Donald Trump, Un-American

[DeluxAuto]

Again and again, the president has rejected America's founding principles.

I've said this several times and it holds true. I bet the Trumplicans who love the founding fathers and the constitution will love this

For all his “America First” sloganeering, the term that applies best to Donald J. Trump is “Un-American.” He has repudiated the oath of office and the documents at the core of our national identity: the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Consider how he describes presidential authority. At a recent press briefing, he suggested that he could order states to reopen businesses. “The federal government has absolute power … I have the absolute right to do if I want to.” He has often made similar claims, including his assertion that he has an “absolute right” to seek foreign investigations of American political figures–an offense that triggered the first article of his impeachment.

Absolute power was precisely what the Founders sought to avoid. The word “absolute” appears three times in the Declaration, always to proclaim what the patriots were fighting against: “absolute Despotism,” “absolute Tyranny,” and “absolute rule.”

Trump’s threat to adjourn Congress calls to mind the Declaration’s charge that George III had “dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.”

To prevent anyone from gaining absolute power, the Constitution included elaborate checks on the government and provided that all officials would be accountable for their actions. Alexander Hamilton wrote that a British monarch “is the absolute master of his own conduct in the exercise of his office,” whereas in a republic, “every magistrate ought to be personally responsible for his behavior in office.”

 

[hogjack]

That's it! Banishment out of America is the only answer.

Send him to Sacramento.

 

[SpeareChucker]

That's it! Banishment out of America is the only answer.

Send him to Sacramento.

That's funny.
He was already born outside of America...

 

[DeluxAuto]

That's it! Banishment out of America is the only answer.

Send him to Sacramento.

I heard you used to be clever and funny. I was lied to.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I heard you used to be clever and funny. I was lied to.

He's the only reason I opened the thread...


You used to be mean and spiteful. This is still true.

 

[DeluxAuto]

He's the only reason I opened the thread...


You used to be mean and spiteful. This is still true.

Sounds like an "I never post in RoryN threads!" kind of cop-out.

 

[SpeareChucker]

rarely<>never



You are, and remain, factually challenged.

 

[DeluxAuto]

rarely<>never



You are, and remain, factually challenged.

You're such a little weenie man.

 

[schism666]

You're such a little weenie man.

careful, that kind of humiliation probably excites him.

 

[adrina]

Actually, in many ways he is quintessentially historically 100% American. Racist, sexist, xenophobic - these aren't anomalies in our history. Pretty much the opposite.

 

[DeluxAuto]

careful, that kind of humiliation probably excites him.

It has nothing to do with his penis, it's his persona. He's incapable of addressing the subject matter so he lashes out like a petulant child.

Actually, in many ways he is quintessentially historically 100% American. Racist, sexist, xenophobic - these aren't anomalies in our history. Pretty much the opposite.

Very true but this is 2020 and no one should have to deal with that shit from our own President.

 

[hogjack]

Actually, in many ways he is quintessentially historically 100% American. Racist, sexist, xenophobic -

President Trump needs a makeover to meet the requirements of modern leftist media.

Any chance he'd agree to be a 13-year-old in-transition male-to-female of a mixed race marriage with strong socialist principles? He already has an Anglo-Saxon mother and a yacht.

 

[Hugh_Essay]

Trump is as american as the Klu klux Klan and the spanish flu.

 

[nowisthetime]

President Trump needs a makeover to meet the requirements of modern leftist media.

Any chance he'd agree to be a 13-year-old in-transition male-to-female of a mixed race marriage with strong socialist principles? He already has an Anglo-Saxon mother and a yacht.

Media is leftist? Really? Remember what happened to the Fairness Doctrine?

Lol! I know you Boomers are stuck in 1972 or something.


According to your types, anyone who criticizes your Golden boy is a "leftist". Nah, maybe they just possess common sense and integrity. No patriot would support him.


Keep on thinking your little Golden boy cares about you.

Oh my bad, it's all about "sticking it to the lib-ruls and 'em" with you types.

 

[nowisthetime]

That's it! Banishment out of America is the only answer.

Send him to Sacramento.

Righties and their infatuation with California never ceases to amaze me.

Yo, Lit, we need to have a drinking contest every time a Boomer Rightie mentions Cali!


You all are so predictable and not very original, and crotchety, too. No sense of humor. Sorry America won't return to the Ozzie and Harriet days. How about you all move, take your little pansy guns (real men fight with knives and fists getting up close and personal) and establish your own Dumbfuckingstan somewhere.

 

[OldJourno]

Self-awareness is in short supply with DeluxAuto, who is all for the presumption of guilt yet calls the president unamerican.
Yes, the Naziboi is at it again.

 

[hogjack]

According to your types, anyone who criticizes your Golden boy is a "leftist". Nah, maybe they just possess common sense and integrity. No patriot would support him.

Keep on thinking your little Golden boy cares about you.

Oh my bad, it's all about "sticking it to the lib-ruls and 'em" with you types.

I miss "us." Whatever happened? Why did we grow apart?

It was you and me against the world. That seems like so long ago. Now all you do is attack and berate me with your unmatched eloquence.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Self-awareness is in short supply with DeluxAuto, who is all for the presumption of guilt yet calls the president unamerican.
Yes, the Naziboi is at it again.

What the fuck are you on about? Nazi? Presumption of guilt? You're just throwing random words together in hopes of making a lick of sense.

 

[hogjack]

...with DeluxAuto...
the Naziboi is at it again.

Mein Cuntf?

 

[DeluxAuto]

Here's something that wasn't "curated" for anyone. Just his own words.

@realDonaldTrump: The people that know me and know the history of our Country say that I am the hardest working President in history. I don’t know about that, but I am a hard worker and have probably gotten more done in the first 3 1/2 years than any President in history. The Fake News hates it!

Here he is replying to his own lies.

@realDonaldTrump: So true! https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1254172638307586049

@realDonaldTrump: There has never been, in the history of our Country, a more vicious or hostile Lamestream Media than there is right now, even in the midst of a National Emergency, the Invisible Enemy!

@realDonaldTrump: FAKE NEWS, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

And here he is completely skipping over the red states who need help.

@realDonaldTrump: Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example) and cities, in all cases Democrat run and managed, when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help? I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?

 

[nowisthetime]

Righties must have forgotten it was the "leftist" (lmao) media who made him relevant in the first place.


Be grateful.

 

[Ziggins]

I thought the decline and disgrace of the HUAC would have buried the un-American label, but both sides now throw it like confetti. It's a snarl word that absolutely fails to gain swing voters. Using it says "we don't your votes, fuck off forever."

 

[juttjaw]

I thought the decline and disgrace of the HUAC would have buried the un-American label, but both sides now throw it like confetti. It's a snarl word that absolutely fails to gain swing voters. Using it says "we don't your votes, fuck off forever."

What??

 

[hogjack]

What??

It sounded better in its original language.

 

[Conager]

I see the problem now. You don't know what curated means

How about, "spoon fed" to you?

No?

Twitter feed?

You are aware that what shows up for you on any platform is tailored to your interests and aligned with your biases, right?