JimofPennsylvan
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President Donald Trump and his administration have done so many bad acts that are outside the realm of acceptable behavior and risk ruin to America if considered permissible the American people need to be asking themselves how do we stop any phenomenon like the Trump phenomena from ever happening again. The answer is that we need to insure a Congress will always exist that will not only "not" cooperate with such a President to enact laws that help perpetuate his badness but will continually call him out for his wrongfulness negating any significant public support for his antics! The problem with the current Congress is basically half the members see President Trump as their ticket to reelection, so they go along or don't stand up against his badness! To stop future Trumps from rising up after this current Presidential term America needs to have a constitutional convention and pass two Amendments to the U.S. Constitution one establishing term limits for members of Congress (so they stop their undue focus on getting reelected) and another to stop gerrymandering of voting districts (so America stops getting so many members of Congress that are extremists that basically don't care about appealing to Americans that don't share their specific extremist point of view). Specifically, there needs to be an amendment that limits House members to five terms and Senate members to two terms this is enough time for such members to advance an agenda they campaign on; there needs to be another amendment that draws voting districts by algorithms essentially based solely on geometric considerations with the goal to make borders of districts as equal as possible and locate the center of a district in the center of the major population centers as much as possible there would be an absolute ban on politics criteria being used!
What are the shocking things President Trump has done of late? Threatening automobile executives to not raise their car prices even though he is putting a 25% tariff on imports of cars and car parts to the United States. Where is Trump's sense of what is "good" Automobile executives have a fiduciary duty to the stockholders of these companies which puts a duty on them to maximize their stock value if the government is increasing the price of car parts though a tax the executives have this ethical duty to their shareholders to pass on this cost to the auto manufacturers customer; Trump cannot punish them for doing their ethical and legal duty! Recently, President Trump told the Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue criminal charges against lawyers, his focus is on immigration lawyers, that bring what he considers frivolous lawsuits. Again, Trump just ignores the good involved here; lawyers have an ethical duty it is in the rules of Professional responsibilities to zealously defend the interest of their client; in immigration cases this means if the facts of an illegal immigrant's case indicate that he or she has a reasonable fear of violence in their home country than they have an asylum claim the fact that it may not be a strong claim is irrelevant the lawyers duty obligates the lawyer to bring the case, the solution is to tighten up the asylum law which the Democrats were on course to do last year until Trump wanted to make the issue a key election issue. President Trump has taken actions against large law firms whose members have been involved in criminal cases against him or done other things he doesn't like, not only taking away lawyers security clearances and prohibiting them from access to certain federal building which could impair their representation of clients (most who are American citizens which an American President should be trying to help), but he has pursued terminating these law firms federal contracts and this is the really over the top action he is pursuing terminating the federal contracts of their clients (that is patently unjust the law firms clients didn't do anything wrong) - this is the behavior of a vicious mob boss, not of a U.S. President! Trump has embarked on this war against DEI banning diversity in hiring I don't agree with it I believe in affirmative action in hiring which has been acceptable policy for fifty years in America it is basic fairness but again I can see the legitimacy in the point of view of the other side. But President Trump has gone way beyond supporting equal protection rights he is exhibiting outright racial and gender orientation discrimination - America has an overt racist and bigot in the White House; evidence in part by his condemnation of the African American Museum of the Smithsonian Institute (Per Trump Black American should not be able to champion education about Blacks history in America from their beginnings as slaves to their struggle to escape the remnants of that shackling and be treated equally and fairly) and evidenced in part by his taking over the Kennedy Arts Center because he wants to ban drag shows held at the Center now these are not shows targeted for children like in some cases disgracefully seen in America these are drag shows for adult patrons it seems like per Trump trans men and the like have no place in America!
I think the following Americans are spot on those being ones that have a problem with the Trump administration playing the Judge role and the law enforcement role for these deportations of Venezuela gang members, the members of this terrible "Tren de Aragua" gang, using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Contrary to many critics of the Trump administration on this issue I think Trump is on solid ground deporting confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members who are not U.S. citizens because the law is written so broadly "predatory incursion" by a "foreign nation" this gang bringing drug trafficking and murder to America and this gang having its roots as a Venezuela prison gang. The problem that I have with Trump's use of this law is the admiration's immigration officials who are under enormous pressure to deport illegal immigrants by President Trump solely making the determination that a person is a gang member of Tren de Aragua I am not okay with this categorization for a person just because of a tattoo! Moreover, America is a country that holds the rule of law sacred and actually in Section Two of this law it requires the government to give the person at issue a court hearing and show cause; the government has no case saying they can deport these individuals solely at an administrative say so! The real scandal here and it is a King Kong size scandal is that President Donald Trump believes that for illegal immigrants who are a member of a criminal gang he believes the U.S. government can hold these people indefinitely in custody and any type of custody no matter how onerous! President Trump on this overall issue seems to be alarmingly morally depraved a government cannot take custody of a person without authority to do so people have human rights one being to be free from imprisonment without just authority. Back when Donald Trump was first talking about holding illegal immigrants in Guantanamo Bay Cuba he mentioned he would consider holding the real bad gang members there indefinitely, he has no authority to do that. With respect to the Trump administration's actual conduct of deporting Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador not to their home country of Venezuela where Venezuela President Maduro said he would take them back is unbelievably wrong he has no authority to do such. Actually, if America was a signatory to the statute of the International Criminal Court I believe Trump would be liable for crimes against humanity for sending these Venezuela citizens to this mega-prison in El Salvador called CECOT because of its egregiously inhumane conditions not even phone contacts to family members, held indefinitely, punishment in a dark cell having no protection against sexual or physical assault by one or more other persons; if Trump continues in this incarcerating people that should be deported vein I would support the U.S. temporally joining the ICC so Trump could be prosecuted and jailed at the Hague!
Republican members of Congress need to get on the job about this Signal Messaging App scandal. I believe those Americans are right who are saying that the problem here is that letting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth get away with disclosing sensitive information about a military operation before it was conducted that could have lead to death of servicemen conducting the operation or jeopardize the success of that operation compromises discipline in the U.S. military which is all important. If this guy isn't forced out or fired America will see U.S. serviceman mishandle classified information and screw up on planning and conducting military operations; the attitude will take root in the military if the Secretary of Defense can do wrong and nothing really bad happens, I don't have to worry. I know it was an innocent mistake on the Secretary's part so maybe another job in the administration can be found for the guy, the administration has very ambitious ship building plans and America doesn't have the skilled labor force to do it the pipefitters, welders, etc.; maybe Hegseth could be a Director for rebuilding America's ship building industry!
What are the shocking things President Trump has done of late? Threatening automobile executives to not raise their car prices even though he is putting a 25% tariff on imports of cars and car parts to the United States. Where is Trump's sense of what is "good" Automobile executives have a fiduciary duty to the stockholders of these companies which puts a duty on them to maximize their stock value if the government is increasing the price of car parts though a tax the executives have this ethical duty to their shareholders to pass on this cost to the auto manufacturers customer; Trump cannot punish them for doing their ethical and legal duty! Recently, President Trump told the Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue criminal charges against lawyers, his focus is on immigration lawyers, that bring what he considers frivolous lawsuits. Again, Trump just ignores the good involved here; lawyers have an ethical duty it is in the rules of Professional responsibilities to zealously defend the interest of their client; in immigration cases this means if the facts of an illegal immigrant's case indicate that he or she has a reasonable fear of violence in their home country than they have an asylum claim the fact that it may not be a strong claim is irrelevant the lawyers duty obligates the lawyer to bring the case, the solution is to tighten up the asylum law which the Democrats were on course to do last year until Trump wanted to make the issue a key election issue. President Trump has taken actions against large law firms whose members have been involved in criminal cases against him or done other things he doesn't like, not only taking away lawyers security clearances and prohibiting them from access to certain federal building which could impair their representation of clients (most who are American citizens which an American President should be trying to help), but he has pursued terminating these law firms federal contracts and this is the really over the top action he is pursuing terminating the federal contracts of their clients (that is patently unjust the law firms clients didn't do anything wrong) - this is the behavior of a vicious mob boss, not of a U.S. President! Trump has embarked on this war against DEI banning diversity in hiring I don't agree with it I believe in affirmative action in hiring which has been acceptable policy for fifty years in America it is basic fairness but again I can see the legitimacy in the point of view of the other side. But President Trump has gone way beyond supporting equal protection rights he is exhibiting outright racial and gender orientation discrimination - America has an overt racist and bigot in the White House; evidence in part by his condemnation of the African American Museum of the Smithsonian Institute (Per Trump Black American should not be able to champion education about Blacks history in America from their beginnings as slaves to their struggle to escape the remnants of that shackling and be treated equally and fairly) and evidenced in part by his taking over the Kennedy Arts Center because he wants to ban drag shows held at the Center now these are not shows targeted for children like in some cases disgracefully seen in America these are drag shows for adult patrons it seems like per Trump trans men and the like have no place in America!
I think the following Americans are spot on those being ones that have a problem with the Trump administration playing the Judge role and the law enforcement role for these deportations of Venezuela gang members, the members of this terrible "Tren de Aragua" gang, using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Contrary to many critics of the Trump administration on this issue I think Trump is on solid ground deporting confirmed Tren de Aragua gang members who are not U.S. citizens because the law is written so broadly "predatory incursion" by a "foreign nation" this gang bringing drug trafficking and murder to America and this gang having its roots as a Venezuela prison gang. The problem that I have with Trump's use of this law is the admiration's immigration officials who are under enormous pressure to deport illegal immigrants by President Trump solely making the determination that a person is a gang member of Tren de Aragua I am not okay with this categorization for a person just because of a tattoo! Moreover, America is a country that holds the rule of law sacred and actually in Section Two of this law it requires the government to give the person at issue a court hearing and show cause; the government has no case saying they can deport these individuals solely at an administrative say so! The real scandal here and it is a King Kong size scandal is that President Donald Trump believes that for illegal immigrants who are a member of a criminal gang he believes the U.S. government can hold these people indefinitely in custody and any type of custody no matter how onerous! President Trump on this overall issue seems to be alarmingly morally depraved a government cannot take custody of a person without authority to do so people have human rights one being to be free from imprisonment without just authority. Back when Donald Trump was first talking about holding illegal immigrants in Guantanamo Bay Cuba he mentioned he would consider holding the real bad gang members there indefinitely, he has no authority to do that. With respect to the Trump administration's actual conduct of deporting Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador not to their home country of Venezuela where Venezuela President Maduro said he would take them back is unbelievably wrong he has no authority to do such. Actually, if America was a signatory to the statute of the International Criminal Court I believe Trump would be liable for crimes against humanity for sending these Venezuela citizens to this mega-prison in El Salvador called CECOT because of its egregiously inhumane conditions not even phone contacts to family members, held indefinitely, punishment in a dark cell having no protection against sexual or physical assault by one or more other persons; if Trump continues in this incarcerating people that should be deported vein I would support the U.S. temporally joining the ICC so Trump could be prosecuted and jailed at the Hague!
Republican members of Congress need to get on the job about this Signal Messaging App scandal. I believe those Americans are right who are saying that the problem here is that letting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth get away with disclosing sensitive information about a military operation before it was conducted that could have lead to death of servicemen conducting the operation or jeopardize the success of that operation compromises discipline in the U.S. military which is all important. If this guy isn't forced out or fired America will see U.S. serviceman mishandle classified information and screw up on planning and conducting military operations; the attitude will take root in the military if the Secretary of Defense can do wrong and nothing really bad happens, I don't have to worry. I know it was an innocent mistake on the Secretary's part so maybe another job in the administration can be found for the guy, the administration has very ambitious ship building plans and America doesn't have the skilled labor force to do it the pipefitters, welders, etc.; maybe Hegseth could be a Director for rebuilding America's ship building industry!
