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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Sorry, I meant “snap” as in “becoming completely unable to do anything, period.” But yeah, wishful thinking on my part.
My musician pageHere are some other highlights from the press talks: When Trump said "Jewish People who vote Democrat are disloyal", he meant to Israel and the Jewish Race
. So that is absolutely out and out Antisemitic, even though Trump shouted that it's only Antisemetism "in your head".
Trump is also "very seriously" considering ending Birthright Citizenship
, which would be unconstitutional.
@Robrecht But that can be said of virtually any ideology. To use your own mad lib analogy, Marxism would fill in Working Class, The Bourgeois, and Revolution in that order.
Objectivism and Fascism agree on a Social Darwinism of sorts, but beyond that they're pretty different (to the point of being nearly opposites in many ways).
Fascism is all about tribalism. The appeal of the ideology is being able to subsume your individuality, be part of a larger whole, and know who your enemy is. It's the mentality of over-enthusiastic team sports fans that the fascist is trying to tap into (indeed, Hitler did analyze team sports for inspiration).
Objectivism is basically the opposite. It's a hipsterish philosophy based on nonconformism, and never doing anything for anyone. At most, you could say it's fascism, except everyone's their own fuhrer, though that kind of defeats the whole point of fascism.
Now, to be fair, I'm not overly fond of Objectivism, though I do think it has a worse reputation than it deserves. I consider the ideology naive and idealistic. The world's far too cruel to have "live and let live" be a workable ethos for a functioning society.
Leviticus 19:34He'll even try to remove the constitution iself,which is also unconstitutional
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And the really sad thing is there are enough people drowning in the Jim Jones brand Almond-scented Flavorade to celebrate Trump as just that.
Almost as irksome is the knowledge that, if Trump is cracking under the stress, the Republicans still won't remove him if they can help it.
Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 21st 2019 at 5:53:35 AM
The military wouldn’t do it, if nothing else the command structure wouldn’t enable it, you’d maybe get one guy trying to leave base to do a murder rampage and they’d get stopped.
ICE agents, especially if Trump offered instant pardons...
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI wonder if he'll try to apply it retroactively. If he did, that would apply to his own father since his father benefited from birthright citizenship. Trump would still be a US citizen because his mother had been naturalised by the time he was born, but she benefited from chain migration (something else he wants to get rid of).
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.No, you see he'd set up judges to determine who was worthy or not.
And these judges would judge fairly based on....well whether you were brown or not.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/08/21/day-944/
2/ The Trump administration is considering a plan to allow states and cities the ability to deny entry to refugees approved for resettlement in the United States. According to the draft order, "the federal government will resettle refugees only where both the relevant state and local governments have consented to participate" in the program. If a jurisdiction does not agree, the federal government will find another location. Trump, meanwhile, is debating whether to decrease refugee admissions starting on Oct. 1. In fiscal year 2016, the limit was 85,000 refugees; in fiscal year 2019, the number was 30,000. (NBC News)
3/ Trump accused Jewish Democrats of "show[ing] either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty," repeating an anti-Semitic trope that Jews have a "dual loyalty" and are more devoted to Israel than they are to their own countries. Trump's comments came in response to a question about Rep. Ilhan Omar's suggestion that the U.S. should reconsider how much foreign aid it pays to Israel. Trump also tweet-quoted a conservative radio host and known conspiracy theorist, who praised Trump as "the greatest President for Jews," that Israelis "love him like he is the second coming of God," and that Trump is "the King of Israel." (NBC News / New York Times / Associated Press / Washington Post / The Guardian)
https://apnews.com/1bc3065eb2e4414289ef0ac1ac4ebaf7
4/ The federal budget deficit is growing faster than expected and the Congressional Budget Office forecasts the deficit will expand by about $800 billion more than previously expected over 10 years. The U.S. was already expected to hit about $1 trillion in annual deficits next year, but the shortfall will expand by $1.9 trillion in new spending over the next decade because of a budget deal to avoid the spending cliff and an emergency spending package for the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. It would be the first time the deficit exceeded the $1 trillion mark since 2012, when the economy was recovering from the financial crisis. By 2029, the national debt will reach its highest level as a share of the economy since the end of World War II. (Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post / New York Times)
5/ Trump is no longer considering "a tax cut now," because – he claimed – "we don't need it. We have a strong economy." Yesterday, Trump confirmed that he is considering "various tax reductions," including a payroll tax cut, to stimulate a weakening American economy. Meanwhile, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney promised top GOP donors that if an election-year recession hits, it would be "moderate and short." (Wall Street Journal / Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/20/donald-trump-gop-donors-recession-1470360
6/ Trump cancelled his trip to Denmark because the Danish prime minister would not sell him Greenland and had "no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland." Trump accused Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of making "nasty" comments and that "she blew me off" and made "not a nice statement" about his interest in purchasing Greenland. Frederiksen called Trump's idea of selling Greenland "absurd." (NPR / BBC / New York Times / New York Times / NBC News / NBC News /Washington Post / Washington Post)
poll/ 65% of Americans say current economic conditions are good – down five percentage points since May. The drop is the first significant decline in public perception about the economy during Trump's presidency. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/21/politics/cnn-poll-trump-economy-guns/index.html
Objectivism and Fascism agree on a Social Darwinism of sorts, but beyond that they're pretty different (to the point of being nearly opposites in many ways).
Fascism is all about tribalism. The appeal of the ideology is being able to subsume your individuality, be part of a larger whole, and know who your enemy is. It's the mentality of over-enthusiastic team sports fans that the fascist is trying to tap into (indeed, Hitler did analyze team sports for inspiration).
Fair point. Still, the crucial difference between the 'mad lib' that both Nazism and Objectivism use and the one that, say, Marxism uses is that Marxism blames a system (Capitalism) and while it may designate certain people propping it up (the Bourgeoisie) as the enemy, they stop being the enemy once they stop supporting Capitalism (and also to most Marxist ideologies, the 'penalty' for being the enemy isn't death).
But Nazism and Objectivism both blame 'the Other'. Both of them deem the in-group to be worthy and the out-group to be parasites whose very existence diminishes that worthiness. Objectivism at it's core is really just Nazism retooled along economic, rather than ethnic lines.
And just looking at the way she treated the members of her inner circle Ayn Rand 'wasn't authoritarian' in the same way Maximilien 'Just the First Citizen' Robbespierre and Joseph 'What are you talking about, I'm just the party's secretary' Stalin 'weren't authoritarian'. Other than not having the authority of a nation-state government behind her, Rand treated the people she did have power over no different from those two (and, you know, Hitler).
Edited by Robrecht on Aug 21st 2019 at 3:49:58 PM
Angry gets shit done.Inslee has withdrawn from the presidential race.
New Yorkers are a stubborn lot, for better or worse. Remember that Trump is a (much loathed) New Yorker. As is Hillary Clinton. My aunt spent most of her young adulthood in New York too, and even decades later she still bears its influence.
Edited by M84 on Aug 21st 2019 at 10:26:10 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
x3 Problem is, if Mark Sanford also ends up running, they're going to split the Neocon vote, and for any successful challenger against Trump, they're going to need all of the votes. Then again, the odds are low that either Sanford or Walsh will beat Trump (and it's even worse for Weld; the Libertarian Branch has never had any real power in the Republican Party, just lip service and a few Reps).
There is, by the way, a really funny slant to the claim that Israelis love Trump like the Second Coming of God.
Given that the Second Coming is a Christian doctrine that has no place or meaning in Judaism and if it occurred the only response from Jews would be a confused 'What the fuck?', I'm inclined to say that's the only part of that entire claim that's accurate.
Angry gets shit done.

They can just go "OK,Mr President,sure,OK,be right on it"
which is where in an ideal world congress takes steps to remove him before he even realises what's happening,sadly we dont' live that world,what would happen is the above just without comgress
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