Summary

Donald Trump threatened to send American citizens convicted of vandalizing Tesla vehicles to El Salvador’s infamous Terrorism Confinement Center, labeling the vandals as “sick terrorist thugs” deserving 20-year sentences.

This statement followed a major vandalism incident in Ontario, Canada, where around 80 Tesla cars were damaged.

Trump’s comments coincide with controversy over his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants, halted by a court order.

The White House defended the deportation despite legal challenges, denying any violation of the court’s injunction.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Murder innocent women and children. You should deport the rest of the women and children to some place they’ve never lived and let the murderers take their homes. Spray paint a car, you should deport the spray painter to a prison in a country they have never lived in.

        I see no inconsistency in their logic /s

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    11 days ago

    If you were waiting until it got to actual concentration camps before you were willing to call this fascism, well, here you go.

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    11 days ago

    Newsflash: He can’t do it. The Supreme Court would have to block it. If he does it to Tesla vandals then he can do it to anyone … including Supreme Court judges. The SC judges are not that stupid … anymore. It seems like one or two of them have spit Trumps balls out of their mouth.

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      I’m not convinced. Even if they did find against him for something, he’d just defy it. MAGAs are actually looking forward to the point when they get to castrate the Supreme Court by openly ignoring their rulings.

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        I think the Supreme Court is starting to see what is coming. One of Trumps appointments may have flipped. You will never get Thomas to wake up, he will be praising Trump even when old Claerence is forced to divorce his wife because Trump outlaws interracial marriage (yea, that will be on the horizon)

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    11 days ago

    I’m a Jesus Loving Family Values Republican and I have NO PROBLEM with him Sending my Wife and Children to a Terrorism Camp in EL SALVADOR!

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    I’m so glad that genocide joe spent his whole term fighting to make sure this never happens.

    jk lol. He just did genocide.

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      President carter just did nothing while those hostages were stuck in iran and Reagan got them out!

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        Carter negotiated relentlessly for their release, and even attempted an armed rescue mission that failed, but Reagan had counter-negotiated behind his back, and convinced the Iranians to hold on the hostages until after the Inauguration. They were released while Reagan was being sworn in.

        That’s called Treason, and Reagan should have gotten the rope for that. Then he sold weapons of mass destruction to Iran to finance his illegal war in Central America, using drug smugglers to smuggle weapons to his CIA mercenaries. Once the weapons were dropped off, the pilots fulled their planes with cocaine and flew it back to America. The enormous number of CIA-protected cocaine flights to America led to the breath-taking crack cocaine epidemic of the 80s/90s. More treason, and he definitely should have gotten the rope for that.

        Reagan was one of the most destructive presidents in American history.

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          I’m glad someone understood what I was getting at lol

          Fuck ronald reagan, fuck the entire apparatus that allowed him to get into power, and fuck all the cowards in congress who refused to convict him for deliberately betraying our nation time and time again while in office.

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            Reagan also abolished The Fairness Doctrine, which allowed Rush Limbaugh to lead the conservative talk radio revolution, and establish the foundation of the Conservative Propaganda Machine. After almost 40 years of expansion into every other media, and becoming multi-generational, the Conservative Propaganda Machine has created an entirely alternative universe for many conservatives to live in, where Joe Biden leads the Biden Crime Family, and the HitlerPig family is a godly, Christian, All-American family.

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    I kinda want to dare them to deport me, a relatively well off white heterosexual male multi-gen native born US citizen, just so I have the pleasure of suing the ever loving fuck out of the government on as many fronts as are legally feasible. Every single minute infraction committed will be a knock-down, drag-out affair.

    E: yeah this is dumb. I’m just frustrated.

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      I don’t think you fully grasp the situation. You still seem to think that there are consequences for Trump when he breaks the law, and that the legal system in the US is still in-tact enough to grant you not only your freedom, but some compensation for your rights being trampled.

      Yes, it is outrageously illegal for him to abduct Americans and send them to a black site on foreign soil with no due process. But he spent his entire last term positioning himself to be able to do and get away with outrageously illegal things this time around. He controls the department of justice and the supreme court. The supreme court has already given him an incredibly wide blanket for presidential immunity.

      You might think “well, that’s ok - as soon as the story gets out, people will be rioting in the streets!”, but you have to remember that “independent media” is a thing that doesn’t really exist anymore. All of the major news sources in print and on television are owned by a small handful of billionaires, and he is very good at keeping billionaires on side. Any information that gets out there will be downplayed immediately, and the news will be forgotten in a couple of days to be replaced by the latest shocking celebrity news or the latest atrocity Trump has committed.

      You probably would get out eventually (provided you don’t get sick and die or get beat to death by the guards or shanked or something), but you would be far, far worse off for the experience. The dream of vindication you’d get for sticking it to Trump would vanish like mist in the sun and you’d be left with the heart-wrenching reality that the life you had previously known is over, and you are at the mercy of the barbarians now.

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    I’m pessimistic about a lot of what people say Trump can’t do, but he definitely can’t do this one.

    Edit: that’s enough of this community. Y’all are way worse than even the politics and tanky subs on Reddit. Jesus, y’all need some help. Count me as another ally you threw away because you can’t see past your own ignorance.

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      Count me as another ally you threw away because you can’t see past your own ignorance.

      LOL if you think this way then you were never an ally.

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          If your support was conditional, then it was insincere. I don’t know what group you think you belong to, but you were never one of “us.” If you would like to be, you can make a good start by growing enough backbone to stand by whatever morals you have instead of “being an ally” and then “not an ally anymore” depending on whatever shit people say to you.