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Trump's Second Term

The Hill: “If the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president, the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy,” Musk said.
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The whole point of representative democracy under constitutional law is that hard constraints are ostensibly placed on the popular will so that popular passions ("what the people want") may not rule the day (via deliberation by elected representatives), as well as on those elected representatives so that they, too, cannot let their passion overrule the fundamentals; namely, constitutionally protected rights, rules and mechanisms.

Ostensibly, the Fourth Estate is there to call out poor reasoning, bad practice and political illiteracy. Yet, The Hill allows Musk to blather on, in blatant ignorance of what makes a republic a republic. Weren't these same GOP minions clamoring just last news cycle that the US is not a democracy, but a republic?

“All we’re really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. And, and what we’re finding is that there’s an unelected bureaucracy. Speaking of unelected… there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet.
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To act, elected officials have bureaucracies, civil servants. Tsk, tsk, is there no literacy remaining among practicing journalists?

And look who's talking about being unelected, geez.

Ostensibly, there will be free and fair midterm elections in 2026, and ostensibly, the republic shall continue to exist.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
by that logic, most of Europe should belong to Germany
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'Germany fought hard for that land in russia and lost many people doing it, so Germany should keep it!'
Shirley everything the Nazis reached in their offensive should become German. Best thing is, German rule would probably be a vast improvement for the people living there. Win-win.
 
Aridas said:
....USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them.

More move fast and break stuff!...
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Reminiscent of what musk did at Twitter. We made a mistake, call them back. What is overlooked by musk and his lackeys is the human cost to the people involved. Some of them undoubtedly have families and mortgages and suddenly without warning their job is gone. No warning, just like that Bam! Some were reportedly notified by a late night email. Now as they've begun to grapple with their situation...they're contacted to come back.

Horrible times we live in. Really terrible. :(
 
newyorkguy said:
Reminiscent of what musk did at Twitter. We made a mistake, call them back. What is overlooked by musk and his lackeys is the human cost to the people involved. Some of them undoubtedly have families and mortgages and suddenly without warning their job is gone. No warning, just like that Bam! Some were reportedly notified by a late night email. Now as they've begun to grapple with their situation...they're contacted to come back.

Horrible times we live in. Really terrible. :(
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The very best people will be hired by other companies and/or refuse to go back. He'll end up with just the people who can't or won't leave.

I've seen a couple of corporate downsizings and that's what happened.
 
AmyStrange said:
I personally think the end game is to make the national debt so outrageously high that no one has a choice but to cut back on or eliminate entirely the social programs that help people, but that's just my opinion.

Your mileage may vary of course.


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It all boils down to robbing from the poor to feed the rich, fankly. They're not thinking about debt or anything else, remember for Trampy debt is free money, he never satisfies his.
 
The Don said:
With Trump, what's the difference??
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It's the difference between "I couldn't stop the thieves" and "I thought they'd worked so hard on the heist that it was only fair I helped them open the safe", the difference between compliance & outright complicity. I don't doubt his bad intentions toward Ukraine, I was just dubious that even he would be so blatant.
 
Those home invaders invested a lot of their own time and money in tools and weapons and ski masks and they took considerable risks. It's only fair they get to keep what they stole and maybe rape and kill a couple of people.
 
Trump signed his enabling executice order. We have yet to see a court strike down a Trump executive order:
From a person I follow on Threads:
dakotawillink
The Enabling Act of 1933 Germany was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or the Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, leading to the rise of Nazi Germany. Critically, the Enabling Act allowed the Chancellor to bypass the system of checks and balances in the constitution.

She links it to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

Trump order
www.whitehouse.gov

Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
www.whitehouse.gov
 
Please don't forget that Trump personally does not compose, write or schedule these EO's. He can barely write his name or speak a coherent sentence nowadays. These are coming from the very dangerous Project 2025 operatives in his shadow. They are the ones who need to be targeted.

Of course, seeing Donny Daipers going to jail soon would also help. ;)
 
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Remember back in November when some of the resident Trumptards were actually trying to argue that a Trump win was good for the people of Ukraine?
 
Planigale said:
I do think for Russians (Putin) Ukraine is a different issue from say Poland or Finland. Ukraine was never an independent nation prior to the break up of the USSR, and Crimea which was Russian was transferred to Ukraine administratively by the USSR. Ukraine as part of NATO which Russia perceives as an anti Russian alliance would be a significant threat.

I think Russia got a bloody nose from Ukraine, and won't be in a hurry to militarily act against its western neighbours who are better armed than Ukraine was and will get more support. Any expansion would likely be to the south, regaining what was part of the Russian empire. So I do think the threat to the West from the Russian army is overstated, and perhaps driven by the military-industrial complex who will gain from re-arming.

This isn't an argument for disarming, but
I don't think that a massive arms race is justified. It isn't also an argument to justify Russia's actions. Understanding why Russia does something doesn't mean that Russia was right to do so.
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It is and it has already begun. Denmark alone just allocated ~ $7Bn for arms procurement bypassing the EU’s usual tendering procedures.

www.aa.com.tr

Denmark set to launch $7B defense fund over rising fears of war with Russia

Also spurred by prospect of weakened NATO military alliance, official announcement of rearmament fund expected Wednesday - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr www.aa.com.tr
 
LiteBright said:
Remember back in November when some of the resident Trumptards were actually trying to argue that a Trump win was good for the people of Ukraine?
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What could be better than to be back in Russia's warm and very tight embrace?

I bet that prodigal son Taiwan longs to be back home with the rest of China too. Just watch.
 
Blue Mountain said:
As of the close of the day on February 17, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -145.

+1: US drops statement on a web site saying it does not support Taiwan independence, angering China
-1: Tom Homan (US Border Czar) confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
-1: Musk claims Democrats use social security and medical entitlements to entice illegal immigrants, who then vote for them [35]
-1: Musk asks to prove a negative: "Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox?" [36]

Footnotes:

35. Musk: "The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters. That’s what it’s all about."

36. Musk: "Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox? Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not. That gold is owned by the American public! We want to know if it’s still there."
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As I said elsewhere (quite possibly in this thread), that message is meaningless. If China decides to annex Taiwan, Trampy will do absolutely nothing to stop it.
 
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