2024 Presidential Election ~ 4
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2John5918
If we the Black voters ‘get loud’, neither the Tories nor Donald Trump will survive (Guardian)
By Al Sharpton
By Al Sharpton
On both sides of the Atlantic, populists are peddling racism. I’m here in the UK to urge Black communities to see it for what it is... Donald Trump’s racist mentality has long been an open secret. In the 1970s, a federal lawsuit was brought against him for alleged racial discrimination on one of his housing developments in New York. He led the campaign calling for the death penalty against the Central Park Five, who were accused of a brutal rape but later vindicated. Even after that exoneration, he continued to suggest they were guilty. So are Black Americans flocking to support Trump? Reports are mixed. Trump himself would tell you he has a unique affinity with the Black community, but personally, I don’t buy it. Polling in 2020 estimated Trump would take 20% of the black vote. The real number was closer to 8%. After all, let’s remember what he says about us. Just this weekend, he said that Black Americans identified with him because he had faced criminal charges and we embraced his criminal mugshot. That was outright racist and insulting. For him to say that during Black History Month in the US is the epitome of an insult. And the irony is that he is the one being prosecuted – and by Black professionals at that. The New York state attorney general, Letitia James, brought the financially ruinous civil financial fraud case against Trump. Fani Willis, Fulton county district attorney, was responsible for challenging Trump’s alleged election interference in Georgia. I spend a lot of time speaking with Black voters. I host a US radio show six days a week – and from what I hear, I’m not alone in thinking that claims that he has growing support among our community are grossly exaggerated. But I do think it is fair to say that Black citizens are asking questions of the Democrats. Joe Biden has simply not done a good enough job on messaging. He needs to be more aggressive in speaking to Black voters – laying out his record... Biden should not assume people know what they haven’t been reminded of. US liberals must understand that if you take the high road and are not making noise about it, no one knows that you’re taking any road. They have to be more vocal, they have to challenge more, and not run away from the issue of race...
3margd
Eric Holder {frmr AG} @EricHolder | 11:22 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
There is no cavalry coming. No miracle solution. No saviors.
In the end, we, the American people - not any of our institutions - have to save our democracy by voting in defense of that democracy this fall.
We are the cavalry. The responsibility is ours.
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The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow | 7h • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
🚨By deciding to entertain Donald Trump’s appeal {immunity} and shelving the arguments till April, the U.S. Supreme Court has blatantly thrown its lot in with political maneuvering to favor Trump. The {DC} appellate court’s logic, unassailable, is now overshadowed by the Supreme Court’s apparent disregard for justice.
This Supreme Court has unabashedly revealed its priorities: not the law, not justice, but securing politically convenient outcomes.
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The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow | 8:28 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
This does not necessarily mean that Trump will win. In fact, the electoral landscape appears unfavorable for him as the GOP is divided into two factions: MAGA and non-MAGA.
However, U.S. institutions tasked with protecting the Constitution are either not acting swiftly enough or seem complicit in allowing Trump to potentially evade justice permanently.
The Supreme Court, increasingly perceived as a political entity since 2000, is compromising its own legitimacy by seemingly going out of its way to align with Trump's political interests.
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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw | 8:49 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
Exactly right. This is inexcusable, from how long it took SCOTUS to decide to hear the case, to giving the parties so long before the argument in late April. But the initial problem was how slow AG Garland was out of the gate.
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Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney · 7h
Delaying the January 6 trial suppresses critical evidence that Americans deserve to hear. Donald Trump attempted to overturn an election and seize power. Our justice system must be able to bring him to trial before the next election. SCOTUS should decide this case promptly.
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Bill Hamilton Supports Democracy @BHamilton001 | 6:48 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
The Supremes fast tracked the Colorado case to keep him on the ballot. They now wait three times as long to hear a case that could hurt him politically.
Fairly obvious what they’re doing.
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Frank Figliuzzi @FrankFigliuzzi1 | 8:10 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
FBI Assistant Director (ret); NBC News National Security Analyst http://nbcnews.com @nbcnews @msnbc
“…Does a former president enjoy presidential immunity…for conduct alleged to involve official acts”. No, that’s not the issue Supreme Court. The issue is whether he has immunity for CRIMINAL acts. Of course he has immunity for official acts. They’ve told us how they’re leaning.
Text, Certiorari granted ( https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1763008788401963146 )
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Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360 | 8:44 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
Harvard Law School professor & constitutional scholar TribeLaw
joins Anderson to discuss the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the former President's immunity claim.
5:50 ( https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1763017250443849915 )
There is no cavalry coming. No miracle solution. No saviors.
In the end, we, the American people - not any of our institutions - have to save our democracy by voting in defense of that democracy this fall.
We are the cavalry. The responsibility is ours.
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The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow | 7h • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
🚨By deciding to entertain Donald Trump’s appeal {immunity} and shelving the arguments till April, the U.S. Supreme Court has blatantly thrown its lot in with political maneuvering to favor Trump. The {DC} appellate court’s logic, unassailable, is now overshadowed by the Supreme Court’s apparent disregard for justice.
This Supreme Court has unabashedly revealed its priorities: not the law, not justice, but securing politically convenient outcomes.
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The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow | 8:28 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
This does not necessarily mean that Trump will win. In fact, the electoral landscape appears unfavorable for him as the GOP is divided into two factions: MAGA and non-MAGA.
However, U.S. institutions tasked with protecting the Constitution are either not acting swiftly enough or seem complicit in allowing Trump to potentially evade justice permanently.
The Supreme Court, increasingly perceived as a political entity since 2000, is compromising its own legitimacy by seemingly going out of its way to align with Trump's political interests.
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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw | 8:49 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
Exactly right. This is inexcusable, from how long it took SCOTUS to decide to hear the case, to giving the parties so long before the argument in late April. But the initial problem was how slow AG Garland was out of the gate.
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Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney · 7h
Delaying the January 6 trial suppresses critical evidence that Americans deserve to hear. Donald Trump attempted to overturn an election and seize power. Our justice system must be able to bring him to trial before the next election. SCOTUS should decide this case promptly.
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Bill Hamilton Supports Democracy @BHamilton001 | 6:48 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
The Supremes fast tracked the Colorado case to keep him on the ballot. They now wait three times as long to hear a case that could hurt him politically.
Fairly obvious what they’re doing.
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Frank Figliuzzi @FrankFigliuzzi1 | 8:10 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
FBI Assistant Director (ret); NBC News National Security Analyst http://nbcnews.com @nbcnews @msnbc
“…Does a former president enjoy presidential immunity…for conduct alleged to involve official acts”. No, that’s not the issue Supreme Court. The issue is whether he has immunity for CRIMINAL acts. Of course he has immunity for official acts. They’ve told us how they’re leaning.
Text, Certiorari granted ( https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1763008788401963146 )
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Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360 | 8:44 PM · Feb 28, 2024:
Harvard Law School professor & constitutional scholar TribeLaw
joins Anderson to discuss the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the former President's immunity claim.
5:50 ( https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1763017250443849915 )
4margd
>3 margd: which means the first (and only?) trial to inform American voters before the Nov 2024 election is
Trump’s first criminal trial set for March in N.Y. on hush money charges
Shayna Jacobs and Devlin Barrett | February 15, 2024
At a hearing in Manhattan, Donald Trump’s defense lawyers argued that the case will interfere with his presidential campaign...
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he will go forward with the trial on charges that Trump falsified business records during the heat of the 2016 political campaign to keep secret a past sexual liaison with an adult-film star. The judge said he expects the trial to take about six weeks.
...In 2016, with the presidential election looming, Cohen paid adult-film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump years earlier. Bragg has accused Trump of reimbursing Cohen for that hush money with payments described as legal fees, when in fact they were a campaign expense meant to keep Trump’s presidential bid untarnished by tawdry allegations of a tryst.
Cohen is expected to testify for the prosecution. But he pleaded guilty in federal court to financial crimes and false statements, and lawyers generally view his credibility as a weakness in the case.
Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, a felony in New York when the purpose of the fraud is to “commit another crime or to aid or conceal” an illegal act. In announcing the charges, Bragg said the goal of Trump’s scheme was to cover up violations of the law including New York and federal campaign finance rules. Bragg also said the $130,000 payment exceeded the federal campaign contribution cap...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/15/trump-new-york-hush-money-tri...
Trump’s first criminal trial set for March in N.Y. on hush money charges
Shayna Jacobs and Devlin Barrett | February 15, 2024
At a hearing in Manhattan, Donald Trump’s defense lawyers argued that the case will interfere with his presidential campaign...
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said he will go forward with the trial on charges that Trump falsified business records during the heat of the 2016 political campaign to keep secret a past sexual liaison with an adult-film star. The judge said he expects the trial to take about six weeks.
...In 2016, with the presidential election looming, Cohen paid adult-film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump years earlier. Bragg has accused Trump of reimbursing Cohen for that hush money with payments described as legal fees, when in fact they were a campaign expense meant to keep Trump’s presidential bid untarnished by tawdry allegations of a tryst.
Cohen is expected to testify for the prosecution. But he pleaded guilty in federal court to financial crimes and false statements, and lawyers generally view his credibility as a weakness in the case.
Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, a felony in New York when the purpose of the fraud is to “commit another crime or to aid or conceal” an illegal act. In announcing the charges, Bragg said the goal of Trump’s scheme was to cover up violations of the law including New York and federal campaign finance rules. Bragg also said the $130,000 payment exceeded the federal campaign contribution cap...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/15/trump-new-york-hush-money-tri...
5John5918
‘I don’t know’: Nikki Haley unsure Trump would follow constitution (Guardian)
Asked if she thought Donald Trump would follow the US constitution if he is elected for a second term as president, Nikki Haley said: “I don’t know”... Trump’s campaign rhetoric has been characteristically dark, including a wish to be a “dictator” on day one in office and promises to take “ultimate and absolute revenge” on his enemies. He has mused about “vindication” and about “terminating” the constitution. Haley said: “You know, when you … go and you talk about revenge – when you go and you talk about, you know, vindication {and} when you go and you talk about – what does that mean? Like, I don’t know what that means, and only he can answer for that. What I can answer for is, I don’t think there should ever be a president that’s above the law. I don’t think that there should ever be a president that has total immunity to do whatever they want to do”...
6margd
The Man Who Now Controls the U.S. Border
David Frum | March 1, 2024
Mexico’s president gets to determine whether an immigration crisis dominates headlines in a U.S. election year.
...In the effort to contain unauthorized migration to the U.S., Mexico is an on-again, off-again partner. Sometimes it helps more; sometimes less...
...The United States flashes the message “You can probably stay if you get here” and then quietly looks to its southern neighbor to magnify the dangers of that tempting if.
...Delegating the job of border enforcement to Mexico also creates opportunities for Mexican leaders to influence U.S. politics...month-by-month tally of unauthorized crossings into the U.S...spiked in the second half of {2023--midterms}, exceeding 250,000...An American president up for reelection might look at that slideshow from his Mexican counterpart and see not merely an analysis but a threat about the trouble that the counterpart could stir or soothe. The migrant traffic has slowed in the first weeks of 2024.
...The border deal that failed to pass the U.S. Senate earlier this month was intended to reassert American control over entry into the U.S. Rejection of the deal shifts power over the border, back into López Obrador’s eager hands...Mexico faces an election of its own in June...López Obrador has proclaimed again and again his preference for Donald Trump over Joe Biden...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/how-trumps-veto-on-border-secu...
David Frum | March 1, 2024
Mexico’s president gets to determine whether an immigration crisis dominates headlines in a U.S. election year.
...In the effort to contain unauthorized migration to the U.S., Mexico is an on-again, off-again partner. Sometimes it helps more; sometimes less...
...The United States flashes the message “You can probably stay if you get here” and then quietly looks to its southern neighbor to magnify the dangers of that tempting if.
...Delegating the job of border enforcement to Mexico also creates opportunities for Mexican leaders to influence U.S. politics...month-by-month tally of unauthorized crossings into the U.S...spiked in the second half of {2023--midterms}, exceeding 250,000...An American president up for reelection might look at that slideshow from his Mexican counterpart and see not merely an analysis but a threat about the trouble that the counterpart could stir or soothe. The migrant traffic has slowed in the first weeks of 2024.
...The border deal that failed to pass the U.S. Senate earlier this month was intended to reassert American control over entry into the U.S. Rejection of the deal shifts power over the border, back into López Obrador’s eager hands...Mexico faces an election of its own in June...López Obrador has proclaimed again and again his preference for Donald Trump over Joe Biden...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/how-trumps-veto-on-border-secu...
7John5918
Joe Biden’s disapproval rating reaches new high, according to new poll (Guardian)
The president has a 47% disapproval rating, but it’s a mixed bag when accounting for ‘double haters’ – those who dislike Trump too...
8margd
Breaking: Nikki Haley says she's no longer bound by the RNC pledge to endorse Trump if he wins the Republican nomination.
"The RNC is not the same RNC," she says, telling @MeetThePress, "now it's Trump's" RNC.
- Kyle Griffin {MSNBC} | @kylegriffin19:20 AM · Mar 3, 2024
"The RNC is not the same RNC," she says, telling @MeetThePress, "now it's Trump's" RNC.
- Kyle Griffin {MSNBC} | @kylegriffin19:20 AM · Mar 3, 2024
9margd
Breaking: Supreme Court rules former President Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado, a decision with nationwide implications that could put to rest, for now, the debate over whether the 14th Amendment bars him from office because of his role in January 6.
- Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto | 10:11 AM · Mar 4, 2024
CNN Anchor & Chief Nat Sec Analyst
- Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto | 10:11 AM · Mar 4, 2024
CNN Anchor & Chief Nat Sec Analyst
11davidgn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdUSDqPJrw
In the Supreme Court ruling on whether former President Donald Trump can be removed from the ballot in Colorado, or in any other state, four justices write concurring opinions, stating that they agree with the court’s ruling, but disagree with how far the ruling goes. Lawrence Tribe joins Katy Tur to discuss the details and explain what these disagreements mean. “When the court decides more than it needs to decide to resolve a case, then it is acting not like a court, but basically like a super legislature. That's what the court did in this case,” Tribe tells Katy. “It left basically unenforced, and for all practical purposes unenforceable, the Constitution's main protection for democracy when it is threatened by a would-be dictator who tries to overthrow the Constitution, stay in power beyond the end of his term, doesn't quite succeed, and then tries again.”
Greetings from Latin American, BTW. I've decided it's a good time to start working on my Spanish.
In the Supreme Court ruling on whether former President Donald Trump can be removed from the ballot in Colorado, or in any other state, four justices write concurring opinions, stating that they agree with the court’s ruling, but disagree with how far the ruling goes. Lawrence Tribe joins Katy Tur to discuss the details and explain what these disagreements mean. “When the court decides more than it needs to decide to resolve a case, then it is acting not like a court, but basically like a super legislature. That's what the court did in this case,” Tribe tells Katy. “It left basically unenforced, and for all practical purposes unenforceable, the Constitution's main protection for democracy when it is threatened by a would-be dictator who tries to overthrow the Constitution, stay in power beyond the end of his term, doesn't quite succeed, and then tries again.”
Greetings from Latin American, BTW. I've decided it's a good time to start working on my Spanish.
12Molly3028
Trump has managed to turn a Rush Limbaugh radio schtick into a 21st century phenomenon with the introduction of a red hat and the MAGA tag line. Trump is this century's Marlboro Man. The tobacco barons and Madison Avenue types from yesteryear would be very proud of their 21st Century counterpart.
13kiparsky
Does anyone remember when Barrett said “my goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks”?
I guess that didn't really work for her, so she's trying something new...
I guess that didn't really work for her, so she's trying something new...
14Molly3028
https://www.nj.com/news/2024/03/liz-cheney-announces-her-latest-effort-to-keep-t...
Liz Cheney announces her latest plan to keep Trump out of White House
On Wednesday, after Trump’s GOP rival, Nikki Haley, withdrew from the Republican presidential primary, Cheney announced her latest effort: a Political Action Committee aimed at helping President Biden get re-elected.
The PAC is named “The Great Task,” after a speech given by Abraham Lincoln.
https://greattask.com/
Liz Cheney announces her latest plan to keep Trump out of White House
On Wednesday, after Trump’s GOP rival, Nikki Haley, withdrew from the Republican presidential primary, Cheney announced her latest effort: a Political Action Committee aimed at helping President Biden get re-elected.
The PAC is named “The Great Task,” after a speech given by Abraham Lincoln.
https://greattask.com/
16John5918
Put yourself in the shoes of a Donald Trump voter – and understand what drives his success (Guardian)
Within Trump’s wild exaggerations are grains of truth. Liberals have never dealt with them – and that’s why he might win again... Donald Trump is certain to be the Republican candidate in this year’s election for US president. He is also currently favourite to win. To most readers of the Guardian, I am sure this prospect is appalling, as it is to most Britons. The nation to which they gave birth and language, that has been their friend and protector down the ages, seems to be going mad. Britons who know the US are amazed that, however reluctantly, enough of its voters might again choose Trump to rule over them after the experience of 2017 to 2021. Who are these Americans? How can they be so blind to his faults, with the law hounding him, gossip ridiculing him and commentators pouring scorn and derision on his every word? The answer is that the Americans who support Trump are not those whom most Britons know. They are elderly and rural: they are often, but by no means solely, working class and/or non-graduates. But, above all, they love Trump because they, too, are hostile to the Americans that he purports to hate. These hated Americans – the language of Trump’s rallies is visceral – mostly live in big cities down the east and west coasts. They favour federal government, identity politics, social liberalism and free trade. They are led by a college-educated, liberal establishment. Of course, these are generalisations – but that is what Trump trades in...
17Molly3028
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68517606
Trump ally Michael Whatley and daughter-in-law Lara Trump take over at RNC
In his new hand-picked recruits, Mr Trump has found both an ally committed to backing his election fraud claims and a family member apparently devoted to supporting him with party funds.
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Trump, Trump Jr., Eric and their women have got to be the happiest and luckiest grifting family the USA has ever seen, bar none!
Trump ally Michael Whatley and daughter-in-law Lara Trump take over at RNC
In his new hand-picked recruits, Mr Trump has found both an ally committed to backing his election fraud claims and a family member apparently devoted to supporting him with party funds.
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Trump, Trump Jr., Eric and their women have got to be the happiest and luckiest grifting family the USA has ever seen, bar none!
18Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/im-very-young-energetic-and-handsome-biden-jok...
‘I’m Very Young Energetic and Handsome!’ Biden Jokes About Age Concerns In New Post-SOTU Ad
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The funny part comes after the actual Biden for President ad.
‘I’m Very Young Energetic and Handsome!’ Biden Jokes About Age Concerns In New Post-SOTU Ad
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The funny part comes after the actual Biden for President ad.
19Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/what-the-fck-are-we-doing-jon-stewart-goes-off-on-go...
‘What the F*ck Are We Doing?!’ Jon Stewart Goes OFF on GOP’s ‘Patriotism’ Amid Trump’s Unconstitutional Threats
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUl77rsFEw
(To see the whole segment)
Trumpism is a 2020’s virus for which there is no vaccine.
‘What the F*ck Are We Doing?!’ Jon Stewart Goes OFF on GOP’s ‘Patriotism’ Amid Trump’s Unconstitutional Threats
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUl77rsFEw
(To see the whole segment)
Trumpism is a 2020’s virus for which there is no vaccine.
20Molly3028
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-not-endorsing-donald-trump-1879863
Mike Pence Not Endorsing Donald Trump
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Has the Earth left its axis?
Mike Pence Not Endorsing Donald Trump
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Has the Earth left its axis?
21Molly3028
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-bloodbath-biden-november-00147453
Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November
“Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. That’s going to be the least of it,” Trump said during a rally near Dayton, Ohio. “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
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During his rallies, he appears to be intermittingly imbedding J6-type marching orders to his MAGA cult followers. Pence made the right decision, but he failed to use the most demonstrable reason for that decision.
Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November
“Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. That’s going to be the least of it,” Trump said during a rally near Dayton, Ohio. “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
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During his rallies, he appears to be intermittingly imbedding J6-type marching orders to his MAGA cult followers. Pence made the right decision, but he failed to use the most demonstrable reason for that decision.
23Molly3028
Trump purposefully muddled the context of his "bloodbath" statement in order to send his cult voters a keep-the-faith message and to give clueless GOP reps the ability to assert that the statement was nothing to get upset about.
24Molly3028
The "bloodbath" episode and what it illustrates about the Trump era ~
Trump's enablers see each situation as a puzzle piece which does not fit together with any other puzzle pieces. Trump's detractors, on the other hand, see a puzzle piece which fits together with other puzzle pieces and reveals a very scary scenario going forward.
Trump's enablers see each situation as a puzzle piece which does not fit together with any other puzzle pieces. Trump's detractors, on the other hand, see a puzzle piece which fits together with other puzzle pieces and reveals a very scary scenario going forward.
25margd
How many groups can Rs tick off before the 2024 election?
Women, Jews, elderly, sick, poor, help me here: __________.
Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett | 10:03 AM · Mar 21, 2024:
Former Sr Fellow @CFR_org {Council on Foreign Relations}. Recipient of Pulitzer Prize, Polk (2Xs) and Peabody Awards.
ICYMI the House #Republicans finally released a U.S. budget, countering the #BidenAdministration proposal. The GOP budget:
- cuts $1.5 trillion from Social Security
- raises Medicare costs & cuts caps on pharma fees
- cuts Medicaid, ACA/Obamacare & the Children’s Health Insurance Prog by $4.5 trillion over 10 years
- creates $5.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich and corporations
- eliminates all clean energy tax incentives
- raises Social Security Retirement age to 69.
And now, #Biden reaction to #Republican budget proposal:
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1770841167476777081/photo/1
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/21/statemen...
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DebJM @DebJM45
Also, caps SS payouts, removes the spousal benefit and childrens death benefit, repeals preexisting condition coverage...and more. This will affect current retirees & seniors will forgo treatment. @AARPpolicy
@AARP you had best be writing articles and getting on TV about this.
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Budget Proposal Shows GOP 'Is the Party of Cutting Social Security and Medicare'
Jessica Corbett | Mar 20, 2024
"Trump has tried to walk back his support for Social Security and Medicare cuts," said the head of Social Security Works. "This budget is one of many reasons why no one should believe him."...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-cuts
_____________________________
Fiscal Sanity to Save America
Republican Study Committee FY 2025 {starts 1 Oct 2024}
180p
https://hern.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_budget_including_letter_web_version.p...
Women, Jews, elderly, sick, poor, help me here: __________.
Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett | 10:03 AM · Mar 21, 2024:
Former Sr Fellow @CFR_org {Council on Foreign Relations}. Recipient of Pulitzer Prize, Polk (2Xs) and Peabody Awards.
ICYMI the House #Republicans finally released a U.S. budget, countering the #BidenAdministration proposal. The GOP budget:
- cuts $1.5 trillion from Social Security
- raises Medicare costs & cuts caps on pharma fees
- cuts Medicaid, ACA/Obamacare & the Children’s Health Insurance Prog by $4.5 trillion over 10 years
- creates $5.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich and corporations
- eliminates all clean energy tax incentives
- raises Social Security Retirement age to 69.
And now, #Biden reaction to #Republican budget proposal:
https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1770841167476777081/photo/1
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/21/statemen...
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DebJM @DebJM45
Also, caps SS payouts, removes the spousal benefit and childrens death benefit, repeals preexisting condition coverage...and more. This will affect current retirees & seniors will forgo treatment. @AARPpolicy
@AARP you had best be writing articles and getting on TV about this.
_____________________________
Budget Proposal Shows GOP 'Is the Party of Cutting Social Security and Medicare'
Jessica Corbett | Mar 20, 2024
"Trump has tried to walk back his support for Social Security and Medicare cuts," said the head of Social Security Works. "This budget is one of many reasons why no one should believe him."...
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-cuts
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Fiscal Sanity to Save America
Republican Study Committee FY 2025 {starts 1 Oct 2024}
180p
https://hern.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_budget_including_letter_web_version.p...
26margd
There will be few funds left for down-ballot R candidates...
Trump’s invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC
MICHELLE L. PRICE
Updated 8:42 PM EDT, March 21, 2024
...Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation...likely that Republican donors could see their money go to Trump’s lawyers, who have received at least $76 million over the last two years to defend him against four felony indictments and multiple civil cases. Some Republicans are already troubled that Trump’s takeover of the RNC could shortchange the cash-strapped party...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-fundraising-rnc-c0e8f1e7b59f70c5237e13...
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However,
“...Trump leads many national and swing state polls, a sign that his attempts to spin his flurry of legal duress as persecution are working among many Republican voters...{Moreover, his}frenzied search for money...suggests troubling conflicts of interest if he turns to private donors — or overseas sources — to find the money in an 11th-hour dash for cash. ”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/trump-bond-deadline/index.html
Trump’s invite to major donors prioritizes the committee paying his legal bills over the RNC
MICHELLE L. PRICE
Updated 8:42 PM EDT, March 21, 2024
...Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation...likely that Republican donors could see their money go to Trump’s lawyers, who have received at least $76 million over the last two years to defend him against four felony indictments and multiple civil cases. Some Republicans are already troubled that Trump’s takeover of the RNC could shortchange the cash-strapped party...
https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-fundraising-rnc-c0e8f1e7b59f70c5237e13...
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However,
“...Trump leads many national and swing state polls, a sign that his attempts to spin his flurry of legal duress as persecution are working among many Republican voters...{Moreover, his}frenzied search for money...suggests troubling conflicts of interest if he turns to private donors — or overseas sources — to find the money in an 11th-hour dash for cash. ”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/trump-bond-deadline/index.html
27JGL53
> 26
In my opinion this is all good news for Democrat candidates, not just Biden.
Recent polls mainly show an upward trend for Biden, coming from so-called independents or previously undecided.
But what do polls really tell us in March? Let's see where the polls are in August. I might could get excited about them them. Now? - not hardly at all.
In my opinion this is all good news for Democrat candidates, not just Biden.
Recent polls mainly show an upward trend for Biden, coming from so-called independents or previously undecided.
But what do polls really tell us in March? Let's see where the polls are in August. I might could get excited about them them. Now? - not hardly at all.
28John5918
‘It’ll be bedlam’: how Trump is creating conditions for a post-election eruption (Guardian)
As the ex-president fans the flames of violence, experts and insiders say November will be a brutal test for US democracy... A bloodbath. The end of democracy. Riots in the streets. Bedlam in the country. Donald Trump has made apocalyptic imagery a defining feature of his presidential election campaign, warning supporters that if he does not win – and avoid criminal prosecution – the US will enter its death throes. The prophecies of doom, repeated ad nauseam at rallies and on social media, have raised fears that the former president is making an electoral tinderbox that could explode in November. While there has been much commentary assessing the implications of a Trump win, some experts warn that a Trump defeat could provide an equally severe stress test of American democracy. “Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses, there’s going to be violence”... “If Donald Trump loses, he’s not going to concede and he’s going to inspire people to commit acts of violence, just like he did in the weeks and months leading up to January 6, 2021. If he wins, I also believe that there’s going to be violence committed by his supporters, targeting people who previously tried to hold him to account, whether it was members of the press, average citizens like myself, Department of Justice officials, state and federal prosecutors. I believe him when he says that he will have his vengeance.” Trump has long sought to sow distrust in the electoral system while using rhetoric outside the boundaries of modern political discourse, dehumanising opponents and immigrants and portraying the US as a nation on the verge of collapse...
29John5918
Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed (Guardian)
Donald Trump’s speeches on the 2024 campaign trail so far have been focused on a laundry list of complaints, largely personal, and an increasingly menacing tone. He’s on the campaign trail less these days than he was in previous cycles – and less than you’d expect from a guy with dedicated superfans who brags about the size of his crowds every chance he gets. But when he has held rallies, he speaks in dark, dehumanizing terms about migrants, promising to vanquish people crossing the border. He rails about the legal battles he faces and how they’re a sign he’s winning, actually. He tells lies and invents fictions. He calls his opponent a threat to democracy and claims this election could be the last one. Trump’s tone, as many have noted, is decidedly more vengeful this time around, as he seeks to reclaim the White House after a bruising loss that he insists was a steal. This alone is a cause for concern, foreshadowing what the Trump presidency redux could look like. But he’s also, quite frequently, rambling and incoherent, running off on tangents that would grab headlines for their oddness should any other candidate say them...
30margd
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Molly Ploofkins™ @Mollyploofkins | 6:39 AM · Apr 8, 2024:
Retired Army Medic | Registered Nurse | Pro-Democracy News/Politics/
Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head blocking out the sun, plunging the US into darkness...
1:25 ( https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1777285027740414056 )
Molly Ploofkins™ @Mollyploofkins | 6:39 AM · Apr 8, 2024:
Retired Army Medic | Registered Nurse | Pro-Democracy News/Politics/
Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head blocking out the sun, plunging the US into darkness...
1:25 ( https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1777285027740414056 )
31Molly3028
>30 margd:
Trump posted the video
AND
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/jim-jordans-committee-posts-image-from-weird-trum...
Jim Jordan’s Committee Posts Image from Weird Trump Video Showing Ex-President Blocking Out the Sun
The image was taken from a campaign video Trump posted on his Truth Social account, apparently inferring that his MAGA presence is “eclipsing” political dissenters and Never Trumpers.
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And the perps involved profess that MAGA is not a cult.
Trump posted the video
AND
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/jim-jordans-committee-posts-image-from-weird-trum...
Jim Jordan’s Committee Posts Image from Weird Trump Video Showing Ex-President Blocking Out the Sun
The image was taken from a campaign video Trump posted on his Truth Social account, apparently inferring that his MAGA presence is “eclipsing” political dissenters and Never Trumpers.
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And the perps involved profess that MAGA is not a cult.
32Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-insists-truth-social-shows-love-of-our-coun...
Trump Insists Truth Social Shows ‘Love of our Country’ and Asks Fans to ‘Support’ It as Stock Price — and His Net Worth — Plummets
Trump Insists Truth Social Shows ‘Love of our Country’ and Asks Fans to ‘Support’ It as Stock Price — and His Net Worth — Plummets
33John5918
For all his bombast, Trump is plummeting – financially, legally and politically (Guardian)
He’s losing cash reserves and legal gambits, and his eponymous stock – DJT – took an embarrassing tumble this week...
34margd
Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews | 6:35 PM · Mar 29, 2023:
Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia, member of @TheEmmys. I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV propagandists predict that Russia will destroy Ukraine, while Trump destroys America. One expert claimed that Slavic history spans 7.5 thousand years and compared to Russia, the 250-year-old America is just a toddler.
3:52 Russian w English subtitles ( https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1641207594491555846 ) ( )
Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia, member of @TheEmmys. I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV propagandists predict that Russia will destroy Ukraine, while Trump destroys America. One expert claimed that Slavic history spans 7.5 thousand years and compared to Russia, the 250-year-old America is just a toddler.
3:52 Russian w English subtitles ( https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1641207594491555846 ) ( )
35John5918
Biden closes gap on Trump but third-party candidates pose danger, polls show (Guardian)
Multiple new polls show Joe Biden strengthening slightly in the US presidential election, but suggest third-party candidates could present a risk to his chance of carrying the White House in November. According to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Saturday, Biden has whittled down the four-point lead Donald Trump held in February, with Trump leading Biden 46% to 45% among registered voters... Asked a follow-up question that added the independent candidates Robert F Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer and vaccine sceptic, the Harvard professor Cornel West, and the Green party figure Jill Stein, Biden took the greater hit to his support, leveling with Trump at 38%. With Kennedy at 11%, West at 2%, and Stein at 1%, Jones calculated that Kennedy’s presence siphoned off five points of Biden’s support to Trump’s two...
36lriley
>35 John5918: A couple things 1) the polls several months before an election here quite often are going to be more negative to the current office holder than how things will turn out on Election Day at least as far as vote counts 2) because of the undemocratic electoral college for a democrat to win they're going to need more than just 50%. Because of the EC the real key to winning a presidential election is in the 6 or 7 battleground states....the rest are already pretty much in the bank for one party or the other 3) as for third party candidates I don't think there's going to be much chance that all of Kennedy, West or Stein are going to be on the ballot of very many states. You might get one or two but not them all....also there is likely to be a libertarian choice for pretty much every state and that character is going to draw more votes away from the republican than the democrat. Convenient for The NY Times 'liberal' shills to ignore that. Of all third party votes it's almost always the libertarian candidate who gets the most votes and it's usually substantially more than any other third party candidate. The two major parties though in state after state use election law to make it very hard for alternative candidates to get on the ballot. Well the Republicans never claimed to be very democratic.
37margd
David Frum: "When they teach {about this election} 100 years from now, they won't be talking about abortion and grocery prices... What's on the ballot is the constitution itself, and that really should not be up for debate."
https://on.msnbc.com/43Z7usP
1:43 ( https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1780362510291390649 )
- Morning Joe @Morning_Joe | 6:27 PM · Apr 16, 2024
https://on.msnbc.com/43Z7usP
1:43 ( https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1780362510291390649 )
- Morning Joe @Morning_Joe | 6:27 PM · Apr 16, 2024
38margd
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
by Anne Applebaum
Expected publication July 2024
by Anne Applebaum
Expected publication July 2024
39margd
Project 2025, plan to completely dismantle the American administrative state should Trump win:
Kevin Roberts, president of {Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 leader}, has baselessly claimed that men & women currently serving in the US government are communists & that disgraced anti-communist crusader Senator Joe McCarthy—infamous for making unsubstantiated accusations—was “spot on.”
0:38 ( https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1780749355089305864 )
...The excerpt is from the very end of Telegraph 15 Dec 2023 interview:
Biden will lose. Time to destroy the deep state | Kevin Roberts {President of the Heritage Foundation} interview (51:43)
The Telegraph | 15 Dec 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWST_E8z1eA
- jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1 | 8:07 PM · Apr 17, 2024. I write about elections & Christian Nationalism
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11th Hour @11thHour | 12:12 AM · Apr 18, 2024:
The official Twitter account for The 11th Hour With @SRuhle
on @MSNBC. Watch weeknights at 11PM ET. #11thHour
"This is a plan to transform America into an autocracy."
Donald Trump's allies have already put out their playbook for what he could do with a second term. @ruthbenghiat* and @AhmedBaba_** join @SRuhle to pull back the curtain on Project 2025.
7:22 (https://twitter.com/11thHour/status/1780811563667992760)
* Authoritarians, fascism, propaganda, democracy/ruthbenghiat.com/Prof. History, NYU/Consultant 🎥/Book: Strongmen
** Journalist. Tech Entrepreneur. Nonprofit Consultant. Columns Independent. Co-Founder @ranttmedia. Cited in NYT, WaPo, CBS, etc.
- jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1 | 8:05 PM · Apr 17, 2024. I write about elections & Christian Nationalism 4 @buckscobeacon ; Spoutible = @jennycohn; Mastodon = jennycohn@toad.social
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1780749952282718566
Kevin Roberts, president of {Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 leader}, has baselessly claimed that men & women currently serving in the US government are communists & that disgraced anti-communist crusader Senator Joe McCarthy—infamous for making unsubstantiated accusations—was “spot on.”
0:38 ( https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1780749355089305864 )
...The excerpt is from the very end of Telegraph 15 Dec 2023 interview:
Biden will lose. Time to destroy the deep state | Kevin Roberts {President of the Heritage Foundation} interview (51:43)
The Telegraph | 15 Dec 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWST_E8z1eA
- jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1 | 8:07 PM · Apr 17, 2024. I write about elections & Christian Nationalism
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11th Hour @11thHour | 12:12 AM · Apr 18, 2024:
The official Twitter account for The 11th Hour With @SRuhle
on @MSNBC. Watch weeknights at 11PM ET. #11thHour
"This is a plan to transform America into an autocracy."
Donald Trump's allies have already put out their playbook for what he could do with a second term. @ruthbenghiat* and @AhmedBaba_** join @SRuhle to pull back the curtain on Project 2025.
7:22 (https://twitter.com/11thHour/status/1780811563667992760)
* Authoritarians, fascism, propaganda, democracy/ruthbenghiat.com/Prof. History, NYU/Consultant 🎥/Book: Strongmen
** Journalist. Tech Entrepreneur. Nonprofit Consultant. Columns Independent. Co-Founder @ranttmedia. Cited in NYT, WaPo, CBS, etc.
- jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1 | 8:05 PM · Apr 17, 2024. I write about elections & Christian Nationalism 4 @buckscobeacon ; Spoutible = @jennycohn; Mastodon = jennycohn@toad.social
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1780749952282718566
40Molly3028
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/im-not-happy-with-the-choice-bill-barr-explains-why-...
‘I’m Not Happy With The Choice’: Bill Barr Explains Why He’s Regretfully Supporting Trump Over Biden
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Liar, liar pants on fire!
Bill has returned to his pre-1/6 Trump enabling mode. The fact that he explained his 2024 prez voting preference on the news network that had to pay out $800m because of its lying-to-the-public business model is a perfect example of what a clueless dick he is and will always be. Lacking a moral compass appears to be a trait all Trump enablers have in common.
‘I’m Not Happy With The Choice’: Bill Barr Explains Why He’s Regretfully Supporting Trump Over Biden
***
Liar, liar pants on fire!
Bill has returned to his pre-1/6 Trump enabling mode. The fact that he explained his 2024 prez voting preference on the news network that had to pay out $800m because of its lying-to-the-public business model is a perfect example of what a clueless dick he is and will always be. Lacking a moral compass appears to be a trait all Trump enablers have in common.
41Molly3028
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13334169/Trump-Sheriff-conference-Las-V...
Inside the bizarre Las Vegas conference where Trump-loving sheriffs, felons and conspiracy theorists vowed to form militias to patrol polling places and seize voting machines to stop Biden
Inside the bizarre Las Vegas conference where Trump-loving sheriffs, felons and conspiracy theorists vowed to form militias to patrol polling places and seize voting machines to stop Biden
42John5918
Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake? (Guardian)
Just because we find a political leader ludicrous, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous... a chapter called The Beerhall Agitator, about the absurd-looking little rabble-rouser’s activities during the early 1920s. As a kid I always wondered how they could all have been taken in by such an apparently ludicrous man. The awful truth, of course, was that enough people thought him ludicrous for this ludicrous man to be calamitously underestimated. It invariably feels lame, swivel-eyed or just plain wrong to compare any modern politician to Hitler, but this line, written by Hitler himself of his beerhall agitator years, makes my blood run cold most days these days. There’s more than one failed, incumbent or potential leader who regularly brings it to mind. “It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us … whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again …”
43margd
How Far Trump Would Go
ERIC CORTELLESSA 30 April 2024
...I wanted to know what Trump would do if he wins a second term, to hear his vision for the nation, in his own words.
What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen...
https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/
ERIC CORTELLESSA 30 April 2024
...I wanted to know what Trump would do if he wins a second term, to hear his vision for the nation, in his own words.
What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen...
https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/
44John5918
Trump explains his militaristic plan to deport 15-20 million people (CNN)
It is rare to get major presidential candidates – on either side of the political aisle – outside the confines of prepared remarks, stump speeches and friendly audiences, so it’s worth paying attention when they actually take detailed questions... He did not commit to the full “Project 2025” effort his supporters envision to gut the perceived “deep state” by reclassifying a much larger portion of the federal government as political appointees... Trump insisted he would leave the issue of abortion rights up to states... And some of his more outlandish comments, he said, were just jokes. He said to put his repeated pledge to declare himself “dictator for a day” into this category. “That was said sarcastically. That was meant as a joke,” he said... The topic on which Trump had the most concrete details is his plan to deport many millions of undocumented immigrants. Trump repeated false claims that many migrants are former prisoners or have been institutionalized in their home countries. CNN has reported there is no data to support the idea that a rise in immigrants drives a rise in crime. Most measures of violent crime in the US have actually been falling... Trump told Time he would target between 15 million and 20 million people who he said are undocumented in the US... Rather than work with Democrats, Trump wants to militarize the issue, but he would start by using local police forces and focusing on any migrants with a criminal record. Trump was asked if his effort would include the military. “It would,” Trump said, adding, “when we talk military, generally speaking, I talk National Guard.” He added that he would “have no problem using the military, per se,” although he thinks the National Guard would suffice. He does not think that laws meant to prevent the use of the military against civilians inside the US without congressional approval would apply to his effort. “These aren’t civilians,” Trump said of migrants. “These are people that aren’t legally in our country. This is an invasion of our country.” He also repeated the conspiracy theory, for which there is no evidence, that “fighting age” males from China are somehow embedding themselves in the US. “You have to do what you have to do to stop crime and to stop what’s taking place at the border,” he said...
45lriley
>44 John5918: FWIW both major political parties right now are working together on a project to suppress both protest and speech. For the greater part the courts and law enforcement are more than happy to crack down and sometimes with great force. Their intention to shut down what they don't want to hear or see and it's quite obvious that they don't need public support for this project when they're working in tandem. I don't see a great deal of difference between the two parties on this. Both are at the beck and call of their wealthiest donors as well as a foreign govt. The voting public matter less than these other entities. The police will always do what their masters want. Nationwide they're like high school football jocks use to being the big shots on campus. As far as the current political situation what I would say is neither the democratic or republican parties give a fuck about what the American population think or want. Well they hardly ever have shown it in concrete ways anyway. At best when they do respond to real needs it's half measures. If Donald does get back to power I think he'll be capable of quite a lot---and the courts and law enforcement would love to have the green light to do whatever. When it comes to justice or the limelight they'll choose the limelight every time. Would Donald go so far as to eliminate or imprison political opponents? I could see it but right now at this time we're seeing the Biden administration and congress in lockstep in this project to suppress dissent. It seems almost that we're headed to the same place anyway no matter who wins in November.
