Yep. I recall how he tried to overturn a democratic election that he lost—and how, to this day, he repeats lies about election fraud and laments that he ceded power by vacating the White House after the election.
He's already tried to overthrow democracy, and has stated he won't leave office, and now has 100% pure sycophants surrounding, who all know ttump is an empty husk. We'll all be told our Venezuela like 2028 elections were fair - don't believe our lying eyes.
Yes, that's why I am concerned. I am further concerned that your party's main objective is to root out people whose loyalty is to the constitution over him.
Perhaps you remember how that ended. Trump tried to overturn a fair election. Why should we trust him after watching how that ended, especially now that the Supreme Court has given him immunity for any Presidential action? His new administration will not have any institutional Republican voices, only loyalty to Trump matters. They will shred the Constitution. The only thing that propped up the guardrails in his first administration were the people working in the White House who are telling us now he cannot be trusted. Looking back at 2017-21 as a basis for what’s to expect this time is a huge mistake.
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Let ‘em cook. It’s the only way for the electorate to understand the true meaning of “elections have consequences.” I hope the GOP gets it all out of their system. Judging by the way that many of these Trump voters on this board write and reason and apply logic, they ain’t the ones who are going to be getting the tax cuts- they’ll be among the first to get, right uh, grabbed by the pus….er, billfold.
Well, the last time he was president I was shut in to my house for the last 9 months of his presidency. Inflation was about to shoot through the roof due to his failed economic policies, and there were riots in the street due to his divisiveness. Maybe an autocratic version of Hungary is a step up from the last Trump presidency?
Hey, who knows, maybe this time instead of using the American military to shoot rubber bullets at peacefully protesting American citizens in Washington DC, he’ll authorize the use of *real* live bullets!
I'm with you, brother. I do hate it for the less fortunate who repudiated Trump at the ballot box but Americans need to experience the phenomenon that is FAFO in order to hopefully make more prudent electoral decisions in the future.
Kind of how I felt hearing how bad we needed him back to make this country the bestest greatest ever. He made America so great last time that it only took sleepy, slobbery, doddering old don't know where he is Joe and the do nothing dems not even a year to ruin it and make it the worst shithole ever.
It’s unreal how they have all forgotten the worst time to be an American since…..the dust bowl? I don’t even know. All I remember is thinking 2020 would be the worst year that I ever lived through, but I’m afraid that a repeat is back on the menu.
The good news is that, like Barack Obama before him, the outgoing Democratic administration is leaving him an economy that is the best in the world and probably the best in the history of our country, so as long as nobody releases another global pandemic into the wild, we should at least be mostly fine until or unless the tariffs and the deportations actually happen (both of which I’m still, for the time being, partially convinced they are just the 2024 version of “make Mexico pay for the wall”).
Did Alex miss that trump called them all criminals?
SF immigrants fear deportation after Trump win
President-elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportations on undocumented immigrants, many of whom live in California. Undocumented residents, advocates, and attorneys in San Francisco are already making preparations.sfstandard.com
I have an idea of how things are going to affect Alex here....
But other undocumented immigrants weren’t bothered by Trump’s plan for mass deportations. Some even supported it.
“I’m an immigrant, and I love Trump,” said Alex, a day laborer who has been undocumented since he came to the U.S. from Nicaragua 28 years ago.
Alex, who works as a mover for U-Haul, said he’s excited by Trump’s promise to more thoroughly vet immigrants into the U.S. The 43-year-old said he supports deportations if they are focused on undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes.
“That’s my fantasy,” Alex said.
He’s supportive of making it harder to enter the country because he believes that when undocumented immigrants commit serious crimes, it makes Americans think they’re all criminals.
It’s been 44 years since a Dem president handed off an economy to a Pub successor that wasn’t in terrific shape. And not a single time in those 44 years has a Pub president done the same for a Dem successor.
If you're talking about Carter, he inherited a disaster starting with Nixon and going through Ford. His first guy, Lance, was terrible but about two years in, he hired Paul Volcker. Volcker took some brutal steps, driving the interest rates up to close to 20%. It was a terrible time for me to be a carpenter. Reagan kept him on and even though they got to over 20% by Reagan's second year, it finally broke the cycle
Yeah I’m not blaming Carter. He did fine with impossible economic circumstances. But I don’t think we can say the economy was great in 1981. It was in good shape, though, in 2001 and 2017. Definitely not in good shape in 1993, 2009, or 2021.
I brought up Carter because I think he's the only one Dem since 1950 to leave the country in bad economic shape. Fwiw, a huge cause of this was Nixon siding with Israel in 1973. That caused the first gas lines and all the OPEC shit that followed.
Unfortunately, if they want to destroy democracy scotus has essentially made it as difficult as flipping a switch.