No Kings? ...or no Brains?

[LibertyKid]

Has any president used this authority in the way Trump has? He’s slapped something like $4 trillion worth of tariffs.

The president’s authority to levy tariffs is limited. He can’t do it anytime he wants for any reason he wants.

Before we had a federal income tax, revenue was generated through TARIFFS.
The founding fathers would have revolted against this current gov't at the massive amounts of taxes that are now levied against the populace. The problem, most leftists can only absorb what they want to hear and listen too, but have no ability to consider potential options that exist beyond their bias. This goes for the right as well.

 

[Marener]

You won't accept any evidence.

This is the lie you tell yourself to justify never having to consider using evidence.

 

[martybegan]

This is the lie you tell yourself to justify never having to consider using evidence.

This is the reality you deny in almost all of your posts.

 

[berg80]

The utterly insipid demonstrations planned for Saturday

Why do you think protesting the erosion of democracy and the move towards authoritarian governance is insipid?

 

[Marener]

This is the reality you deny in almost all of your posts.

You guys declared a gay makeup artist to be a member of Tren de Aragua because he had a couple tattoos on his arms with crowns (they said mom and dad).

That’s all the evidence you needed to shove him on a plane and send him to CECOT to be imprisoned with zero due process and human rights.

This is how MAGA operates. It takes any scrap of information and contorts it to their preferred narrative.

 

[Marener]

Before we had a federal income tax, revenue was generated through TARIFFS.

Those tariffs were written by Congress. Not an authoritarian president.

 

[martybegan]

You guys declared a gay makeup artist to be a member of Tren de Aragua because he had a couple tattoos on his arms with crowns (they said mom and dad).

That’s all the evidence you needed to shove him on a plane and send him to CECOT to be imprisoned with zero due process and human rights.

This is how MAGA operates. It takes any scrap of information and contorts it to their preferred narrative.

Plenty of other evidence, and he was here illegally anyway.

 

[DGS49]

The most interesting thing about the Leftist climate in the U.S. today is the claim that with Trump in power, you cannot criticize the government with impunity. And yet they have been slandering him for more than a decade and nobody has gone to jail for it.

Cognitive dissonance at its best.

 

[Marener]

Plenty of other evidence, and he was here illegally anyway.

You have no other evidence.

 

[Marener]

The most interesting thing about the Leftist climate in the U.S. today is the claim that with Trump in power, you cannot criticize the government with impunity. And yet they have been slandering him for more than a decade and nobody has gone to jail for it.

Cognitive dissonance at its best.

Trump is trying to put people in jail for it.

 

[BULLDOG]

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

The utterly insipid demonstrations planned for Saturday are a great manifestation of U.S. Leftism in this, the era of Trump. They have no agenda, no plan, nothing to offer the American people other than a sophomoric hate for the President who roundly defeated them last November. To call their movement, "No Kings" is tantamount to saying, "Up with the Good; Down with the Bad." No one can argue with it, but it is meaningless.

The linked article tries to make the case that No Kings has the Republicans quaking in their figurative boots, but I don't see any of that. When your adversary is making an ass of itself speaking, the best strategy is simply to let it speak.

Our Beloved President, bringing a private-sector resume to the ultimate public sector executive position, is exploring the limits of Presidential powers, expecting to be shot down in some instances and successful in others. This is not "authoritarianism," it is good management - a strategy that will benefit everyone who succeeds him in the Presidency.

My older sister (86 and counting) participated with dozens of her bunkmates at an independent living facility in the last No Kings rally, and she was proud as punch for the experience. I figure she was a bit too old for the anti-war protests during Vietnam and she's finally finding a "cause" that she can protest about, even though nobody can articulate its meaning other than, "We are pissed off that we lost the last election."

I used to think that Leftists would never be able to surpass the stupidity of the Occupy protests, but I admit I was wrong. It is interesting that they didn't plan this for a Friday. Essentially none of them work for a living, and it would have been much more disruptive.

So you would be OK with a king?

 

[MarcATL]

The OP is such a ******* partisan and liar, that he's lying on his own flesh and blood, his older sister.

I'm 110% certain that your patriotic sister can successfully articulate what she's protesting about and what No Kings are all about.

But you're such a scumbag, that even your own sister must be demonized to satiate your partisan TrumpLust.

Disgusting!

 

[MarcATL]

Trump is trying to transform the presidency into something that our founders feared and he’s doing so by the complacency of the court and Congress.

Yes, it is authoritarianism. Trump is authoritarian.

They believe it will be Republican rule from here on out, this is why they're doing it.

The SCOTUS is rogue, totally unconstitutional.

 

[MarcATL]

Trump is reducing the power of government with tax and regulation cuts as well as spending cuts. Thats the opposite of an authoritarian.

Democrats increase the power of government and insert it into our personal lives. That is authoritarian

You are too stupid to know what authoritarian means. Clearly.

 

[MarcATL]

Thats within his power and she resigned under pressure due to fraud.
Lawfare is as authoritarian as it gets and thats all democrats. How did that work out

This has got to be the dumbest poster on USMB, bar none.

 

[MarcATL]

"Learn to code" ring any bells?

It's good advice.

 

[MarcATL]

Congress tells the President what he can do by passing laws allowing him to do so,, but they cannot instruct the executive how to run the executive branch.

Semi "independent" agencies are unconstitutional and will soon be found to be so. First Roe goes bye bye, then Chevron deference. Now we need to get rid of the idea that some executive agencies are independent from the elected executive.

Why then can't congress just say they have to appoint cabinet members instead of the President doing so?

Textbook reason why the No Kings protest exists.

#LOLGOP #TooFunny #CLASSIC #AllRepublicansHaveForAmericaIsFascism

 

[80zephyr]

It's good advice.

Si the government does pick winners and losers.

 

[MarcATL]

Si the government does pick winners and losers.

Always.

 

[longly]

England has a King but we have a President. This is a stupid protest.

I think it's ridiculous. A king is just a hereditary position—not necessarily a tyrant or a dictator. It depends on the system and the individual. What they really mean to say is that he’s a tyrant or a dictator, which he is not.

The president is a coequal member of the federal government, meaning he’s equal to each of the other two branches. He gets away with doing what he wants simply because Congress allows him to. No district judge has the power to stop him. If a judge rules against him, he can choose to comply, or he can defer to the Supreme Court. He might say, “Let’s see what the Supreme Court says,” and if the Court agrees with him, that’s the end of it.

So, it’s absurd to call him a dictator. So far, he hasn’t done anything that threatens the Constitution. If he has, someone should point it out—because he hasn’t. Liberals, on the other hand, have in recent years attempted to weaken the authority of the states, thereby undermining the federal structure that keeps us safe. If they had their way, they’d do away with safeguards that protect us from a tyrant like the Electoral College, the Tenth Amendment, and the Second Amendment—just to name a few.