@Noflaps said in #61:
> Oh, I hope not, most excellent kitten. Plus, "authoritarian" doesn't describe Trump. We don't see him, for example, trying to jail his political foes. Or circumventing the rule of law by attempting to go around Congress with executive orders.
I'm sorry if it comes across as rude, but what planet are you living on? Haha. The republicans tried to make as much of a stink about bidens laptop, clintons servers- etc as they possibly could too. Trump was one of the guys who popularized the whole 'birth certificate thing' for Obama. If they had any real dirt on Biden they would've ran with it to the moon. The only reason you don't see it the same as it is vs him is because none of it holds much water at all. None of it is remotely in the same ballpark.
Trump gutted the fuck out of so many government bureaus and replaced them with his yes guys - and did his best to do so with the supreme court. And circumventing congress with executive orders? He absolutely did abuse that. He signed all sorts of executive orders that rolled back environmental and public health protections. Executive orders that reorganized and slashed all sorts of positions all across the govt.
Furthermore he declared the southern border a national emergency which allows tons of circumvention of congress and unlocks funds to just go and do whatever he feels like without any legislature.
These include authorities not just to reallocate military construction funds, as Trump did for his border wall, but to take over radio stations, control domestic transportation and suspend the prohibition against government testing of chemical agents on unwitting human subjects. There are also powers that allow the president to detail members of the U.S. armed forces to other nations and to prohibit or limit the export of any agricultural commodity.
And don't even get me started on the abuse of the pardoning system.
I mean, if Trump wasn't committing all of these crimes all over the place - he wouldn't be fighting so many lawsuits - some of them are political hits to a degree, but he's flagrantly violated so many laws it's laughable at this point.
> Oh, I hope not, most excellent kitten. Plus, "authoritarian" doesn't describe Trump. We don't see him, for example, trying to jail his political foes. Or circumventing the rule of law by attempting to go around Congress with executive orders.
I'm sorry if it comes across as rude, but what planet are you living on? Haha. The republicans tried to make as much of a stink about bidens laptop, clintons servers- etc as they possibly could too. Trump was one of the guys who popularized the whole 'birth certificate thing' for Obama. If they had any real dirt on Biden they would've ran with it to the moon. The only reason you don't see it the same as it is vs him is because none of it holds much water at all. None of it is remotely in the same ballpark.
Trump gutted the fuck out of so many government bureaus and replaced them with his yes guys - and did his best to do so with the supreme court. And circumventing congress with executive orders? He absolutely did abuse that. He signed all sorts of executive orders that rolled back environmental and public health protections. Executive orders that reorganized and slashed all sorts of positions all across the govt.
Furthermore he declared the southern border a national emergency which allows tons of circumvention of congress and unlocks funds to just go and do whatever he feels like without any legislature.
These include authorities not just to reallocate military construction funds, as Trump did for his border wall, but to take over radio stations, control domestic transportation and suspend the prohibition against government testing of chemical agents on unwitting human subjects. There are also powers that allow the president to detail members of the U.S. armed forces to other nations and to prohibit or limit the export of any agricultural commodity.
And don't even get me started on the abuse of the pardoning system.
I mean, if Trump wasn't committing all of these crimes all over the place - he wouldn't be fighting so many lawsuits - some of them are political hits to a degree, but he's flagrantly violated so many laws it's laughable at this point.