• Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world
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    I’ve developed a game plan for when this hits my city

    • I will not comply with any check points
    • I will force them to arrest me
    • I will demand a jury trial
    • I will be co-council with my attorney, he runs the case
    • I will make my own closing remarks

    Which will be

    "I refused to comply with a military-armed checkpoint. That is true.

    But my question to you is this — why was that checkpoint there in the first place? Are we at war? No. Has there been a terrorist attack that warrants such a measure? No.

    So the question before you isn’t simply why I refused to comply… it’s why the military was conducting random checkpoints in the streets of our community at all.

    I thought this was the United States of America — not Iraq, not Afghanistan. Our streets are not battlefields, and our neighbors are not enemy combatants.

    You, the jury, have a choice. You can accept this new reality — one where the military can set up checkpoints in our neighborhoods — and find me guilty.

    Or you can take a stand and say this is not the America we are meant to be, and find me not guilty.

    Those are the lines I wish to be judged by, because that was my intention from the very start."

  • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The timing of this is interesting, right before he goes to a meeting in Alaska with Putin. Trump’s going to make some type of announcement after his meeting, something he knows will cause protests, and he’s locking down the capital beforehand to stop any protests from happening there.

    Is it going to be an announcement about the Ukraine invasion by Russia? Probably. But, based on Trump’s history, he may have made a deal to sell Alaska to Russia as the ultimate real estate deal. Wouldn’t put it past him.

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    19 hours ago

    He’s not lying … crime IS on the rise in DC…

    His crime, his cronies crimes, his family’s crimes, all rising sharply…

    From crypto scams with rugpulling, to grifting people into buying Trump labeled goods, to insider trading and willfull stockmarket manipulation, from breaking the rule of law to punishing political opponents, to taking bribes and giving bribes so not to be accused, from lying about proven data to forcibly adjusting them to his will. And the crime list is growing almost daily…

    Each accusation is an admission of guilt.

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    19 hours ago

    “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” Trump wrote.

    So nice of him to find a place for them to stay. I can’t wait to hear where that place is.

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    19 hours ago

    Blue balls was probably buying coke or hookers at night and got beat up and robbed. Now we have martial law.

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    19 hours ago

    Weird why is he talking about the size of his Penis from South Park. Anyway where’s that pedo list Donnie