The War on Democracy

However, given that the congressional year has otherwise been marked by turmoil and inaction, and given the high staff turnover and the parade of scandals at the White House, it’s been easy to miss what this administration has already done. In the background, Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and their collaborators have been working hard to deliver on Steve Bannon’s vision of dismantling the “regulatory state.” With Trump’s blessing, they have made drastic, structural changes on education, immigration, environmental protections, broadcasting and internet laws, and rules of military engagement, among other issues. Most often the changes have taken direct aim at Obama’s legacy, but some apply to regulations and programs that date back decades.

What follows is a list of those changes. Excluded here is anything abstract: say, about how Trump has trampled on political norms, degraded national discourse, or permanently shattered the “dignity of the Oval Office.” Also excluded are the promises on which he has yet to deliver — for instance, moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem or building the border wall. Finally, it doesn’t include his selection of judges — he’s nominated 58 circuit- and district-court judges, 18 of whom have already been confirmed — since judicial appointments are an expected part of any president’s work.

Within those boundaries, we’ve aimed to be comprehensive.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ump-structurally-changed-america-in-2017.html
 
Between the White House’s revolving-door staffing, president Donald Trump’s pugilistic approach to foreign and domestic policy, and Congress’s gridlock over almost everything, you might assume there’s not a whole lot being accomplished in Washington DC.

But in reality, the Trump administration is changing many of the nitty-gritty but vital things the federal government does that affect the quality of life of anyone living or working in the United States. As became clear during Trump’s first 100 days, the administration is systematically dismantling consumer, labor, and environmental protections, as well as de-funding studies that might make the case for new rules. In July it said that it plans to suspend, discontinue, or change 860 rules and regulations, many of which were proposed at the tail-end of Barack Obama’s presidency.

https://qz.com/1072054/dismantling-...rump-administrations-destruction-from-within/
 
Hüsker Dü said:
No, the reason our nation faces a serious constitutional crisis is that the Republican Party absolutely refuses to stop the president from undermining the rule of law in order to save his own skin. For a party that drops praise for the United States Constitution in virtually all of their speeches, this failure has exposed them to be craven partisans instead of genuine patriots.

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/22/trumps-hypnosis-of-the-republican-party-is-complete/
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Your Blinders firmly attached.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Your Blinders firmly attached.
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Speaking of blinders. For me it's gotten to the point where sorta sorta be like "not finding WMDs in Iraq" surprised if Trump turns out to be innocent. Damn if he didn't do everything he could to make himself look guilty....

Beyond that it really comes down to a simple question. If the president has broken the law, do you think he should be held accountable just like any other citizen?
 
tenacious said:
Speaking of blinders. For me it's gotten to the point where sorta sorta be like "not finding WMDs in Iraq" surprised if Trump turns out to be innocent. Damn if he didn't do everything he could to make himself look guilty....

Beyond that it really comes down to a simple question. If the president has broken the law, do you think he should be held accountable just like any other citizen?
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Just like Hillary you mean?
 
Hüsker Dü said:
No, the reason our nation faces a serious constitutional crisis is that the Republican Party absolutely refuses to stop the president from undermining the rule of law in order to save his own skin. For a party that drops praise for the United States Constitution in virtually all of their speeches, this failure has exposed them to be craven partisans instead of genuine patriots.

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/22/trumps-hypnosis-of-the-republican-party-is-complete/
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The idiot proudly posts another load of duck shit....
 
tenacious said:
Speaking of blinders. For me it's gotten to the point where sorta sorta be like "not finding WMDs in Iraq" surprised if Trump turns out to be innocent. Damn if he didn't do everything he could to make himself look guilty....

Beyond that it really comes down to a simple question. If the president has broken the law, do you think he should be held accountable just like any other citizen?
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If. IF?
If we took Daffy's brain and stuffed it up a gnats as, it would look like a bb in a box car.
If only you could click your heels together three times...
Beyond that, TD, it really comes down to a simple question....
What are you gonna do when he's not charged with breaking any laws regarding collusion, conspiracy or complicity?
 
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Hüsker Dü said:
However, given that the congressional year has otherwise been marked by turmoil and inaction, and given the high staff turnover and the parade of scandals at the White House, it’s been easy to miss what this administration has already done. In the background, Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and their collaborators have been working hard to deliver on Steve Bannon’s vision of dismantling the “regulatory state.” With Trump’s blessing, they have made drastic, structural changes on education, immigration, environmental protections, broadcasting and internet laws, and rules of military engagement, among other issues. Most often the changes have taken direct aim at Obama’s legacy, but some apply to regulations and programs that date back decades.

What follows is a list of those changes. Excluded here is anything abstract: say, about how Trump has trampled on political norms, degraded national discourse, or permanently shattered the “dignity of the Oval Office.” Also excluded are the promises on which he has yet to deliver — for instance, moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem or building the border wall. Finally, it doesn’t include his selection of judges — he’s nominated 58 circuit- and district-court judges, 18 of whom have already been confirmed — since judicial appointments are an expected part of any president’s work.

Within those boundaries, we’ve aimed to be comprehensive.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ump-structurally-changed-america-in-2017.html
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Nevertheless, she persisted.
 
Why the PC Faithful Are Outraged More by Speech Than Violence
In the Political Correctness religion, speech is violence and actual violence is passé.


by David Gornoski

..It's not that the people under Political Correctness's guilt are aware of what they are doing. They are not aware. They are wrestling with groupthink just like the crowd that tried to stone the adulterous woman.

It is always dangerous to stand between a group and their enemy. If Jesus had made a direct prohibition to the crowd like, “Do not stone this woman,” the demand would have triggered a mirror exertion of power in the form of violence. They would have killed him and the woman.

Instead, he knelt down, diverted his eyes to defuse their desire to see their own aggression in them, and planted a question that fried their groupthink frequency.

Who among you will cast the first stone?

This question broke the resonance of shared indignation and forced them to rethink their part in shifting guilt onto their object of disgust.

https://fee.org/articles/why-the-pc-faithful-are-outraged-more-by-speech-than-violence/
 
When You Care More about Mean Words than Actual Violence

I ask those bothered by the imagined undertones of the language Trump used for gang killers, which of you will cast the first stone against the victims of MS-13? Before you spend all your energy shadow-boxing impolite words profaning the aura of the state, can you step inside your enemies' shoes and empathize with their sorrow for the mutilated victims of gangs like MS-13? Can you understand how normal people like you would not want a boundariless land in which gangs can enter and produce unspeakable agony for real humans?

Can we care about human violence more than mean words?
 
Like Jesus, we can imagine how coming of age in towns torn by cartel carnage could desensitize and mangle the human soul. We can see that, given the right circumstances, we could choose to commit atrocities. Yet we would still be human. Still made in the image of God. We are not animals, despite our horrors. Like Jesus, we can choose to humanize murderers.

But boundaries are not violence. Property fences are not violence. They can be abused and lorded over others, yes. Just ask your HOA. Yet differentiation between spaces is healthy as long as it is in balance with the Christian ethic of self-sacrifice. Balance is lost when the state separates immigrant families for fleeing black-market carnage to which our government contributes in their homelands.
 
Lion Eyes said:
If. IF?
If we took Daffy's brain and stuffed it up a gnats as, it would look like a bb in a box car.
If only you could click your heels together three times...
Beyond that, TD, it really comes down to a simple question....
What are you gonna do when he's not charged with breaking any laws regarding collusion, conspiracy or complicity?
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Yikes Dippy... such a hate filled saltball, I don't even know where to begin to respond.
 
tenacious said:
Hillary? Oh brother...
Are you just saying Hillary as a bird-call rebuttal or how exactly do you see Hillary fitting into all this?
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There's that Pavlovian call and response mechanism they have ingrained once again. They all understand what it means, it's nutter code.
 
tenacious said:
Yikes Dippy... such a hate filled saltball, I don't even know where to begin to respond.
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Hate?
Don't project your hypersensitive feelings my way.
You want to defend daffy's remedial thought processing, that's fine. But my observation regarding the duck does not involve hate of any kind.
You've already responded with a whining chirp about not know where to start...
Perhaps you should simply answer the question...what are you gonna do when Trump isn't charged?
PS I got your 'dippy' hangin'...
 
Bruddah IZ said:
I had a feeling that bird you call accountability would fly out your window. Lol! Please continue.
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Yea didn't think you had anything.
Kinda funny how when pushed you never really have a point, just a lot of one liners and innuendo. Or huff and puff as I like to call it.
 
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