Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

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    Fight back! But consider:

    1. Why do they want direct violence with their thugs?
    2. Direct violence with ICE leads to direct violence with police, MAGA civi-thugs and military.
    3. Would MAGA base have the same violent and visceral reaction if violent events happened to wealthy folks whom they probably never heard of who live in disconnected realities from their own??? A thought tickles my mind that maybe they would not. Maybe it’s pathway…
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    Can’t wait for dems to retake power eventually and do absolutely nothing to prosecute these criminals. ‘We have to promote unity to heal the divide.’

    If the dems were worth a damn they would be loudly shouting from the rooftops ‘when we control the levers of power you will be held accountable for violating the constitution’

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      Agreed. We should commandeer it wherever we can for the immediate term, but we should ultimately leave the Democratic Party in the waste bin of history.

      1. They don’t represent us.
      2. They stood by while fascism took root, then welcomed them in with a smooth transition.
      3. Their name in itself is poisoned. There are folks who would have a much easier time separating themselves from their crazy peers if they had realistic options other than Democrats. The name is literally connected to everything evil by way of propaganda.

      Let Schumer and Jeffries know that they are cunts, and will always be remembered as Democratic Cunts, the party that bent over for fascism.

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    What about this memo that says they can’t? It also states we can bear arms to protect ourselves from tyranny so… check mate Nazis

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      They clearly abandoned their oaths at all levels, so that document doesn’t mean anything anymore if everybody willfully ignores it daily. At that point, it’s just ink on a paper that is just barley better than a spill.

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          The mask of rule of law slips to reveal the reality of might makes right. You better outnumber and outgun them, to enforce these rights.

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            Probably. I wouldn’t be surprised if RC cars become a common threat in urban America or something. We live in shitty and interesting times.

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    15 hours ago

    "ICE says its officers can forcibly enter homes . . . "

    I’ve got a gun that says they can’t.

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      THEY say they can…the law and the constitution says they can’t. Honestly, it is going to take some bad encounters for they to realize they are wrong, and when the encounters go bad, the dictator will mobilize other options he is trying to use.

      It is a Rittenhouse strategy. Premeditated self-defense on a national scale.

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      They got more that says, “Wanna bet?” I mean, I’d want to see that, for sure. That first step is easy and obvious. It’s the second that is confusing.

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      No, that’s illegal. But AFAIK in all states you can wait inside your door with a shotgun and blast anyone who breaks into your home illegally.

      Better yet, you have the constitutional right to organize 30 or your neighbors to use guns to protect each other from marauding thugs.

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        Is it still considered a booty trap if it’s activated by an evil AI AI programmed to follow castle doctrine?

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      Its not, but if you are going to Home Alone a bunch of ICE agents illegally entering your house, please record that shit. If its funny enough the jury will absolutely not convict you.

      Imagine those fucks stepping on toy cars and sliding down a stairwell or being hit with powdered sugar and then set on fire.

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        Now I want to see a version of Home Alone where it’s ICE and all the traps are as deadly as they would be in real life.

        There would be piles of bodies around the McCallister house. I wonder if Mac Culkin is busy these days

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    Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

    Same as it’s always been, they’re just being more brazen about it

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      You don’t even need the courts of your side. The Regime has directly defied court orders time and time again.

      What you really need is a citizenry that’s too afraid or complicit to defend themselves.

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    They will absolutely come for the guns next. Once the population is disarmed the civil war will begin. Martial law. Police state. No privacy protections. All amendments abolished. Civil rights act abolished. Military checkpoints at all state borders. Reinstated draft. 10% inflation. 20% unemployment. Reeducation centers. Prison work camps. State takeover of media. Iron curtain. Restricted Internet.

    This year. Get out while the borders are open.

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      Get out

      And will you run from the country you go to and leave it to fend for itself, too?

      Why can’t you people stand for something other than yourselves? It starts with voting, if you get the chance.

      Just do your duty you lazy, lazy shits. Fucking vote, if you get a chance again. In the meantime stay home, peacefully shut production down which is now your only option, and don’t let this shit happen again.

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      Don’t got the money for that. My best option is to fight, provided the people of my state are also willing to die for a better future.

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      If you think they will take guns away from Americans in 2026 at any kind of scale you are very naive

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        Prisoners are profitable and will only become increasingly profitable as they start using them as slave labor, which is specifically allowed under the Constitution. Only chattle slavery was abolished. When they are no longer subject to being voted out of office there is every incentive in the world to arrest people.

        So new executive order: we gotta stop all the school shootings therefore all guns are illegal. Gun owners will be required to turn in their weapons in exchange for a pennies on the dollar buyback. These weapons will then be sold by the government to who the fuck knows. This will be followed by a house to house compliance check where you either produce your receipt or submit to a warrantless search. Anyone caught with a weapon will be sent to a prison work camp making iPhones and drones. Simple as that.

        Oh you want to fight back? Bueno, now you’re a terrorist. This justifies further military presence in your town and seizure of all of your assets. You will be lucky if your family isn’t required to pay upfront for your prison stay.

        I am not being naive. I am being real. I am an American but I was not educated in the American school system. I understand what is happening because it has happened a thousand times to a thousand other countries. There is a standard operation of events and we are following a textbook march into dictatorship.

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            We are witnessing an administration who does not consider themselves to be bound by established laws and norms. We are watching our constitutional rights being eroded one by one in real time. Do you think he will ever say “oh man I would love to do something but it would be illegal if I did”. Who is being naive now?

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      Other than the black Panthers ain’t nobody already with guns doing anything right now.

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    19 hours ago

    Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

    Obviously. That is the whole point of the Supreme Court. The surprising thing is that there wasn’t more public concern when Trump selected his sycophant judges.

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      There was, but the .ml CCP mouthpieces reassured us we were being dramatic when we said the last election was critical and vote blue wasn’t going to fix anything, but rather we had to vote for someone that had no chance and hand the election to the regressives. Shrug

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    So just to be clear. The EPA cannot make regulations despite full congressional authority to do so because that is “creating law” without a direct legislative process. But ICE, an agency that doesn’t even have real law enforcement powers, can just ignore the fourth amendment entirely because the president said so?

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      The answer to that is, legally no. However, that doesn’t stop them from doing it illegally.

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        Which by DEFINITION, would not include Un-Constitutional behavior. No violation of the Constitution could ever be construed as an “Official Act.”

        No SCOTUS had ever put guardrails on the president in almost 250 years, but this SCOTUS reinforced that he has immunity for “Official Acts,” and nobody realizes that they just put guardrails on the presidency for the first time.

        Everybody thinks it gives him immunity for EVERYTHING while he is president, but they specifically said “Official Acts,” which would be those outlined in the Constitution. Anything deemed Un-Constitutional, would not be an “Official Act,” and he would not have immunity, just like any other citizen.

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          Guardrails? I think you should re-read their decision again. They gave him protection because until now even official acts didn’t necessarily protect the president. And now, it doesn’t matter what illegal thing he does as long as it’s part of an official act. ANYTHING. Because as long as it’s part of an official act they can’t even question it. And they didn’t even provide a list of what constitutes an official act.

          So they literally put the president above all laws provided he can tie it back to some vague notion of an official act.

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      The EPA cannot make regulations… But ICE, an agency that doesn’t even have real law enforcement powers, can just ignore the fourth amendment entirely because the president said so?

      Today you learned the difference between creating regulations and enforcing existing regulations, congrats.

      If ICE violates your 4th amendment rights shutup and enjoy your multimillion dollar lawsuit. If you aren’t entitled to said lawsuit then your rights weren’t violated.

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      EPA could absolutely just ignore the law when making regulations. It wouldn’t even need any congressional authority. It just makes the law and when someone sues them, the judge says “nah, it’s okay with me” and that’s it.