• @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    831 year ago

    Well kids, gather 'round and let me tell you about the before times. Back in my day the Secret Service would be on this guy like white on rice.

    • @Willy@sh.itjust.works
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      01 year ago

      they still do. this guy didn’t say he intended to do anything though, which is a pretty big difference

      • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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        You’re missing my point. Threats against the President of the United States used to be investigated. Every. One.

        Hell, my gf wrote some shit about killing Reagan in her journal or essay or whatever. Forgot how it got out 35 years ago, don’t remember. USSS showed up to question a cute little white girl. A high school junior. From a very nice suburb.

        Nobody got a pass on shit like that.

  • @dhork@lemmy.world
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    131 year ago

    He’s making his way, the only way he knows how! But that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow…

  • someguy
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    -121 year ago

    @USAONE @news
    When Trump was president, every Liberal Hollywood celebrity called for the death of Trump. If this man is charged with treason, then so should every Hollywood celebrity be charged with treason.

  • billwashere
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    461 year ago

    Ok he’s entitled to not LIKING Biden or his son, that’s fine. But I have several problems with this statement.

    1. Calling for him to be hanged for treason.

    Ok what exactly has he done that’s so treasonous? Did he call for elections to be overthrown? Did he call for people to storm the Capitol? Did he likely trade/give foreign governments top secret materials? No? Well I know someone who did so shut the fuck up. On that note, I despise Trump but I don’t want him hanged. That would just turn him into a martyr. Will I be upset when he dies from eating too many hamberders? Nope, not in the slightest. Do I wish to see him stripped of his power and wealth and then thrown into jail? Hell fucking yes I do.

    1. Doing this accusation so publicly.

    Ok not only is threatening a president against the law (which I’m not entirely sure that’s what he did) it’s just plain dumb being a public figure. Not that he’s currently producing/acting but I’ll never even consider anything he makes or produces. It’s better for people to think you’re an idiot than open your mouth and remove all doubt. Cough cough Roseanne ……

    1. Expecting people to not be upset at stupid shit you say to get attention.

    I have no words. This just proves how irrelevant you now are. Now I can’t even look back fondly of a show I very much enjoyed as a kid.

    Great job Bo. You’re an idiot.

    • @wildcardology@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      It’s not about what he says, it’s about the people that believes anything him or trump or other MAGA politicians says. They’re the dangerous ones, they’re the one that votes.

      • @vamp07@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        Then let them vote. The US will ultimately get the political leadership they deserve.

    • @Godric@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      I used to think it was just a southern pride flag, but I’ve since learned the modern meaning of it. As someone who grew up watching Dukes of Hazzard, my dream car is now a bright orange 69 Charger with the American flag on it, dubbed the “General Sherman”.

  • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1481 year ago

    I always enjoy the nebulous “treason” accusation. At least when I call Donnie a traitor I have a concrete list of grievances instead of a dozen inferences and leaps in logic.

    • Neato
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      Yeah. Trump and his direct supporters engaged and were filmed engaging in actual insurrection. They made a gallows and had people with ziptie cuffs in masks roaming around the capital.

      These asshats are just trying to water down the word because they know they fit the description too well.

      • They’re trying to water down the word so they can invoke the 14th Amendment against Democrats who hurt their feelings. Texas threatening to remove Biden from the ballots is only the beginning of that particular shitshow.

      • Dhs92
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        201 year ago

        Someone from an instance you’re not federated with may have replied

      • lad
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        31 year ago

        Besides federation issues this happened to me when I deleted my comment and it was always shown as one more reply fold. But maybe on newer version this displays as a comment was deleted

    • Capt. Wolf
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      141 year ago

      We’re talking about a guy who got his big break driving around in a Dodge Charger with a big old rebel flag on it that’s called the General Lee and anyone’s surprised that he turned out to be a MAGA traitor?

      • @MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
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        I loved the show. I loved the car. I am so far removed from the MAGATs. I think they are complete fools and are being duped by the rich because they are gullible.

        An actor can protray someone who is ignorant. To believe it is a choice. A stupid choice by an ignorant person, but still a choice.

      • @JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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        How does this make him a boomer?

        Edit: let me rephrase, how does him being a boomer have anything to do with this.

        • @silverbax@lemmy.world
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          Because apparently quiet a few Millennials and Gen Z have no idea that a huge chunk of the MAGA movement is coming from their own generation. There is no safe ‘generation’ free of idiots, racists and morons.

          They see a baby boomer spouting MAGA and immediately make the leap that he’s MAGA because of his age, not because he’s an idiot who has always been an idiot.

          The protestors who marched for civil rights in the 60s and were beaten by police and set on by attack dogs were Boomers.

          Many of the people who shouted racial epithets at them and cheered on the police were also Boomers.

          The protectors who marched against Vietnam and who Nixon hired actors to infiltrate and try to discredit were Boomers.

          The actors who agreed to infiltrate the peace movement and discredit it by committing vandalism were also Boomers.

          Vivek Ramaswamy is a Millennial.

          I’m not a boomer, but I’m old enough to know that any generation who thinks ‘when these old people die, then everything will finally be ok’ are going to be stunned when they find out there are evil people in every generation.

          Don’t wait to fight them. Fight them now, in every election, vote for the best available candidate even if you don’t love everything they do, because without incremental victories, getting every single incremental victory you can, you will wake up when you’re middle aged or a senior citizen and you’ll realize you should have been fighting all along, not waiting.

          • @Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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            I hate that 60’s civil rights argument.

            The people fighting for civil rights were a small minority, especially within the white population, and were almost universally hated. There is a stark difference in the way our generation and that generation viewed equality and civil rights.

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              It’s not an ‘argument’, it’s an example of how divisively branding entire groups is undermining us. It’s divide and conquer, and it’s working.

              We need to work together now, everywhere, to enact change, not wait.

              • @Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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                I used to believe that. The issue is that people legitimately don’t agree on what the solution is. And those solutions vary wildly, and many of them are actively more dangerous than our current precarious situation. I can’t march on the enemy next to someone who believes climate change is a lie spread by China, and they likely will have entirely different ideas of who the enemy actually is than I do, for instance.

                • @silverbax@lemmy.world
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                  The underlying point is not to march alongside someone who disagrees with you, its that there are Boomers and Gen Xrs who agree with you and they’ve been waiting for enough young people to join them. It’s not just Bernie Sanders and no other Boomers. The same Gen X people who grew up on Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine and still fight for the beliefs espoused in that music are here. We are frustrated that so many young people just seem to want to check out, when we’ve needed them to help us win these battles for so many years.

                  When I first became an atheist, only 9% of the US was ‘none’, meaning atheist, agnostic, or no religion. Now it’s 30%. I haven’t gone anywhere, just happily watching the world change and I know a lot of it is those younger than I am.

      • "no" banana
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        121 year ago

        It’s a damn shame. He played such a convincing “reasonable guy” in smallville.

  • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    581 year ago

    Recently unveiled as the Donut on reality show The Masked Singer, Schneider took to X, formerly Twitter, to share his violent views.

    This is our nation’s current political discourse in a (do)nutshell.