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Trump's Second Term

Fraud!

Vance: We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud. That person's efforts will start primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because unfortunately in the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009333122127810579
 
Andy_Ross said:
Fraud!

Vance: We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud. That person's efforts will start primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because unfortunately in the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009333122127810579
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How do you know?

Donny checked his bank statements.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the US.

What do we think the important vote will be next week?
Give himself total powers to declare war?
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Voted "to take away our Powers to fight"? Who is this "our" you speak of? Do you mean Congress, like the Constitution says? No? How odd.
 
This is what the new AG positioning is about

JD Vance threatens Walz with prosecution: "Tim Walz is a joke. His entire administration has been a joke. The idea that he is some sort of freedom fighter, he's not. He's a guy who has enabled fraud and maybe in fact has participated in fraud. That's what this new assistant AG position is going to find out"

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009334713375244453
 
Safe-Keeper said:
All I can think of is how I've recently run into my fair share of people insisting the US is the greatest country in the world. What they all seem to have in common is they seem to be incredibly thin-skinned about it, to the point where they will get really frustrated with you if you doubt this or ask too many questions. It's almost as if they base this idea on paper-thin narratives rather than solid facts, or they know it's not as solid an idea as they like to think. Or they just use it as an excuse to deflect criticism: 'Oh yeah? Well if it's so bad, why do so many people want to come here?'
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They are desperately clinging to what is at this point practically a religious belief, and like religious beliefs they will get very angry if you try to prove it wrong.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Fraud!

Vance: We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud. That person's efforts will start primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because unfortunately in the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009333122127810579
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Andy_Ross said:
This is what the new AG positioning is about

JD Vance threatens Walz with prosecution: "Tim Walz is a joke. His entire administration has been a joke. The idea that he is some sort of freedom fighter, he's not. He's a guy who has enabled fraud and maybe in fact has participated in fraud. That's what this new assistant AG position is going to find out"

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009334713375244453
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What Epstein files?
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the US.

What do we think the important vote will be next week?
Give himself total powers to declare war?
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Trump: "◊◊◊◊ the Senate! ◊◊◊◊ your laws! The power is MINE!!"
 
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East Wing ballroom architect Shalom Baranes says the White House is considering a one-story addition to the West Wing to restore “symmetry” around the White House after the East Wing project
 
Darat said:
Well, he could be referring to something like the westminster system (used in the UK and adopted in places like Canada.)

Frankly, I think Trump would be even more dangerous under the westminster system. Under the US system, he does have to contend with congress to at least some degree. (Granted the GOP is largely acting like trained seals to applaud everything Trump does, but in theory they could grow a spine and oppose him.) But if Trump were head of government in the westminster system, not only would he have executive power, but he would also have control over the legislature.
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But who has even suggested this? And there are about 50 countries in Europe all of which have different democratic (most of the 50 are democratic a handful are pseudo-democratic) - there is no "euro style parliamentary system" - every one of those countries has a different form of governance.
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I don't think anyone is suggesting replacing any form of government with another.

I think the point that was being made was that no system of government is perfect and immune from the type of corruption that exists in the states. Probably any government can descend into authoritarianism/fascism, if a particularly evil group of characters get power and those with the ability to stop them decide to do nothing. Every successful political system is successful in large part because politicians and the general electorate are not completely evil or stupid. The US is failing as a democracy not because their government design is inherently bad, but because of the people who are currently involved in government.
 
dudalb said:
Yes, Biden and Harris were both much better choices, but that still you have to look onthe results; Trump won.
And I for one blame Biden for hanging on too long as a major reason for what happened.
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So you've said. To take a step back, though, I don't think that you're actually addressing what you responded to, again. Biden hanging on too long can be said as a major reason for what happened this time under the circumstances, sure, but what was poked at has far more to do with why Trump was even on the ballot in the first place, let alone a viable candidate.

Garrison said:
They are desperately clinging to what is at this point practically a religious belief, and like religious beliefs they will get very angry if you try to prove it wrong.
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For what it's worth, there is a rather prevalent fantasy around that richest=best that's not confined to the US. There's also the prevalent behavior of declaring that some arbitrary group is best and being willing to get violent with others if they disagree. Sports riots are quite exemplary examples of that.

The people of the US having patriotic beliefs isn't a bad thing. Nor is acknowledging our positives a bad thing. There still are many, after all, even if Trump and co are working to destroy many of the positives. Nationalist fictions and refusals to acknowledge and account for the darker side of things, of course, very much are problems. I'm aware that I'm not being referred to here, but personally, I find the question a bit pointless. Is the US the best? At some things, yes, and at others things, not even close. Grasping onto some aspect where one or one's group is "best" and then trying to overgeneralize that to mean more than it does is a rather common emotional action, either way.
 
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