MnSpring wrote on 04/30/25 at 06:39:34:


the white house has a tempoary dictator resident

47 is doing his darndest to BE a "real" dictator. No due process? Against the Constitution. Unidentified police? Against the Constitution. The "President" making money from his position? Against the Constitution. Arresting people  (judges) for doing their job? Against the Constitution. Dictatorship came to me (US!). And MAGA put him there.

I never said that I want to make the US into China, but we could use some of the Chinese intolerance for causing embarrassment. Musk, 47, and most of the Republican leadership, would've been in the ground by now. Oh, yes. Billionaires can PURCHASE citizenship in any country they want. They have no patriotism, no loyalty to ANY country. That's why you don't put them in office.

I don't watch  TV news--- not Fox, not MSNBC, not CBS, none. If it's not certified as unbiased by the IFJ, I never watch it. That means I get most of my news from unbiased foreign sources, since the US news CORPORATIONS are all biased. My first degree was Journalism/English Lit, followed by ones in EE, Computer electronics, and Electronic Voice & Data Communications. 10 years later, I went back to school and got a BSN, then a Masters in Chinese Medicine. I was licensed as a Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico--- THE hardest state to get a DOM license, since you have to pass all the Family Nurse Practitioner requirements as well as the national Chinese Medicine certification. (In case you're somewhere in the state with no other healthcare provider. ) Can I be fooled? Sure, but I can usually see through BS. I don't really blame 47 for this nuts show--- I blame the Republicans who still back the moron. (47's IQ was 73 in the 1980s. Verified by the US Army.) HE's a convicted felon. He's just trying to stay out of jail. Republicans are the real enemy.

At the risk of sounding trite, morals are the result of personal honor. Personal honor is a rare thing. Mostly, people in general seem to think honor comes from the laws. That's nonsense. Laws are there for people without a sense of honor of their own. External rules like laws tend to make those people look for loopholes, or ways around the laws. For instance, like it or not, everyone should pay taxes, on a sliding scale--- the more you make, the bigger the percentage of your income you should pay in taxes. That's a fair application, and could be written as a law on less than 1 page of 8 x 11" paper. It was, originally. Over the years, corporations and people rich enough to buy politicians (The legal bribery of public officials in the US is called "lobbying".) have engineered so many loopholes and tax evasion strategies that the tax laws are over 50,000 pages. No normal citizen wrote any of that. If this government is of, by, and for the people, all the laws should be in a form that normal, non-legal people can at least understand it when they read it. Now it's so complicated you can break the tax laws without even knowing it. If Musk had gone into the IRS and tossed out all the addendums to the tax laws, it would have been a good move; instead he 86'd the people actually responsible for collecting the money! DOGE has done the same for every agency it has "audited". On top of that, Musk was personally appointed by 47, without approval from Congress, which automatically makes the appointment illegitimate. Even if he were legit, he'd only have the power of the executive that appointed him. In other words, MUSK cannot override Congress or the SC, any more than 47. Not legally, anyway.  And the Republicans LET 47 get away with it. That's my biggest problem: the Republicans are just evil, and the Dems are cowards, or they are the same party, just like the Chinese have always said.  Yes, DC needed change, but not into 1939 Germany. 47 has done nothing but HURT the average US citizen since his first term.

The framework is there. The US Constitution, if followed, specifically delineates the specific duties of the three branches of government. The US is a representative democratic republic. The Republicans try to disavow the "democratic" part; at least they do not think everyone should be allowed to vote. Unfortunately, their criteria are racial or religious bias. The Republicans have degenerated to the lowest form of voter--- ones who vote BECAUSE someone told them to vote that way. They tend to view elections simplistically, usually only on one issue that they imagine to be important. Anti-abortion people are simply voicing their religious ideations--- there is zero science backing them up, but they'll vote for the anti-abortion candidate, no questions asked. Same with gun control: I do own a couple of guns, but I know that there are people that shouldn't be let anywhere near a firearm. It's not the Holy Grail issue the gun nuts imagine it to be. Likewise the imaginary border issue. Before Reagan started arresting the "illegals" themselves, they arrested the EMPLOYERS, and there was no big issue with migrant workers.

Anyway, the mechanism to stop the crazy assed WH occupant is in place. The Republicans are showing that they are no more brave than the Democrats. 47 and his whole entourage are traitors. They are actively working to negate the Constitution, violating the laws, and the Republicans refuse to reign him in. They still think they actually won something...

Needles wrote on 05/01/25 at 06:13:47:



You make Thumper and our fair and balanced moderator, actually look….fair and balanced.

All you’ve done is list delusional talking points, extrapolated to ridiculous partisan ends. Take voting for example. You think Republicans are restricting certain people from voting? What parameters are you suggesting? Age 14? 16? An illegal alien who snuck across the border should be allowed to vote? Should you have to present some type of verification that you’re a valid US citizen before you go to vote? It only takes a few questions to arrive at the obvious conclusion that not everyone in the country should be allowed to vote. So now we’re debating parameters and isn’t that the whole point? To discuss and arrive at a procedure we may not all agree with, but we’re gonna live with.

Zero science involved in the abortion debate? And everyone who is pro-choice does so because of a specific denominational religious affiliation? Again, that’s obviously not true.

Living in our version of a free, capitalistic society is hard. It’s far from perfect and there are plenty of situations where it doesn’t seem fair, that the rich guys get their way. And let’s face it, often times they do. And obviously, both parties are populated with selfish, narcissistic individuals, who only pretend to care about those that they’ve been elected to represent. That’s not unique to one side or the other. My opinion is the conservative, Republican Party, aligns with policies, that I agree with more often than the Democratic Party. That’s a valid point of view open to debate.

But your eyes are not open, it’s the opposite, they’re squeezed tight with only a tiny slit opened to let a very limited wavelength of light through.

You stated your opinions on the motives behind the policy positions of this Republican administration, you did not state facts.