We don't have rights because we're American: we're Americans because we recognize that all people have inalienable rights, and the government is only legitimate to the extent that it protects and preserves those rights. Or, at least, that's how it was supposed to work in pre-MAGA America. Under the new form of government that is taking shape, we don't have rights, we have privileges that are bestowed to us by Dear Leader (or as his followers disgustingly call him - "Daddy") and they are very much alienable. Any dissent, any independence of will that the Leader does not approve of will lead to a loss of liberty through various means of intimidation, threat, harassment, and/or persecution.
President Donald Trump escalated his long-running feud with comedian Rosie O’Donnell Saturday, threatening on social media to revoke her U.S. citizenship.“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
So: it should go without saying, except it doesn't because he got elected, but someone with this temperament should not be anywhere near the presidency. This is not the rhetoric of a president who respects the rule of law, it is the rhetoric of a power mad tyrant aspiring to be emperor or dictator. He will assume for himself as much power as he is allowed to get away with; so far the six conservative supremacists on the Supreme Court, Republican voters and the Republicans in the House and Senate have not set a line he cannot cross.
And the hubris of equating personal insults or criticism against himself as being "a threat to humanity." Delusional, much?
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