Trump’s gone even further than Imperial Britain ever did; no colonist was ever actually tried in an Admiralty Court, or faced transport and charges in London, despite Parliamentary efforts (though trial without jury was allowed in Quebec, as a continuation of French law).

As has been pointed out, Ireland at the time had a great many famous speeches made by revolutionaries facing execution in the dock, but the only famous colonial trial was Adams defending a British soldier in a criminal case over the Boston Massacre.

I'd best start limbering up

still expecting people to revolt again

This and the US Constitution state that it's the people's DUTY to remove the rapist Trump regime by any means necessary.

As I recall the solution was to "alter or abolish", not "have a donor focus group and send a strongly worded letter."

I mean, they did try the letter writing thing first; the Declaration of Independence wasn’t the first love note they sent back to Britain. It just didn’t work, so they moved on to action.

dRump is literally morphing into King George III before our very eyes! 😳😬

“…the king’s behaviour quickly spiralled out of control. He became extremely rude to everyone around him, he suffered from hallucinations, he started talking nonstop gibberish for hours at a time, and he began to make inappropriate advances towards women, even attempting several sexual assaults.”

And now reincarnated as the current obscenely grotesque Oval occupant! 🫣

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They would revolt but most of their friends are fascists and don’t want to hurt them in the crossfire on the cops. Also they got bowling and bingo this Saturday.

Who wrote this list?

Timothy Matlack, though most give Thomas Jefferson the primary credit.

Thanks!

"Timothy Matlack... a brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War..." 😃

Yup, the Declaration is in the Oval office. When Trump sees it, he thinks, "Look at all the wonderful things King George did for those people. One day, they will make a document like this honoring me." Almost positive he sees it as a thank you card from their Colonial Hallmark to the king.

tariff rollercoaster kinda fits as well.

The 2nd Amendment was never about hunting.

Our founding fathers want their revolution back.

If only we could. It's almost completely unfeasible in this day and age to rise up against the government.

If we ever have to rise up against our military. You need to go down screaming "my name is... your orders are illegal, you don't have to follow them." Most militaries have difficulty firing on their own citizens to begin with, don't make it easy for them.

The founders just wanted to be the ones that were doing the tyranny. See Federalist 10

WTF perhaps DHS Sec. Noem should know meaning of Habeas Corpus! Her "Honorary Degree" from Dakota State University obviously was not in Civics. Government or even History😬 SMDH at a rare loss for words!

Another awesome appointment in Kumquat Komrad Krasnov's Korrupt Klown Kar Kabinet of Kakistocracy. I feel like you ought to at least understand the basics of our laws if you're gonna be, I dunno, responsible for our homeland's security or employed by the DoJ or Executive Branch...

Racism is a hell of a drug.

All of that could have been written in the last 90 days.

Reading that, it strikes me that the Orange Turd has already crossed a lot of that list already.

But if you ask them it's, "no not like that."

Someone just ask Trump, "Why do you hate the founding fathers, and the constitution so much?" Already and see if he BSODs.

That explains why POTUS hides his copy of the Declaration of Independence behind curtains

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According to Secretary Villain From Beethoven, habeas corpus means the President Trump and only President Trump has the right to deport whoever.

Very Subversive: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ... a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

A travesty. Thanks for speaking truth to power.

Nobody realizes that the Third Amendment isn't about the government making you share your house with a soldier, and is actually about protecting the people from excessive policing.

This is gonna blow your mind

why would you post a screenshot of a skeet instead of just the link to it

THAT'S your take-away from the message? Screenshots are COMMONLY posted here and elsewhere.

they take up far more space. if you paste the URL to the original skeet it includes it inline also most of the screenshots of text that are posted on here are throw-away drivel statements

I believe by your two posts to me that you are an argument bot. I will no longer engage with you.

i respect & admire this decision

It's the jpeg artifacts. There is a kind of beaty in a raster image getting ever so slightly worse every time you download and upload them, compressing, aging, waring and tearing them into ever fuzzier messes that will eventually be barely legible. You philistines wouldn' know how to appreciate it.

The third item fits, too.

Read the next line - even worse than George III - Lord North

And cutting off their sketchy real estate deal beyond the 1763 line.

for cutting off our trade

So is there going to be another war to reclaim an independent Legislature?

#Tyrants are like weeds. Every generation has to fight them and yank them out by the root. But they always pop up again. The price of freedom is ETERNAL vigilance.

Every 250 years we must defend our nation against a totalitarian tyrant, apparently.

If only it were every 250 years. The most insidious form of #tyranny is the ever-growing slew of #billionaire backed #bans on activities not proven to harm others. #Americans fight the tyranny of bans on #abortion #books #words #marriage #healthcare #drugs #socialmedia every day! #BanALLBans

Pretty sure illegally expelling people to far corners of the world would also be a grievance… bsky.app/profile/reic...

They have a, don't ask for permission ask for forgiveness policy.

They dont care about forgiveness either

Exactly, and that's the scary part.

Everyone should read the Declaration - I have an illustrated kids book of it and we read it out loud on the 4th of July every year - kids and adults.

This year, pass out ordnance as well.

I could make a long list of Jefferson's sins, more easily than most people, too, but he could write very well and took just pride in the Declaration, having it privately printed and distributed in Europe and listed on his funerary obelisk as one of his three lifetime achievements.

He needed editing because of those vanities. I recall the original draft had him both blaming the King for the institution of slavery, and for trying to get the slaves to rise up and seek their freedom, and Adams and Franklin did the, for cryin' out loud Tom, pick a lane, bit.

I had occasion to remember his architectural works (I lived near them for decades). I have to say that he was a gifted and experienced architect, effectively collaborating with his builders and with other designers (Latrobe, Thornton), was a critic and mentor (Mills), too. He wasn't a dilettante.

I'm an architect who works in historic preservation and I have an architectural history degree as well. I'm near the end of my career and I can better assess his skills now and, yeah, I have my list of his sins, but he designed what might be the greatest work of architecture by an American.

And a few excellent minor works along with Monticello, of course, which is really two houses, one done before he went to France, the other (the one we see today) after. He was knowledgeable, well-read in architectural literature, and had good design judgement. He would be famous for that work alone.

A good deed does not erase a bad one, and a bad deed does not erase a good one. You pay for both. This is one of the lessons I gathered from the Mahabharata. "All kings have to see hell...One's merits and demerits form two heaps," Indra. Same for Jefferson he did both good and bad, so do we all.

Riding up that road to visit Monticello, upon first sight, I was brought tears thinking of this brilliant man and what he means to this country 🏛

Sorry, Declaration of Independence. DEclaration of Independence. DEI. D. E. I.

The one right under it, too. He thinks this is a to-do list.

Trumps administration is rolling back the declaration of independence. He's your King, now.

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You son of a bitch, first you saved media, now you’re gonna save the country!

The Founding Fathers were well known for imprisoning a lot of innocent people without any trial, for personal profit.

The Second Amendment was not created to protect us from tyranny, but to maintain a pipeline of shady cash from the NRA to the Republicans. I guess.

I should mention, that ex, he also murdered my father, and got away with it, because the prosecution fucked the case up so badly. So yes, I like my guns, I doubt I'll ever stop sleeping with one by my bedside. (I do have a neat drawer under my bedstand that opens with your handprint and slides out).

Well that depends, will the 2nd amendment let me buy a tank and maybe some surface to air missiles? A few rocket launchers at least? No it won't, so I'm not sure the point these days, except for my gun makes me feel really safe against the ex who used to break my bones.

Scroll down to the end of the indictment: “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

Founding Fathers had more balls than all of Congress today

Weird how often each one of these line items is absolutely something Trump has done in his first hundred days, isn’t it?

might want to read, download and share this document. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

To me the one that sticks most is “He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”

By the time of George III, all Britons understood that the Crown was more of a symbol of the state than a genuine policy tool. GB ran on legislative supremacy. Trump is orders of magnitude worse than George III ever was.

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18th century slave owner more modern than the current regime.

I know nobody wants to admit it, but we are close- if not already there!- to a genuine need to start disobeying this government loudly and proudly. Hide immigrants, use numbers to intimidate ICE officials into leaving your community, etc.

Second Amendment people? Crickets. Looks like the Second Amendment served no legitimate purpose after all.

So it's time to revolt.

Not just that one... but pretty much some form of a majority of them: -obstructed Justice by gnawing at judicary powers - trying to make judges dependent on his will - cutting off trade - imposing taxes without consent (tariffs) - transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses

- declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us (neutered Congress, abuse of executive orders power and applying them areas not in his jurisdiction

Inb4 someone posting the Declaration gets charged with, like, sedition or incitement.

I may have ranted at my idiot Congressman's staff, today, about this.

So why won’t you?

Yep. That and taking over Airbnbs without paying for them.

That hasn't happene though

To be fair there is also something about tariffs in there

Thanks for the highlighting! "Us" in that case means British/American citizens of the colonies. They were actually citizens! Not border jumpers, they were citizens, not intruders who needed deporting. It was a different time, different circumstances.

ah shit did the declaration of independence go woke now

Also the next line: “For transporting us beyond seas for pretend offenses.”

ICE is nasty....if what they are doing is on the up and up, then why the face masks?

It’s illegal as hell!

It gets worse. Administration seems to be treating it like a “to do” list

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So many grievances resonate.

Trump has a copy of the damned thing on the wall of the Oval Office. If he'd taken the time to read it he'd be calling for its removal from school curricula and public libraries for being subversive.

Does he though? My understanding was presidents decorated their own oval office every four years. There may be images I haven't seen that show it, but it would probably be wrong to assume that because other presidents did, he does.

Oh, yes. He put it up, cheesy frame behind a velvet curtain, claims it is the original. He was showing it off to Terry Moran in that interview.

He's always got to be so tacky.

Onion again

Tyrants tend to use the same playbook...

I'm not an American, so it's been a while since I've read that thing but holy shit what the fuck why are you guys not in the streets right now? This is literally what your country was founded to fight against

The bits about trade and taxes ring an orange bell too, damn lmao

I think the sentence FOLLOWING that sentence is ALSO apt: "For transporting us across seas to be tried for pretended offences" ...although they get no TRIAL, actually; just "we think, therefore you are: now go to the death camp." Neve thought this could happen in America again after WWII...

I can’t believe we could have called it The One Big Beautiful Declaration and passed.

The founding fathers sucked as people but they cooked with the Declaration of Independence.

"...and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.."

The bar has shifted so much

Bro is kinda just doing all of that right now

No kidding! But now it’s the white Christian nationalists who have created ICE, they think they won’t be targeted. Time to change that mistaken belief.

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Just a piece of paper.

There was a tracker showing which elements of the Declaration of Independence Trump has violated. Can't find it now, it's overwhelmed by stories about how Trump doesn't know what the Declaration Of Independence even is...

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"Living Document" more like "WoKE DEI Bullshittery" is more like it! Huzah

Wealthy white boys feeling oppressed does get them to throw entire countries over fairly reliably.

Where is the NRA, who solemnly promised, to rise up against any government who did this? Silence?

It mostly seems like he’s using the Declaration as a Honey-do list.

Don't sleep on that next point ("For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences")

Americans don’t like #ICEMonsters.

Actually, when reading over this list, he’s done a lot of these things. Or hints that he will.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." I aim to do my duty.

And for anyone telling me to shut up cos I'm British, I came to these shores 9 years ago, I pay my taxes without representation in the government and toil under the yoke of leadership I cannot stomach, and will - in time - pledge to the Flag and to the Republic for which it stands. Revolting, eh?

What's the deal with Ceausescu all of a sudden...?

Well, better now than never

Pretty sure the Declaration of Independence wasn’t typed, so this isn’t authentic

no this is real

first of all, loved your work in Maude. outstanding second, typewriters were invented in 1497 in New Jersey. this is 100% real

I dunno, the Declaration of Independence is on yellow paper and the letter "s" looks like "f" This is on white paper and easy to read.

The original was on Windows 95, they had to print it.

You mean this part? “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

IMO these four all are happening Right Now. Yeah, time to revolt?

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"Harass our people and eat out their substance" still bangs.

YES 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Transporting us beyond seas for pretended offenses! Only he doesn't even bother with the trial.

Wake up people - that "big beautiful bill" he is hyping and everyone is objecting to because of taxes hides clauses that gut the legislative and judical branches and give total power to the preident. Whatever he wants goes it is Goodbye Constitution.

Stop being alarmist when you've forgotten your civics lessons. You can pass a budget with a simple majority and through reconciliation, you can't pass any substantial legislation that way.

They have tacked those clauses onto the bill and everyone should be alarmed.

They can't pass legislation that "guts the legislative and judicial branches" without more than a simple majority, which they don't have. They would need more votes than they have in either the House or the Senate. I didn't know the number offhand for the House, but they'd need 60 in the Senate.

Didnt the United States used to have … 2nd Amendment ? Americans used to say that it was for a Tyrannical Government even as they shot school kids! So now that AmeriKKKa has a Fascist Tyrannical Government does the 2nd Amendment exist anymore? Are any laws being followed ? 1776 is Asking