DrLove
Diamond Member
OoooF -- This is brutal .. but 100% on target
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Loads MOAR!
Caged children, lost allies, neo-Nazis: What Trump supporters have done to America
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That Trump and Sessions feel empowered to fundamentally reshape the American health system using a legal sleight of hand ought not to be a surprise. After all, Trump-the-would-be-king has announced that he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself and anyone else for any and all crimes; and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has declared that the president isn’t indict-able for any crimes, asserting that Trump could have shot Comey in the Oval Office and still be immune from prosecution.
In the new Trump-reality, the president can do anything and not be charged with a crime; and can order his minions to do anything, secure in the knowledge that even if they are charged their boss will then pardon them. Such a legal theory could allow for, say, state-sanctioned death squads, torture, wholesale embezzlement of state funds, the imprisonment of political enemies and so on.
None of this is the stuff of democracy. Those who defend it all, simply for party-political advantage, shame on you.
You are turning America into a global pariah state. You are shredding the culture of democracy. You are undermining multinational institutions.
And you are normalizing extremism and irrationalism and cruelty as governing principles. Shame. Shame. Shame.
In the new Trump-reality, the president can do anything and not be charged with a crime; and can order his minions to do anything, secure in the knowledge that even if they are charged their boss will then pardon them. Such a legal theory could allow for, say, state-sanctioned death squads, torture, wholesale embezzlement of state funds, the imprisonment of political enemies and so on.
None of this is the stuff of democracy. Those who defend it all, simply for party-political advantage, shame on you.
You are turning America into a global pariah state. You are shredding the culture of democracy. You are undermining multinational institutions.
And you are normalizing extremism and irrationalism and cruelty as governing principles. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Loads MOAR!
Caged children, lost allies, neo-Nazis: What Trump supporters have done to America