lawsuits have been working. See this Rachel Maddow video for instances.
No doubt he would, but you still seem to be losing rights, freedoms and anything not nailed down at a rate of knots...
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
April 26, 2025 at 7:22 am
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(April 26, 2025 at 7:04 am)Mr Greene Wrote: (April 26, 2025 at 6:51 am)Alan V Wrote: I bet Trump would love an excuse to declare martial law and suspend elections.
Protests and lawsuits have been working. See this Rachel Maddow video for instances.
No doubt he would, but you still seem to be losing rights, freedoms and anything not nailed down at a rate of knots...
Yes, a certain amount of damage is likely inevitable with someone as aggressively ignorant as Trump. The best that people might be able to manage is to minimize the damage and wait for a more opportune time to reverse it all. And it will likely take more time to repair the damage than it took to inflict it.
In other words, it is a terrible situation and our choices are not what we might wish them to be.
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