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We are living at a time of cartoon villains but we don't have cartoon heroes.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 87 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Reminder: The Bill of Rights applies to all persons living or residing in the United States. Whether or not you're a citizen is irrelevant. Green card, visa, no visa, etc doesn't matter.

Everyone gets freedom of speech in the US. Everyone.

[–] minnow@lemmy.world 36 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The Trump administration is operating on a "it's not legal/constitutionally protected until a judge says it is" and if they punish you before the judge says you don't deserve punishment, oh well!

So in this case, because we don't have any case law saying that deportation is an infringement of the 1st amendment, Trump gets to say it isn't until a judge says otherwise. At which point maybe Trump will obey the court, or (probably) not.

It's bullshit and backwards, but that's what we're up against.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 20 points 6 hours ago

They don't give a rat's ass about freedom of speech. They never did. And the 2nd amendment for them was about being brownshirts with their own personal firearms.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago

True, with a "but". The secretary of state has the near unquestioned right to declare that a permanent resident alien represents a threat to the nation.

Let's hope nobody abuses that!

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 44 points 5 hours ago

THIS IS FASCISM

[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 39 points 7 hours ago

Fascist being fascist.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 36 points 8 hours ago

Y’all really need to change that anthem.

Home of the something I dunno. Stupid? Nazi? Nazi rhymes I suppose.

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The thing I don't get is that a number of years ago, Trump made fun of Rubio in public about how much he sweats. He was splashing water from his bottle like, "It's Rubio.."

And now the spineless Marco Rubio is licking the taint of Trump as Secretary of State.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 33 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What exactly don't you get? Trump only employs groveling bootlickers. If you have a spine you are automatically disqualified.

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Where does Elon fall in this?

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Elon is different, he bought his position to the tune of something like $200 million "donated" to the election fund. Trump knows he needs Muskrat and his propaganda machine to be on his side, plus he serves as a nice distraction with DOGE.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago

Elon doesn't work for Trump. If anything, Trump is subservient to Elon.

[–] Daggity@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

He's trump's boss. Just look at trump selling Tesla's for him the other day.

[–] liverbe@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Groveling bootlicker

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 hours ago

He wasn't even arrested, just kidnapped and going to be deported without being charged with anything.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 hours ago

"Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that ~~Barack Obama~~ Marco Rubio doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.”

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago
[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 6 points 4 hours ago

I would expect nothing less from these MAGA traitors.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I know it's off topic but, Marco is not blond!?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. No? That's Fabio, not Rubio.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Marco Fabio??

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 points 4 hours ago

Kinda funny that he’s not rubio, but he is Rubio.

[–] blackberry@midwest.social -3 points 3 hours ago