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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Our founders rebelled against a King for these acts of tyranny--how many of them has #Trump already enacted upon the American people?
(18/18) #NoKings #Oct18

#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Instigating domestic insurrection: "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us"
(17/18) #NoKings #Jan6 #J6 #J6pardons

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Hiring fighters to attack us: "Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."
(16/18) #NoKings #ICE #MMA

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Waging war on us: "He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."
(15/18) #NoKings #NationalGuard #Portland

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Cancelling our voice by taking power over our elected representatives: "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever."
(14/18) #NoKings #Grijalva #Prop50 vs "We are entitled to 5 more seats" in #Texas #redistricting

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Ruling by his desire, not law: "For abolishing the free System of [] Laws in a [] Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies"
(13/18) #NoKings

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Denying our right to a trial and shipping us overseas to be punished for fake reasons: "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
(12/18) #NoKings #ICE #CECOT

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Taxing us with tariffs and impeding our free trade: "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent"
(11/18) #NoKings #tariffs #tax

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Siccing troops on us and protecting them from prosecution when they murder and abuse us: "For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States"
(10/18) #NoKings #ICE

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Subjected us to foreign laws: "He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws."
(9/18) #NoKings #CECOT #Andry #Kilmar

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Trying to control our military for his own objectives, not ours: "He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power."
(8/18) #NoKings #NationalGuard #RIFs #Venezuela

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Ordering armies to occupy our peaceful communities: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
(7/18) #NoKings #ICE #NationalGuard

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Creating and ordering militarized forces to harass us: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."
(6/18) #NoKings #ICE

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Threatening and corrupting judges: "He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries."
(5/18) #NoKings #Boasberg #Cannon

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Preventing us from welcoming immigrants: "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither..."
(4/18) #NoKings #ICE

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Preventing our elected representatives from representing us: "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people"
(3/18) #NoKings #Grijalva

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Refusing to pass good laws that we need: "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
(2/18) #NoKings #healthcare

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

Our founders declared independence from a king who established Tyranny over our States, saying "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." The acts of tyranny they protested from this "King"?
(1/18) #NoKings

#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

From our Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
(1/5) #NoKings

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."
(5/5) #NoKings

#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

"...Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government..."
(4/5) #NoKings

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

"...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..."
(3/5) #NoKings

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

"--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..."
(2/5) #NoKings

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 10h

From our Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
(1/5) #NoKings

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 11h

Our government should help all of us, not hurt some of us on purpose. #NoKings

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#whatifDems @ceasendesist.bsky.social · 11h

No pardons for violent criminals, pedophiles, nor corrupt politicians. No taxation without representation. No executions before trial. #NoKings

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