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[–] [email protected] 201 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's actually illegal to threaten the president. It's not protected speech.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 4 months ago (5 children)

And what are the consequences for Mr trump?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago

Based on his record, a few articles snd forum posts explaining what should happen, all of which will be ignored by the legal system, there won't even be a baliff giving Mr. Trump a heavy slap, which seems apropriate with how Mr. Trump behaves.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

Maybe a judge issues a $1,000 scolding and begs him not to do it again.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

None, as always. He's the embodiment of how broken the "justice" system is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (26 children)

He’s the embodiment of how broken the “justice” system is.

Nothing broken about the (so-called) "justice" system. It's working exactly as designed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

According to the headline, he is to be flattened.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He constructed it a little cleverly: Said that if it was a Republican, they'd be in the electric chair. I don't think it was criminal.

Of course, he also openly tried to have his own vice president killed, and collects non-murder-related felonies like bottles for recycling, and at least so far all of that has been mostly okay of him to do, so I'm not sure how much it matters. 😕

[–] [email protected] 199 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bruh the only politician who has been flattened in the past 24 hours was Ebrahim Raisi.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Bruh the only politician who has been flattened in the past 24 hours was Ebrahim Raisi.

too soon. also... was he flattened? or is he more of a smear?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's schmear, we are civilized here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Got a bagel?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

too soon

No such thing.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“MSNBC Hosts Express Mild Disapproval for Thing That Trump Will Face Zero Consequences for Saying”

There, fixed the headline.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

"MSNBC hosts... Oh nevermind. No one, left, right, or center, cares what they have to say on that network."

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well at least nobody got slammed

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

He was flattened, but since his skin is made stitched-together whoopee cushions, he sprang back into shape as the gas built up.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What was he flattened with?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Flattened is what finally happens after you’ve been slammed too many times

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

fLaTtEnEd

i'm so fucking tired

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

I wonder if the Secret Service has evaluated scenarios where a former president tries to assassinate the sitting president?

It's probably not totally impossible given the history of humanity with kings and warlords and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's not "tries to assassinate" it's "tries to have assassinated". Something tells me Trump couldn't assassinate a stuff deer.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mildly verbally criticized = flattened

How about a headline where he is arrested, held, charged, tried, and convicted? All much more convincing verbage.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Authoritarian strongman makes veiled threat against political opponent, followers feign ignorance

In other news, the sky is still blue

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Trump flattened

With a hydraulic press?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

like and subscribe!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is a terrible thing to suggest, how sick and cruel to treat a hydraulic press in such a way. Even in jest!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just compare him to Hitler already and be done with it, pussy-assed media.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Sadly, said flattening does not seem to have included a steamroller.

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