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Trump administration raises possibility of stripping Mamdani of US citizenship
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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I don't understand! How does trump have so much over reach and why aren't the courts stopping him! Why is our government intentionally creating a fascist dictator!
The president of the United States has always been a public servant who represents the people of our country. He's not a king among men the Office of the President should not have the ability to strip the citizenship of any individual that's what immigration courts are for!
because the people who rabidly defend the second amendment don't give a shit, and approve of his racist oligarch bullshit
Trump has started small, piece by piece, bit by bit. He's gotten away with everything else. So why wouldn't he get away with this?
And the people isn't doing anything about it. So why would he stop? Maybe americans should take a note from Ukraine's book. You protest outside the capitol and you don't go home until you get what you want.
For sheer size of the US, it can be exceedingly difficult to get all the way to DC. If you can't fly and have to drive for whatever reason, financial or otherwise, it's a 39 hour drive going from LA in California to DC. One way. With absolutely no time accounted for bathroom breaks, food, or even sleep. It's like a three day drive each way. That's basically a worst case scenario, but also, a ton of people live on the west coast, so it's not exactly an uncommon one. Unfortunately, the sheer geographical scale of the US makes it very difficult for people to amass specifically in DC.
You're 100% right, though, that anyone who can do it should do it.
In this specific case? We've spent the last two decades watching overly broad anti terrorism laws get passed under the implicit agreement they wouldn't be abused. Then comes Trump. Americans have been asleep at the wheel since the 1970's. That's part of why right wing rhetoric keeps getting more extreme. They need to keep their voting base engaged. Most people don't want anything to do with politics. If that doesn't change then no amount of reform will prevent us from voting ourselves out of a democracy.
Because the entire group, all the leaders, are pedo's. they have all been to that island, Now the island is America.
Because more Americans are either fully on board and support this, or don't give enough of a shit to care compared to those who oppose this behavior., and piss and moan every day about how "tHiS iS nOt wHo wE ArE"
Trump is literally America's spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America's mirror.
Probably because that demented walking corpse was picked intentionally as an avatar. He represents a group of people in power. Without Trump they'd probably find some other one. But he's too convenient.
I don't believe that. Not the same America that elected Obama. I think Trump's first term convinced people he wouldn't be that bad compared to a party that tried to do a "Weekend at Bernie's" with their candidate. This is a different Trump than we had last time. This one is willing to do every word of what he says. And that caught people by surprise.
People who saw project 2025 for what it was were not caught by surprise at all. Trump himself barely matters, it people like Peter Thiel and the heritage foundation who write policy. They need the US to fall apart and they don't mind helping Putin a bit along the way.
Trump often reminds me of the Galactic President from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
"Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it."
So they choose someone flamboyant and zany and scandalous who will give the press nice headlines and good repeatable quotes.
the opposition cares more about their job/permanent meal ticket and lobbying money than actually opposing, these are problems for peasants like you and me, not chuck schumer and tammy baldwin.