U.S. President Donald Trump seemingly discussed the idea of foreign powers taking out California’s most populated cities while delivering a speech at a Republican rally at the Pinnacle Bank Expo in Grand Island, Nebraska Monday evening.

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    Isn’t it illegal to incite violence against the citizens of the USA? Especially by the “potus”? In the normal run-by-the-US Constitution world, wouldn’t that be considered treason?

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      Isn’t it illegal

      So is 34 counts of falsifying business records. Not sure why people bring up legality during a Fascist government.

      You think people where saying "Franco shot my kids… that’s illegal!”?

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      The play pretend has ended for a while, but only now it’s reached critical mass in how many people are ignoring the rules and laws.

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    ‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn’t spell “precipice” if his life depended on it.’

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      The great American experiment is winding down. It’s been interesting to watch. TBH it didn’t last nearly as long as many historical empires, oh well.

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        Well, according to some of my former Christian teachers, that’s because of of the gays.

        Yes, they claim that most empires average 250 years and fall when they start normalizing open homosexuality. No I don’t believe any of that crap anymore.

        A more educated look showed years ago that the US system was based too much on “gentlemen’s agreements” and lacked clear and real protections for democracy and human rights.

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          Christians are appaling. I am a reasonable man and am certain that their holy book is an absolute heap of disgusting, slavery condoning, male infant genital mutilation demanding, repellent, demented, vicious dark age mumbo jumbo. Christians should be told quite clearly that our citizens have the legal right to criticise, lampoon, ridicule and mock god and Jesus to their heart’s content, in any way that they wish: that Christians have no special claim to protection from the rough and tumble of post-Enlightenment intellectual, political and social life. If they cannot live in a society in which this is the case, they should go somewhere else; they are, after all, spoilt for choice, at least in theory.

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    To paraphrase something I saw online: it’s not that he encouraged Iran to bomb California but Trump could bomb California and blame Iran for it.

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      Everything is projection, he posited many times that Obama would bomb Iran just in time to rile up war hawk votes. They’ve literally written down their entire fascist plan and people keep treating it all as separate fuckup news stories

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    This idiot doesn’t know where Iran is. He doesn’t know the world is round. He doesn’t know Mar-a-Lago is closer than California to Iran. It is literally easier to target him than it is LA.

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      Roughly 8000 miles from Tehran to LA. Roughly 7000 miles from Tehran to Orlando.

      I will give the “however” of a missile to LA would pass over Russia, the North Pole, and middle of nowhere Canada. While a missile to Orlando would go over Europe and the Eastern seaboard. There might be an argument it is more likely that a missile completes the first journey due to flying over uncontested space.

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    TRAITOR

    I mean, is this how treason works historically? It’s only widely accepted after the fact? Like, when you’re in it and actively experiencing it most people don’t acknowledge it?

    That can’t be it. People have been executed for treason. Why the fuck are we so bad at this?

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      The Iranians are not stupid enough to remove an idiot who is ruining the US military. That is how the Allies viewed Hitler, they knew who was fucking up Germany’s war effort.

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      Yeah, what would they gain by attacking the cities trump hates.

      I’m actually worried that they are planning a false flag and because he is senile he just disclosed it.

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    I don’t know what’s worse, three fact he said it or that people cheered when he said it.

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    So the west coast alliance anytime now? If the west coast becomes independent the US loses more than 50% of its economic power

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            Cascadia would take California in. If Alberta wants to separate from Canada then we will let them and we can extend an invitation to Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana so that we can connect to greater Canada avoiding Alberta.

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      The military would have to be significantly weakened for that. Plus, a plurality of law enforcement and military stationed here would have to be on our side. I don’t see that happening.

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        The military would have to be significantly weakened for that.

        Significantly weakend like as if the US military was being destabilized by an unhinged President purging the officer corps and losing a conflict with Iran? Asking for a friend

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    this is the president sworn to defend usa soil? impeachment required and jail asking for murder and genocide of the united states citizens out in the open. holy kuf the epstein class is so delusional. besides east coast closer than west coast.

    and the people that clap for the murder/genocide of millions of americans by the president in this case. what are these people. after the impeachment definitely need to investigate and jail all of these people actually not even people murders to be or already murders.

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    Dear Iran, you can take DC and/or Mar a lago. Whenever he’s at one it the other idk just wish him like the bug he is. You’d probably be cheered for it by like everyone lol

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      DC really is a place without a culture. It’s the playground for the influential.

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          I’ll give you that. The rest of it is pretty lacking in culture, though.

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            Because of his direct intervention along the upper elements, if it was easy for him to do it’ll be easy to purge. If it’s not murder is always an option.

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              The fact that an institution allows to be controlled by a fuck like trump means the institution should be destroyed. So fuck the Smithsonian and all the cowards that work there. Hope it all burns down

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                While I’d agree with someone with any other title it’s a hell of a lot harder to counter the president especially with groups based in DC since there’s no state level institutions to work as a buffer. Also just shooting the president is quite hard so the violent counter barely exists.

                Also he fired a lot of higher ups outright, the Smithsonian was hit particularly hard by Musk and his fuckboys. Even still a lot of the Smithsonian especially the elements based outside of DC are resisting as best as they can, sorta similar to park services. The problem is it’s scattered and not talked about.

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    You just know they talked about this with him. Like a false flag operation type deal. Just like with his assassination attempts.

    He just cannot keep his mouth shut about these things hoping he will be thought of as the smart one when it turns out to actually happen!!

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    wow I have seen politicians threatening not serving constituencies that did not vote for them but this is a new low

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      My guess is they’ve been discussing the need for a big false flag incident to rally support. He probably just felt like mentioning some possible venues to sound out the audience.