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muriel_volestrangler

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3. "presidential wartime powers" - despite no war, people let him get away with this shit

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:23 PM

Jul 2025

They searched hard for any gang from Venezuela, then made up crap about "any Venezuelan with a tattoo is a member of it", and pretended this gang was somehow "invading" the USA because of all the tattoos they could see. And so it is "a war" - though less than, say, "the war on drugs". But that gives Trump the excuse to appoint a nutcase (thinks federal agents were responsible for the attempted Jan 6 coup) who pals around with (and pays) racists.

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