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Tootbsb

(142 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 05:50 PM Jun 2025

Take all the time you need.

The President of the United States is advocating for arresting the duly-elected Governor of California for his SPEECH

He thereafter admitted that the Governor of California had committed NO CRIME—but he still wants him arrested

Spend as much time as you need processing what that means for America

Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2025-06-09T20:44:07.953Z
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Take all the time you need. (Original Post) Tootbsb Jun 2025 OP
Definitely time to revisit the wisdom of Presidential Immunity. This test-case is pretty revealing. BurnDoubt Jun 2025 #1
Nor Satans in SCOTUS. n/t returnee Jun 2025 #17
1 more Iamscrewed Jun 2025 #2
I need more time Tetrachloride Jun 2025 #3
Take all the time you need. For real! 😁 dchill Jun 2025 #11
Hmmmmm....... Just Jerome Jun 2025 #4
If he could, he would arrest Gov Newsom Martin Eden Jun 2025 #5
Because he faced a jury post-presidency but was granted immunity, this was inevitable. BadgerMom Jun 2025 #6
It's righteous vitriol. dchill Jun 2025 #12
Thanks. BadgerMom Jun 2025 #14
Not to mention an on-the-spot post! dchill Jun 2025 #15
I know exactly how you feel, my friend. calimary Jun 2025 #18
Apparently, Trump's wilderness years affected him more profoundly than anyone could have imagined. sop Jun 2025 #22
I feel that it's not only healthy to despise this maladministration, enigmania Jun 2025 #23
If he were to arrest governor Newsom, some very serious shit would hit the fan. Magoo48 Jun 2025 #7
All of this! Tootbsb Jun 2025 #21
Why doesn't he just fucking die already? Orrex Jun 2025 #8
Delusional and demented leadership n/t AntiFascist Jun 2025 #9
Baker Act him the next time he's at Mar-A-Loco Zorro Jun 2025 #10
Simple ReRe Jun 2025 #13
Statler and Waldorf will have a tough time turning this one around onto the left Torchlight Jun 2025 #16
If we don't fight. czarjak Jun 2025 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author czarjak Jun 2025 #20
DJT also wishes to jail anyone who burns the US flag for a period of one year. But... cer7711 Jun 2025 #24

BurnDoubt

(1,348 posts)
1. Definitely time to revisit the wisdom of Presidential Immunity. This test-case is pretty revealing.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 07:21 PM
Jun 2025

The Founders clearly never conceived Satan at the helm.

Martin Eden

(15,272 posts)
5. If he could, he would arrest Gov Newsom
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:09 PM
Jun 2025

Rest assured that his #1 goal is to wield dictatorial power.

BadgerMom

(3,373 posts)
6. Because he faced a jury post-presidency but was granted immunity, this was inevitable.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:21 PM
Jun 2025

He faced legal consequences so he’ll make others do so.

California won’t vote for him so he’ll punish us.

Fauci’s facts showed him up so we can’t have vaccines.

Generals didn’t cave to his will in his first term so he put a drunk in place as Secretary of Defense.

People laughed at his hurricane map so we don’t have a national weather service.

He needed to cheat to gain a spot in the Ivy League so he went after Columbia and Harvard.

Tech oligarchs are richer than he so he needed them to bend the knee.

He’s a sick man and another 3-1/2 years of him very well might break us. I’m angry, I’m scared and I’m not proud of the amount of vitriol I feel toward him.

calimary

(88,758 posts)
18. I know exactly how you feel, my friend.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Jun 2025

And I think I’m probably just as disgusted and terrified.

sop

(17,201 posts)
22. Apparently, Trump's wilderness years affected him more profoundly than anyone could have imagined.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jun 2025

Those four years turned him into a complete madman, hellbent on retribution and destruction.

enigmania

(393 posts)
23. I feel that it's not only healthy to despise this maladministration,
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 05:20 PM
Jun 2025

but it remains a categorical imperative.

Magoo48

(6,687 posts)
7. If he were to arrest governor Newsom, some very serious shit would hit the fan.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:25 PM
Jun 2025

We do not want his speech here, his ideas here, his picture here, or any memory of him here. We do not want his thugs here, his racism here, his hatred here, or his Nazi followers here.

There are two significant mountain ranges and three quite impressive deserts between here and DC. Most Californians like it that way, or I personally want to believe that. Though I traveled extensively as a young man. I always returned to live here, where I was born and raised, in the free republic of California I’m an old man now, and I intend to die here in the free republic of California.

And, I intend to die a free man, right here in the free republic of California. We do not recognize the authority of Kings, despots, Nazis, cult leaders, or game show hosts. And, that is how it will remain in the free republic of California.

ReRe

(12,162 posts)
13. Simple
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 09:03 PM
Jun 2025

It means nothing because of who's mouth it came out of. A Jr High level mentality in a 79 yr old man who happens to be the dangerous 47th President of the United States.

Torchlight

(6,259 posts)
16. Statler and Waldorf will have a tough time turning this one around onto the left
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:31 PM
Jun 2025

This is a chilling and authoritarian impulse, not a policy dispute. When the sitting President openly calls for the arrest of a duly-elected governor solely for words spoken—and then admits no crime occurred—it’s not just a tantrum, it’s a threat to the foundation of American democracy.

It's about the head of the executive branch demanding the imprisonment of a political rival for having opinions—and that’s the stuff of banana republics, not a functioning republic.

czarjak

(13,413 posts)
19. If we don't fight.
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:36 PM
Jun 2025

We're not going to have a country? Maybe take it back after having it stollen.

Response to Tootbsb (Original post)

cer7711

(601 posts)
24. DJT also wishes to jail anyone who burns the US flag for a period of one year. But...
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 05:53 PM
Jun 2025

... how does one properly dispose of a beat-up US flag?

You burn it.

Can't wait till someone points that out to him.

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