A Democratic Republic or Authoritarianism

[pknopp]

We will have to see how big of a concern this is. There isn't a more authoritarian candidate running than Bloomberg. If the (D)'s quickly crush his campaign then I'll believe it.

This is not a thread about Bloomberg, it is about what has happened in the past three years.

And I want to know how serious it is.

 

[Auld Phart]

Which do you support:

Today it is clear we are living in a new normal. The current Senators, under the leadership of McConnell has demonstrated that one person can have a major impact on our form of government. There is no doubt that Authoritarianism is now, with no thanks to 51 Senators, a new form of governance, i.e. Trumpism.

IMO, Trumpism is akin to fascism, and a reader with an open mind and who has watched the behavior of Trump and McConnell will see much similarity to these 14 points:

14 signs of fascism - Google Search

This tired bullshit again?

Gee, denial on display. Maybe you might be able to go point by point on each of the 14 points and think as to how trump had used his rhetoric to win the nomination, and how his demagoguery - filled by lies, half-truths and character assassinations - fit nicely into many of the 14 points that you choose to mock.

Bud, all I'm saying is I've seen this thread time and time again.

 

[Rye Catcher]

SSDD...

Why do you schlubbs keep acting like all this "fascism" that you're wringing your hands over, just sprung into being out of nowhere on 20 Jan '17?

Grow the fuck up.

Why don't you get an education, and learn how to write something more than your usual curmudgeonly act? We have never had a POTUS such as trump, who has more personality disorders than you have in your tool box.

Uhmmm, the brown turd who with a pen and phone...did you forget that idiot? I tell ya, a liberal has the mentally of a rock..

It's time to read the lead, and respond rationally. Something I'm not sure you are capable of doing.

 

[kyzr]

Which do you support:

Today it is clear we are living in a new normal. The current Senators, under the leadership of McConnell has demonstrated that one person can have a major impact on our form of government. There is no doubt that Authoritarianism is now, with no thanks to 51 Senators, a new form of governance, i.e. Trumpism.

IMO, Trumpism is akin to fascism, and a reader with an open mind and who has watched the behavior of Trump and McConnell will see much similarity to these 14 points:

14 signs of fascism - Google Search

This tired bullshit again?

Gee, denial on display. Maybe you might be able to go point by point on each of the 14 points and think as to how trump had used his rhetoric to win the nomination, and how his demagoguery - filled by lies, half-truths and character assassinations - fit nicely into many of the 14 points that you choose to mock.

Bud, all I'm saying is I've seen this thread time and time again.

Let me add a word:
all I'm saying is I've seen this BULLSHIT thread time and time again

 

[Rye Catcher]

Which do you support:

Today it is clear we are living in a new normal. The current Senators, under the leadership of McConnell has demonstrated that one person can have a major impact on our form of government. There is no doubt that Authoritarianism is now, with no thanks to 51 Senators, a new form of governance, i.e. Trumpism.

IMO, Trumpism is akin to fascism, and a reader with an open mind and who has watched the behavior of Trump and McConnell will see much similarity to these 14 points:

14 signs of fascism - Google Search

This tired bullshit again?

Gee, denial on display. Maybe you might be able to go point by point on each of the 14 points and think as to how trump had used his rhetoric to win the nomination, and how his demagoguery - filled by lies, half-truths and character assassinations - fit nicely into many of the 14 points that you choose to mock.

Bud, all I'm saying is I've seen this thread time and time again.

Well it is what I believe has happened, and no more and much less than the number of attacks on liberals, Democrats, BLM, Gun Control and a dozen other themes which come without a table of contents, as does the OP.

If I didn't believe that trump is such danger I wouldn't waste my time posting. I know I wouldn't reach many regulars here, but there are some I must believe who have open minds and really care about our country. I will continue to hammer out my opinions, with as much evidence I feel is necessary; sadly, no amount of evidence will impact some of those above who are adverse to facts.

 

[BlindBoo]

You remember when 10,000 Mexican Citizens and 1 border agent was murdered by Mexican drug cartel, who was allowed by Eric(the racist) Holder to pass guns into their hands?

More of that Faux Pseudo News. In reality it is the AZ lax gun laws that allows for the vast numbers of Straw buyers to pass weapons to smugglers, even today. The AZ ATF was responsible for that surveillance program. It was AZ's gun laws that let the straw buyers off the hook by declining to press charges. Officer Terry was killed when his patrol was ordered to fire on some Mexican bandits with bean bag shot and were then hit with lethal fire.

When the congress put up a subpoena on Eric, the brown turd Oblummer used EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGES to block Eric from testifying?

Bullshit. Holder not only testified but also turned over reams of documents. It was only after multiple request for more and more documents that he asked Obama to exclude some with EP.

Eventually the murderer of 10s of thousands still hasn't face criminal charges of War crimes against Humanity.

But guns don't kill people, people kill people right?

 

[Harry Dresden]

SSDD...

Why do you schlubbs keep acting like all this "fascism" that you're wringing your hands over, just sprung into being out of nowhere on 20 Jan '17?

Grow the fuck up.

Why don't you get an education, and learn how to write something more than your usual curmudgeonly act? We have never had a POTUS such as trump, who has more personality disorders than you have in your tool box.

wry you are just not used to a guy who burps and farts in public....find a candidate who can beat the guy instead of coming up with bottom of the barrel people and you wont have to do threads like this....

 

[Anathema]

I’m all for Trumpism/Authoritarianism. We tried a Democratic Republic and it failed. Time to move on to a better option.

 

[Rye Catcher]

Which do you support:

Today it is clear we are living in a new normal. The current Senators, under the leadership of McConnell has demonstrated that one person can have a major impact on our form of government. There is no doubt that Authoritarianism is now, with no thanks to 51 Senators, a new form of governance, i.e. Trumpism.

IMO, Trumpism is akin to fascism, and a reader with an open mind and who has watched the behavior of Trump and McConnell will see much similarity to these 14 points:

14 signs of fascism - Google Search

This tired bullshit again?

Gee, denial on display. Maybe you might be able to go point by point on each of the 14 points and think as to how trump had used his rhetoric to win the nomination, and how his demagoguery - filled by lies, half-truths and character assassinations - fit nicely into many of the 14 points that you choose to mock.

Bud, all I'm saying is I've seen this thread time and time again.

Let me add a word:
all I'm saying is I've seen this BULLSHIT thread time and time again

If all 14 points are bullshit to you, I'm sure you have the ability to put them to rest with examples. Be ready to debate, if you can show me how Trump has not used anyone these points on twitter, at rallies and/or in his policies. Something I'm willing to defend but not here, since all I will get from the Right is a push on the funny button and no rebuttal.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Which do you support:

Today it is clear we are living in a new normal. The current Senators, under the leadership of McConnell has demonstrated that one person can have a major impact on our form of government. There is no doubt that Authoritarianism is now, with no thanks to 51 Senators, a new form of governance, i.e. Trumpism.

IMO, Trumpism is akin to fascism, and a reader with an open mind and who has watched the behavior of Trump and McConnell will see much similarity to these 14 points:

14 signs of fascism - Google Search

Not a peep when O was warring it up in the ME, signing off on horrid foreign and domestic policy, making worthless deals with iran, etc. Not a peep. And you expect anyone to take you seriously other than your other communist/socialist/lib sympathizers.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Which do you support:

Today it is clear we are living in a new normal. The current Senators, under the leadership of McConnell has demonstrated that one person can have a major impact on our form of government. There is no doubt that Authoritarianism is now, with no thanks to 51 Senators, a new form of governance, i.e. Trumpism.

IMO, Trumpism is akin to fascism, and a reader with an open mind and who has watched the behavior of Trump and McConnell will see much similarity to these 14 points:

14 signs of fascism - Google Search

We like to call it TrumpOlogy...it's a form of governance where only good real Americans are represented...the wetbacks, weirdos and pieces of shits are shunned and treated like the filthy trash they are. It's AWESOME...get your shit right, pull your head from your ass and you'll appreciate it as well.

 

[Oddball]

SSDD...

Why do you schlubbs keep acting like all this "fascism" that you're wringing your hands over, just sprung into being out of nowhere on 20 Jan '17?

Grow the fuck up.

Why don't you get an education, and learn how to write something more than your usual curmudgeonly act? We have never had a POTUS such as trump, who has more personality disorders than you have in your tool box.

Why don't you see a mental health professional and learn what "self-awareness" is?

And speaking of mental health professionals, who the fuck are you (definitely NOT a mental health professional) to try and diagnose someone whom you haven't interviewed personally?

Oh, and go fuck yourself.

 

[Oddball]

 

[westwall]

The Regressive Left is every bit as authoritarian as the Trumpian Right.

That's because authoritarian anything is leftwing. Extreme right wing is no government.

 

[Rye Catcher]

SSDD...

Why do you schlubbs keep acting like all this "fascism" that you're wringing your hands over, just sprung into being out of nowhere on 20 Jan '17?

Grow the fuck up.

Why don't you get an education, and learn how to write something more than your usual curmudgeonly act? We have never had a POTUS such as trump, who has more personality disorders than you have in your tool box.

wry you are just not used to a guy who burps and farts in public....find a candidate who can beat the guy instead of coming up with bottom of the barrel people and you wont have to do threads like this....

I have very thick skin, I've dealt with some of the worst of the worst in my 32 year career, words don't hurt me. In my opinion trump is on the bottom of the barrel; he is both inept and antisocial. Both factors make him dangerous; especially now that The Senate has given him carte blanche, and he has never shown to have empathy.

 

[Rye Catcher]

The Regressive Left is every bit as authoritarian as the Trumpian Right.

That's because authoritarian anything is leftwing. Extreme right wing is no government.

Gee, that's a new definition, one which makes no sense whatsoever. I infer from this gem that you believe Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini and Idi Amin and Ceaușescu, et al were all left wing. Is my inference correct? Or were you joking and trying - and failing - to mock Political Science.

 

[Rye Catcher]

FYI:

Authoritarianism, principle of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, authoritarianism denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people. Authoritarian leaders often exercise power arbitrarily and without regard to existing bodies of law, and they usually cannot be replaced by citizens choosing freely among various competitors in elections. The freedom to create opposition political parties or other alternative political groupings with which to compete for power with the ruling group is either limited or nonexistent in authoritarian regimes.

authoritarianism | Definition & Facts

Given the behavior of Trump and McConnell plus the Republican Caucus in both chambers of Congress all citizens ought to consider this thread seriously.

Authoritarianism thus stands in fundamental contrast to democracy. It also differs from totalitarianism, however, since authoritarian governments usually have no highly developed guiding ideology, tolerate some pluralism in social organization, lack the power to mobilize the entire population in pursuit of national goals, and exercise power within relatively predictable limits. Examples of authoritarian regimes, according to some scholars, include the pro-Western military dictatorships that existed in Latin America and elsewhere in the second half of the 20th century.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

SSDD...

Why do you schlubbs keep acting like all this "fascism" that you're wringing your hands over, just sprung into being out of nowhere on 20 Jan '17?

Grow the fuck up.

Why don't you get an education, and learn how to write something more than your usual curmudgeonly act? We have never had a POTUS such as trump, who has more personality disorders than you have in your tool box.

wry you are just not used to a guy who burps and farts in public....find a candidate who can beat the guy instead of coming up with bottom of the barrel people and you wont have to do threads like this....

I have very thick skin, I've dealt with some of the worst of the worst in my 32 year career, words don't hurt me. In my opinion trump is on the bottom of the barrel; he is both inept and antisocial. Both factors make him dangerous; especially now that The Senate has given him carte blanche, and he has never shown to have empathy.

I have very thick skin,

 

[Rye Catcher]

SSDD...

Why do you schlubbs keep acting like all this "fascism" that you're wringing your hands over, just sprung into being out of nowhere on 20 Jan '17?

Grow the fuck up.

Why don't you get an education, and learn how to write something more than your usual curmudgeonly act? We have never had a POTUS such as trump, who has more personality disorders than you have in your tool box.

wry you are just not used to a guy who burps and farts in public....find a candidate who can beat the guy instead of coming up with bottom of the barrel people and you wont have to do threads like this....

I have very thick skin, I've dealt with some of the worst of the worst in my 32 year career, words don't hurt me. In my opinion trump is on the bottom of the barrel; he is both inept and antisocial. Both factors make him dangerous; especially now that The Senate has given him carte blanche, and he has never shown to have empathy.

I have very thick skin,

An image of Hope Hicks trying to cool off The Donald whose rage caused his Attorney Michael Cohen to chain him to calm down when she told him, "No Donnie, I won't let you do that!"

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

There is no such thing as "Trumpism" to support.