Donald Trump is my hero

[Simon of the Playa]

On Saturday, in Durham, New Hampshire, Trump echoed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s attacks on immigrants, saying they are “poisoning the blood of our country”—although two of his three wives were immigrants...

https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... er-17-2023

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[lucky420]

I’m gonna need some Vick’s vapor rub for this thread

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yer gonna need more than that to cut through the fog of bullshit that is already appearing...

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[lucky420]

* rummaging through garage for fishing waders

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Domestically, the new ideology of MAGA means forcing the majority to live under the rules of a small minority; internationally, it means support for a global authoritarian movement. MAGA Republicans’ current refusal to fund Ukraine’s war against Russian aggression until the administration agrees to draconian immigration laws—which they are also refusing to participate in crafting—is not only a gift to Putin. It also suggests to any foreign government that U.S. foreign policy is changeable so long as a foreign government succeeds in influencing U.S. lawmakers. Under this system, American global leadership will no longer be viable.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco ... er-29-2023

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https://www.datalounge.com/thread/26107 ... oel-casler

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“The implications of the defendant’s broad immunity theory are sobering. In his view, a court should treat a President’s criminal conduct as immune from prosecution as long as it takes the form of correspondence with a state official about a matter in which there is a federal interest, a meeting with a member of the Executive Branch, or a statement on a matter of public concern,” the filing reads.

“That approach would grant immunity from criminal prosecution to a President who accepts a bribe in exchange for directing a lucrative government contract to the payer; a President who instructs the FBI Director to plant incriminating evidence on a political enemy; a President who orders the National Guard to murder his most prominent critics; or a President who sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary, because in each of these scenarios, the President could assert that he was simply executing the laws; or communicating with the Department of Justice; or discharging his powers as Commander-in-Chief; or engaging in foreign diplomacy,” it adds.

In Saturday’s filing, Smith also rebutted Trump’s argument that criminal prosecution would amount to double jeopardy because he was acquitted by the Senate during impeachment proceedings.

“Because a former President does not have the sort of sweeping immunity the defendant advocates, the denial of his motion to dismiss should be affirmed, and this case should proceed to trial,” Smith wrote.



https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/30/politics ... index.html

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“Which part of the Civil War ‘could have been negotiated’? The slavery part? The secession part? Whether Lincoln should have preserved the Union?” Cheney wrote. “Question for members of the GOP – the party of Lincoln – who have endorsed Donald Trump: How can you possibly defend this?”


https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/politics ... index.html


“It was, I don’t know, it was just different,” Trump said of the war. “I just find it – I’m so attracted to seeing it.”

[lucky420]

How anybody can defend even a shred of his stinky dependent ass is beyond me. I wish he would cease to breathe, the world would be a better place

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Booger eaters

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During arguments Tuesday, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit expressed appropriate skepticism about Donald Trump's claim of immunity from charges that he attempted to overturn the 2020 election. But what happened afterward may have been even worse for Trump than the hearing itself: The former president refused to rule out violence if the appeals court’s decision goes against him, as he appears to think it will.

“It’ll be bedlam in the country,” Trump told reporters. “It's the opening of a Pandora's box.”

To many, that sounded like encouraging lawlessness.

https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-trumps-a ... 43422.html

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Trump told EU leaders the US will not support NATO if members are attacked

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald- ... ry-breton/

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In the 2010s and 2020s, several observers and commentators argued that, while the organization's influence peaked in the 1970s, Bircherism and its legacy of conspiracy theories began making a resurgence in the mid-2010s,[21] and had become the dominant strain in the conservative movement.[22] In particular, they argued that the JBS and its beliefs shaped the Republican Party,[23][24] the Trump administration, and the broader conservative movement.[25][26][27]

The John Birch Society from its start opposed collectivism as a "cancer" and by extension communism and big government.[28][29] Allegations that what the JBS terms "Insiders" have conspired to control the United States through communism and world government are a recurring theme of its publications.[30] The organization and its founder, Robert W. Welch Jr., promoted Americanism as "the philosophical antithesis of Communism."[31] It contended that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, and argued that states' rights should supersede those of the federal government.[32] Welch infused constitutionalist and classical liberal principles, in addition to his conspiracy theories, into the JBS's ideology and rhetoric.[33] In 1983, Congressman Larry McDonald, then the society's newly appointed chairman, characterized the JBS as belonging to the Old Right rather than the New Right.[34]

The society opposes "one world government", the United Nations (UN),[35] the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and other free trade agreements. It argues the U.S. Constitution has been devalued in favor of political and economic globalization. It has cited the existence of the former Security and Prosperity Partnership as evidence of a push towards a North American Union.[36][37] The JBS has sought immigration reduction.[citation needed]

The JBS opposed the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.[16][38][39] It has campaigned for state nullification.[40][41] It opposes efforts to call an Article V convention to amend the U.S. Constitution,[42][43] and it has been influential at promoting opposition to it among Republican legislators.[44] The JBS also supports auditing and eventually dismantling the Federal Reserve System.[45] The JBS holds that the United States Constitution gives only Congress the ability to coin money, and does not permit it to delegate this power, or to transform the dollar into a fiat currency not backed by gold or silver.[non-primary source needed]

Its publication The New American has described what it sees as American moral decline and threats to the family, including abortion, birth control, divorce, drugs, homosexuality, crime, violence, secular humanism, teenage pregnancy, teen suicide, environmentalism, feminism and pornography.[46] The JBS has alleged that moral degeneracy is perpetrated by a conspiracy to make the United States vulnerable to internationalism.[47]




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

[Simon of the Playa]

"Reckon for a moment with what it is Trump is actually endorsing here: a literal prescription for strongman-style dictatorship. A thugocracy. The Great Leader and his goons may commit some crimes here and there, but let that slide for the greater good. We don’t need to get into slippery-slope analogies to illustrate how rapidly this would deteriorate into fascism were it ever put into practice; the original contention alone is offensively antithetical to the ideas of both the rule of law and equality under it. But then Trump thinks of himself less as a potential president than as a king, and always has. Consider this when you contemplate what four more years of him might look like".


https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/t ... appalling/

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evidently, he saved us from nuclear war...

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history is a mandelbrot equation.

reiteration after reiteration...

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Jordan Libowitz, communications director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said that, assuming the court filing is accurate, Trump would appear to have intentionally and repeatedly broken the law.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-do ... ax-evasion

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“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay, and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’” Trump said, recalling an implausible conversation with an unnamed, presumably European head of state. “‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’” Trump recounted responding. “‘No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills.’”

The former president’s message was clear: If NATO members do not pay up, then he will leave them to the mercy of a continental aggressor who has already plunged one European country into death, destruction and devastation.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/opin ... aging.html