Thr problem is that there is supposed to be criminal prosecution for this felony so the courts won’t entertain request for an injunction over it. Meanwhile the responsible authorities aren’t willing to arrest and prosecute.

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    I fucking hate America.

    A billionaire can hold a multi-million dollar lottery, where the only way to enter is to vote for who he wants; but you can and will be arrested for handing someone a bottle of water while they wait in line to vote.

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      I hate Americans.

      They have all these guns, and not one of them is using them in the face of a full fascist takeover of their country. Is there such a thing as a good American or are you all complicit Nazi enablers?

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        42% of American households contain at least one firearm. That 42% includes every single American cop, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse or repercussions if given the opportunity. It also includes every white supremacist terrorist, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse, and maybe some repercussions if your family manages to get them into court and you get lucky with the right judge.

        The other 58% of us do not own firearms and, generally speaking, are afraid for our lives.

        I’m with you, and I agree with your general sentiment, but most people are afraid to die. It’s ridiculous to expect people to have a competent plan to assassinate a president under normal circumstances, let alone when our police forces are killing people in the street or disappearing them, gaining national news attention for doing so and seeing zero repercussions. The people who always made a big stink about having their guns and using them to prevent tyranny are the people that are destroying our nation. They ARE the tyranny.

        Regular people are generally nonviolent and scared. What you’re asking is equivalent to asking why nobody just walked up and stabbed Genghis Khan to death. Like, yeah, it’s probably possible to do, but five seconds of thinking about it should make it pretty apparent why nobody took that opportunity.

        Besides which, several Americans have taken shots at him already.

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        You wouldn’t do shit and you know it. But I tell you what, if you want to play Rambo, fly on over and give it a go.

        Oh, right. It’s “not your fight.”

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        I get the sentiment, but you need to remember…you fight at the right time…we have to wait for a tipping point, we are too unorganized. We are building momentum and there will mostly likely be a key moment when all hell turns loose.

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            I mean as soon as we try to take over Greenland, it triggers NATO and either NATO will do nothing and we keep isolating ourselves and continue these trade wars, or they mobilize against us and now we have to pick sides. Once we have to pick sides a lot of peoples lives will change.

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      Don’t forget, last time he did this it wasn’t given to some random person. They were hand picked to ‘win’.