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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(121,798 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 04:22 PM Friday

How can conservatives justify the flouting of due process in sending away any without conviction or charge?

By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist

As it is axiomatic that there can be no followers of Jesus’ teachings who support Donald Trump, so it is that there are no conservatives. And whereas there are plenty of Trumpists claiming to be one or the other or both, it’s no more true than if they professed to live on Mars.

Americans of every background and belief — excepting those who have no beliefs other than self-pity and selfishness and the certainty that they’re safe forever from Trump’s tidal wave of tyranny — ought to be sickened by what we’re witnessing from him and his cadre of sycophantic, Constitution-ignoring oppressors. Not just sickened; taking to the streets. Figuratively, if not literally. Writing a column into the wind, even.

What Christian who accepts what Jesus actually said can countenance the spectacle we just saw in the Oval Office, where two despots congratulated each other for their lawless cruelty? Laughed and joked over the fate of an illegally deported man, incarcerated in a Salvadoran torture chamber. Only an unreachable Foxophile would believe that, had Trump told El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele to bring the man back, he wouldn’t.

What conservative can accept scooping up people by masked goons and, ignoring due process — the most foundational American law — sending them to a brutal, foreign prison, forever? Or enjoy seeing the gloating pictures of the cruelty the White House produces? (YouTube: tinyurl.com/lockup4u) What law-respecting American, anywhere, would not be outraged by Trump’s plans to send “home-grown” — i.e., American citizens — to the gulag, without (or despite) adjudication? With only Trump’s or AG Pam Bondi’s or FBI head Kash Patel’s or Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s attestation to their criminality, all of whom lie prolifically in the face of all evidence to the contrary (For News: tinyurl.com/Pamlies2u).

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-is-there-a-hole-for-us-to-get-sick-in/

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How can conservatives justify the flouting of due process in sending away any without conviction or charge? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday OP
Until it happens to them.............. Lovie777 Friday #1
'They' are not 'conservative.' elleng Friday #2
This guy seems confused about American conservatives. Hint- it's a CON Blues Heron Friday #3
the same way progressives excuse the actions of Mangione Skittles Friday #4
They don't see the people they are targeting as humans or as "real" Americans. Solly Mack Friday #5
It's also a classic example of people doing nothing because it was only a little thing at first. RoeVWade Friday #6
Because they're just plain mean PlanetBev Friday #7

Blues Heron

(6,788 posts)
3. This guy seems confused about American conservatives. Hint- it's a CON
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 04:59 PM
Friday

Writers like this tool seem so out of touch about what pukes have been up to for decades.

Solly Mack

(94,823 posts)
5. They don't see the people they are targeting as humans or as "real" Americans.
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 06:29 PM
Friday

They aren't acting on law or due process but on who they deem worthy or not.

RoeVWade

(458 posts)
6. It's also a classic example of people doing nothing because it was only a little thing at first.
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 09:39 PM
Friday

then another little thing, then another, then another....

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