• @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    911 months ago

    If he’s convicted and sentenced, he deserves to lose ALL former presidential benefits.

    He doesn’t respect the position, and thus, all benefits should be stripped from him.

    • @Elderos
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      511 months ago

      I suppose this would need to go through congress to happen. Very unlikely to succeed.

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        11 months ago

        Which, if that happened, means all those who are on his side need to lose their jobs and protections.

        No hyperbole: this is a coup, it’s ongoing, and we need to cut out the toxicity.

        It’s like the “this is fine” meme, but some people are actively trying to continue burning down the house. If they can’t be stopped from continuing the burn the place down, they need to be escorted out and remove any and all arsonist-related abilities / materials. If they continue even after that, they need to be jailed.

    • @Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de
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      411 months ago

      It’s probably less about the benefits, and more about what he knows as a former president. Though I doubt he actually read any of those stolen documents enough to comprehend them or paid attention in any of his security meetings, they would probably need to treat him as if he did and create a high-security special containment protocol for representing not only a physical threat to the nation, but a knowledge-threat as well.

      Another real-albeit-unlikely possibility: Imagine him getting thrown into a normal high security prison, getting all the other criminals to rally behind him, overthrowing the prison guards, escaping, and rallying his MAGA troops on the outside for coup-attempt No. 2. Regardless of likelihood, facist leaders should be removed from their main weapon: an audience.

      • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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        211 months ago

        Getting paid by the taxpayers, as well as his own lifetime security, are benefits that he needs to stop receiving.

        I agree with everything else you said.