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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Biden will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
He'll be the first Latino to hold this position. An NBC correspondant said, "Mayorkas has been the front runner for DHS mainly because, sources say, the incoming administration wants someone with immigration experience (rather than legal, cyber, intel, management, etc) due to the large amount of work to be done in untangling Trump’s immigration legacy."
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” ― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
This summarizes the past 20 or so years.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.And the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate (aka Climate Czar) will be John Kerry.
Trump’s ideology, as much as he has one, is nowhere near coherent enough to be called Nazism or Fascism. You can call him a Nazi or a Facist if you like, but you’re just devaluing those words when you do.
This is true about Nazism but Fascism as a whole has never been intellectually coherent, this argument doesn't work for the latter.
Trump's irrationalism and intellectual weakness is very much in common with self-described fascist leaders of the past.
Depends on how these Georgia runoffs work out.
Indeed, though it's also true that there is quite a bit Biden can do with E Os. So even with a Republican Senate Biden could get to work repairing damages.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Nov 23rd 2020 at 10:14:39 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangI am not convinced that the QA'ers will decide to stay home for the Georgia runoffs, at least not in sufficient numbers to sway them. That's a hopeful narrative that gets spun by Democrats and that continues to disappoint election after election.
If we don't get those two Senate seats, we are in for another mess of gridlock. Heck, it'll be bad enough without 50 Democrats signing up for abolishing the filibuster.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Biden must not just undo everything Gartrump did these past 4 years, he must also undo everything the Republicans have been doing since the 1970s. He and the Democrats must make sure that there will be no legacy left of the Republican Party well in the future.
"Wow, no Mega Togekiss in Legends Z-A. Or any non-Froslass new Sinnoh Mega Evolutions. Round of applause, everybody." - DawnMost common definitions of fascism identify this direct, deliberate targeting of different racial, religious, or political groups as an element of fascism: Franco and Pinochet had Communists, Hitler had Jews, The BNP has the Muslims - for the explicit purpose of removal if not extermination.
The why others are differentiated and the plans for them are important. Trump does not single out Mexico and China because of a deliberate plan to exterminate them. He does it because they are convenient. Likewise, he will very deliberately compromise with them if it benefits him which is why he does that whiplash of calling blacks thugs in one moment and then saying he's probably the least racist person since Abraham Lincoln.
He does this because he is an abject imbecile. But he still slightly compromises. I am calling working alongside black people compromise - yes, this is a low bar, but Trump has set a World Record in placing bars as low as they can. In comparison, a fascist brooks no compromise if their objective is the political extermination of a group.
Now, if you want to argue that this deliberate targeting may have also been incidental for fascism and in itself is not such strongly correlated a "checklist" of fascism, then that's a whole other discussion. But operating under the most common definition of fascism, this is still an element I would use to defend my argument that Trump himself is not Fascist, and neither are the majority of his followers.
I just call him an idiot
Edited by Aszur on Nov 23rd 2020 at 12:18:35 PM
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes![]()
It's a bit optimistic to think that much can be accomplished in only four years, don't you think?
Unintentionally, there's Yungoos and Gumshoos, whom are actually based on detectives.

My opinion is that Trump is a Nazi and it says the same thing that Wolfenstein: The New Colossus and Captain America: The Winter Soldier were willing to say aloud. "There is a Nazi-esque undercurrent to American racism and political thought."
Probably best to move this to Political Thread.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Nov 23rd 2020 at 9:38:03 AM
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