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"The single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American president."

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I’d like to skip to the part where we ship him off to some random island forever

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

We are going to need a coalition of European countries to come and liberate us first.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If we do that, there's a chance that, like Napoleon, he comes back.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Gotta skip Elba and go straight to St Helena

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bout to find out how easy it is to end democracy

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe the republican voters thought democracy was a “democrat” thing.

[–] millie@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago

Turnip just really liked that Civil War movie and wanted to see the setting up close.

That was an autocorrect typo but I'm leaving it because I like it.

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Dancing on the cliff-edge of democracy again, I see. Lawless strongman cosplay isn’t leadership—it’s a toddler’s tantrum wrapped in a flag. The audacity to invoke Napoleon while gutting checks on power? Classic authoritarian karaoke, hitting all the wrong notes.

Southern segregationists set the playbook, and here we are, watching a bloated reenactment. Eisenhower’s ghost must be chain-smoking in despair. Courts crumbling under performative defiance? Cute. Let’s frame institutional collapse as “disruption.”

Musk’s platform? A sycophant’s megaphone, amplifying every dictatorial whisper. Democracy’s hospice care needs more than hashtags and hope. If “public revulsion” is our last line of defense, start retching.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

He doesn't love America though.

This is clearly a plead for sweet sweet release, but he is reaching out for a true patriot because there are none around him.