It's an old joke, come on.
Arrested for treason? Probably not. Convicted of treason? Totally reasonable. Treason carries the death penalty. There's a huge difference between violent fantasies about murdering your political opponents, and pragmatic recommendations for the disposition of someone convicted of a capital offense.
The problem is that, in this scenario, the conviction for treason is part of the fantasy.
Pragmatism is about practical outcomes over ideal solutions. I'm against the death penalty, but if other solutions are impractical then I have to accept it. That's why I'm pragmatic about Charlie Kirk.
Yet another example of why Democrats suck at memes. Keep in mind, he didn't text these to a fellow Democrat, he texted them to a Republican. At the very least, thick as a brick.
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The first part did happen, the second part was attempted, and the third part about having Biden executed for treason is just something that some people were batting around as an idea which you and Ziggurat were attempting to gloss over as having an important moral distinction from an assassination.
I know what a sombrero is. But what does it mean in the context of these memes?
Trump has reposted memes of himself as a "more cowbell" Grim Reaper monk or something. Also as Superman, Rocky, a cowboy and an astronaut. So I rather think he is trying to build up the whole Village People vibe all on his own. Not that he realises he is doing that, of course. He's as dense as osmium.
It's just a racist trope. You know, like what people become Free Speech Absolutists in order to be able to excuse.
Which only extends in one direction, obviously. Can dish it out but can't take it.
It's like the difference between a porn video that's just a sex scene, versus the one that starts with the pizza guy delivering an extra large pepperoni to the sorority. The latter is high cinema, and not lewd in the slightest.
I don't think even the most aggressive U.S.-based gun control groups are advocating for bans on antique bolt-action hunting rifles such as the one used in the Kirk murder, so you'd need more effective regulations than anyone has actually proposed for so far.
With a name like "Damion Hector Torres" on government forms (e.g. Selective Service, DEERS) I don't think it will be very difficult for ICE to jump to the correct conclusion should they start looking into DOGE's comprehensive databases. Of course that assumes they want to start implementing ethnic-based criteria without any consideration of citizenship or birthplace, a dystopian future not yet realized here and only fantasized by a handful of white supremacists like Laura Loomer.
I happen to be re-reading Eichmann in Jerusalem this week; in that narrative there was a specific break point—just after chapter 4—where the regime shifted from the sort of deportation efforts common to any nationalist regime to concentration camps followed by death camps. In reality, all three schemes worked together in a stepwise process, so the real difference lay in the ultimate goals held by higher-ups, which were generally concealed under several layers of obfuscatory language and practice.