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Even the ones on the Fight Oligarchy tour?

Nobody:

Nobody:

Even the ones that fight oligarchy?

Hello, Elesevenenseven. You seem to have trouble understanding that them losing less than 10% of the total protection time means that they have almost the normal amount of protection time. I'm not saying that Trump would have taken away their protection before he was president. At this point, I'm not sure if your reading comprehension is actually that poor or if you're just really desperate to keep up the nitpicky smug internet argument act.

I agree that taking away the protection is not normal. I get that. Their protection ending is normal. It's not like he ended what would normally be lifetime protection. I could have worded my original comment better, but I didn't expect someone to get so invested in being an asshole in response to a comment I wrote in 10 seconds while multitasking.

If their USSS protection would have ended in like July anyway, couldn't a potential attacker have just waited until then to do whatever they're gonna do? I get that by calling attention to it, Trump increases the odds of an attack though.

You are right about one thing. I said 3 months because I can't count. Inauguration is late January, so then until now is 2 months. I am horribly sorry not to have met your expectations, O Lord of Righteousness. Since you're till having trouble understanding what I'm saying, it wasn't 66% of their total protection. Assuming they were protected for the entirety of Biden's term, Trump is taking away (since you love numbers so much) 7.4% (4 out of 54 [4 years is 48 months, plus the 6 month extension period] total months of their overall protection.

That is pretty fucked up indeed. I still doubt anyone attacks them or anything.

Right, I'm talking about the time length. 6 months normally versus 2 months here. In the grand scheme of things, not that big of a deal. It's not like they would have had lifetime protection and now he's cancelling that.

Hello? Are we even having a conversation or are you just ecstatic that you got a chance to be smug on the internet? What dates am I supposed to look up? The summary said they usually get six months of protection after the former president's term ends. So they'll be missing out on 4 months of protection that they would normally get. Please save your smug energy for the actual Trump supporters.

How did I prove your point at all? I'm talking about the time range of protection ending. There's like a three month difference. In the realm of terrible things Trump has done so far, this is barely noticeable.

This is how the fuck:

"But outgoing presidents can extend protection for those who might otherwise not be eligible for up to six months after they leave office"

It would end in a few months anyway. Yeah he's being petty and he's a dickhead, but it's not that big of a difference.

OK so this is actually pretty normal?

Edit: For all the Lemmings out there having trouble understanding, you don't have to read the article, but at least read the summary. Their USSS protection would end in a few months anyway. Trump is a colossal asshole, yes, but they're only getting a few months less of USSS protection. The length of time they get protection is fairly normal.

Israel?

No wait, Russia?

Should we suck our own geese as well with the incoming tariff on Canada Geese?

His brain is casserole after the stroke.

He'll be 78 in 2028. He probably will bow out of politics by then to turn things over to a younger generation.

Wait, who am I kidding?

My favorite phone was my LG enV2 with the physical qwerty keyboard. Thing would keep its charge for weeks, and I could just chuck it across a room with no consequences. Not a smartphone obviously, but it was great for its time.

My societal dream is that the government would nationalize industries once they reach the monopoly or oligopoly stage. Like, congratulations Comcast/Verizon, you won the game of capitalism. Now move over and let the government actually provide services to the people at a reasonable cost.

But I know this is just a dream.

Any of the people they mentioned would have massively more influence than a random Lemmy poster.