There are many overseas precedents for rulers to override election results and succeed.If he tried those things there would be Civil War 2.0.
If he tried those things there would be Civil War 2.0.
Unlike Hillary, The Democrats, Antifa, BLM Inc, MSM and Soros.His MO has always been to divide not unite.
Unlike Hillary, The Democrats, Antifa, BLM Inc, MSM and Soros.
Even if Trump loses in November and is ushered off the national stage, his gestures in the direction of fascist politics – made-for-TV or not – will not be easy to erase, because Trump’s politics are merely a current expression of a 30-year Republican arc, said Stanley.
Ian Beacock argued recently in The New Republic, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, got it right on the virus. Not for her the imagery of war — all that talk of the silent, invisible enemy to be vanquished. No, for her the challenge of the virus has been a lesson in the power of democracy.
“We are not condemned to accept the spread of this virus as an inevitable fact of life,” she said. “We thrive not because we are forced to do something, but because we share knowledge and encourage active participation.” She went on to say that success largely depends “on each and every one of us.”
It worked. Merkel was addressing all democratic citizens, Americans included. No wonder Trump cannot stand her, a woman trained as a scientist whose life lesson has been the sacred value of freedom.
Had to re quote that analysis. So appropriate and effective.
The historical reference to how Hitler used legislation to justify his political takeover of Germany is well worth registering.
Merkel has been the most impressive Western world leader for a long time imo.
She's kept out of the limelight but has quietly got on with the job. She would be a good choice for Sec Gen of the U.N.
Had to re quote that analysis. So appropriate and effective.
The historical reference to how Hitler used legislation to justify his political takeover of Germany is well worth registering.
Unfortunately she has health problems. So no, she won't be involved in politics once her term ends.Merkel has been the most impressive Western world leader for a long time imo.
She's kept out of the limelight but has quietly got on with the job. She would be a good choice for Sec Gen of the U.N.
Some of Trump's supporters.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-28/us-election-donald-trump-deep-divisions/12477786
Only 100 turned up to the rally.
The poor girl they feature grew up poor and works 3 jobs. She is worried for her kids, has a Harley and is ready to fight in the militias against liberals. She can't see a decent way for her kids to have a good life. She will one day get sick and won't have insurance and so will die young. Says it all really. She is just a pawn.
There was a great posting on another thread about this being the new gilded age for the USA. I think that is very true. It took 30 years for it to end last time. At least another twenty left in my view. And before it does we are likely to see some really poor Presidents that will put Trump in the shade. Biden will be a 4 year Claudian interlude.
Trump has built up Border Patrol as his own police force. They own him big time for the billions he has poured into their budgets.
They support him unflinchingly.
They have no accountability for their actions.
Check out this insight into the culture and processes of this organisation .
'These are his people': inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland
Federal officers use chemical irritants and projectiles to disperse Black Lives Matter protesters on 24 July 2020, in Portland. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP
Bortac, a quasi-militarised outfit equivalent to the Navy Seals, has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan
In January 2011, James Tomsheck, then a top internal affairs investigator inside US Customs and Border Protection, attended a meeting of about 100 senior CBP leaders in a hotel in Irvington, Virginia.
Amid the sanitized splendor of the hotel ballroom, he vividly recalls hearing the nation’s then highest-ranking border patrol agent, David Aguilar, laying out his vision for the future. Border patrol, the former CBP deputy commissioner said, was to become the “marine corps of the US federal law enforcement community”.
Another leading CBP figure remarked that border agents were not required to adhere to the same constitutional restraints on the use of force as other law enforcers. “We are not cops,” he said.
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Fast forward to this month, when Tomsheck absorbed with mounting foreboding the images of federal officers – led by border patrol agents – wielding teargas and flash bangs against protesters in Portland, Oregon.
As news circulated of demonstrators being shot in the face with “less lethal” munitions, and of unidentified masked agents in camouflage strong-arming civilians into unmarked vans, the nightmare scenario Tomsheck had heard expressed by his bosses almost a decade ago – of border patrol becoming a nationwide militarized force operating outside constitutional constraints – was becoming real.
“Border patrol has always seen itself as a militarized force, and that aspiration is now being enabled by the current administration,” Tomsheck told the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/trump-border-patrol-troops-portland-bortac
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