Summary

Trump declared Biden’s pardons “VOID” in a late-night Truth Social post, claiming they were signed by autopen without Biden’s knowledge—despite Trump having used autopen during his first term.

Trump warned pardoned individuals, including January 6th committee members (who weren’t charged with crimes), that they’re “subject to investigation at the highest level.”

Critics characterized his statements as “dictator shit” and questioned their legality, with one commenting this represents “the 17th constitutional crisis of just this weekend alone.”

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    Some days you see this shit and wonder why you participate in a meaningless system that lets convicts be President.

    Like as naked apes on a floating rock in eternal space I gotta wake up every morning to go to work and “be a good worker” while this motherfucker breaks laws and wants to make up shit as he goes.

    Cool. No wonder I have no more motivation to be a good worker anymore.

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    I declare Trump’s presidency void. He isn’t obeying laws; he’s no longer a legitimate president. He is a dictator. And a hypocrite any time he enforces laws of any kind.

    To clarify, I think someone who has broken laws CAN enforce them without being a hypocrite, but only if they have taken accountability for the laws they have broken.

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      This is the oath presidents must make before exercising any official powers or duties:

      I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

      He has been very obviously doing the complete opposite of that. The GOP has some pretty flexible mental gymnasts in their circus, but I don’t think even they will be able to dodge this one.

      My understanding of the supreme court ruling was that he has immunity only for “official acts”. So… If he violates this oath, he isn’t authorized to exercise any official powers of the presidency, and thus anything he’s doing isn’t official! Right? I hope so. It’d give me something to look forward to as we suffer through the next 4 years.

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    I had this in my office Fantasy Dictator Pool: before end of March, POTUS will attempt to undo Biden’s pre-emptive pardons.

    But I sincerely hope my other predictions DON’T come true. They’re much darker.

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    Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll go through with his denuclearization plan and that will finally be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and the military will take him out.

    How depressing that our best case scenario is a military coup.

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      He already purged the generals and JAG, so I don’t know how likely that is or even if it would improve things.

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      There is pretty much no scenario on earth that has our military take him out. It just won’t happen and we should stop believing in this pipe dream.

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      There’s not much holding him back. He’s been defying cour rulings left and right. The Dems are spineless and we’re fucked.

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      “SLAMMED!”, I pronounce into the face of the arresting ICE agent.

      “S-S-S-SLAMMED!”, I cry out as the DHS official drags me down a hallway towards my El Salvadorian prison cell.

      Seee-Lamb-da!”, I exclaim as the door to my cell clangs shut.

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      I think they’re waiting to see if trump declares martial law just cuz on easter, like he said

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      There were very few attempts on Hitler’s life and he directly killed millions of people. Trump will indirectly kill millions and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are no more attempts on his life.

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        There were very few attempts on Hitler’s life

        If ≥42 is ‘very few’, what do you consider to be a normal number of assassination attempts?

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        They are mostly foreigners. Until the next pandemic hits, trumps cuts probably hit the world’s most impoverished, most oppressed people the hardest. It shouldn’t make a difference that they’re not Americans since people are people, but it does.

        I imagine it’s the same as with hitler. It’s not just the inherent racism, but it’s harder to care as much about people the farther they are geographically or culturally or nationality.

        I’m not trying to encourage this but I think it’s realistic

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      End? Hah, if you killed him he’d be a martyr and his successor Great Leader Vance would run a more competent fascist operation.

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        Vance has an old school polotician side. If left to himself, he wouldn’t go against the courts for example. He is just willing to say what trump wants him to say.

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        Vance is incompetent and slimey. Trump is only getting away with this shit because 45%ish of Americans find him sophmorically funny.

        He and Elon are simply too dangerous and if America wants to continue being a country both of them need very public lessons to discourage copycats.

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      I’m so tired of the news instigating outrage.

      Nobody is instigating anything here; the whole thing is just that outrageous.

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      I’m so tired of the news instigating outrage.

      Trump’s tyranny itself is what instigates outrage, not the news’ coverage of it.

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      This is what “they” want. I get it. I’m right there with you. Find something that you can lean on to help you keep your sanity; a hobby, a new tv show, volunteer to take care of puppies at your local shelter… you need to balance this firestorm before you get burnt out. But no matter what, we need you to keep fighting! We need you!

      Edit.

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      This is the truth and you should be outraged, but calling truthful reporting “instigating outrage” is insane

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    Such a child. “My Pardons are better than yours”

    He just can’t stand that we are not just laying down and receiving his limp penis.

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    Honestly, man rants like he’s on a bad trip - with so much projection that it burns the eyes