Elections; 2024
POSTED BY: THG
UPDATED: Friday, November 21, 2025 00:12
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Also, I don't ever remember lording my morals over you or anyone else.
Unlike you, I don't lie to myself about who I am.
Your simplistic view of the world is that of a 5 year old's.
Grow up.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President. 
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Quote:Trumptards, including Trump, are the people on America's Funniest Home Videos, but they don't get the joke, they don't see how funny their lives are. You Trumptards constantly get things backwards and upside down so that you, in your imagination, are living on top and not who you really are: bad examples, bad characters, people who wallow in depravity, habitually doing what healthy/normal people avoid.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have some serious problems dude.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards, including Trump, are the people on America's Funniest Home Videos, but they don't get the joke, they don't see how funny their lives are. You Trumptards constantly get things backwards and upside down so that you, in your imagination, are living on top and not who you really are: bad examples, bad characters, people who wallow in depravity, habitually doing what healthy/normal people avoid.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have some serious problems dude.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Do you feel as though this behavior is constructive?
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
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Quote:Trumptards, including Trump, are the people on America's Funniest Home Videos, but they don't get the joke, they don't see how funny their lives are. You Trumptards constantly get things backwards and upside down so that you, in your imagination, are living on top and not who you really are: bad examples, bad characters, people who wallow in depravity, habitually doing what healthy/normal people avoid.
Originally posted by second:
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Agreed...
T
Trump's Cabinet Picks: Loyalty Over Experience
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Looks like anyone who is unemployed is going to have to get a job. Too funny...
T
Trump gets what he deserves over tariff threat
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It took three weeks because you're a pussy and a coward, Ted, but apparently we know now that you've thrown away this potential growing moment and that you've learned nothing.
I was right about everything, and every one of your formerly never-ending tick tock threads got shut down on you overnight.
Enjoy the next 4 years. I know I will.
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Trump is fine.
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I'm not going to bother updating popular vote counts today. There might have been 50k more votes combined.
I forget if I mentioned late last night that California now shows 99%. Same for Utah. Again, I don't know exactly what that means. They could be done or they're still counting votes.
Oregon and New York still have 3%. Mississippi still has 5%. Washington D.C. looks like it's back on our list with only 98% counted too. Everything else looks to be 99% on the map.
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Trump is fine.
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Quote:The only realistic and effective way to handle habitually stupid people such as Trump or his Trumptards is to kick their ass until they never forget what is unacceptable and evil behavior. Here is some of that behavior by Trump:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you feel as though this behavior is constructive?
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.
By Molly Redden | Nov. 26, 6 a.m. EST
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-co
ngress-budget
Donald Trump is entering his second term with vows to cut a vast array of government services and a radical plan to do so. Rather than relying on his party’s control of Congress to trim the budget, Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to withhold funding from programs they dislike.
“We can simply choke off the money,” Trump said in a 2023 campaign video. “For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”
His plan, known as “impoundment,” threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president’s control over the budget. The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively. But Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds if he opposes them or deems them wasteful.
Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible. This month, he pressured the Senate to go into recess so he could appoint his cabinet without any oversight. (So far, Republicans who control the chamber have not agreed to do so.) His key advisers have spelled out plans to bring independent agencies, such as the Department of Justice, under political control.
If Trump were to assert a power to kill congressionally approved programs, it would almost certainly tee up a fight in the federal courts and Congress and, experts say, could fundamentally alter Congress’ bedrock power.
“It’s an effort to wrest the entire power of the purse away from Congress, and that is just not the constitutional design,” said Eloise Pasachoff, a Georgetown Law professor who has written about the federal budget and appropriations process. “The president doesn’t have the authority to go into the budget bit by bit and pull out the stuff he doesn’t like.”
Trump’s claim to have impoundment power contravenes a Nixon-era law that forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements as well as a string of federal court rulings that prevent presidents from refusing to spend money unless Congress grants them the flexibility.
In an op-ed published Wednesday, tech billionaire Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who are overseeing the newly created, nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency, wrote that they planned to slash federal spending and fire civil servants. Some of their efforts could offer Trump his first Supreme Court test of the post-Watergate Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which requires the president to spend the money Congress approves. The law allows exceptions, such as when the executive branch can achieve Congress’ goals by spending less, but not as a means for the president to kill programs he opposes.
Trump and his aides have been telegraphing his plans for a hostile takeover of the budgeting process for months. Trump has decried the 1974 law as “not a
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In the age of Trump, America should take a page from Machiavelli
By John Jeffries Martin, opinion contributor - 11/27/24 7:00 AM ET
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5005123-in-the-age-of-trump-ameri
ca-should-take-a-page-from-machiavelli/
Ever since Donald Trump was re-elected, I have been haunted by a passage in Machiavelli’s “The Prince.”
“Whoever becomes the master of a city accustomed to freedom, and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed himself; because, when there is a rebellion, such a city justifies itself by calling on the name of liberty and its ancient institutions, never forgotten despite the passing of time and the benefits received from the new ruler.”
Trump intuitively grasps this. Now “master of a city accustomed to freedom,” he is determined to destroy it before it destroys him.
The president-elect’s Cabinet nominations make this clear. They include individuals who will hunt down immigrants with the goal of expelling them (by the millions), others who will politicize the military and compromise U.S. intelligence, still others who will gut and weaponize the Department of Justice, and an entitled anti-vaxxer who will undercut many of the agencies that protect our health. In addition, his energy policies will exacerbate rather than mitigate the ravages of climate change.
Finally, Trump’s creation of a new office — the Department of Government Efficiency, led by two untethered billionaires — will shred scores of programs on which the American people rely.
In short, we are watching an assault on American democracy. Our republic is eroding before our eyes. And we have been complicit.
The Senate could have convicted Trump for his efforts to overturn the will of the people in the 2020 election but declined to do so. The Department of Justice could have moved far more quickly to hold him accountable for both this crime and his removal of top-secret documents from the White House when he retreated to Mar-a-Lago in 2021. The Democratic Party could have held a real primary to select a viable candidate to oppose Trump in this year’s election.
Over and over again, we have faltered. And now it is not clear we will have the ability to bring an end to Trump’s relentless attack on our republic — an attack that is happening in plain daylight.
But Machiavelli’s text offers a glimmer of hope. Machiavelli, after all, lived at a similar inflection point in history. Florence, one of the great Renaissance republics, was being transformed into a monarchy even at the moment he was writing. But Machiavelli was not crafting, as many believe, a handbook for princes. To the contrary, throughout the text, he makes it clear that he believes the people can fight to preserve their freedoms.
On this front, it is the second half of the sentence above that matters. Machiavelli was calling on Florentines to remember their freedoms. But we too, some 500 years later, are a people “accustomed to freedom” — and to preserve our freedoms we have the power of “calling upon on the nature of liberty and [our] ancient institutions.”
It is easy to recognize the liberties we are losing and will continue to lose if Trump has his way and is unchecked — as seems likely — by an obsequious Congress. It is urgent that we draw on our own memories of what the U.S., for all its flaws, has been.
We must remember that in our country, before Trump 2.0, the U.S. Senate exercised the right of “advice and consent” when it came to presidential appointments; earlier, too, the president did not enjoy blanket immunity; the office of attorney general was independent of presidential whim; women had the right to control their own bodies; immigrants could not be deported without a hearing; public health policy was determined by science; the right to vote was protected; and there was some progress (though not enough) in the pivot to renewable forms of energy.
Trump knows we have these memories. This is why, driven by his own paranoia, he is seeking to destroy our liberties. He knows that the very instit
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Trump’s win is part of a worldwide trend
Why are people all over the world angry at “the system”?
2024 was the first year in recorded history when incumbents have lost vote share in every single developed democracy that held a contest, with Vice President Kamala Harris actually performing better than all but one of her developed-world peers. Since 2020, incumbent parties in Western democracies have lost 40 out of 54 elections — meaning the odds of an incumbent defeat in the past few years have been just shy of 80 percent. Dominant incumbent parties have suffered election setbacks or even outright defeats in places as diverse as South Africa, India, and Japan. Even some of the exceptions to the “incumbents lose” rule of late bolster the point, as they tend to have some kind of anti-system credential (see the Morena party in Mexico, for example).
More at https://www.vox.com/politics/388284/trump-2024-win-global-anti-incumbe
nt-system
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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