04-10-2020, 11:14 AM
(04-09-2020, 01:28 PM)David Horn Wrote:(04-08-2020, 05:25 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-08-2020, 12:27 PM)David Horn Wrote: Trump has balls. He lacks brains and judgement. Trump's in the process of killing many of his followers. I hope you aren't one.
Doing something because it feels good is not the same as doing something because it IS good. If you like the autocratic style, feel free to move to any of the many autocratic countries in the world, and leave us with the democracy we prefer.
I dunno, he's pretty much leveled the liberal mass media machine at this point. You need balls and the others to accomplish that task. How does a party end up with a bunch of third tier politicians running for President and so many third tier politicians in the legislative branch? Hint: As liberals were wasting time impeaching for nothing. Trump was out campaigning and drawing large crowds. I don't know if you really want to bring in lack of judgement and brains to with discussion a poster who has been telling you that liberals are suffering from a serious lack off them (balls, judgement and brains) for MANY years. Trump doesn't represent the autocratic style (one size fits all) that liberals obviously prefer these days. How long have you and every other fool been telling me how its going to be once the liberals have control? That's authoritarian buddy. Right now, you are basically under American libertarian rule which grants you all kinds of freedoms whether you think we need them, value or appreciate them yourselves or not. It's so funny that you and the other fools don't seem to realize that's what the so-called liberal side represent these days. Of coarse, you may not be able to see, believe or accept that most Americans are actually smarter and wiser than most liberals these days.
I don't see how the Dems could have ignored Trump's clearly illegal behavior and not impeached. What's a bit shocking is the GOP Senate basically giving him a green light to do anything he wants. You do realize that no one holds that office longer than 8 years anymore, and payback is almost a given. Here's the question: will you be outraged when the Dems run roughshod over your idea of America?
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Democrats had no choice other than to impeach the President for attempting to blackmail the President of Ukraine. Ordinarily national security gives the edge to Republicans, but Trump threw that away for a partisan advantage. All but one Senate Republican excused the President. This happens when a Party excuses anything that the Leader does. The single-Party Reichstag did that for Hitler, and the single-Party Supreme Soviet did that for Stalin.
Democrats had to impeach the President then even if such was inconvenient and ineffective.
Quote:You (Classic X'er) need brush up on what it means to be an autocrat. Autocrats rule by fiat, democrats rule by law. Trump is obviously an autocrat wannabe, and given the free-reign he has with the Senate covering his bets, he's getting bolder by the day. There is nothing more typical of an autocrat than the clear end-run he's used to take total and unsupervised control of the $2Trillion relief fund. He didn't fire the DoD Inspector General because he didn't like him. He just wanted him out of the way. Next: he'll refuse to release the details of the disbursements prior to the election, as the law requires. Of course, he already ignores subpoenas and other laws already on the books … because he's an autocrat!
If he could get away with it he would allocate it all to facilitating his re-election campaign if not enriching himself and his political cronies.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.