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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Secretary Sean Duffy
@SecDuffy
🚨It’s RECKONING DAY for Gavin Newsom 🚨

Our demands to California were simple:

➡️ Follow the rules
➡️ Revoke the unlawfully-issued licenses to dangerous foreign drivers
➡️ Fix the system so this never happens again

Gavin refused. So now I am pulling nearly $160 MILLION from California.

Under @POTUS, federal dollars won’t fund this CHARADE

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009032144786739645
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How about if California withholds it's state contributions to federal treasury this year. That's about one trillion dollars, btw. Enough to pay for one whole US military. Your move, Donny.
 
Aridas said:
Honestly, this feels like it's off. You're underselling. Project 2025, for example? You missed the part were Trump repeatedly promised to implement part after part of it and anyone remotely paying attention could tell that Trump would be pushing that ◊◊◊◊ regardless of what he said. As for the neo-nazis and lunch bit, that honestly also feels weak. He enabled right-wing hate, extremism, and terrorism, with those things being rather minor indicators of that that are easily quibbled about. More impactfully, you missed Trump's extreme mismanagement of COVID (and economy/government) that led to massive numbers of unnecessary American deaths, disproportionately of Republican voters.

That Trump got as many votes as he did is likely more representative of how badly broken our information distribution systems are, either way, and there's a number of angles to that.
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Or Maybe the Democrats made a number of mistakes in 2024. I think Biden's deicision to run for relectin had terrible consquences.
The Great Zaganza said:
There are innumerable ways in which China, the EU and Russia could ◊◊◊◊ with the US without lifting an arm.
Russia just registering oil tankers from Venezuela is an example.

China not buying produce from the US is another.

EU countries could demand their gold reserves held in by the Fed in New York back, crashing the dollar.

The US is incredibly weak, and getting weaker all the time.
The world is still doing what the Dems are doing: abiding, knowing that This, too, shall pass.
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Funny, that is the atitude that many had when Hitler took power....and it did not work very well.
As for Russia flagging Venzuelan Oil Tankers, your timing is bad, Trump just seized one.
You are hoping for some peaceful end to all this; I maintain a peaceful end is wishful thinking. A lot of people are going to die before this is thru.
 
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esquel said:
The third who didn't vote were persuaded by bad information and a well-oiled propaganda campaign that their votes wouldn't matter, that not voting would be an effective protest against policies that were offensive, that voting third party was the only moral choice, and a number of other very sketchy talking points. This led to the election coming out as it did.
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Or maybe a lot of them were just plain lazy...................
I am convinced that blaming the right wing media is an easy way out , It means you don;t have to look at yourself and deal wit the mistakes you made. I am pretty much convicned the right wing media is pretty much preaching to the choir at this point.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
It's just a plainly pathetic system where one person on a whim can undo international cooperations that have been going on for half a century and that Congress signed the US up for.
This is not democracy.. presidential powers need to be cut back with a chainsaw
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You have to remember the checks and balances built into the system that makes USA democracy superior to any other, they will balance the powers and cut back presidential overreach, if a candidate with (D) after their name ever gets elected.
 
Reformed Offlian said:
Of course it was 66. Wouldn't surprise me if He Miller made up some organizations to withdraw from the reach the number.
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Minor correction I think. Trump may look as healthy as the fictional senator you are thinking of, but I doubt he has the nous to come up with even such a lame thing as that.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Secretary Sean Duffy
@SecDuffy
🚨It’s RECKONING DAY for Gavin Newsom 🚨

Our demands to California were simple:

➡️ Follow the rules
➡️ Revoke the unlawfully-issued licenses to dangerous foreign drivers
➡️ Fix the system so this never happens again

Gavin refused. So now I am pulling nearly $160 MILLION from California.

Under @POTUS, federal dollars won’t fund this CHARADE

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009032144786739645
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Is that within a Federal or a State remit? I'm guessing the latter.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
It's just a plainly pathetic system where one person on a whim can undo international cooperations that have been going on for half a century and that Congress signed the US up for.
This is not democracy.. presidential powers need to be cut back with a chainsaw
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Yup. A friend at school told me his A-level politics lecturer said that the US system is basically an elected version of the British system in 1776 but with elected posts. So the Senate has similar powers to the Lords (in the UK, those have since been reduced) and the president has similar powers to George III*, whereas the British monarch has had their powers almost** completely removed in practice if not in theory. And subsequent events have convinced me that he had a point.




*But the king at the time was suffering from medical conditions that made his behaviour erratic and gave him delusions; he also introduced unpopular tariffs to the American people which meant they stopped him ruling them. So I'm not sure how accurate the parallel is.


**I suspect there's nothing in theory to stop the monarch doing what the Australian Governor General did in 1975.
 
Darat said:
You have to remember the checks and balances built into the system that makes USA democracy superior to any other, they will balance the powers and cut back presidential overreach, if a candidate with (D) after their name ever gets elected.
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And if adapt a Euro style Parlimentary system, it will be impossible for a dictator to come to power, right?
No system is better then the people running it, no system is safe from voters being really, really, stupid.
 
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jimbob said:
Yup. A friend at school told me his A-level politics lecturer said that the US system is basically an elected version of the British system in 1776 but with elected posts. So the Senate has similar powers to the Lords (in the UK, those have since been reduced) and the president has similar powers to George III*, whereas the British monarch has had their powers almost** completely removed in practice if not in theory. And subsequent events have convinced me that he had a point.




*But the king at the time was suffering from medical conditions that made his behaviour erratic and gave him delusions; he also introduced unpopular tariffs to the American people which meant they stopped him ruling them. So I'm not sure how accurate the parallel is.


**I suspect there's nothing in theory to stop the monarch doing what the Australian Governor General did in 1975.
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Who was that guy that got banned who was insisting that the President had the same powers as the King. That idea has been kicking around for years among the lunatic right. Of course, it only works for Republicans.
 
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