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I can’t afford this Trump economy

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Fosto said:
How many Republicans are standing up to Trump? They're mostly awful, evil people. Democrats are more of a mixed bag.
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Yeah, I agree with that. I was never loyal to a political party until Trump ran for President. I will never support any Republicans who enabled Trump.

But just like we can do space missions, have a military, and provide food for the hungry, we can look at issues in our federal government that both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for while still understanding that Trump poses a special unprecedented threat to our nation.
 
The only way to make a viable 3rd party (or more) is to foundationally change away from our current representation system. The Senate as it is set up is incompatible with 3rd parties and always will be.

While I'm all for abolition of the Senate (I support a unicameral body elected by proportional representation), there's no current path to that at all and would likely require a civil war or similar level of upheaval to even get on the table as a potential option.

Talk about 3rd parties currently is just blowing air.
 
The Thriller said:
I don’t disagree that money has a malignant influence on our politics.

However, money in other liberal democracies exists. And yet they don’t have major political parties with 35 percent of the population and a cottage industry of propaganda hell bent on destroying the liberal democracy of those countries. I think both you and sardines are weirdly downplaying the threat that Trump and the GOP play on American and world politics. The root cause of Trump isn’t money in politics, but a large part of the population that has become disenchanted with democracy and modernity.
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Money doesn't exist to anywhere near the same extent in other liberal democracies. US politicians' main job, and what consumes most of their time, is campaigning and fund raising. It never stops, until they retire into a cushy lobbyist job given to them by their financiers.
 
The Thriller said:
Onto the ignore list you go and it’s because of these types of unserious trolling posts. No different from PJF. Not sure what happened to you? Either you’re consuming weird media or your spat with me has broken your brain.

Democrats? Imperfect but fairly normal political party.
Republicans? Authoritarian party actively working to establish a fascist regime in America and align itself with fellow authoritarian broligarchs and fascists around the world.

Yes, the GOP led by Trump is the #1 problem in America today, not the Democrats.

I suggest you read what our European and Asian friends see today. Denmark, Germany, Japan, etc. read what some of their leaders and news agencies are saying. America is seen as a threat. That’s because of the GOP, guys. Not sure why you’re downplaying the fascist movement in America that threatens global stability.
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Haha sardines perfectly summarizes your moronic cult politics and you block and feel like you must expound yet you say the exact same thing again. Blue good red bad! You are Retarded!
 
How are we supposed to eliminate the federal income tax if Donald is always messing with the tariffs? I thought tariffs were supposed to replace income taxes, right?

How are we supposed to bring back factory jobs so Americans can work amazing jobs screwing together iPhones for pennies if Donald is constantly raising and lowering tariffs every few months? Doesn’t this just send a message to companies that he can’t be relied on and all they have to do is wait until he folds?

MAGA, Trump is betraying you. He claimed to be for the working class but he folds at every turn. If he really cared about the working class, why did he mess with tariffs in the first place?

Everyone else, how has your life benefitted economically in the last 5 months? Are you better off now than a year ago?

 
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A Garish, Outlandish, Stunningly Corrupt Act

Trump wants Qatar to gift him a shiny new Air Force One because he thinks the Emoluments Clause is for suckers.
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Beware Princes Bearing Gifts​

by William Kristol

I’m old enough to remember when this was a republic. A proud republic. We were proud to be different from the principalities and powers of the old world. We were confident of our superiority to the hereditary aristocracies and monarchies that had dominated political life everywhere on the globe, and that still did in many places.

In those older and simpler days we spoke of and even believed in republican virtue. And so we nodded along to passages like this, from Federalist No. 39:

The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican. It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.
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We old republicans tended to take this “honorable determination” for granted. We also took for granted some of the provisions of the Constitution that followed from this principle. They seemed a little old-fashioned and quaint, but still meaningful—such as Article I, Section 9, Clause 8.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
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How naïve we were back then.

Now, the president of the United States is boasting of receiving as a gift a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane from the Qatari royal family. The plane will be upgraded to serve not as the Air Force One but as his Air Force One, since it will only be available for use by the government of the United States during his time in office. It will then revert to him—well, nominally to his presidential library, but it will of course be totally at his disposal—after he leaves office.

This sure seems like a “present” or “emolument” to a person holding “an office of trust” from “a King, Prince, or foreign state.”

But not to worry. Attorney General Pam Bondi—once a registered lobbyist for Qatar, as it happens—has concluded that the transaction is permissible under U.S. law and the Constitution.

How nice that the Trump administration still pretends to maintain some façade of respect for the Constitution even as it flouts it.

But Trump can’t really conceal his contempt for the old republican ways. Last night, he posted this on social media:

So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!!
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This is the voice of old-world autocracy. Those who take seriously the constraints and requirements of republican government are fools. Those who care that our republican government not be dependent on foreign states, that our elected leaders not take favors from foreign princes, they are losers.

Leave aside all the questions about Qatar’s ties with Iran and Hamas. Leave aside that Qatar, on the other hand, has been designated a major non-NATO ally, and that Qatar hosts the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East.

This isn’t about Qatar. It’s about us.
 
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