That is a brilliant idea, to get rid of the cops. The crime rate will climb immediately, so people will have to protect themselves. Chicago already has so many gang shootings that it is more dangerous than the roaring twenties or the old west. Every time the cops screw up (There’re a lot of them. There will be a lot of screwups.) the people get upset and take to the streets. As soon as that happens, the crooks out there have a dandy excuse to hit the stores, and they will. With a lot of people, there are a lot of crooks. When the cities and states have completely lost control, the Feds will send in more cops without ID’s. Hitler and Mussolini had very low crime rates. Do you want their tactics used here? Keep the legal system under control, but don’t get stupid. We need our local cops.
DOD funds meant to improve housing and schools for military personnel and their families and equipment upgrades for National Guard and Reserve units diverted to build “The Wall”.
FEMA funds diverted to extend unemployment benefits which the lowest wage earners won’t qualify for because they receive less than $100 in other unemployment benefits.
National Parks funds diverted to pay for Trump’s July 4th celebration.
FDNY’s 9/11 healthcare program funds diverted for other unexplained uses.
What is it that they say about robbing Peter to pay Paul?
One of Donald Trump’s more remarkable qualities is his ability to convince people to give him credit for things he hasn’t done.
He has, for example, convinced many Americans that he is an effective businessman, despite his massive inherited wealth and legacy of failure; an effective dealmaker, who makes very few successful deals; and an economic populist, whose main legislative accomplishment is a tax cut more regressive than any passed by the patrician Bush family he savaged in the 2016 primary.
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Two decades after the 9/11 attacks, America’s global war on terrorism has led to one failed conflict after another, eroded civil liberties and due process, and poisoned American politics with a browbeating jingoism and corrosive religious intolerance.
Having a president who saw those effects clearly would be a boon to the country. Donald Trump is not that president.
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As with his business acumen, his skill as a negotiator, and his image as an economic populist, Trump says one thing and does another.
There are always people willing to believe that Trump’s image of himself is accurate, despite all evidence to the contrary—and to praise the president for articulating principles verbally even as he makes a mockery of them with his actions.
To uncritically accept Trump’s self-serving attacks on military contractors is to attribute to him qualities he does not possess and a record he has not earned.
The president’s criticism of military contractors is belied by his commitment to fattening their pockets.
Trump famously scrapped the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal and assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike.
Since then, the administration has told the government of Iraq that it will not honor any request for American forces to leave the country. As The New York Times reported in late 2019, despite his vows to conclude “endless wars,” Trump hasn’t ended any.
I never want to hear President Trump whine about phony accounts of voter fraud again.
On Wednesday, he suggested North Carolina voters should test their vote-by-mail system, thereby committing what amounts to voter fraud.
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I never want to hear Republicans complain about the debt again.
The Post reports, “For the first time since World War II, the U.S. government’s debt will roughly equal the size of the entire American economy by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.”
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I never want to hear Republicans claim the “law and order” mantle again.
They have supported a president who glorifies violent White militias.
They sneer at lawful subpoenas, the emoluments clause and the Hatch Act.
No administration since Richard Nixon’s has had more presidential associates and staffers indicted (and convicted).
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No Senate Republican gets to complain about the qualities of a Democrat’s nominees after Trump nominated nine judges rated “unqualified” by the American Bar Association and put a flock of inexperienced and unqualified people in executive posts (e.g., Rex Tillerson, Matthew Whitaker, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Kathy Kraninger, Richard Grenell).
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Republicans have also lost the credibility to complain about executive overreach after they countenanced Trump’s efforts to snatch funds from the military to pay for the border wall, to deploy unmarked federal troops to states without consent of governors and to assert “absolute immunity” from subpoenas.
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Of course, just because Trump urged illegal conduct, encouraged voter fraud, ran up mammoth debt, associated with criminals, put incompetent cronies in top jobs, trashed the separations of powers and bilked the taxpayers does not mean Democrats should do the same.
No. nonononono… No revisionist narratives here. “Violence in the name of Trump — Dozens of supporters of Donald Trump have carried out or threatened acts of violence.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/aug/28/in-the-name-of-trump-supporters-attacks-database
In THE ORANGE TOXIC WASTELAND, America will only be great when it is a province of Russia with the ORANGE WASTELAND as its lifetime director with clan inheritance guaranteed.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 4 years ago
We weren’t that great to begin with. The pandemic has brought a lot of weaknesses to the surface.
kaffekup about 4 years ago
One of these teams is not what it appears to be.
The dumpsterfire is appropriate, however.
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
We will be Great Again: When Those People learn the consequences of violations, they will learn to know Their Place.
That is what Making America Great Again means.
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Trump’s Treason is just a bonus. Also, 200,000 American deaths.
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 4 years ago
That is a brilliant idea, to get rid of the cops. The crime rate will climb immediately, so people will have to protect themselves. Chicago already has so many gang shootings that it is more dangerous than the roaring twenties or the old west. Every time the cops screw up (There’re a lot of them. There will be a lot of screwups.) the people get upset and take to the streets. As soon as that happens, the crooks out there have a dandy excuse to hit the stores, and they will. With a lot of people, there are a lot of crooks. When the cities and states have completely lost control, the Feds will send in more cops without ID’s. Hitler and Mussolini had very low crime rates. Do you want their tactics used here? Keep the legal system under control, but don’t get stupid. We need our local cops.
Sanspareil about 4 years ago
They must be great again!
Mike Pence said with 4 more years of “tRump” they will make America great again again!
nosirrom about 4 years ago
DOD funds meant to improve housing and schools for military personnel and their families and equipment upgrades for National Guard and Reserve units diverted to build “The Wall”.
FEMA funds diverted to extend unemployment benefits which the lowest wage earners won’t qualify for because they receive less than $100 in other unemployment benefits.
National Parks funds diverted to pay for Trump’s July 4th celebration.
FDNY’s 9/11 healthcare program funds diverted for other unexplained uses.
What is it that they say about robbing Peter to pay Paul?
Silly Season about 4 years ago
One of Donald Trump’s more remarkable qualities is his ability to convince people to give him credit for things he hasn’t done.
He has, for example, convinced many Americans that he is an effective businessman, despite his massive inherited wealth and legacy of failure; an effective dealmaker, who makes very few successful deals; and an economic populist, whose main legislative accomplishment is a tax cut more regressive than any passed by the patrician Bush family he savaged in the 2016 primary.
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Two decades after the 9/11 attacks, America’s global war on terrorism has led to one failed conflict after another, eroded civil liberties and due process, and poisoned American politics with a browbeating jingoism and corrosive religious intolerance.
Having a president who saw those effects clearly would be a boon to the country. Donald Trump is not that president.
✁
As with his business acumen, his skill as a negotiator, and his image as an economic populist, Trump says one thing and does another.
There are always people willing to believe that Trump’s image of himself is accurate, despite all evidence to the contrary—and to praise the president for articulating principles verbally even as he makes a mockery of them with his actions.
To uncritically accept Trump’s self-serving attacks on military contractors is to attribute to him qualities he does not possess and a record he has not earned.
The president’s criticism of military contractors is belied by his commitment to fattening their pockets.
Trump famously scrapped the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal and assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike.
Since then, the administration has told the government of Iraq that it will not honor any request for American forces to leave the country. As The New York Times reported in late 2019, despite his vows to conclude “endless wars,” Trump hasn’t ended any.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/donald-no-dove/616264/
RobinHood about 4 years ago
Yeah, I feel so sad, from all this useless hatin’
I’m sittin’ here, just contemplatin’,
Everyone twists the truth, it knows no regulation,
Handful of Senators won’t pass legislation,
And marches alone doesn’t have justice waitin’
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’,
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
Ah, you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction.
Apoligies to P. F. Sloan
rossevrymn about 4 years ago
Lack of research diligence and discernment skills, stantisfernuthin’.
Silly Season about 4 years ago
I never want to hear President Trump whine about phony accounts of voter fraud again.
On Wednesday, he suggested North Carolina voters should test their vote-by-mail system, thereby committing what amounts to voter fraud.
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I never want to hear Republicans complain about the debt again.
The Post reports, “For the first time since World War II, the U.S. government’s debt will roughly equal the size of the entire American economy by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.”
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I never want to hear Republicans claim the “law and order” mantle again.They have supported a president who glorifies violent White militias.
They sneer at lawful subpoenas, the emoluments clause and the Hatch Act.
No administration since Richard Nixon’s has had more presidential associates and staffers indicted (and convicted).
✁
No Senate Republican gets to complain about the qualities of a Democrat’s nominees after Trump nominated nine judges rated “unqualified” by the American Bar Association and put a flock of inexperienced and unqualified people in executive posts (e.g., Rex Tillerson, Matthew Whitaker, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Kathy Kraninger, Richard Grenell).
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Republicans have also lost the credibility to complain about executive overreach after they countenanced Trump’s efforts to snatch funds from the military to pay for the border wall, to deploy unmarked federal troops to states without consent of governors and to assert “absolute immunity” from subpoenas.
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Of course, just because Trump urged illegal conduct, encouraged voter fraud, ran up mammoth debt, associated with criminals, put incompetent cronies in top jobs, trashed the separations of powers and bilked the taxpayers does not mean Democrats should do the same.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/03/republicans-never-get-complain-about-these-things-again/
William Robbins Premium Member about 4 years ago
No. nonononono… No revisionist narratives here. “Violence in the name of Trump — Dozens of supporters of Donald Trump have carried out or threatened acts of violence.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/aug/28/in-the-name-of-trump-supporters-attacks-database
MaryBethJavorek1 about 4 years ago
Stanis, you are just as wishy washy as the tumpster you claim to dislike. $#!t or get off the pot and stop whining about it!
Kip W about 4 years ago
Who doesn’t love the smell of burning false equivalence in the morning? Smells like… surrender.
streetbeater about 4 years ago
Carmen, the fact that you have to ask gives you the answer.
kentmarx36 about 4 years ago
In THE ORANGE TOXIC WASTELAND, America will only be great when it is a province of Russia with the ORANGE WASTELAND as its lifetime director with clan inheritance guaranteed.
randolini Premium Member about 4 years ago
We haven’t been great since Reagan cut the taxes on the rich from 70% to 40%. it’s been down hill from there. Clinton’s NAFTA just sped things up.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
The bad guys on “both” sides only not. They are both right wing and white supremacists and working for the same cause.