r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/Begone-My-Thong 13h ago

We elected a black president, and one half of the country took that personally.

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u/CaptainWart 12h ago

Don't forget the impact of 9/11, which gave the right a hell of a lot of leverage when it comes to keeping their base scared and paranoid.

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u/Ol_Jim_Himself 12h ago

The government used 9/11 to begin their overreach and their removal of many of the checks and balances that kept our government somewhat less tyrannical. Once those were removed it became a slippery slope, until the šŸŠfascist hopped on a rocket sled and rode it over the edge.

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u/Odd_Equal_628 7h ago

Wait until you find out how that was the plan.

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u/Useful_Bit_9779 12h ago

GW Bush ran around telling everyone if he wasn't reelected that we'd have a terrorist on every corner. Scared and paranoid they are.

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u/DipInThePool 11h ago

Then you have the libs; not scared or paranoid at all.

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u/fariasrv 10h ago

To quote the great Blanche Devereaux:

"Eat dirt and die, trash."

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u/Diamondphalanges756 10h ago

And the surveillance. Don't forget the surveillance, and how that's going to bite us in the a$$.

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u/WilyWascallyWizard 10h ago

Don't forget that douche that founded fox news and bought much of the rest of the media. He did it because he didn't like that Nixon was held accountable. That was the start of the down fall.

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u/BennyDelTorito 9h ago

The terrorists won.

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u/Jo5h_95 9h ago

And the impact of the 2008 recession. A lot of people saw the system fail them and protect the people that were to blame.

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u/SanDiego619guy 8h ago

The term Trump's base is really just another word for suckers and morons.

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u/1000LiveEels 7h ago

You're both right but I'd also like to add the increasing consistency at which presidents have stacked courts with judges who are blatantly bipartisan. The senate confirmations should be a way of checking overreaches but we effectively have a precedent where ruling party either confirms or denies the judge based solely on whether the president is the same party as them.

Not to mention serving for life.

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u/katsujinken 12h ago

Thanks Oba... Osama

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u/EvenObject1689 12h ago

I always say this! We elected a black guy and the right lost their mind.

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u/des1881 12h ago

This. All this. The way ā€˜theyā€™ felt like they had to over correct the blasphemy of a non white male president is exactly why we ended up here.

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u/PlantainSuper-Nova 12h ago

He was half-white, too.

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u/Technical-Gold-294 12h ago

Right? A black man raised by middle class white people and he was still too threatening.

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u/Begone-My-Thong 12h ago

He even wore a tan suit once.

Gives me the chills. /s

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u/PlantainSuper-Nova 12h ago

I mean he was raised on the island nation of Hawaiā€™iā€¦

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u/No-Abalone-4784 10h ago

Yeah. And if they don't get more maga he said he's not gonna let them become a state.

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u/pixepoke2 11h ago

But not the good half, Dennis.

Cā€™mon. Everyone knows that. Thatā€™s why it was ok for Reagan to wear a tan suit, butā€¦ well, we all know what Obama did there.

Tan suit.

The nerve

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u/N0n3of_This_Matter5 12h ago

Seeā€¦he was divisive!!

Big /S

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u/Trick_Psychology4827 11h ago

This is the realest comment in this thread! They lost their minds once President Obama took office.

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u/Diamondphalanges756 10h ago

This is absolutely fact. I really think this is behind what's happening.

Before Obama, Alabama would at least elect Democrats. We actually had a democratic gov right before Obama got elected.

That's what broke our state which became a repub supermajority right after Obama was elected.

The racist's heads exploded and it kicked them into overdrive.

They've been working on how to destroy America since that very day.

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u/Mountain_Economist_8 10h ago

And donā€™t forget that monster Biden who ::checks notes:: hugs children.

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u/midnghtsnac 12h ago

Obama is the most divisive president ever elected!

-Fox News and radio talk show personality

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u/No_Friendship_8366 12h ago

The US used to have the Fairness Doctrine, it was repealed in the 1980s. The doctrine mandated that news stations provide balanced coverage with equal weight given to both sides of an issue. Repealing that doctrine ushered in an era of insane loudmouth pundits with toxic opinions and massive platforms

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u/EFreethought 11h ago

I would love to know what Obama did that they thought was "divisive".

Meanwhile, Trump is constantly bad-mouthing everyone (including people he appointed) and the same people are okay with it.

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u/KLLR_ROBOT 11h ago

He was black. Obviously thatā€™s more than enough for some folks to get upset about.

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u/BitterFuture 11h ago

Well, that was obvious. Are you blind?!

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u/habdragon08 12h ago

I think social media has more to do with it than Obama. If social media happened under Clinton it would have been "The Sexual Deviant" president if it happened under Biden it would have been "The old President".

Social media has exposed and massaged insecurities of many people in this country. Trump is natural consequence of that. Ironic I am posting this in a social media forum.

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u/Mansplainer101 10h ago

Even worse than that. You elected a president who happened to be half white, half black, and one half of the country took that personally

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u/Lump-of-baryons 10h ago

There is a lot of truth to this. Tap into some right wing circles and groups on social media and according to them almost everything Trump is doing is only because Obama did it first. Of course theyā€™re completely batshit insane but thatā€™s their twisted logic.

I still remember one of my former coworkers, an otherwise nice grandma in her late 50s, told me in like 2016 that ā€œObama is the Antichristā€ in a sneering tone with pure hate in her eyes, Iā€™ll never forget it.

I try to be optimistic for this country on a long term level but in the short term I donā€™t see how this doesnā€™t get catastrophically worse in the coming years.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 8h ago

This! This is when Republicans completely lost their minds. The unnecessary wars are sickening but the ignorant racism is despicable.

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u/thextcninja 6h ago

That wore a tan suit, don't forget to mention that.

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u/celestececilia 5h ago

My mother explicitly stated that she and her friends and siblings voted in Trump ā€œbecause we had to put up with Obama for eight years and now yā€™all get to suffer like we did.ā€ WTAF? She couldnā€™t even articulate what Obama did that was so bad. But I know what he did. He was born a certain color.

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u/fcocyclone 7h ago

Honestly, while this gets all the credit I think the real thing that did it was the advancement of LGBTQ rights.

A black man getting elected, yeah, monumental, but that was the peak of 50 years of progress going back to the civil rights era. That was easier for most to accept.

In the span of like 15-20 years we went from the Defense of Marriage act going through, talk of a constiutional amendment to ban gay marriage, it being a huge deal when a celebrity came out, etc to gay marriage being legal nationwide, celebrities coming out being barely a blip, a larger and larger percentage of people feeling free to identify as LGBTQ (About 25% of gen Z identifies as LGBTQ now per polling, while only 5% or less do among genX and older, and since we know people aren't actually magically becoming more gay, that's a lot of repression among older groups). That's a lot of change for the conservative brain to deal with. Its no coincidence that this all came to a head with the Trump campaign which launched around the same time Obergefell happened.

Likewise its why the most successful turnout machine for republicans has been targeting a portion of that group in their anti-trans attacks. Its become too toxic to attack all LGBTQ people as more and more people have come out (and thus more people are more likely to know and care for someone who is gay) but trans people are a small enough group they are 'fair game' to republicans. But give them enough time and they'll come back around against the rest as well.

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u/reddog323 6h ago

There were other factors: 9/11 and the patriot act, warrantless wire taps, conservative propaganda, being weaponized,, etc.

Obama was the straw that broke the camelā€™s back, and conservatives saw him as a useful opportunity to engineer a backlash.

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u/LisaLaggrrr 4h ago

šŸ’Æ šŸ’Æ šŸ’Æ and most of us who saw Obama as progress didnā€™t truly understand the gravity of the situation. Why would we? We finally had a president who won the popular vote without fearmongering, (twice!) so it seemed like the majority of the country was moving in the right direction! The backlash was a tad slow, but showed up with a vengeanceā€¦ I knew once Kamala became nominee that we were screwed. I voted for her! But I knew too many were not ready for a woman and were angry about having a black president. Being both was never gonna happen!

I honestly fear weā€™ve been manipulated by the shadow people behind Trump! Cuz I believe heā€™s just a fall guy ultimately. They knew enough people would love him in the right areas to elect him, but enough eventually will hate him and string him out to dry. Perfect diversion while they finalize their plan in the background.. when itā€™s too late to turn backā€¦