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Post by limey² on Jul 11, 2020 18:33:19 GMT
I thought you all had guns, so there's no way a dictator with the US military on his side could ever control you?
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Post by RWB on Jul 11, 2020 18:34:25 GMT
Ulysses is living proof you can't fix stupid.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 11, 2020 19:12:41 GMT
6. Trump believes that he has the power to do what he wants, regardless of Congress or the courts.
“I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” he has said. He has also claimed to have the “absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department” and, in the event the judiciary branch disagreed, “the absolute right to PARDON myself.” His attorney general, William Barr, and his own lawyers have made clear that this is the administration’s position as they have rejected both congressional and criminal subpoenas for information during the past few years. Their arguments — including an assertion to a federal appellate court last October that the president could shoot someone in the middle of New York’s Fifth Avenue and still be immune from prosecution until he left office — came crashing down with a Supreme Court decision Thursday. “We cannot conclude that absolute immunity is necessary or appropriate under Article II or the Supremacy Clause,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 11, 2020 23:48:35 GMT
7. Trump acts as if he owns our government and can fire any official who defends the law.
He has dismissed an FBI director and a deputy FBI director, as well as five inspectors general and U.S. attorneys, all of whom were investigating or considering either his abuse of power or the alleged crimes of his cronies. This past week, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served as a national security aide at the White House until earlier this year and was up for a promotion, resigned from the military, citing “bullying, intimidation, and retaliation” after he testified under oath to Congress counter to Trump’s interests.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 12, 2020 14:26:05 GMT
8. Trump uses federal prosecutorial powers to investigate his opponents and anyone who dares scrutinize him or his allies for the many crimes they may have committed.
After the Mueller investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 election, Trump’s Justice Department began a criminal probe into the origins of the inquiry — to, in Trump’s words, “investigate the investigators.” He tried to get the Justice Department to prosecute former FBI director James Comey and Hillary Clinton.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 12, 2020 22:06:29 GMT
9. Trump viciously attacks his critics and has publicly implied that the Ukraine whistleblower should be hanged for treason.
During a speech to diplomatic staffers in New York last September, Trump said: “I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 13, 2020 8:12:52 GMT
10. Trump has messianic delusions that are supported with religious fervor by millions of his supporters.
He has “jokingly” looked up to the sky and said, “I am the chosen one” in relation to negotiations with China. Then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry echoed other evangelicals who’ve said that Trump was sent by God to do great things when he seriously proclaimed that Trump is the “chosen one.” A Guardian report described the evangelical response to Trump’s photo op in front of Lafayette Square’s St. John’s Episcopal Church, which many viewed positively: One evangelical supporter was so moved that she began speaking in tongues when she saw the footage, according to her son.
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Post by crepe05 on Jul 13, 2020 12:32:37 GMT
I thought you all had guns, so there's no way a dictator with the US military on his side could ever control you? mr crepe and I have guns. However, it's not because of our current govt. It's because of the criminals who the dems have begun to be on the side of (ye gads, that's a terrible sentence). However, grammar not withstanding, the dems and their proposals for their next supposed candidate to spout, are not on the side of law and order. They seem to favor the law breakers. That's why we have guns.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 13, 2020 22:58:52 GMT
I thought you all had guns, so there's no way a dictator with the US military on his side could ever control you? mr crepe and I have guns. However, it's not because of our current govt. It's because of the criminals who the dems have begun to be on the side of (ye gads, that's a terrible sentence). However, grammar not withstanding, the dems and their proposals for their next supposed candidate to spout, are not on the side of law and order. They seem to favor the law breakers. That's why we have guns.
11. Trump subscribes to a doctrine of genetic superiority and incites racial hatred to scapegoat immigrants and gain power.
He has rallied his base with dog-whistle attacks, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals. When he attacked a group of progressive members of Congress from diverse backgrounds, he stated that they should go back to the places they came from. Over the years Trump has frequently praised his “winning” genes, at one point telling an interviewer, “I’m proud to have that German blood — there’s no question about it.”
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