Despite Bill Barr’s repeatedly voicing concerns about Donald Trump, he has now said he will vote for him again this November
Bill Barr has claimed Donald Trump often suggested executing his political rivals during heated moments of his four-year tenure in the White House.
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin told The View back in December that Mr Trump once called for a staff member to be put to death for leaking a story about the then-president going down to a bunker during Black Lives Matter protests in summer 2020.
Former Trump administration attorney general Mr Barr was asked about the claims during an interview on CNN last week.
So what? I threaten to kill people all the time, when I’m talking to myself. He just has friends who he feels really comfortable around.
Really? That’s… odd.
It was just locker room talk about extrajudicial killings of people who unconvinced him slightly.
He was jokingnotjoking though, so it’s ok
reminds me of Nixon getting blackout drunk and ordering nuclear strikes on Vietnam. Apparently the SS just ignored him whenever it happened.
“He would say things similar to that on occasions to blow off steam. But I wouldn’t take them literally every time he did it,” Mr Barr said, adding: “At the end of the day, it wouldn’t be carried out and you could talk sense into him.”
So either we’re counting on people to refuse the president’s orders, or we’re hoping the Trump is more mature than he lets on?
How about not electing people who would even entertain such an idea in the first place?
How about electing people who would and making sure they’re on our side? Violence is coming. It’s just a matter of taking the initiative. Stop being naive.
Normalizing political violence will inevitably, and possibly literally, blow up in your own face.
or you can hope it doesn’t happen until it does and then you’re standing there with your pants down. the entire future of every living thing on this planet may come down to whether we have the balls to do the right thing or not. the path to utopia may not be pretty, but when hell on earth is a possibility, you kinda don’t have a choice.
You’re hardly the first person to think they can kill their way to Utopia. It has never worked.
You’re hardly the first person to think that the end result is always the same
And neither of us will be the first person proven wrong on our respective points.
Except the end result has historically always been the same; Hate begets hate.
“I swear, our needless violence won’t result in needless violence, this isn’t like all the others, our needless violence is special and kind!”
What do they say about the ‘definition of insanity’ again? “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Insanity is doing nothing while you watch sociopaths ruin the world for all living creatures for the foreseeable future.
That’s got to be a Farside comic or something: Thag standing there with his pants down while the asteroid destroys Dinotopia.
Or Dr Strangelove or something, yeah the end of the world coming, let’s make it happen
Doomsday cult preaching the Rapture so opening the portal to Chthulu to rain down terror and insanity
What makes you think you’d survive a purity test by a “strong leader”?
man, you gotta get the idea out of your head that only evil people murder. we killed plenty of nazis and the world is better for it. pacifists never win.
I’m not a pacifist. People kill other people for a lot of reasons all the time. Some of them good. What makes you think only
<insertStrongLeaderHere>can judge who deserves to be “purged” en masse?oh, you can do it too my friend
Do what? Political purge?
we can do anything we set our minds to. we have the technology to allow one half of america to coordinate something that the other half has no clue about.
i honestly want to know how we can make it to the end of this century with half of the population perpetuating a culture of cruelty. how long will you deprive future generations of the utopia that we could be enjoying NOW if only the obstacles to that path were removed? how many innocent creatures will suffer and die before we do something?
How about not electing people who would even entertain such an idea in the first place?
The people who vote for Trump vote for him because he would entertain such an idea &/or they are deluded enough to think they’re not on his list.
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He won’t. Fuck your fuhrer.
Sad, not mad.
That ship has sailed. But the US still has a president rather than a dictator. For now. So, a better question is, how about we limit the authority of the president, in accordance with the Constitution!? This country was literally founded on the idea that a king (or queen) has too much power and the Leaders need to be accountable to the People.
“Seriously, but not literally; literally, but not seriously.”
Thank goodness there isn’t a publicly accessible, written version of a plan to replace everyone with sycophants right here: www dot project2025 dot org
And lawyers working for the dude telling SCOTUS that assassinating rivals should be legal for the president since it should be considered an “official act”…
I think “every time” could be read in different ways.
The fact that he gets so angry that this is his go to proves he’s not mature enough. So people will need to rely on those to oppose those wishes.
Dude, fuck Bill Barr and Chris Sinunu and Mitch McConnell and all these pathetic hypocrites.
We are at war
Dark Helmet said it best.
“… evil will always triumph because good is dumb.”
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Oh look, it only knows how to repeat its fuhrer’s lies. What a dumb fucking sheep.
You’re a fake patriot
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What a snowflake you are lol
He should have publicly called for Trump to be removed under Amendment 25 while he was still a Cabinet officer.
Trump spent too much time listening to Putin
Then, endorsed him for president.
Is he really dumb enough to not realize he’s going to be on the list if Trump gets re-elected?This is the guy who wanted the Imperial Presidency, where the President is practically a king. Instead of finding some kind of enlightened philosopher king, he finds Donald Trump.
I used to not understand Barr, because he didn’t seem to be a complete idiot, but now I think he might actually be an idiot.
IMHO, he’s hedging his bets. turnip isn’t exactly a barr fan so he’s calculating that he’ll stay off the list after the next election. he knows that nothing he says matters and so is laying the groundwork to keep his head.
Still an idiot. Fascists won’t accept anything other than 100% loyalty to the leader. Barr is far from the only one to fall into this trap.
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Go on TV talking shit about the guy who wants to kill adversaries.
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Vote for that guy anyway
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Pikachu skull & crossbones
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He was just kidding, of course.
/s. Deeply. Deeply. /s
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Well the rest of the quote was that he will always vote Trump because he doesn’t believe in regulating automobiles
“While the dismantling of the United States would be a shame for sure, and nobody wants it, I cannot stand for this constant slippery slope towards 4 cylinder engines and EVs”
I can hear it in his dumb voice
Hey its that guy that was found in criminal contempt of congress and is supposed to be in jail
Hey man, what don’t you understand about FREEdom? This is a FREE country. Heeeellllllllllllllooo?
Yeah he just endorsed Trump, why do you ask?
/s I hope unnecessarily.
Sounds like a very reasonable and sensible justification for the death penalty.
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Fuck your fuhrer. We the majority will stomp you fascists like we did in 2020.
Barr doesn’t want to be the first political rival that gets executed.
Remember that Barr would vote for him again as well.
I wonder, could it be a method for him to tell right wingers how awful Trump is and not get dismissed outright. It is probably helping more people hear the truth than would have.
No, you are giving this bastard way too much credit.
That goes against his long and storied history of being in the tank for the Republican party. He convinced Bush Sr to pardon the few people who were convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal to execute a cover-up, he slow-walked and misrepresented the findings of Mueller’s report on Russian interference, and he’s always ascribed to the unitary executive theory. If his history and career is any indication, I suspect he talked about it because he legitimately thinks the president should be able to execute his political rivals (as long as they have an elephant pin on their lapel, naturally).
But for a group of people who always will put party ahead of nation, what will it actually do?
Edited to add Barr’s quote:
And in my mind, I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket. I think the real danger to the country – the real danger to democracy, as I say – is the progressive agenda.
Nah, he keeps telling the media how awful Trump is because they keep paying him and he keeps saying he’ll vote for him again either in the hopes of being paid by the next administration, to keep from being executed by it or both.
Because Barr also wants to be bale to execute his own rivals, I guess.
