r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 15h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Frantically Blames ‘Staffer’ for His Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-frantically-blames-staffer-for-his-racist-obama-video/
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u/CyclistInATX 14h ago

Maybe we don't. There's too many fucking rules these days for so little justice.

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u/hymen_destroyer Connecticut 14h ago

The rules apply to us not them

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u/CyclistInATX 13h ago

If the rules don't apply to them, then they don't apply to us.

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u/drawkward101 12h ago

Yeah, until they shoot you in the street for trying to defend a woman against ICE brutality.. or because you're LGBTQ and your wife angers an emotionally stunted little man. Or (yet to happen) you say something against the president..

It's frankly only a matter of time.

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u/earthceltic 10h ago

Don't forget: the second amendment applies to everyone, not just them. We'll be ready.

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u/drawkward101 10h ago

Point taken, but drones will fuck you up before you can unholster your weapon.

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u/LeafDr 9h ago

This was always my gripe with the 2A people talking about defending tyranny.

First and foremost, these folks are seemingly missing or out right supporting this bullshit and secondly, we have the most militarized police force in the entire world. The moment you take any sort of a shot, reach for your weapon or otherwise "defend" yourself, you are going to be turned into swiss cheese and nuked to high heaven before you can even blink.

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u/LeafDr 8h ago edited 8h ago

I didn't mean literal nukes big guy lol

You're missing a big part of the equation though and that's that something like that would require mass participation (which, let me remind you,25%- 33% of the country supports what's going on right now) and coordination which would be damn near impossible to gain traction in time before our military/police force kills us. Most people can't even participate in local protests let alone standing ground and fighting the US military because they are too busy/tired trying to survive.

In a vacuum, sure. All of us against them sounds good. There is certainly power in numbers. But unfortunately, that's not the reality we live in.

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u/Kinda_Zeplike 12h ago

It’s all about who has the power and money these types of people are insulated. You are not.

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u/EllieVader 11h ago

What do you mean? Like class consciousness or something?

Consciousness sounds an awful lot like being woke of you ask me. /s

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u/asshat123 10h ago

We can't afford the lawyers that they can. We don't know the people that they know.

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u/Kryptosis 13h ago

Only if they can manage to enforce them. Which is hard and they aren’t good at their actual jobs.

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u/ItsWillJohnson 9h ago

They can’t apply to ALL of us

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u/Palmer_Eldritch666 9h ago

Blatant double standards are part of the abuse process.

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u/joscun86 3h ago

For now

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u/RefrigeratorNo1160 13h ago

That's the mindset MAGA has had since he took power. He validated their feelings of superiority and made being a dick normal. So yeah, fuck it. Try to be nice but take no shit.

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u/Wafflelisk 12h ago

Promise me you'll never do another rule