#presidential politics

[deadpresidents]

The town hall, moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), began with questions from preselected attendees for the former President. Donald Trump offered meandering answers on how he would address housing affordability and help small businesses. But it took a sudden turn after two attendees required medical attention. And so Trump, after jokingly asking the crowd whether "anybody else would like to faint," took a different approach. "Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?" he said. For 39 minutes, Trump swayed, bopped -- sometimes stopping to speak -- as he turned the event into almost a living-room session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist. He played nine tracks. He danced. He shook hands with people onstage. He pointed to the crowd. Noem stood beside him, nodding with her hands clasped. Trump stayed in place onstage, slowly moving back and forth. He was done answering questions for the night.

Just want to point out that this is a real thing that actually happened at Donald Trump's "town hall" in Pennsylvania on Thursday. And, as I always feel the need to remind everybody: in less than a month, tens of millions of Americans will vote for this person to once again be President of the United States. Do your part in making sure that it does not happen again because this is not normal. This is the type of shit that bizarre dictators like Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi would do because nobody was able or willing to say, "No, that's not a good idea." Vote on November 5th because ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

[thashining]

Way to go Joe

[loubella77]

First on my hear me out list, I have teddy Roosevelt.

Walk softly and carry a big stick… do I need to say more?

(18+ mdni)

[foxy-kitsune-fox]

Baron Tremayne Caple A.K.A. Foxy Kitsune Fox: Donald Trump, Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York City

~ Baron Tremayne Caple A.K.A. Foxy Fox/Foxy Kitsune Fox/Fox Man/Fox King/King Fox/Gemini Man/Autism Man/Rainbow Man Is A Metrosexual/God Of Autism/King Of Autism/God Of Asperger/King Of Asperger 🦊

[my-voice-my-resistance]

Archie and the Gay Liberators #comedy #archiebunker #funny

A little politically incorrect humor.

[shrinkrants]

I feel compelled to remind people, at this moment, that fascism is not a single-party issue, however more pronounced and rabid it may be among the Republicans. What Ruth Wilson Gilmore has referred to as the “domestication” of fascism by Democrats is also a threat to our lives and freedom. We can see that domestication in the criminalization of homelessness, the enhanced criminalization of dissidents, and the further militarization of police in Democratic cities. The path to corporate fascism is bipartisan. The road is simply longer on the Democratic side. I would prefer a longer road, just as I would prefer an adversary who would swing his fists at me to one who would simply shoot me in the head, but I wouldn’t mistake either opponent for an ally. I am in a life-and-death struggle either way.  We must remember that fascism is already here, in the very fabric of our political lives. While Trump is promising relocation camps for unhoused people and migrants, we must recognize that the machinery of social disposal already exists in this country and that we are already trained to ignore its work. Premature death is manufactured daily in prisons, detention centers, and sacrifice zones, and people in the US barely discuss it. COVID deaths have been normalized, and I am hearing little conversation about people perishing as a result of extreme heat – a problem that will grow exponentially in the coming years. This does not mean that the expansion of systems of social disposal is not a threat. It means that people who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge, understand, or fight what already exists are not well-positioned to fight that expansion. I am not asking you to pick a fight with every liberal who praises Harris as Trump’s prosecutor. I am asking you to undermine the basic assumptions that prop up that thinking. Our collective understanding of the crises we face is much more important than this shoddy rhetoric, which is merely a morbid symptom. Our work is to cultivate thoughtful, active communities that are determined to change the conditions that shape our lives. Do not allow the spectacle of the presidential race and its many sideshows to devour your energy or weaken your political will. We must not be transformed by the electoral circus, but rather, we must create space for transformation in spite of it. -- Kelly Hayes

[multifandomhallucinations]

As a system that is in the body of a person of colour with an atheist, immigrant family

We are scared

We're great at pretending, but the hosts long lost their belief in Christianity/Catholicism. So have the co-hosts. We're VERY neurodivergent, and the majority of us are queer in some way. Before, the hosts feared being put in a system. Now, they fear their motherland. Mexico isn't safe for LGBTQIA+ people, it's not safe even for normal people. That isn't the fault of Claudia Sheinbaum. However, having to move and fearing our hosts killing the body because of our bodily identity is the fault of Donald Trump. He is scum by any decent human being's standards.

Sincerely, the alters of the Multifandom Hallucinations system

[jarviskingston]

🏀⛹🏿‍♂️⛹🏿

[deadpresidents]

"It's called rain, comes down from comes down from heaven. And they want to do, no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip. So what happens you're in the shower 10 times as long, you know. No water comes out of the faucet."

-- Exact transcript of President-elect Donald Trump complaining about shower heads with restricted water flow during a batshit crazy press conference at Mar-a-Lago, January 7, 2024.

President-elect Trump, who also pointed out during the press conference that "The windmills are driving the whales crazy", touched upon some more serious matters, as well, implying that the United States may take back control of the Panama Canal by force, potentially use force and/or economic coercion to force Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States (he will "tariff Denmark at a very high level" if they don't give us Greenland), and continued to suggest that Canada should become an American state. Oh, he also talked about changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" because he's an asshole.

In case you forgot, over 77 million Americans -- including, undoubtedly, people you love and who say they love and care about you -- voted for this person to lead our country for the next four years, despite...well...despite fucking everything we have experienced since 2015.

I seriously don't know if I can do this again for another four years.

[thashining]

Oh? They want to talk about nepotism and abuse of the presidential pardon power??

[onlytiktoks]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi.html

[pluralsword]

our read of the majority. opinion regarding presidential immunity (which you can easily replicate by control + f searching the word "prosecutor" in the court opinion and also reading the concluding pages): 1) for an act to be official, it MUST be proven to be the responsibility of the President. a coup attempt for example doesn't count

2) no original provision for immunity in constitution, only implication

3) anything unofficial in an official act still prosecutable

As such the issue we think here that gives good reason for the dissenting opinion to be concerned is not so much 'unlimited official presidential immunity' which is not case in text in a way that would allow for a dictatorship, but that people will try to interpret it that way. already happened w/ discriminatory unconstitutional laws eg anti-trans stuff. since gender discrimination is still sex discrimination, that's be why such laws are flagrantly illegal & not the rule of (constitutional) law but the law of elected despots. stuff like this leaves wanting a constitutional convention or trans stuff spelled out in the constitution. sex discrimination for those who don't know there was a constitutional amendment in the USA that banned that. In other words, no direct dictatorial powers, but the Republicans don't really care about what the constitution says in it anyway if they did they would know the 2nd amendment supports establishment of militias and not the right to own a gun if going for an actual originalist interpretation lmao.

One of the major constitutional crises of the United States of America is not itself this court case, but the fact that at multiple levels of government across multiple states and near entirely on the national level Republican elected officials do not care for constitutional law despite their claims, and only care for the law of despots for reactionary causes.

There is a big difference between someone without means breaking the law to survive (not condoning this, just saying) and a bunch of well off politicians violating the constitution repeatedly with the laws they pass to terrorize and hurt people until they're overturned and they just try again. its abusive behavior.

who the bigger problem is and who is responsible for legalizing the carceral slave labor regime that in our opinion is not only unethical but also happens to violate 8th Amendment of the Bill of Rights (bit ironic, given who wrote the Bill of Rights, but that's law for you) due to being cruel and unusual punishment is obvious. (to be clear, our position is abolition and in favor of instead having a system of reconciliation, reparations, restitution, and restoration)

if you want to read it the court case yourselves we found it here https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-supreme-court-decision-on-trump-and-presidential-immunity

We're not a lawyer (or at least, as a system we do not have a law degree) but we studied politics formally for a while and informally for longer. This whole presidential immunity issue was something we hadn't had to think about for years but had learned about in undergrad, so when the news hit about the opinion it was a shock until gears started turning in the brain(s) to think 'hey wait a second this sounds familiar...' life just got in the way of reading this because we like primary sources and now that we've read it we can say we aren't really satisfied by any of the coverage of it we've read. please reblog this or share the info we'd like people to be more informed

[loubella77]

My man 😝 he IS my president hahahahhaha

[foxy-kitsune-fox]

Vote all red (Republican) on ballot in the federal, house, senate, district, major, governor, not blue (Democrat), Election Day. Donald Trump And JD Vance 2024.

~ Baron Tremayne Caple A.K.A. Foxy Fox/Foxy Kitsune Fox/Fox Man/Fox King/King Fox/Gemini Man/Autism Man/Rainbow Man Is A Metrosexual/God Of Autism/King Of Autism/God Of Asperger/King Of Asperger 🦊

[geminisee]

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