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634-5789

(4,630 posts)
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 05:20 AM 4 hrs ago

So, nobody is safe in your own backyard...I see.

Remember the pattern that's been repeated time and time again.
1. He floats a crazy idea that no one takes seriously.
2. Marginal MAGA bloggers and podcasters start running with the idea.
3. Prominent RWNJ bloggers and podcasters pick up the idea and amplify it, plant it in the skulls of their millions of followers.
4. Fox and other reichwing outlets start giving it coverage, first though second-string personalities and then escalating to their top raters.
5. Mainstream media start covering the story because their competitors are.
6. The crazy idea suddenly isn't crazy anymore. Normalization complete.

Will deporting US citizens be a bridge too far? I wouldn't count on it.

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malaise

(293,183 posts)
2. Just because his draft dodging grandpa
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 05:57 AM
4 hrs ago

lost his citizenship.
This piece of shit has more baggage than a hub airport.
Eff him.

no_hypocrisy

(54,382 posts)
3. Look between the lines.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 06:09 AM
4 hrs ago

Just sending veritable citizens to prisons on American soil isn't profitable enough.

You now have private prisons in a variety of countries and they need tenants to make more money.

Wait, it'll come to you aren't a "citizen" if your great grandparents immigrated after 1900.

Srkdqltr

(9,421 posts)
11. How tangled would that be? How many of us have g-grands here before and after 1900. How many
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:38 AM
1 hr ago

Of the 8 have to be before 1900 to be legal? Boggles the mind.

ancianita

(43,000 posts)
6. THEN YOU GO FIRST! THE BAD AMERICANS HAVE SPOKEN!
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 06:58 AM
3 hrs ago

He's called all Democrats the enemies within. He's called our party seditious. Scum. Bad people. Crazy. Traitors punishable by death.

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trump-accuses-6-democratic-lawmakers-seditious-behavior-punishable-death

“...[Schumer:] Let’s be crystal clear: the president of the United States is calling for the execution of elected officials. This is an outright threat, and it’s deadly serious. We have already seen what happens when Donald Trump tells his followers that his political opponents are enemies of the state,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Thursday.

“Every time Donald Trump posts things like this, he makes political violence more likely. None of us should tolerate this kind of behavior,” Schumer said, highlighting political violence in recent years, including the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and political assassinations just this past year.

House Committee on the Judiciary Chair Jamie Raskin, D-Md., called on Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to “immediately denounce these reckless statements.”


https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5661206-trump-economy-struggles-inflation/
Donald Trump is, at heart, a pitchman. Even so, the millions of Americans struggling under a stagnant economy, declining job market and skyrocketing inflation would have a hard time recognizing the thriving America he tried to sell them during his bizarre White House address last week.

In Trump’s upside-down world, everything bad is the fault of former President Biden and congressional Democrats, even though Trump has now been in charge for nearly a year. The opposite is also true — it was Trump, the president assured us, who saved us all from total catastrophe. Just ignore that inflation remains stubbornly high and corporate layoffs are hitting pandemic-era records.

Hope22

(4,488 posts)
9. Well, certainly there must be someone paid by this country, elected or otherwise..
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 07:28 AM
2 hrs ago

Who can see that these threats are made by a person who is out of his mind! He needs to be put somewhere safe so the rest of us do not have to live under continuous threats. The entire planet receives threats daily. There must be a screen writer out there who can write this guy out of the story! This guy is singing the song of a madman! Maybe they could tell him that Epstein is waiting for him, jet fueled and ready to head to the island for more raping and pillaging! Anything is worth a try! Load him up and send him on his way! We can’t live like this for much longer!!

JHB

(37,976 posts)
8. You've just listed a variant of the RW "float the bullshit" pipeline that's been in place...
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 07:10 AM
3 hrs ago

...since at least the Clinton Administration.

In fact, that span of time is why your current variant exists: plenty of practice. All the workflows and habits were in place, and were for a long time.

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