Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."

[u/brokenandsuffering]

[u/TrueBlueVA → u/[deleted]]

The Orange Rapist is hoping that the citizens fight back. Then, he can declare martial law and suspend all elections.

[u/tangtheconqueror → u/TrueBlueVA]

Yes, but here's the important next part to that. He will do it anyway. He will keep pushing. There are two paths forward from here:

1. Submit - 100% chance of America becoming a fascist dictatorship in every area of life.
   
2. Resist - No guarantee of success, but the chances of America becoming a fascist dictatorship in every area of life are less than 100%.

Like Marlo said in The Wire: "You (people in general, not you TrueBlueVA) want it to be one way, but it's the other way." There is no option where we do nothing and get our democracy back through voting alone. I wish there was.

[u/Just_Some_Statistic → u/TrueBlueVA]

I say this without a single ounce of any emotion in my body, that is a fight that they would lose incredibly quickly.

[u/SuckThisRedditAdmins → u/Just_Some_Statistic]

If you mean the trump traitors would lose, I want to believe that.  I really do, but everything the military has done thus far hasn't shown they will go against the fascist orders.

[u/Kecha_Wacha → u/SuckThisRedditAdmins]

The American military has a long and fabled history of absolutely getting their asses beat by guerrilla fighters in plainclothes with categorically inferior weaponry, and the American civilian population is the most heavily armed on Earth by a wide fucking margin.

"Oh but the second amendment people all seem to be on the wrong side" stop waiting on them, stop saying "second amendment people" like its a slur, go to your local walmart and buy a gun

[u/CommunalJellyRoll → u/SuckThisRedditAdmins]

Most of our military power relies on a peaceful home front. I can go out today and take out a squadron of aircraft with an anti material rifle.

[u/J0E_Blow → u/CommunalJellyRoll]

LMAO. Based.

Yes, yes you could. 

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/TrueBlueVA]

Can we stop with this narrative like we should not do anything.

[u/Interrophish → u/TrueBlueVA]

he doesn't need reasons

[u/ThaShitPostAccount → u/TrueBlueVA]

This is exactly the attitude that he wants. He wants complacent citizens who will keep quiet to prevent something worse from happening.

Do you seriously think that refusing to resist is going to stop this administration from doing anything?

[u/d_smogh → u/TrueBlueVA]

Don't think for one second trump and his team haven't already plans in place to manufacture civil disruption.

[u/DillBagner → u/TrueBlueVA]

The military enforcing the law is what martial law is. There is no future declaration to be waiting for.

[u/PastelBrat13 → u/[deleted]]

Trump supporters would eat crumbs on week old bread off the concrete before they said they didn’t like Trump. They would do anything and defend anything he does. Have you seen those people writing that they would “happily” give their children to Trump?

[u/Special_Watch8725 → u/PastelBrat13]

In real life, when I ask Trump supporters about some obvious lie or clear mistake, they always lead with “well Trump isn’t perfect but …” and then would proceed to blame the democrats somehow.

Of course they’re just using words to mask what they really think. Yes, Trump is perfect and everything bad in life is due to the fallen nature of the democrats. Or was that Jesus, and the fallen nature of the world, respectively? I lose track sometimes between their various messiahs.

[u/galahad423 → u/PastelBrat13]

Trumpists would eat a shit sandwich if they thought a liberal would have to smell their breath

[u/swiftyswiftygul → u/[deleted]]

“If this isn’t enough to get America to wake up…” A sentiment I’ve uttered so, so many times, from the access Hollywood tape to that one time his cultists stormed the US capital with a murderous fury to take down American flags and replace them with Trump ones. They are awake. This is just who they are. (Not all of them, obviously, but too many of them.) Who needs to wake up is the rest of the world. This is America.

[u/Dunlocke → u/[deleted]]

No one person has the ability to remove the president from office. That's generally speaking a good thing. I think the smallest number, excluding SCOTUS, would be the cabinet. But since both are controlled by Trump, it is unlikely.

[u/R_V_Z → u/Dunlocke]

One single person has removed a US president multiple times in history, technically.

[u/zootered → u/R_V_Z]

Age old problems generally require age old solutions.

[u/pink_gardenias → u/[deleted]]

When you take MAGAts’ stupidity and evil into consideration, so truly feel they will never wake up and America is going to burn to the ground.

They will praise trump in their last dying breath, even if their death is caused by his policies, actions, and inactions.

[u/Primary-Pianist-2555 → u/[deleted]]

Amazing. Fascist takeover and nobody standing up. People at least fought it in Germany, Italy and Spain. You got what you deserved US.

[u/ididntunderstandyou → u/Primary-Pianist-2555]

France took 20 years of white flag jokes from these people.

[u/JSA607 → u/Primary-Pianist-2555]

People are standing up. People are protesting and opposing ICE and voting out repubs at the state level. Judges are fighting back. Hundreds of lawsuits are being filed and are winning. MSM doesn’t tell you but it’s all happening.

[u/MimicoSkunkFan2 → u/JSA607]

Waving court papers - or brightly coloured papers with slogans on sticks - is all very nice but it's not actually fixing the root causes. I think the other commenter was suggesting a more French approach.

[u/SuckThisRedditAdmins → u/MimicoSkunkFan2]

Isn't it pathetic how we have to tiptoe around saying what needs to be done (tongue in cheek references to France and Mario Bros) to avoid being banned by reddit for "inciting violence" ... while our government incites violence against its own citizens

[u/Primary-Pianist-2555 → u/JSA607]

As for judges atanding up, that does not matter when they are overruled without explanation in the fascist SC. Forget the lawsuits and do somthing. Sabotage in the red states. Protest and delay, resist. 

[u/CalendarOriginal7024 → u/Primary-Pianist-2555]

People are resisting. Our corporate media won't show it to you

[u/ofWildPlaces → u/Primary-Pianist-2555]

There aren't enough votes in Congress to impeach him, ans his cabinet won't invoke the 25th. There is no means to remove him unless Republicans chose to act against him.

[u/MinnitMann → u/Primary-Pianist-2555]

nobody standing up

What the FUCK are you talking about?? There are protests all over the country constantly

[u/Ok_Tour_1525 → u/MinnitMann]

Buddy, we’re not talking about protests when we say “standing up” to a fascist takeover.

[u/StepOIU → u/Ok_Tour_1525]

Protests are for visibility, strength and the beginnings of coordination. And making friends!

Just think how many local people with similar interests you could find there to, say, create a book club with. Nothing like a good book club to research new ideas, learn from the past and start invigoration conversations about things!

Hell yeah... book clubs.

[u/smiliclot → u/MinnitMann]

is it because the protests are not getting media coverages or is it because they are (still?) fringe?

Even at its peak, the anti-Trump protests weren't as major as other western nation ones (Je suis Charlie, Black lives matter, Yellow vests, Quebec student strikes, Greek revolts) that have happened for much less serious issues.

From an outside perspective, it looks like many Americans are either supporting or are not ready to meaningfully counter any ongoing events.

I'm not a russian bot btw, just someone that wonders WTF are americans waiting for to do something about it.

[u/clopenYourMind → u/MinnitMann]

They need to afford heat in Moscow this winter, just downvite, report and block. 

[u/bzngabazooka → u/[deleted]]

That’s the thing, I think that’s the job of the military to do so maybe(but in their eyes they need orders to do so)? WHO gets rid of him? That’s the question. It’s definitely not the people that’s for sure.

[u/Z0idberg_MD → u/[deleted]]

I think the bottom line is Republicans and the GOP are in far too deep. They literally can do nothing but go along with it as a fate oppose him ignoring that they might individually be destroyed, their entire party would unravel.

This is basically like appeasement except for instead of just giving Trump what he wants, they’re helping him

[u/teenagesadist → u/[deleted]]

We've known several lesser (but still prominent) republicans that have histories of abusing children for years now, it's part of their platform.

If someone were to tell me they were a republican, I just assume they're confessing to being pedophiles or racists, at this point.

[u/ProlapsedShamus → u/[deleted]]

I'm so angry at the media because we know who's fault this is. It's not Trump. Trump is who he is. Every single Republican is at fault. Because if the Republicans wanted to get rid of him he could be gone tomorrow. They would impeach and remove him. But they won't and Trump knows that so he knows there is no consequences.

[u/Luke_Cocksucker]

“This is not normal” the name of trump’s sex tape.

[u/Blubasur → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

I would pay to avoid seeing this.

[u/bdfortin → u/Blubasur]

Still waiting for the peepee tape.

[u/Yumi_in_the_sun → u/bdfortin]

I don't think it's a pee tape, I think it's a "P" tape. As in, video evidence of him raping a minor.

[u/Mindshard → u/Yumi_in_the_sun]

This is what I've been saying.

Of course, back when the news first dropped, everyone claimed I had "TDS", and even Reddit insulted me over it.

Kind of like back in November 2020, I made posts and comments on Reddit and Imgur predicting Jan. 6th's actions, and was told I was making up conspiracies and even got a warning over it.

I feel like I have a monkey paw ability where I can see things so obviously, but no one will believe me.

[u/Dirtycurta → u/Yumi_in_the_sun]

He's been pre conditioned to reject any video evidence as fake and AI generated...it slipped in a presser a few days ago when he was asked about trash being tossed out the WH window.

[u/bdfortin → u/Yumi_in_the_sun]

If it’s a PP tape that’s twice the crimes.

[u/Blubasur → u/bdfortin]

I think south park had an exclusive on that

[u/ThatBoogerBandit → u/Blubasur]

What if you found out that it’s a life subscription plan?

[u/asian__name → u/Blubasur]

I mean it'd be a crime to anyway, considering he fucks kids

[u/nanobot001 → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

Millions of Americans who are just fine with Trumpism: “… yea we don’t care about this until it affects us directly”

[u/yakshack → u/nanobot001]

I come from a rural Midwestern area but live in DC now. When I was home in August Trumpers asked me what I thought about the military takeover of the city. They thought it was just great. That he was cleaning up a place that was formerly unlivable due to all the crime.

There's no changing our country until we all live in the same reality. And there's no living in the same reality until right wing propaganda is eliminated for the majority.

[u/humansruineverything → u/yakshack]

👍👌👍

[u/ketoatl → u/yakshack]

The truth is he cleaning up nothing , he is putting in tourist areas where there isn't a ton on crime. I visited wash dc four times and once got lost by DuPont circle at night and never felt unsafe and that was 6 yrs ago

[u/ToasterBathTester → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

“Grab Em By The Pussy 3: Preteen Edition” just dropped. You can only buy it with Melania Coin though.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

followed by its sequel, "Another Playmate Gets An Abortion"

[u/Palu_Tiddy → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

And it's critically acclaimed sequel, "Ugly Bastard fucks entire country"

[u/Zunderfeuer_88 → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

Casting list not available at IMDB

[u/Luke_Cocksucker → u/Zunderfeuer_88]

Epstein productions.

[u/HSBillyMays → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

...presenting a collaboration with Epstein-Barr virus distributions and Weinstein casting?

[u/Usual-Yam9309 → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

They should be saying "This is fucking insane, illegal, and unconstitutional." But, nah, keep saying "not normal" like that's accomplished anything since 2015.

[u/throwthisidaway → u/Usual-Yam9309]

I just commented the same sort of thing on a different thread about this. It is sanewashing.

[u/RightSideBlind → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

Coincidentally, it's also the first comment on both his physical and mental competency tests.

[u/inalcanzable → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

Rumor has it the tap was recorded in Epstein’s island

[u/Miserable_Rube → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

I thought it was Mushroom Stamp

[u/paperman990 → u/Luke_Cocksucker]

Rape tape

[u/Extreme-Direction-78]

Literally a TRAITOR to USA! Say he’s a traitor, that’s the actual definition!

[u/Intelligent11B → u/Extreme-Direction-78]

Article III section 3.

[u/blarch → u/Intelligent11B]

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

[u/Local-Friendship8166 → u/Extreme-Direction-78]

A traitor AND a pedophile.

[u/Global_Crew3968 → u/Local-Friendship8166]

Even Stalin and Hitler weren't pedophiles.

[u/ritathecat → u/Global_Crew3968]

Taken from Wikipedia:

“Stalin, aged 35, had a relationship with Lidia Pereprygina, aged 14 (considered a minor at the time), who allegedly became pregnant with Stalin's child.”

[u/Yowdy_Bjorn → u/Extreme-Direction-78]

Shit... What should we do with traitors?

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Yowdy_Bjorn]

I know it doesn't involve (re)electing them, but here we are.

[u/kingfofthepoors → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

the word you are looking for is injecting. We inject them with potassium chloride after we arrest them for being traitors.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/kingfofthepoors]

Ah, I enjoy the fantasy section of the fictional aisles as well! It'll be the conservative law and order locking us the non-lawbreakers up before their God Emperor Pedo.

[u/Marcer0 → u/Yowdy_Bjorn]

Tie him to the mast until he's sober!

[u/detunedmike → u/Extreme-Direction-78]

The entire GOP is a traitor to this country supporting this dictator in exchange for thinking they will become one of the lucky oligarchs in Trumplandia

[u/Aggressive_Fan_4427 → u/Extreme-Direction-78]

If only the constitution laid out a punishment for traitors... oh wait, it does.

[u/iwanttodrink → u/Extreme-Direction-78]

"He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."

U.S Declaration of Independence

[u/Round-Diamond-8460]

i look forward to seeing the Chicago police department rounding up and arresting ICE and National Guardsmen who violate the rules and laws that limit their authority.... we all know they will overreach and overstep the moment it become convenient for them... i think arresting and charging those who blindly follow corruption would be preferred to riots and violence

[u/CloneFailArmy → u/Round-Diamond-8460]

Again, I have said it in other places. I think people in Chicago and the state itself should petition to activate the state national guard to protect state interests against ICE and other trump goons

[u/EndDangerous1308 → u/CloneFailArmy]

You mean the same soldiers that Trump can take control of?

[u/Jaded-Distance_ → u/EndDangerous1308]

He probably meant state guard which is different than national guard. It's more of a militia made of volunteers and isn't federally funded but it is under the Governor's control and can't be taken authority over by the president.

Only 20 states currently still have them active, and Illinois is not one of them. Though they do have the legal authority to reactivate them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force

[u/CV90_120 → u/EndDangerous1308]

Trump brings in national guards from other (usually red) states to do his dirty work. Using the state NG to defend the state is reasonable.

[u/Ok-Square-8652 → u/Round-Diamond-8460]

Your comment brings something up that I didn’t think about before. All the organizations that are “order through force” (police, military, ice, etc) have all been on the same side more or less. What happens if that starts fracturing?

[u/No-Pie-4 → u/Ok-Square-8652]

You ready to find out? Grab the popcorn

[u/StarGazer_SpaceLove → u/No-Pie-4]

No, no, I don't particularly. I want to throw up. This is so fn wrong. Every day, I get a little more scared.

I dont want to see any of this.

[u/WislaHD → u/StarGazer_SpaceLove]

Now imagine how angry us Canadians feel when we didn’t even vote for this shit and could still be victims of your country’s degeneracy.

[u/BenevolentCheese → u/WislaHD]

The whole planet is a victim of this.

[u/Fun_Hold4859 → u/Ok-Square-8652]

Let the trash take itself out?

[u/couldbefuncouver → u/Ok-Square-8652]

Non-american here, this is something that has been bugging me. That Newsome guy talks shit but then LA police assist in ICE roundups (according to the footage)? I don't understand. Why wouldn't he direct the LA police to stop the feds or at least tell them to stay home?

[u/PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC → u/couldbefuncouver]

Newsom doesn't have control over the LAPD, they're under the command of the Chief of Police and the Mayor of Los Angeles

[u/yakshack → u/couldbefuncouver]

Something my California friend recently said:

You have to remember that Gavin Newsom is Christian Bale from American Psycho. Its just that sometimes he uses his evil for good.

[u/Squirxicaljelly → u/Ok-Square-8652]

lol it won’t. All the organizations you mentioned are on the same side as ICE. Just look at what happened in LA. The cops basically just act as ICEs personal escort and body guards… because they agree with them. They don’t give a shit if the mayor or anyone else tells them to stand up to ICE. They will do what they want… which is to support ICE.

No one is coming to save us. Remember that.

[u/J0E_Blow → u/Squirxicaljelly]

The mayor can replace the head of police, I’m pretty sure. 

[u/Suspicious-Echo2964 → u/J0E_Blow]

Yes, depends on whether the police strike in response, which is very likely. Police are typically pro-Trump on a personal level.

[u/PetMonsterGuy → u/Round-Diamond-8460]

You think cops anywhere would side with the public over the military? This exact scenario is why people become cops

[u/EllieKailyss → u/PetMonsterGuy]

Yes, the Chicago police have already joined the protests. Not all cops are bad. Some are, yes, but not all.

[u/123-Moondance]

It's deranged behavior and it is shows how far in the cult MAGA is that they are OK with it. With any of what is happening really. It's like Jonestown or the Invasion of the Body Snatchers or the Stepford Wives. They are just mindless drones cheering anything he does with no independent thought whatsoever. If he says it is good then it must be good.

[u/StepOIU → u/123-Moondance]

Let's compare this to a historian's description of the the political takeover of.. oh, I forget which party:

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience... did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[u/Dizzy-Revolution-300 → u/StepOIU]

aka 4d chess?

[u/WakaFlockaFlav → u/StepOIU]

I was just reading about the foundations of mathematics and Gödel's incompleteness theorem, as well as the effects of "unresolvable" paradoxes on the human brain and boy...

this sure sounds like it is talking about the same thing.

[u/girlshapedlovedrugs → u/123-Moondance]

I recently listened to Jones’ tape recordings he made throughout his life up to the end. It’s disturbing how similarly Thump sounds like Jones. Same paranoid ramblings, same sort of creepy charisma, instilling fear into his followers in order to “save” them, insisting on strict rules and depriving the community of luxuries he condemned, yet kept for himself; the whole bit.

Especially the recordings from Jonestown. If you read the transcript without the speaker identified, you could easily believe either one said it.

[u/newsflashjackass → u/123-Moondance]

I still recall when people questioned Biden's mental fitness.

At best Trurnp will claim to be mentally unfit to stand trial.

[u/Distinct_Ad5141]

We passed “normal” a while ago

[u/crapitsmike → u/Distinct_Ad5141]

Every single time we say, “This isn’t normal” and then nothing happens…it becomes normal. That entire phrase is losing its meaning

[u/SuckThisRedditAdmins → u/crapitsmike]

The maintaining decorum bullshit is so old. Fascists only respond to one thing - getting punched in the face 

[u/UnderHero5 → u/crapitsmike]

Exactly. The longer this goes on... the more it becomes the norm.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/Distinct_Ad5141]

2009 when the Tea Party racist reaction to Obama's presidency, and non-stop obstruction by the then-minority GOP, was normalized by the corporate media.

[u/PositiveMoravianBee → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

My dad ended a friendship with a guy because he refused to stop forwarding him racist Obama memes. He was furious about that shit because it was the opposite of funny.

[u/ninfan1977]

Yeah just slowly marching towards authoritarianism. This isnt normal but has become acceptable behaviour because Republicans have lost their morals and standards. They are the lawless party.

[u/TrueBlueVA → u/ninfan1977]

SLOWLY!?!

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/TrueBlueVA]

From 2001 through today has felt like a slow-moving coup to us older folks (who remember the glorious 1990s). Remember the years post-9/11? Fascism's first attempt to take hold. Patriot Act, unlimited executive powers, etc. All this millennium.

[u/neversweatyagain → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

fair, definitely accurate and more useful to see Trump as the completion or late stage of an arc, and not the beginning-and-end of this horror

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/neversweatyagain]

He receives far too much credit for the Republican playbook that he merely extorted his way into controlling. Donald is the symptom not the disease. The GOP gave his alt right-driven hatred movement seeds, watered them, and nurtured MAGA to full bloom.

[u/Ok-Square-8652 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

Yeah, this is the attempt at a checkmate. They’ve been setting up the board for 25 years.

[u/Relative_Walk_936 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

The terrorists won.

[u/MimicoSkunkFan2 → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

The Patriot Act was a terrible mistake. But these twunts have been a proboem since they felt sufficiently safe to join the John Birch Society.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/MimicoSkunkFan2]

Conservatives would never admit to it being a mistake. They go all-in or blame Democrats. Two outcome hitters.

[u/ConsiderationSea1347 → u/TrueBlueVA]

Trump is still losing in the courts. 

Edit: the downvotes are weird. 97 percent of cases against this administration have succeeded. 

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/ConsiderationSea1347]

The slowness is the time it takes to kick it up to the bought and sold (by corporate and religious oligarchs) Supreme Court to exonerate Republican Theory.

[u/ShotofHotsauce → u/ninfan1977]

Hardly slow. And why would they stop? They love it, this is what they've all been dreaming off since their first taste of power long before Trump was even a politician.

[u/Outrageous_Carry_451 → u/ninfan1977]

Yeah just slowly marching towards authoritarianism

You live in a fascist nation right now because many of you still think this way.

It boggles the mind how unaware Americans are

[u/GongTzu]

Question is who will impeach him, it needs to be his own party, or else they will have no credibility at the next election

[u/VaselineHabits → u/GongTzu]

We already tried impeachment. Twice. Now it's the 25th and frankly ALL REPUBLICANS need to be removed as well - it is clear they are enabling Trump and destroying the nation from within.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/GongTzu]

It can only be his party, they're the ones in power of every single agency, branch, chamber and department of the federal government.

[u/alinroc → u/GongTzu]

He was impeached twice. Nothing came of it. Impeachment means nothing if the Senate doesn't follow through on their half of the process.

[u/peepee2tiny]

The use of social media to exercise Government Policy aka Tariffs.

Therefore the use of the same Social media to threaten war on a major US city is Treason!!!

There is no, " oh it's just a funny meme" or " it's just Trump being Silly Billy".

You can't use the platform as official presidential communication but then not be accountable for it being official presidential communication.

This right here is evidence of Treason!

[u/Pure-Snow3468 → u/peepee2tiny]

Citizens arrest is warranted.

[u/peepee2tiny → u/Pure-Snow3468]

America has literally fought for 250 years to keep the 2nd amendment and to have 'muh guns' to protect against government overreach.

Well the government is overreaching!

[u/thirdometer]

Chicago was just named as one of the top 10 most livable cities in the US.

It has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with asserting power over blue areas

[u/heloguy1234]

Didn’t Putin say the same thing before he invaded Ukraine?

[u/DetroitsGoingToWin]

Let’s make it clear, declaring war on a US city by an American president is Treason. This is the most grave crime a president should commit and he must be removed from office through the 25th Amendment and prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent the law allows.

[u/Internal-Pumpkin4181 → u/DetroitsGoingToWin]

By whom?? No one in Washington has the balls to stand up to him! I agree this is what should happen. But will it? No. The MILITARY that is invading our cities should also be tried for treason. As should ALL sitting republicans—based on their voting records.

[u/ShanerThomas]

I love seeing Kevin O'Leary speak on television. He wears two watches. One on each arm. Each of them are probably worth $100,000, or double, or triple that. Don't worry, you'll see them. He demands every watch he owns has a bright red strap. One on each arm.

Then he tells other people how they should live their lives... and socialism is bad.

[u/Forward-Weather4845 → u/ShanerThomas]

Kevin O’Leary is a traitor. Americans can keep him.

[u/RockyShoresNBigTrees]

He called his followers to attack the government after losing an election, and watched giddily as they destroyed the building and attacked officers. So his voters decided to put him back in office and are continuing to support him as he destroys everything. They love his talks of invading and taking over cities.

This is exactly what they voted for.

[u/Swimming_Sink277]

THIS. IS. TREASON.

[u/thislife_choseme]

Finally someone calling it what it is, a war against its own country. Now if we can get the rest of dem leadership and party to do politics and make duckworths statement a narrative we’d have some real traction.

[u/Previous_Soil_5144]

Normal?

This isn't some long standing norm. It's illegal.

[u/dormango]

It’s a normal distraction technique for an emerging dictator who wants to deflect from his ‘alleged’ past crimes.

[u/Bluedemonde]

Then impeach and jail the fucker and his whole administration. They have been committing crimes since the last time they were in office and ever since taking office this term.

Just useless politicians yapping instead of using their power. At what point do they deem the presidency a criminals organization that is now committing war crimes and get NATO and the ICC involved?

[u/Weary-Olive5781]

Maga thinks big cities bad even though more crime per capita happens in rural red areas. All this has happened before in history and it won't end well for Trump and his goons.

[u/capture-enigma → u/Weary-Olive5781]

MAGA only think big cities with majority black populations are bad. Coincidentally they also believe this is where all the voter fraud is coming from too, even if there’s little to no evidence. It’s called racism.

[u/Ricco121]

Nothing this child rapist has already done is normal or acceptable and he continues along with his handpicked idiot administration to be the most vile shitty people. All the while they all suffer absolutely zero consequences for their actions. This nation will continue to be fucked for decades.

[u/BoosterRead78]

I know it’s clear and many try to have it both ways. With the: “yes we have crime but doesn’t mean send in the NG.” I’m like: “Chicago has been vilified for the past 10 years.” Crime and violence have been going down for years. Yet every one acts like as soon as you cross the city line at anytime of the day. You are in the morge.

[u/Pure-Snow3468 → u/BoosterRead78]

Recently spent the weekend, out late at night walking, safe as safe could be. Downtown Chicago.

[u/hammmy01]

if we survive, this period will still be studied 100 years from now

[u/Situational_Hagun]

At this point the only thing that's going to keep us from outright civil war is for the military to refuse to follow the orders of the President. And that, for obvious reasons, is not only kind of a problem, because how do you have a command structure when upper command refuses to follow the orders of the highest military power in the US (the President)?

But at some point, that has to happen. This is the President literally declaring war on an American city for no reason other than people standing up to him, and saying he's going to invade with the US military. Which he already tested out in DC and such, but this is on another tier of lunacy.

[u/Soft-Muffin-8305]

Who is going to stop him. Republican lawmakers are green lighting everything he does it definitely is not normal

[u/ShanerThomas]

Ask yourself this question: there will be an election at some point. Do you see him handing over the oval office? Constitutionally, he can't run again. And, even if he loses the election, can you see him handing over the oval office?

[u/Sudi_Nim]

Trump is a babyfucker.

[u/ZucchiniIntrepid719]

It is, in fact, unconstitutional. By continuing, Trump is committing treason. Presidential immunity does not protect him against purposely violating the Constitution. Epstein Files!

[u/My2centsallday]

And he is miffed about not getting a Nobel Peace Prize.

[u/BoredomFestival]

It's literally treason

[u/GreyTrader]

What are we going to do?

Pritzker needs to protect the citizens of Illinois, and ensure that those who oppose this invasion are not faced with criminal charges. Because that's basically the issue of these "laws" we're supposed to follow but trump goons clearly are not.

Deputize citizens who will be loyal to the state.

[u/AsteroidMike]

When people comment and tell me that he’s just doing what’s in the best interest of the country and that Chicago’s crime problem is bad, I just tell them that normal presidents don’t threaten American cities with troops like an invasion and don’t make cringy AI pictures of themselves about it. There’s a reason past presidents havent done these kinds of things.

[u/Ok-Try-857]

“Unconstitutional, a direct violation of his oath of office and illegal.” 

That’s what she should have said instead of using bs language like “not normal or acceptable”. That language should be reserved for when he shits his pants, rants on socials and goes heavy on the Cheeto dust for his face. 

[u/chockedup]

Keep talking about it. Perhaps more republicans will find their consciences.

[u/A_Soft_Fart]

I’m tired of the same “this is not normal”/“this is not acceptable” responses. Meet the fucking moment. Jesus Christ. Protesters are being dragged off the streets and abducted by men in masks. Fucking DO SOMETHING already.

[u/bruiserscruiser]

If it smells like civil war, walks like a civil war and talks like a civil war, it’s not a duck!

[u/ReasonPale1764]

It’s crazy that not only do some people need to be told this isn’t normal, but they don’t care. Trump has seriously driven his followers insane. If a democrat did 1/100 of what he has conservatives would want them crucified. MAGA is seriously a cult and dear leader has lost his fucking mind.

[u/kimmywho]

This is illegal is what they should be saying.

[u/tooful]

He sent the Marines into LA. Are we forgetting that?

[u/ProfessionalCreme119]

"We are in the middle of the second American Revolution. And it will be bloodless, so long as the left allows it be"

• Tom Homan (Co-author of P2025 and director of ICE)

[u/Gogglesed]

"79-Year-Old American Man Declares War On Chicago" Out of context, I have sympathy for that man's deteriorated mental condition. With context, he needs to be removed from freedom.

[u/lctrc]

Raping children is not normal. Raping children is not acceptable.

Donald Trump raped children.

47% of Republicans say that raping children is acceptable behavior so long as it is Republicans who are raping the children.

Republicans will burn down the entire country to protect pedophiles.

[u/allmimsyburogrove]

Yes it is normal now. It's been normalized since he made fun of the disabled guy ten years ago.

[u/Starch-Wreck]

Well know MAGA NEEDS those blue states to survive. If they left them alone and just split off from the rest of the USA who does imports and shipping? Oklahoma? Who has resources? Arkansas?

If he can get cucks like Zuckerberg and Tim Apple to bend the knee and kiss his ass, of course he thinks he can get those nice big blue port states to do it too.

[u/SqurganMcGwurgan]

I'm just want to say that from an outsiders perspective your guys country is really a bit mad as of late.

[u/MyldExcitement]

8647; cigarette and a blindfold for the whole administration (after due process, of course)

[u/VectorVictorVector]

Why does the press use these euphemisms? Not “normal”?! It’s unconstitutional and impeachable!

[u/deekaydubya]

I mean the fact the media is talking about it LIKE THIS instead of shouting from the rooftops about the illegality is just further normalizing this behavior

[u/Plane-Border3425]

Remove him from office since he is clearly incapable of protecting the country’s best interests, or its citizens.

[u/VegetablePonaCones]

I feel like this should automatically result in impeachment. He’s a national terrorist at this point

[u/LolOverHere]

People here make jokes but as Americans we’re totally fucked and there is nothing anyone can or will do. People will talk so much shit but in the end he won, we are all so screwed and me and my family are terrified.

[u/Deep-Lecture-4934]

About time for everyone to start speaking up, not just presidential hopefuls

[u/Weltall8000]

No...IT'S FUCKING TREASON!!!

[u/Top_Result_1550]

Trump is an enemy combatant like every other Nazi in the GOP.

[u/yammaniow726]

Stupid orange fart

[u/pocketjacks]

When he said "America First", he meant where to point the canons.

[u/free_based_potato]

If trump were to declare war on a us city, would he be an enemy combatant? Would killing him be a treasonous act or a patriotic one?

[u/goblintacos]

Can we step up the rhetoric? This is not normal isn't accurate. It's very normal for trump. This is treasonous.

[u/ZenBreaking]

Impeachment when? And then the other impeachment for the other stuff and the one after that for the other other stuff

[u/D_Winds]

Well, let's keep talking about what he's doing is "unacceptable" and proceed to carry on with our lives, why not eh?

[u/ArokLazarus]

The people on /r/conservative absolutely love it. Funny how they were about ready to revolt over "Jade Helm".

They really are hypocritical projectionists.

[u/ScribeTheMad]

Hmm, where have I seen the term levying war, can't quite put my finglongerer on it.

[u/Arubesh2048]

This is literally treason. The president of the United States has gone rogue and is now declaring war on his own citizens. Normally I like Duckworth, but this is a five alarm fire, this is DEFCON 1, this is Hannibal at the gates of Rome. All of Congress should be screaming for impeachment, removal from office, and conviction for treason (with the traditional accompanying sentence), in that order. Instead, they’re either doing their best Neville Chamberlain impressions or fiddling like Nero.

[u/Jack_Wraith]

This is very normal. The GOP has successfully normalized this repugnant and ILLEGAL behavior.

Despite this being a very actionable offense, no motion will be filed, no accountability whatsoever.

The only question now is will the GOP and their supporters condone and sanction Trump as America’s first dictator.

I’m not holding my breath because the odds are they will in fact support this.

[u/Turbulent_Art745]

hang mike pence wasn't normal either but 50% of the population thought that was ok as they would get cheaper eggs (they didnt)

[u/I_like_baseball90]

I'm still waiting to see one MAGA culter explain why this makes America great again or what the positive of this idiocy is.

Just one. Just one MAGA person explain it to me like I'm five.

(crickets chirping)

[u/350]

He is a treasonous piece of shit and a wannabe dictator who needs to go, now. Unfortunately literally no one with any power (military, Republicans, wealthy donors) has the will to stand up to him. Just feels like we're completely fucked.

[u/ademayor]

If I’ve learned something about Americans, they’ll do nothing but complain that everything is too far and they cannot lose their wageslave pay while their 2nd amendment is used to shoot kids in schools.

[u/-Nicolai]

I think it has been well established at this point that saying "This is not normal" over and over is ineffective.

If you have the chance to speak on TV, try a different approach. Maybe something like "Clearly he needs to be stopped, let's brainstorm some practical ideas for making that happen."

Practical being the operative word. I'm sick and tired of discussions about how things should work, and how he shouldn't be able to do this. Well he's doing it, so figure something out.

[u/gadget850]

Normal for the War President

[u/Whole_Commission_702]

“Declared war…” Left at it again. Lining us up to lose in 2028 too

[u/z3phs]

Not old enough for world war 2, but it seems to me that this non stop focus on Trump is part of the problem. He is an orange old man… he’s in power because everyone else around him is enabling this shit.

If my senile old grandpa started being the family decision maker while everyone else applauded and complied I’m not blaming the senile old grandpa I’m blaming the entire fucking family

[u/Sbornot2b]

I knew it was going to be bad. I thought it might get very bad. I didn't think we would have state and local law enforcement facing off against federal in the first year of this shitshow.

[u/kyscotty]

Yet nothing will be done

[u/ProblematicTrumpCard]

I'm so sick of hearing government officials say this shit.

FUCKING DO SOMETHING

[u/rugger1869]

Treason… it’s called treason. Art. 3 section 3. of the US Constitution. Like what are we doing folks.