Summary

Trump declared Biden’s pardons “VOID” in a late-night Truth Social post, claiming they were signed by autopen without Biden’s knowledge—despite Trump having used autopen during his first term.

Trump warned pardoned individuals, including January 6th committee members (who weren’t charged with crimes), that they’re “subject to investigation at the highest level.”

Critics characterized his statements as “dictator shit” and questioned their legality, with one commenting this represents “the 17th constitutional crisis of just this weekend alone.”

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Europe watching the USA lately:

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If we get through this presidency, and that’s a big if, then we’ve got a fascist infestation and their enablers in congress that we’re going to need to take care of.

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37 points

Time to truly drain the swamp by fucking force.

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Don’t disrespect swamps like that, they’re a vital ecosystem. This is more like excising the cancer.

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We’ve had a fascist infestation for 100 years

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14 points

Try living beside them.

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Try being a sane person living here

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6 points

Yeah… shit’s getting wild, and not in a good way

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This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.

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Slam it all you want, it means nothing until someone actually does something.

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“SLAMMED!”, I pronounce into the face of the arresting ICE agent.

“S-S-S-SLAMMED!”, I cry out as the DHS official drags me down a hallway towards my El Salvadorian prison cell.

Seee-Lamb-da!”, I exclaim as the door to my cell clangs shut.

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Alright boys, slam 'em

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I do not know whether it is to yourself or Mr. Adams I am to give my thanks for the copy of the new constitution. I beg leave through you to place them where due. It will be yet three weeks before I shall receive them from America. There are very good articles in it: and very bad. I do not know which preponderate. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life. Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted.

-Thomas Jefferson

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It’s powerfully written and just a shame it had to come from a child rapist.

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I think they’re waiting to see if trump declares martial law just cuz on easter, like he said

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There’s not much holding him back. He’s been defying cour rulings left and right. The Dems are spineless and we’re fucked.

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you’re just as spineless as they are. you could do something too.

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Not even two months in, yet. I fear you won’t make it.

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Not until it comes knocking on the door in the middle of the night.

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That’s not how politics works. That’s just sticking your head in the sand.

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That’s by design.

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This is what “they” want. I get it. I’m right there with you. Find something that you can lean on to help you keep your sanity; a hobby, a new tv show, volunteer to take care of puppies at your local shelter… you need to balance this firestorm before you get burnt out. But no matter what, we need you to keep fighting! We need you!

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I’m so tired of the news instigating outrage.

Nobody is instigating anything here; the whole thing is just that outrageous.

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Uh… You do realize America is becoming fascist right now right? I wonder if German media also hyperfocused on Hitler in the 1930s.

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This is the truth and you should be outraged, but calling truthful reporting “instigating outrage” is insane

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I’m so tired of the news instigating outrage.

Trump’s tyranny itself is what instigates outrage, not the news’ coverage of it.

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Oh, I thought he was naming DJT “Dictator Shit”.

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No that’s Dictator Tot

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McDictaor

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Check his diaper, apparently that’s the scent within 20 ft of him.

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🍆💦🥔💩

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Honestly, man rants like he’s on a bad trip - with so much projection that it burns the eyes

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Dementia will do that to you

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