The arrested man identified himself as a combat veteran and said he was burning the American flag in protest of an executive order Trump signed Monday targeting flag burning.

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    It doesn’t matter, Trump can legally do whatever he wants, he’s a king. 1/3rd of the population of America believes that Trump can rule unilaterally. The other 2/3rds are scared of the first and they should be. Trump and MAGA have the executive branch, the judicial branch, the legislative branch, the armed forces, law enforcement, immigration enforcement, and wall street in their side. They only group not on Trump’s side is the general public and it should be pretty obvious now that he doesn’t have any use for the general public. Trump won. He’s king of The United States of America, I suggest you start to think about what you’re going to do about it.

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      Yeah, you know, except the general public does all the things that keep the country working.

      Not saying a nationwide strike is easy, or even doable, but a week of that would have Wall Street power brokers contacting mercenary outfits for pricing on a presidential assassination.

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      Team Loser coming in hot today.

      Everybody on that side is terrified their “friends” will kill them, and lots of them are looking for any excuses to get away. People are actively and successfully getting in his way constantly. He’s backed down a whole bunch of times, in significant ways, and every victory goes unreported because the corporate news are all pussies, so, by definition, team good guy is doing much, much better than any news networks anywhere will report.

      Way to help them.

      Also, that fat dork will fall down the stairs and choke on mcdonalds, and then couch fucker is gonna have all the backstabbers targeting him, and it will be significantly easier to get them to all fight each other.

      The US doesn’t have a king now, and it’s not going to.

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        Running will do for a spell. But I intend to stay and (politically) fight.

        Besides, I’m not sure anywhere is significantly better than USA for places to stand against it. No place with humans is immune to the disease of leader worship.

        Iran was once a relatively tolerant democracy. Then the people who actually take their religion seriously took over.

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      He can’t legally do it, its still against the law.

      He’s personally immune from punishment, but if he does something illegally it can be undone.

      E.g if he illegally arrests someone, they’ll still get released… one day… and probably get punitive damages. But Trump won’t be held accountable.

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        Yeah, tell that to Abrego Garcia. Just because one day some judge might reflect that it was wrong for the government to lie, human traffic, and manufacture false charges doesn’t mean his life wasn’t ruined.

        I really find it hard to conceive of a government that doesn’t hold their leaders accountable, but that is apparently what we have been doing for a looong time.

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        He absolutely can do it. He’s not allowed to do it, but rule of law has gone down the drain. The USA are back to the divine right of kings, now

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        Except that his administration is. Look at Abrego Garcia. He’s going to be deported and there won’t be any recourse to undo that. If it can be done, with no consequences, and can’t be undone, doesn’t matter if a piece of paper says it’s illegal. It won’t be enforced, and a law that isn’t enforced might as well not exist.

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        If you came across someone beating the shit out of another person would you try to stop them or would you stand pointing saying “that’s illegal” or “after they’re done they’re get in so much trouble!”?

        The law doesn’t apply to these people, and Trump got his 34 felonies before becoming the president without any consequences whatsoever. Garcia was sent El Salvador illegally and it’s wild he even made it back alive, and no amount of money will change what happened to him if he were to even somehow get that in however many years. If I recall correctly he’s still not safe.