Trump the dictator

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There are people that believe that Trump should be a dictator.  Let's discuss what trump wants to do.

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Trump's lawyers argue to Presidential Immunity.  No president has never asked for absolute immunity before, because it's un-american, but trump needs it for his dictatorship.

Trump's lawyers actually argued that the president should have the ability to assassinate the opposition and overturn free and fair elections with immunity.  Trump is arguing for a fascist state.

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Donald Trump’s aides have drawn up secret plans to oust the chairman of the Federal Reserve and allow the president to set interest rates, according to reports.

Allies are said to have drawn up a range of proposals for the way monetary policy could be run in a second Trump administration, including rolling back the independence of the central bank, which has been critical to the functioning of the economy and financial system in recent decades.

Having a dictator with dementia and a lack of financial markets dictating global fiscal policy alone is a recipe for disaster.

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1 hour ago, The Psychic Observer said:

Donald Trump’s aides have drawn up secret plans to oust the chairman of the Federal Reserve and allow the president to set interest rates, according to reports.

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2 hours ago, The Psychic Observer said:

There are people that believe that Trump should be a dictator.  Let's discuss what trump wants to do.

 

No, we have bootlicking leftist morons saying Trump wants to be a dictator.  The context is the exact opposite.  Trump wants to destroy the corrupt chains that out institutions have bound the American citizens with.  Trump wants to free the American people from the authoritarian state with their rogue government instituitions and their corporate monopoly minions which has used fear to erect the infrastructure to spy on and control its citizens 24/7.  

That is the context you fuking lying dufuss.

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Imagine being so triggered by Trump that you believe everything you hear on Twitter and Tiktok like a teenage girl - and then start a thread about your mania and hysteria - while ignoring the fact that the current President you voted for is the actual dictator. 

I mean, c'mon. Even Scientologists don't believe everything they hear, and they're in a cult.

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15 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Imagine being so triggered by Trump that you believe everything you hear on Twitter and Tiktok like a teenage girl - and then start a thread about your mania and hysteria - while ignoring the fact that the current President you voted for is the actual dictator. 

I mean, c'mon. Even Scientologists don't believe everything they hear, and they're in a cult.

I figured the dude was posting from a pro-Palestine encampment at the local college.  

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On 4/27/2024 at 6:43 AM, The Psychic Observer said:

dictator

 

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On 4/27/2024 at 4:40 AM, The Psychic Observer said:

Trump's lawyers argue to Presidential Immunity.  No president has never asked for absolute immunity before, because it's un-american, but trump needs it for his dictatorship.

Trump's lawyers actually argued that the president should have the ability to assassinate the opposition and overturn free and fair elections with immunity.  Trump is arguing for a fascist state.

But he is not arguing for it using a double negative.

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On 4/27/2024 at 4:43 AM, The Psychic Observer said:

Donald Trump’s aides have drawn up secret plans to oust the chairman of the Federal Reserve and allow the president to set interest rates, according to reports.

Allies are said to have drawn up a range of proposals for the way monetary policy could be run in a second Trump administration, including rolling back the independence of the central bank, which has been critical to the functioning of the economy and financial system in recent decades.

Having a dictator with dementia and a lack of financial markets dictating global fiscal policy alone is a recipe for disaster.

Well semi-secret anyways.

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I think you have gotten stories conflated.  Trump has a mushroon d1ck, not a tater one.  

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Biden plummeting in the polls. 

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This already happened in our country FDR was President for 4 terms getting his multiple terms by declaration. He was a big time socialist too.

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No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this lawsuit targeting a prominent law firm with adverse actions to be executed by all Executive branch agencies but, in purpose and effect, this action draws from a playbook as old as Shakespeare, who penned the phrase: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HENRY VI, PART 2, act 4, sc. 2, l. 75. When Shakespeare’s character, a rebel leader intent on becoming king, see id. l. 74, hears this suggestion, he promptly incorporates this tactic as part of his plan to assume power, leading in the same scene to the rebel leader demanding “[a]way with him,” referring to an educated clerk, who “can make obligations and write court hand,” id. l. 90, 106. Eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the path to more power. See Walters v. Nat’l Ass’n of Radiation Survivors, 473 U.S. 305, 371 n.24 (1985) (Stevens, J., dissenting) (explaining the import of the same Shakespearean statement to be “that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government”).

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CONCLUSION The U.S. Constitution affords critical protections against Executive action like that ordered in EO 14230. Government officials, including the President, may not “subject[] individuals to ‘retaliatory actions’ after the fact for having engaged in protected speech.” Hous. Cmty. Coll. Sys., 595 U.S. at 474 (quoting Nieves, 587 U.S. at 398). They may neither “use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression,” Vullo, 602 U.S. at 188, nor engage in the use of “purely personal and arbitrary power,” Yick Wo, 118 U.S. at 370. In this case, these and other foundational protections were violated by EO 14230. On that basis, this Court has found that EO 14230 violates the Constitution and is thus null and void.

An American Judge.

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Things'd be a lot easier if the Senate Dems could just be rolled over. But, of course, they're not. Just a few years ago, countable on one hand, Dumocrats were trying hard to get rid of the filibuster. It was two holdouts.... Sinema and Manchin that kept them in check.

Nowadays, they must be ecstatic, not only that they failed, but also that the Republicans aren't doing to them what they tried to do to the GOP minority. Republicans -as usual - are far more civil and willing to put up with their obstruction in the minority than the Dems were. If you recall, they had plenty of other nefarious plans: packing the courts, eliminating the electoral college...

Further, you have to wonder if the Dems'll try again the next time they, inevitably, gain control of the Senate again now that Sinema and Manchin are gone.

Notice how they only shed crocodile tears crying and shrieking about precedent when it suits them.

It takes incredible patience putting up with all their filibustering and activist judge/prosecution lawfare but Trump and the GOP only grumble. They comply. They also don't put Biden officials in prison or debank them. 

Yet here comes the "Trump as dictator" talk. Yeah, a dictator who loosens the powers of his government and complies with every ridiculous and dubious impediment his opponents throw in front of him. Get real.

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On 4/29/2024 at 8:37 PM, Gepetto said:

This already happened in our country FDR was President for 4 terms getting his multiple terms by declaration. He was a big time socialist too.

I saw a stat recently that Trump2 is outpacing FDR’s use of EOs & no other president is remotely close to those two. Difference is FDR had passed a raft of groundbreaking legislation that required implementation. OTOH Trump hasn’t passed one bill in Congress. Not one. What Trump is doing is tearing down laws that Congress has passed, some recent, some decades old & foundational. And he’s doing it by fiat & *against the letter & spirit of the law.

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15 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

I saw a stat recently that Trump2 is outpacing FDR’s use of EOs & no other president is remotely close to those two. Difference is FDR had passed a raft of groundbreaking legislation that required implementation. OTOH Trump hasn’t passed one bill in Congress. Not one. What Trump is doing is tearing down laws that Congress has passed, some recent, some decades old & foundational. And he’s doing it by fiat & *against the letter & spirit of the law.

The fillibuster was almost never used during the Roosevelt administration, the one time you saw it implemented was in the 1939 (Roosevelt Era) movie "Mr. Smith goes to Washington."

Nowadays, it's a mandatory part of any legislation. Something I reminded you ten seconds ago, that the Democrats tried to eliminate when they were in office and - would be biting them in the ass bigtime now if they had gotten away with. And they're likely to try to do so again the moment they gain a trifecta majority now that Sinema and Manchin are no long a part of their Senate delegation to reign them in.

The true dictators.

Anyway, the only reason the Republicans aren't foisting all this down the Dums throat as legislation is that they are restraining themselves from doin what the Dems tried very hard to do when they were in office. In time, hopefully Trump's / Johnson's "Big Beautiful Bill" solves these hangups for you.

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2 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

The fillibuster was almost never used during the Roosevelt administration, the one time you saw it implemented was in the 1939 (Roosevelt Era) movie "Mr. Smith goes to Washington."

Nowadays, it's a mandatory part of any legislation. Something I reminded you ten seconds ago, that the Democrats tried to eliminate when they were in office and - would be biting them in the ass bigtime now if they had gotten away with. And they're likely to try to do so again the moment they gain a trifecta majority now that Sinema and Manchin are no long a part of their Senate delegation to reign them in.

The true dictators.

Are you arguing that a minority party using the rules of the Senate is somehow dictatorship?

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15 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Are you arguing that a minority party using the rules of the Senate is somehow dictatorship?

Stop being intentionally obtuse. Everybody else knows exactly what's going on because we don't live under rocks.

They are using the very same Senate rule they -"they" meaning every single one of the Senate Dems, since both objectors are now out of office - to obstruct the Trump agenda that they -again every single one of them- tried to do away with when they were in the majority. It's only by the good graces of the faux alleged dictatorship that the GOP didn't turn the tables on them once they took over the Senate. 

Thank your tranny god that there are still enough Republican Senators around to willing to keep the filibuster around, because we know there are now exactly ZERO Democrat Senators around who would do the same were the shoe on the other foot.

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Here:

Filibusters: Why Democrats want to change Senate rules (cnn.com)

Wonder what Schumer thinks of the filibuster now. It's the only reason legislation isn't being slammed down the Dems throats at the same pace as the executive order are. And even the big beautiful bill only affects matters of tax and spending. You still get to bloc voter ID laws, unrequested mail in ballots, men in the girls room and other Democrat priorities.

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9 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Stop being intentionally obtuse. Everybody else knows exactly what's going on because we don't live under rocks.

They are using the very same Senate rule they -"they" meaning every single one of the Senate Dems, since both objectors are now out of office - to obstruct the Trump agenda that they -again every single one of them- tried to do away with when they were in the majority. It's only by the good graces of the faux alleged dictatorship that the GOP didn't turn the tables on them once they took over the Senate. 

Thank your tranny god that there are still enough Republican Senators around to willing to keep the filibuster around, because we know there are now exactly ZERO Democrat Senators around who would do the same were the shoe on the other foot.

WADR a far amount of that is eccentric. You raised the filibuster. I’m pro-Constitution & IMO the power of Congress is paramount. If an opposing party filibusters the solution is to negotiate & compromise. 

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2 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

WADR a far amount of that is eccentric. You raised the filibuster. I’m pro-Constitution & IMO the power of Congress is paramount. If an opposing party filibusters the solution is to negotiate & compromise. 

Every single Democrat in the Senate disagrees with you but they use it anyway since the GOP didn't discard it.

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7 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Every single Democrat in the Senate disagrees with you but they use it anyway since the GOP didn't discard it.

It’s just my perspective, the system broke down between the 1990s & 2010s, basically because of money in financing & consulting & social/new media. But it doesn’t justify the President making a massive power grab using lies & false legal pretenses, which is all this is. 

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And fwiw I disagree that compromise is completely impossible. The GOP House, Dem Senate, & Dem President had a deal on immigration, the hardest issue in America, & it was crafted & led by a Senator from a deep red state who had regularly protected Trump in his 1st term. That happened. Just one problem.

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2 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

It’s just my perspective, the system broke down between the 1990s & 2010s, basically because of money in financing & consulting & social/new media. But it doesn’t justify the President making a massive power grab using lies & false legal pretenses, which is all this is. 

Fair enough. We have a situation now where both sides are voting strictly along party lines and the party out of power uses every vestige of power they have remaining to them to obstruct and block the majority. 

What you deliberately fail to notice is that unlike Biden, Trump follows all restrictions imposed on him by that minority and also doesn't try to put his opponents in jail or debank, censor, or deplatform them.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

And fwiw I disagree that compromise is completely impossible. The GOP House, Dem Senate, & Dem President had a deal on immigration, the hardest issue in America, & it was crafted & led by a Senator from a deep red state who had regularly protected Trump in his 1st term. That happened. Just one problem.

You picked the wrong issue for an example.

Clearly you haven't bothered to ask yourself why the border is secure now, when it wasn't before, despite that law nor any other passing since it was first proposed.

I'll tell you what happened. It should be crystal clear. Biden supports open borders. When Biden wanted to shift gears, it was not to secure the border, but because it was a losing electoral issue for him and so he went about grandstanding to tell his open border base blame the GOP when he marginally wanted to shift his border policy.

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1 minute ago, Voltaire said:

 Clearly you haven't bothered to ask yourself why the border is secure now, when it wasn't before, despite that law nor any other passing since it was first proposed.

See this is the thing - you don’t like the outcome. But that - the negotiations, the crafting, the agreement & setting down the thing in law - is democracy. That’s the opposite of “dictatorship.” - Here you *like the outcome, but it’s not done democratically or constitutionally. I don’t want things *I want however the given leader we select does them. For me the democracy is the priority, those are my values.

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7 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Fair enough. We have a situation now where both sides are voting strictly along party lines and the party out of power uses every vestige of power they have remaining to them to obstruct and block the majority. 

What you deliberately fail to notice is that unlike Biden, Trump follows all restrictions imposed on him by that minority and also doesn't try to put his opponents in jail or debank, censor, or deplatform them.

Thank you for the response, but I rather disagree on the claim Trump is following restrictions. I do hope that Gulliver like the massive inertia of our great financial political weight ties him down with a thousand strings. Ideally that happens.

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Just now, SaintsInDome2006 said:

See this is the thing - you don’t like the outcome. But that - the negotiations, the crafting, the agreement & setting down the thing in law - is democracy. That’s the opposite of “dictatorship.” - Here you *like the outcome, but it’s not done democratically or constitutionally. I don’t want things *I want however the given leader we select does them. For me the democracy is the priority, those are my values.

Reagan/O'Neill.... even Clinton / Gingrich for that matter.... is a bygone era.

We've seen both parties over our lifetimes playing one upsmanship on each other to get us to this point.

And Biden was significantly worse in this respect than Trump 2.0 has been.

2 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Thank you for the response, but I rather disagree on the claim Trump is following restrictions. I do hope that Gulliver like the massive inertia of our great financial political weight ties him down with a thousand strings. Ideally that happens.

I think the biggest thing you have to hang that accusation on is that terrorist plane that departed somewhere around the moment that Judge Boasberg was in the process of appointing himself President of the United States but hadn't yet written it down.