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The current Republican presidential candidate, “had a particular affinity for the firing squad.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

For Trump, the spectacle was crucial. “He had a particular affinity for the firing squad,” says one of the former White House officials. He’d say, “They need to be eradicated, not jailed.” Administration officials privately referred to this demand as Trump’s “American death-squads idea,” comparing it to the drug-war bloodbath carried out by Filipino strongman Rodrigo Duterte. (The sources, some still very much within Trump’s circle, requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about sensitive conversations.)

That mass executions were not a feature of Trump’s term is a credit to the American justice system and the more sober-minded government officials who were unwilling to be complicit in his mad schemes. These aides and advisers typically put the president off, making vague promises to “look into” the idea, long enough to let Trump’s tyrannical tantrum blow over.
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AGarielgordon.bsky.social

That this is a known quantity and this guy is still going to get tens of millions of enthusiastic votes says a lot about this country and none of it is good.

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DBdrgdave.bsky.social

As always --- Why the FUCK are we only hearing this now?!? These fucking GOP operatives in their cozy sinecures are sufficiently concerned about firing squads that they restrained Trump in his first term (thank God), but not enough that they went public before he became the GOP nominee again.

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Gghostyspook.bsky.social

When he said he could shoot someone on the street and no one would care we should have known but damn this si really bad

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Aagtmadcat.bsky.social

Does that mean we should put him in front of one? Would that make him happy?

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Nnxptvne.bsky.social

So him first then? You know what, okay, firing squad for rapists. (including him and most of his cabinet and cult of course)

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RWraflw.bsky.social

Given what we're seeing from some of the Federal benches and a couple of very rogue Appellate Circuits, many of the guard rails of his first term are severely dented or gone.

A mangled and useless guardrail on a highway, likely after a judge crashed an Appellate Court into it by making up bullsh*t not in the constitution (OK, I'm extrapolating here).
Fortunately, two plastic traffic warning wands mark the missing rail. Because plastic will stop a speeding SCOTUS from further wrecking everything.
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Mmoinqueens.bsky.social

firing squads were featured in many movies in the 50s and 60s - trump never developed past that time

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I think the phrase ‘some are still in Trump’s close circle’ needs to be repeated a lot. A little paranoia goes a long way.

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EBenbuenora.bsky.social

NYT reading this and all they hear inside their heads is "SERIOUSLY NOT LITERALLY HA HA HA"

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TTthorncoyle.bsky.social

Considering the “Pinochet was Right” t-shirts beloved by the Pr*ud B*ys, and all the “helicopter ride” threats made against leftists… this is not surprising.

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Marisa Kabas
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independent journalist / writer of www.thehandbasket.co 💌: MKwrites4000@proton.me signal: marisakabas.04
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