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submitted 1 week ago by Corvidae@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

U.S. President Donald Trump seemingly discussed the idea of foreign powers taking out California’s most populated cities while delivering a speech at a Republican rally at the Pinnacle Bank Expo in Grand Island, Nebraska Monday evening.

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[-] GreenBean@lemmy.today 29 points 6 days ago

Isn't it illegal to incite violence against the citizens of the USA? Especially by the "potus"? In the normal run-by-the-US Constitution world, wouldn't that be considered treason?

[-] FE80@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

Every once in a while Trump does a little treason as a treat.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Isn’t it illegal

So is 34 counts of falsifying business records. Not sure why people bring up legality during a Fascist government.

You think people where saying "Franco shot my kids... that's illegal!”?

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Its an "official act". These laws bind us, but dont protect us.

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[-] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 21 points 6 days ago

‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.’

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[-] tacoplease@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

To paraphrase something I saw online: it's not that he encouraged Iran to bomb California but Trump could bomb California and blame Iran for it.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Everything is projection, he posited many times that Obama would bomb Iran just in time to rile up war hawk votes. They’ve literally written down their entire fascist plan and people keep treating it all as separate fuckup news stories

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

TRAITOR

I mean, is this how treason works historically? It's only widely accepted after the fact? Like, when you're in it and actively experiencing it most people don't acknowledge it?

That can't be it. People have been executed for treason. Why the fuck are we so bad at this?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 days ago

Iran is not stupid, they could take out one golf course in Florida.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

The Iranians are not stupid enough to remove an idiot who is ruining the US military. That is how the Allies viewed Hitler, they knew who was fucking up Germany's war effort.

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[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

I don't know what's worse, three fact he said it or that people cheered when he said it.

[-] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So the west coast alliance anytime now? If the west coast becomes independent the US loses more than 50% of its economic power

[-] tacoplease@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I like the Pacific States of America, the good ol' PSA.

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[-] kingkong@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

this is the president sworn to defend usa soil? impeachment required and jail asking for murder and genocide of the united states citizens out in the open. holy kuf the epstein class is so delusional. besides east coast closer than west coast.

and the people that clap for the murder/genocide of millions of americans by the president in this case. what are these people. after the impeachment definitely need to investigate and jail all of these people actually not even people murders to be or already murders.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

what are these people.

Traitors. Literally.

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[-] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

You just know they talked about this with him. Like a false flag operation type deal. Just like with his assassination attempts.

He just cannot keep his mouth shut about these things hoping he will be thought of as the smart one when it turns out to actually happen!!

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[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago

I'm glad he's doing these things so that everyone is reminded that all of them are like this. They're radicals. It needs to be crystal clear so that all of us know what to do.

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Obvious propaganda is obvious.

This is a distraction ploy, this is what his job is. Look elsewhere to see what his cabinet and the GOP are trying to get you to look away from.

Nobody is immune to propaganda, but we can become aware of it.

[-] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

Obvious propaganda is like a Nigerian prince email. It’s only for the people who want to fall for it. I was just talking to racist grandma who would be happy with the idea that Iran bombs California.

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[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago

wow I have seen politicians threatening not serving constituencies that did not vote for them but this is a new low

[-] bampop@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

My guess is they've been discussing the need for a big false flag incident to rally support. He probably just felt like mentioning some possible venues to sound out the audience.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Let them take out Mara Lago

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago

let them take out mara lago and other places trump owns. not that I would ever suggest foreign powers who wants to hurt trump to hit things he owns but it does make the most sense and would be the most effective.

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

no joke...if Trump loses the midterms, he will go scorched Earth on the USA.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

I dunno man he’s already sent armed goons on our streets and abducted people from their cars.

[-] green_link@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

sent? sending it hasn't stopped

[-] OldManWithACane@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

Wow... i can't even imagine what it's going to be like when he stops showering us with the blessings of the last 20 months.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

I'd like to hear what the US Navy thinks about nuking one of our nations biggest naval bases in San Diego.

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[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Is he aware that San Diego is home to the largest population of active duty military than any other city? And don't most military vote Republican?

[-] sethposluns@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

I suspect he is not aware, no...

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

when have his supporters ever cared when he said he would fuck them over?

[-] DudeWhoYapsTooMuch@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

So we all agree we're just gonna go ahead and get him out of here right?

[-] GrumpyGrampa@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

Maybe California could become Canadas 11th Province? Free healthcare and free society where ICE would be imprisoned for being criminals!

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The blue states pay more in tax revenue than the red states. They subsidize them.

https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118494/documents/HHRG-119-JU13-20250715-SD014-U14.pdf

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

First of all, California has already been declared an Iranian province as a result of Straight of Trump declaration.

California should consider rejecting US membership in protest of this... without necessarily accepting Iran's invitation.

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Look I don’t like the rams or chargers either but this might be an overreaction

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Hey Iran we all know where he lives, let’s make a deal.

[-] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Iran literally can't hit the US mainland yet. That's the sole reason for them constantly getting attacked in the first place - preferable while already in some sort of negotiations.

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