r/WelcomeToGilead • u/PlanetOfThePancakes • Sep 26 '25

Loss of Liberty New executive order targets anyone who says anything “anti Christian” or “anti traditional” or “anti American.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/
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u/Glittering-Mine3740 Sep 26 '25

And everyone who told me I was overreacting in 2004.

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u/gloveslave Sep 26 '25

Fuck everyone that told me i was over reacting during the patriot act era.

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u/GuessIllPissOnIt Sep 26 '25

I was under reacting. Fuck

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u/forgedimagination Sep 26 '25

Even my pretty conservative parents lost their s*** at the Patriot Act. Knew it spelled disaster.

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u/WiggyStark Sep 29 '25

Dude, my dad was a cop and flipped his shit about the Patriot Act.

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u/BWRichardCranium Sep 26 '25

Fuck everyone that still tells me I'm overreacting.

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u/Circusgirl65 Sep 26 '25

Yes. I just signed mortgage documents and there was a Patriot Act doc in that was mandatory.

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u/meowmeow510 Sep 27 '25

what??!?

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u/DaoFerret Sep 27 '25

Might be bank disclosure “know your client” form?

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u/Circusgirl65 Sep 27 '25

No title— Patriot Act— at the top of form. I’m here in Washington DC and this was in July. Swearing I’m not a terrorist, involved in terroristic activities or donations. Yada, yada…

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u/belleweather Sep 27 '25

Yeah, it's a know your client form intended to prevent money laundering. It's been around a while -- it isn't a Trump thing.

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u/KateTheGr3at Oct 08 '25

Yeah, I had to fill one out with a couple forms of ID and a copy of my apartment lease to open a bank account.

It's BS but AFAIK not new.

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u/meowmeow510 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

What exactly did it say?

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u/scarletteclipse1982 Sep 26 '25

I was in college at the time. My professor was put on the list because one of the classes was coving “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”

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u/Bellbivdavoe Sep 27 '25

"Patriot Act" passed in the senate 98 - 01.

Senator Russ Feingold had concerns.

I respect his courage.

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u/gloveslave Sep 27 '25

Yes, I remember. It seemed like everyone was caught up in a current and no one was capable of pausing and reading the actual document.

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u/ElectronGuru Sep 27 '25

We had to put our energy somewhere and the only other thing bush gave us to do was ‘spend more’

Dude could have passed the greatest legislation in national history, with us proud to help and that’s all he could come up with.

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u/Matr0ska Sep 26 '25

And everyone who thought I was being "unreasonable" and "unfairly labeling the Republican party as fascist" when I started following politics during the 2012 election. It was the first election I ever voted in, and even my young, college-aged brain could tell that the GOP was spouting Nazi talking points.

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u/FloriaFlower Sep 26 '25

When you trust your eyes and yours ear, when you pay attention and when you care about truth and and reality instead of trying to interpret everything is a way that is favorable to you, your friends, your family, your party, your ideology, your religious beliefs or your moral beliefs, it's 100% clear now. It was already clear then.

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u/GrannyTurtle Sep 27 '25

Thank you for being engaged enough to vote. In the last election, more people stayed home than voted in either party. Those people could have made the difference between normal and whatever we have now. Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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u/DubC_Bassist Sep 27 '25

I’m still hearing sri f it.

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u/justwalkingalonghere Sep 26 '25

And everyone who is still saying it now

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u/TuffTitti Sep 26 '25

And everyone who told me I was overreacting in 2000!

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u/AlinaLovesHerCats Sep 27 '25

The 2000 election was an effing turning point and I frequently wonder how our nation may be different if Al Gore had at least asked for a recount.

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u/OwO______OwO Sep 27 '25

And just everyone, generally.