It's actually illegal to threaten the president. It's not protected speech.
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And what are the consequences for Mr trump?
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.
Maybe a judge issues a $1,000 scolding and begs him not to do it again.
None, as always. He's the embodiment of how broken the "justice" system is.
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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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. 😕
Bruh the only politician who has been flattened in the past 24 hours was Ebrahim Raisi.
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?
It's schmear, we are civilized here.
Got a bagel?
too soon
No such thing.
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“MSNBC Hosts Express Mild Disapproval for Thing That Trump Will Face Zero Consequences for Saying”
There, fixed the headline.
"MSNBC hosts... Oh nevermind. No one, left, right, or center, cares what they have to say on that network."
Well at least nobody got slammed
He was flattened, but since his skin is made stitched-together whoopee cushions, he sprang back into shape as the gas built up.
What was he flattened with?
Flattened is what finally happens after you’ve been slammed too many times
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fLaTtEnEd
i'm so fucking tired
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.
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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Mildly verbally criticized = flattened
How about a headline where he is arrested, held, charged, tried, and convicted? All much more convincing verbage.
Authoritarian strongman makes veiled threat against political opponent, followers feign ignorance
In other news, the sky is still blue
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Trump flattened
With a hydraulic press?
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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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Just compare him to Hitler already and be done with it, pussy-assed media.
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