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Trump's Second Term

thaiboxerken said:
Don't worry, Zig and Prestige will be along shortly to explain why these authoritarian actions are not authoritarian actions. It'll be a standard excuse from the Nazi handbook.
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Ziggurat said:
What actions? That's a comment to a reporter. It's not an action.
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Explain why these authoritarian comments to a reporter by a sitting POTUS are not authoritarian comments. Or are authoritarian comments by a sitting POTUS also just vague to the point of meaningless, and thus that statement does not serve as a useful indicator of what he will do?
 
Aridas said:
Oh, of course. "I take no responsibility at all" seems to be a rather common thread in Republican BS, either way. The modern Republican Party were never even the party of Personal Responsibility, fictional narratives aside.


Reminds me of the Trump Republican PPP loans where Republicans actively fought against oversight, while Democrats fought for responsibility (but didn't have the power to overcome the Republicans at the time). That ended up as the biggest fraud in US history, at last check. Democrats started working on cleaning up the mess when they had the chance, but, again, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The overall goal of the program was good, of course, but Republican leaders seem to habitually twist things that would be good governance if implemented well into instruments that enable corruption.
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i agree and it’s a stale act at this point.
 
Ziggurat said:
I think "look into" is vague to the point of meaningless, and thus that statement does not serve as a useful indicator of what he will do.
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Associated Press threatened with being banned from an Oval Office event if they didn't align editorial standards with trump

Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.
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AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press

The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
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Watched the news conference in the Whithe House.
I get the impressiion that Musk might be being set up as the fall guy.
 
Stacyhs said:
Explain why these authoritarian comments to a reporter by a sitting POTUS are not authoritarian comments. Or are authoritarian comments by a sitting POTUS also just vague to the point of meaningless, and thus that statement does not serve as a useful indicator of what he will do?
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Explain why they are.
 
Ziggurat said:
Explain why they are.
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Are what? Authoritarian? Not that I think you really need it explained but here goes: Trump wants judges who rule against him or block his actions/EOs "looked at". "Looked at" means investigated. He only appoints those he thinks will rule in his favor.
Typically, authoritarian leaders treat law and courts in an instrumental fashion and try to keep judges dependent and responsive to their desires.
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The leaders of established authoritarian regimes do empower judges, if only to gain legitimacy for the regime and keep its officials accountable, but sometimes at a cost to judicial independence. The mixture of independence, power, and accountability of judges in authoritarian states differs from what is found in democratic ones, and informal practices often determine the meaning of judicial power. These patterns have serious consequences for legal transition.
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Every judge that has presided over any of his court cases, he's attacked as a radical liberal, communist, and/or 'activist', dishonest judge that needs to be 'looked at', impeached, etc.
 
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