He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?

I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 year ago

          What’s right and what happens are two different things. He is officially ineligible. That doesn’t mean he won’t physically be elected.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 year ago

              This is the same problem as a cross walk. You have the right of way, but the car will kill you. By the time a court rules on it you’ll be dead. What’s right and what’s real are two different things.

        • JonEFive@midwest.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          And bank robbery isn’t illegal unless you’re prosecuted, right?

          The previous person indicated that there is a clause in the constitution that would make him ineligible, not that anything had been done about it.

        • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
          24·
          1 year ago

          Until Congress votes to redeem his candidacy he’s ineligible. It takes the type of reading comprehension that public schools avoid teaching up to.

            • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
              32·
              1 year ago

              Thank you for being a voice of reason here. seems too many are thinking with their hearts and not their heads. i appreciate that you don’t like the man but can still see the logic in the situation.

              • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
                21·
                1 year ago

                Listen. I hate Trump.

                But, as of right now, there is NO legal ruling anywhere in the U.S., that has made him ineligible.

                You repeatedly saying so, doesn’t make it so.

                • Faera@feddit.nl
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  If you murder someone, have you broken the law? Yes (most likely) . Are you going to jail? Well only if they catch you, and prove it in court.

                  People above are saying they believe he’s ineligible because of what he did. They’re not saying that all necessary procedures to actually decide and declare him ineligible has been completed. I.e, he should be ineligible based on what he’s done, but he hasn’t yet been made ineligible in practice.