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#1536972 --- 12/18/19 03:06 AM
Re: More winning...
[Re: ThomasDecker]
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#1537025 --- 12/18/19 08:02 PM
Re: More winning...
[Re: ThomasDecker]
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#1537049 --- 12/18/19 11:17 PM
Re: More winning...
[Re: ThomasDecker]
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He'll be reelected...maybe even for a third term!
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Award winning journalist Kurt Eichenwald gave a lot of Twitter readers anxiety and insomnia when he posted a 17-part Twitter thread yesterday afternoon - 11/2/19 - about why it wouldn't be difficult for Trump to use executive power to effectively make himself dictator for life.
1. For those who don’t understand the fragility of American democracy in the hands of an unscrupulous autocrat - a scenario never imagined possible by the Founders under our Constituion - the cancellation of elections is quite simple and arguably legal. Which is why...
2...I fear for 2020. It all comes down to presidential emergency powers. They are poorly defined in the Constituion and under law. They are enormous and Trump clearly has been told that - remember how trump keeps saying he can do *anything* under the Constituion. Back when....
3...there was Japanese internment, Justice Robert Jackson wrote of this power in his dissent that it “lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.” We have already seen Trump do this without...
4...consequence to override congress to pay for his wall. Nothing can stop him because he said “emergency” and there is nothing to stop him.
So, it’s October 25, 2020. Polls show that trump is going to lose in a landslide. He announces a national emergency - we have evidence...
5...”that millions of illegal aliens are conspiring to vote and undermine our democracy. Therefore, I am declaring a national emergency, suspending elections until this corruption is weeded out.” And that’s it. People can sue, but his powers are broad enough and his corrupt...
6...judiciary would have to knock it down. And even if it did, there is nothing in the Constituion that says he has to abide by the ruling. Just the courts own interpretations. He can argue that Marbury v Madison does not apply in emergencies, and who can stop him? Ok, now...
7....suppose the people take up arms or Does anything but acquiesce. Trump can declare this an insurrection amd suspenx habeas corpus, meaning they can lock up anyone they want. Lincoln did this and while it stretches the Constituion - the section on habeas corpus appears under..
8...article one, but never says who has the power to suspend and Trump can simply say, as Lincoln did, I have that power. He also has the authority to shut down the internet or all communications. While technically the electors are supposed to cast ballots, they can’t without...
9...an election victor. And without an electoral vote, The president cannot be removed.
This is all legal. And does ANYONE believe, given he know this, that Trump won’t CONSIDER doing it? A man who publicly stated in 2016 that he might not accept the outcome of the election...
10...who, with the approval of the GOP, declared his opponents as traitors, demanded the imprisonments of political adversaries, declared the press to be the enemy of the people, has spoken longingly of never leaving office, who is besties with every autocrat and hates every...
11...democracy. Yes, as Justice Jackson said, the president - in this case trump - has a loaded gun and we have to simply trust that he won’t use it or that the republicans will join democrats to stop him. And I do not believe for one second that...
12...they will say whatever rationale for the “emergency” that trump cooks up is bogus. Just like they talked about evil hordes who didn’t exist coming into the United States, they have been saying those same hordes are voting. And they’ll say it when Trump suspends elections...
13...so FOR GODS SAKE stop the nonsense of raging over whether there is a public option or Medicare for all as a primary voting issue, or whether someone is a “corporate democrat” or a “socialist”. None of that matters this time. We are IN this position because idiots...
14...did not recognize what was at stake in 2016, played silly games about “both sides are equally bad.” This is the same game that was played in the German federal elections in 1932, where people voting for the “can’t win” candidate gave enormous power to Hitler...
15...just three years later, hitler declared a national emergency, dissolved the legislature and called for new elections. And soon after that, the “protest candidate and his supporters were locked up.
Can’t happen here? I never thought it could. Then again, I never thought...
16...that any political party would ever support an imperial executive and usurpation of power by a president declaring he is above the law.
The GOP has shown that, if they can make an argument, no matter how irrational or false, they will justify anything....
17...the bottom line: bad stuff could be coming. It is not outside the realm of possibility. It would not even be illegal or unconstitutional. And it will end the great American experiment in democracy. But rich people will do very very well.
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Trump == 30,573 lies in 4 years, Only president impeached twice!
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#1537056 --- 12/19/19 12:54 AM
Re: More winning...
[Re: ThomasDecker]
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Deutsche Bank has determined that Trump has inflated his net worth by at least 70%. Trump himself has acknowledged that his exaggerated estimates of his wealth have been "good for financing".
Trump was listed on the initial Forbes List of wealthy individuals in 1982 as having a share of his family's estimated $200 million net worth. Former Forbes reporter Jonathan Greenberg said in 2018 that during the 1980s Trump had deceived him about his actual net worth and his share of the family assets in order to appear on the list. According to Greenberg, "it took decades to unwind the elaborate farce Trump had enacted to project an image as one of the richest people in America.
Nearly every assertion supporting that claim was untrue. Trump wasn't just poorer than he said he was. Over time, I have learned that he should not have been on the first three Forbes 400 lists at all. In our first-ever list, in 1982, we included him at $100 million, but Trump was actually worth roughly $5 million (a paltry sum by the standards of his super-monied peers) as a spate of government reports and books showed only much later."
After several years on the Forbes List, Trump's financial losses in the 1980s caused him to be dropped from 1990 to 1995, and reportedly obliged him to borrow from his siblings' trusts in 1993; in 2005, The New York Times referred to Trump's "verbal billions" in a skeptical article about Trump's self-reported wealth. At the time, three individuals with direct knowledge of Trump's finances told reporter Timothy L. O'Brien that Trump's actual net worth was between $150 and $250 million, though Trump then publicly claimed a net worth of $5 to $6 billion.
Claiming libel, Trump sued the reporter (and his book publisher) for $5 billion, lost the case, and then lost again on appeal; Trump refused to turn over his unredacted tax returns despite his assertion they supported his case.
Trump is NOT a billionaire.
3.4 Billion dollars less 70%. Do the math, "Brainiac."
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#1537060 --- 12/19/19 01:08 AM
Re: More winning...
[Re: Timbo]
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Registered: 08/17/16
Posts: 9525
Loc: GreatAwakening
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Deutsche Bank has determined that Trump has inflated his net worth by at least 70%. Trump himself has acknowledged that his exaggerated estimates of his wealth have been "good for financing".
Trump was listed on the initial Forbes List of wealthy individuals in 1982 as having a share of his family's estimated $200 million net worth. Former Forbes reporter Jonathan Greenberg said in 2018 that during the 1980s Trump had deceived him about his actual net worth and his share of the family assets in order to appear on the list. According to Greenberg, "it took decades to unwind the elaborate farce Trump had enacted to project an image as one of the richest people in America.
Nearly every assertion supporting that claim was untrue. Trump wasn't just poorer than he said he was. Over time, I have learned that he should not have been on the first three Forbes 400 lists at all. In our first-ever list, in 1982, we included him at $100 million, but Trump was actually worth roughly $5 million (a paltry sum by the standards of his super-monied peers) as a spate of government reports and books showed only much later."
After several years on the Forbes List, Trump's financial losses in the 1980s caused him to be dropped from 1990 to 1995, and reportedly obliged him to borrow from his siblings' trusts in 1993; in 2005, The New York Times referred to Trump's "verbal billions" in a skeptical article about Trump's self-reported wealth. At the time, three individuals with direct knowledge of Trump's finances told reporter Timothy L. O'Brien that Trump's actual net worth was between $150 and $250 million, though Trump then publicly claimed a net worth of $5 to $6 billion.
Claiming libel, Trump sued the reporter (and his book publisher) for $5 billion, lost the case, and then lost again on appeal; Trump refused to turn over his unredacted tax returns despite his assertion they supported his case.
Trump is NOT a billionaire.
3.4 Billion dollars less 70%. Do the math, "." If by chance you are a human, and a U.S. citizen Trump is still YOUR President.
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Luke 8:17
James 1:12
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