“NEW: When senior CIA officers specializing in Russia analysis confronted Brennan w/ the Steele dossier’s many flaws during a Dec 2016 meeting at Langley, Brennan agreed, but wanted to still keep it in the ICA b/c it SOUNDED true. “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?” Brennan responded”
Truly sad that thousands of minors were given a phone number to call if they needed help, yet no one from the government agency answered their calls. 😦
“The EU just figured out that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world – second only to Russia. In response to concerns that Zelensky and his regime are corrupt parliament just gutted the country’s anti-corruption agencies putting them under Zelensky’s exclusive control. Trump was right, again.”
“TERROR: Male military age illegals living in Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities are using dating apps to target teen girls for assault, rape, and trafficking. Three were nabbed by Houston police during a sting operation. Houston will not cooperate with ICE to deport them.”
What’s the problem? The article clearly states they are being held for ICE. What’s Houston supposed to do, wrap them up with a bow after they’ve caught them? Maybe they want to prosecute them first? I don’t get it …
Yeah, that little thing you’re complaining about is called a constitution. And if President Trump is seeking to appoint sycophants then I’m very glad to see it. We need our checks and balances. Thank God for an opposition party and NTers who are willing to provide checks and balances when the President’s own supporters are so spineless (or worse, lawless) that they won’t call him out when he is clearly off the rails.
Of course I know that. Thune and Johnson are also behaving constitutionally to ensure that we have checks and balances. But you knew that and chose to call them traitors anyway at a point in time when the charge treason is being is being bandied about very carelessly. That’s irresponsible in my opinion.
And no, some of us did NOT vote for Trump to do many of the things he’s doing.
How about the promise to end our 2 biggest wars ? Trump has made them worse than ever when he could certainly have ended them by withdrawing support for them. Instead he has actually given Israel the green light to go ahead and ” finish it”. Finish what exactly?? The plan to depopulate Gaza for Trump’s real estate ideas??? And not one peep from his supporters here. Are you applaudibg this approach?!?
Thune voted for every judge and appt Biden ever put forward.
Not once did he pull this crap when dem nominees were up. The only time he did was when Biden tried to ram a bunch thru at the end of his term.
He’s a traitor. Many of these are all nominees put forth by the repective R controlled committees, not Trump, so they arent “trump sycophants” as u called them.
And Johnson is just pretty much useless.
You’re running with the Orange Man Bad crowd on everything now? You seem to have gone over the edge with Trump lately.
“It is a betrayal, plain and simple. Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have unveiled an August recess plan that includes “pro forma” sessions every few days. Their objective is not legislative continuity, nor national security. It is to block President Donald Trump from exercising his constitutional power to make recess appointments. That they would deploy this maneuver against their own president, the duly elected leader of their party, is not just disloyal, it is politically suicidal.
Trump has more than 250 nominees awaiting confirmation, including dozens of federal judges and critical executive branch officials. The backlog is no accident. It is the result of strategic obstruction by both Democrats and Republicans who prefer a hollow presidency to one that governs effectively. The betrayal by Johnson and Thune renders this obstruction bipartisan. They are aiding the enemy by shackling their own president.
This is not the passive resistance of legislative sloth. It is an active campaign to kneecap a sitting president. And the consequences are real. Consider the case of Alina Habba, the interim US Attorney for New Jersey. Her nomination has stalled in the Senate. The district court refused to appoint her. When Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the district court’s choice, she reappointed Habba, but the reappointment won’t stand. A recess appointment by President Trump would solve the problem immediately, overriding the Senate’s paralysis and the judiciary’s resistance.
This is not bureaucratic wrangling. It is a calculated refusal to allow Trump to staff the very institutions he is charged with running, and it is a refusal he must now answer with constitutional action.
Senate rules exacerbate the problem. A single senator can place a hold on a nominee, triggering a cloture motion and up to 30 hours of floor debate. Multiply that by even a hundred nominees and the result is a procedural blockade capable of consuming months. The primary hold on President Trump’s appointees is one placed by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) on all nominees for U.S. Attorney positions. This hold, which began in May 2025, remains active and is intended to slow down the confirmation process. Even members of the GOP are blocking Trump’s nominees. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has created committee-level drama and delays for Mike Waltz’s nomination as Ambassador to the United Nations. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) have publicly stated they will vote “no” on Emil Bove’s nomination for a federal appeals court judgeship, which has effectively slowed its progress amid broader GOP internal debates. Unless Vice President JD Vance can break the tie, Bove’s nomination is dead. Additionally, Senate Democrats as a group, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have been accused of widespread obstruction, including walking out of committee meetings on nominees like Bove and Jeanine Pirro (nominated for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia) to protest limited discussion time. This is not oversight. It is sabotage via slow-motion.”
“Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune know all this. Yet they have committed to a recess strategy specifically designed to prevent Trump from using the constitutional workaround: recess appointments. They are ensuring the Senate never technically enters recess, thereby keeping Trump’s hands tied.
This betrayal leaves Trump with one option: to use the Constitution itself. Article II, Section 3 provides that, “[The President] may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
In other words, if the House and Senate cannot agree on the timing of adjournment, the president may force a recess. To trigger this clause, Trump would need one chamber, either Johnson or Thune, to move to adjourn for ten days. If the other refuses, that creates the disagreement necessary for Trump to invoke his power.
This power has never been used. But it was placed in the Constitution for moments just like this, when internal sabotage cripples a presidency. If Trump adjourns Congress, he can immediately begin making recess appointments, bypassing the obstruction and finally filling the positions necessary to carry out his agenda.
President Obama tried something similar. In 2012, he appointed officials to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate held pro forma sessions. The Supreme Court struck down the appointments in NLRB v. Noel Canning because the Senate was not truly in recess. Unlike Trump, Obama could not invoke the Article II adjournment power because the House and Senate were coordinating their sessions, meaning there was no disagreement on the timing of adjournment. To create such a disagreement, Obama would have needed cooperation from the Senate, which despite being controlled by his own party was unwilling to assist.
The Founders did not envision a ceremonial presidency. They designed a balance of powers, and they gave the executive tools to defend itself against legislative sabotage. Jackson understood this when he challenged the Supreme Court to enforce a decision he rejected. Lincoln understood this when he suspended habeas corpus. And Trump must understand it now, as Congress tries to quietly strip him of the ability to govern.
Norms have already been shattered. It is no longer scandalous for the Senate to block entire cabinets. What is scandalous is the failure of Republican leadership to act on behalf of the president they claim to support. Johnson and Thune are not passive participants. They are architects of the obstruction. And they must be held accountable.
Trump should name them. He should campaign against them if necessary. He should force their hand. Use the bully pulpit. Use the rallies. Use the pressure. Either one of them could trigger the necessary disagreement to allow Trump to adjourn Congress. The only reason they haven’t is because they assume Trump will play by the old rules.
But the old rules were never honored by Trump’s opponents. They were discarded long ago by Democrats who now openly weaponize procedural delay as a form of ideological warfare. The only error would be for Trump to remain bound by a set of norms his adversaries treat as a joke.
This is no longer a theoretical debate. The sabotage is active. The betrayal is open. The solution is constitutional.
The president must act. Congress must be adjourned. Recess appointments must be made. And Republican leaders who undermine the president must be seen for what they are, obstacles to be removed, not partners to be placated.”
I’m not running with any crowd, AJ. But you know what they say about power: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Trump could easily fall into that if he continues to appoint people who push the envelope of legality and who don’t feed his better impulses, which is why I choose to call it out. I think he can and will self correct if his base demands it, though I could be wrong about that.
I’m actually independent…which means I find it acceptable to agree with positions that are all over the political board if I believe them to be just and helpful. I’m not an idealogue: not a communist, socialist, or a capitalist. And I’m definitely not a Zionist (though I have come close to that one in the past).
I thought Mike Johnson was a bad choice at the time because I thought he would stymie Trump’s agenda. But Trump has been abusing lawfare which by definition is a corruption of our legal system. And he has been so over the top in trampling basic civil rights that I am relieved to see him slowed down by other Republicans . At least they are unlikely to impeach him.
And I still think he can stop the wars in Ukraine and Israel if he still wants to. I’m just not sure his heart is in it any more.
I think he has been badly damaged by the coup attempt in his first presidency and the rank lawfare afterwards. And by the assassination attempts. He looks far more bitter to me. And although it is perfectly is understandable, it’s still unhealthy for him and for the country.
I would support Congress using whatever constitutional powers they have to prevent Trump from sending the Marines to occupy another American city, or any other city abroad for that matter. If he continues in this manner he will end up being impeached again. In that case it would be sad, but deserved. He’s off the rails and those who care about him and his presidency should help him self correct while he has that option.
Not everyone who dislikes or disagrees with President Trump is “Never Trump”. As for Debra, she has certainly given him the benefit of the doubt, and has supported him in some instances.
Among my Facebook friends there is a variety of political stances. There are about two or three who definitely seem to be “Never Trump,” one of whom I stopped following because he was relentless. Others do not like the president, and will sometimes or often share posts or articles about whatever it is they are against. They may dislike Trump, but I do not consider them, nor myself, nor Debra as “Never Trump.”
The “Never Trump” label has become a convenient way to dismiss those who disagree with him, and to disregard anything they might have to say or share.
(FTR, I also have some Facebook friends – even people whom I know and love in person – who are very pro-Trump, almost to an embarrassing degree.)
Why the focus on the past? You have an admin right now facing serious questions. Epstein isn’t something to ignore. Maxwell is being interviewed by the DOJ. Why? And one of the lawyers used to be Trump’s criminal lawyer. Conflict of interest?
Meanwhile Trump has gone to Scotland. Similar to his Arabian trip, he’s mixing personal business ie golf courses with admin duties. And to think Carter sold his peanut farm.
Yes it was only a few hundred Marines so yeah not much of an occupation. So why do it if it was ineffective. Pure optics. Just to prove he could exercise this power. Do you want the president to exercise arbitrary power for no purpose?
Yes Ukraine is corrupt so is Russia and the point is?
Every time Trump announces a trade deal, the details have to be corrected or even better it actually didn’t happen. Besides why are Americans happy about paying a 15% sales tax on European goods. At least EU residents won’t face tax increases. Again, tariffs make sense if you have an economic plan but there is no plan associated with the tariffs.
But I actually came here to see if there was any reaction to the CBS plan to appoint a gov’t bias monitor in order to get an approval for a merger. Reminded me of the political officers the Soviets used to assign to media outlets and the military. Again, the media seems to be bowing in the same manner we saw in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc
Wandering Views 
This is perhaps the Biden administration greatest crime, the trafficking and disappearing of hundreds of thousands of children.
Odd that the pro immigrant crowd only defends criminal illegals, and rarely if ever mentions these real victims.
As a result of the Biden admin’s dereliction of duty and gross negligence, the Trump admin has a lot more work to do.
https://x.com/RodDMartin/status/1948754856707060008?t=AFOxZP2Kygeiw6qIsC_LUQ&s=19
“TRUMP FINDS THE CHILDREN BIDEN LOST
13,061 migrant minors LOST under Biden have been FOUND under President Trump.
And over 400 of their so-called “sponsors” have been ARRESTED.
This is one of the most horrifying scandals in modern history—and Trump is cleaning it up. 🧵”
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“2/ Under Biden, nearly 300,000 children crossed the border without parents. Frequently they were trafficked.
The government had no idea where most of them went.
No parents. No tracking. No accountability.
Just dumped into the hands of strangers across America.”
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“3/ Many of those “sponsors” turned out to be child abusers, human traffickers, and criminals.
ICE has now arrested 422 sponsors.
Some are accused of abusing the children in their care. Others of serious felonies.”
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Like some folks here, they desperately wanted, no needed, it to be true.
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1948812359658516620?t=gFbncJPfeOK5gcY4DbPtGw&s=19
“NEW: When senior CIA officers specializing in Russia analysis confronted Brennan w/ the Steele dossier’s many flaws during a Dec 2016 meeting at Langley, Brennan agreed, but wanted to still keep it in the ICA b/c it SOUNDED true. “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?” Brennan responded”
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Truly sad that thousands of minors were given a phone number to call if they needed help, yet no one from the government agency answered their calls. 😦
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There can never be a good enough explanation as to why all that happened to so many children under Biden/Harris’ administration watch. Criminal.
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For the clueless who for months had Ukrainian flags in their bio.
Reality.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1949226023276671165?t=J2T4lJEzUuz1yzfg1nTWfg&s=19
“The EU just figured out that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world – second only to Russia. In response to concerns that Zelensky and his regime are corrupt parliament just gutted the country’s anti-corruption agencies putting them under Zelensky’s exclusive control. Trump was right, again.”
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And the same people bought them all, because they wanted them to be true.
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1949090640723144885?t=VJKsmsloJxGhm1jom5YCeA&s=19
“Obama’s op to take out Trump wasnt just Russiagate.
2017: Mueller
2018: Stormy
2019: Ukraine Impeachment
2020: Covid
2021: J6
2022: Jack Smith
2022: Classified Docs Case
2023: EJ Carroll Case
2023: GA Election Case
2024: NY Fraud Case
2024: Crooks
2024: Routh
Theres many more.”
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Huh.
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1949149365664154061?t=OuoOfdfhl9pJ0cqgVMyx3Q&s=19
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This is who Dems are fighting for.
And it’s not their teenage victims…
https://x.com/amuse/status/1949429708434616577?t=YMTg-ID-9HxezXDH83mgww&s=19
“TERROR: Male military age illegals living in Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities are using dating apps to target teen girls for assault, rape, and trafficking. Three were nabbed by Houston police during a sting operation. Houston will not cooperate with ICE to deport them.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/us-news/three-illegal-salvadorans-using-dating-app-to-meet-teen-girls-nabbed-in-houston-sting-operation-authorities/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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What’s the problem? The article clearly states they are being held for ICE. What’s Houston supposed to do, wrap them up with a bow after they’ve caught them? Maybe they want to prosecute them first? I don’t get it …
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I see the NT traitor portion of the party is helping Demicrats and preventing the duly elected president from doing the job we sent him to do.
https://x.com/lsferguson/status/1949439528537653692?t=KrPeT3PxsgrnFnEqYR2rIQ&s=19
“President Trump’s own political party is preventing him from making recess appointments.
Let that sink in.”
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https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1949283937026449450?t=37Q-pvhRcYRD4j_4hgsXyg&s=19
“Donald Trump is the only President in history that has had recess appointments blocked by his own party.
Think about that.
Traitors.”
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Yeah, that little thing you’re complaining about is called a constitution. And if President Trump is seeking to appoint sycophants then I’m very glad to see it. We need our checks and balances. Thank God for an opposition party and NTers who are willing to provide checks and balances when the President’s own supporters are so spineless (or worse, lawless) that they won’t call him out when he is clearly off the rails.
Again, thank God for his mercies.
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Debra,
As the last 200 plus years have shown us, recess appointments are legal and constitutional, but you knew that.
Stop.
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Of course I know that. Thune and Johnson are also behaving constitutionally to ensure that we have checks and balances. But you knew that and chose to call them traitors anyway at a point in time when the charge treason is being is being bandied about very carelessly. That’s irresponsible in my opinion.
And no, some of us did NOT vote for Trump to do many of the things he’s doing.
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How about the promise to end our 2 biggest wars ? Trump has made them worse than ever when he could certainly have ended them by withdrawing support for them. Instead he has actually given Israel the green light to go ahead and ” finish it”. Finish what exactly?? The plan to depopulate Gaza for Trump’s real estate ideas??? And not one peep from his supporters here. Are you applaudibg this approach?!?
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Thune voted for every judge and appt Biden ever put forward.
Not once did he pull this crap when dem nominees were up. The only time he did was when Biden tried to ram a bunch thru at the end of his term.
He’s a traitor. Many of these are all nominees put forth by the repective R controlled committees, not Trump, so they arent “trump sycophants” as u called them.
And Johnson is just pretty much useless.
You’re running with the Orange Man Bad crowd on everything now? You seem to have gone over the edge with Trump lately.
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Traitors.
https://x.com/OldeWorldOrder/status/1949170444503851060?t=RxMCJfpG44mZUJnqtmBO3w&s=19
“They’re not just taking a recess.
Thune is going to reconvene once every 3-4 days so that Trump can’t do recess appointments.
They don’t want these nominees to be approved, and they’re doing everything in their power to undermine Trump’s agenda.”
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“Why are Johnson and Thune Blocking Trump’s Recess Appointments”
Traitors.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1948812668204109869?t=3qROdntXn7H6zV134NJU5Q&s=09
“It is a betrayal, plain and simple. Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have unveiled an August recess plan that includes “pro forma” sessions every few days. Their objective is not legislative continuity, nor national security. It is to block President Donald Trump from exercising his constitutional power to make recess appointments. That they would deploy this maneuver against their own president, the duly elected leader of their party, is not just disloyal, it is politically suicidal.
Trump has more than 250 nominees awaiting confirmation, including dozens of federal judges and critical executive branch officials. The backlog is no accident. It is the result of strategic obstruction by both Democrats and Republicans who prefer a hollow presidency to one that governs effectively. The betrayal by Johnson and Thune renders this obstruction bipartisan. They are aiding the enemy by shackling their own president.
This is not the passive resistance of legislative sloth. It is an active campaign to kneecap a sitting president. And the consequences are real. Consider the case of Alina Habba, the interim US Attorney for New Jersey. Her nomination has stalled in the Senate. The district court refused to appoint her. When Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the district court’s choice, she reappointed Habba, but the reappointment won’t stand. A recess appointment by President Trump would solve the problem immediately, overriding the Senate’s paralysis and the judiciary’s resistance.
This is not bureaucratic wrangling. It is a calculated refusal to allow Trump to staff the very institutions he is charged with running, and it is a refusal he must now answer with constitutional action.
Senate rules exacerbate the problem. A single senator can place a hold on a nominee, triggering a cloture motion and up to 30 hours of floor debate. Multiply that by even a hundred nominees and the result is a procedural blockade capable of consuming months. The primary hold on President Trump’s appointees is one placed by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) on all nominees for U.S. Attorney positions. This hold, which began in May 2025, remains active and is intended to slow down the confirmation process. Even members of the GOP are blocking Trump’s nominees. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has created committee-level drama and delays for Mike Waltz’s nomination as Ambassador to the United Nations. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) have publicly stated they will vote “no” on Emil Bove’s nomination for a federal appeals court judgeship, which has effectively slowed its progress amid broader GOP internal debates. Unless Vice President JD Vance can break the tie, Bove’s nomination is dead. Additionally, Senate Democrats as a group, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), have been accused of widespread obstruction, including walking out of committee meetings on nominees like Bove and Jeanine Pirro (nominated for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia) to protest limited discussion time. This is not oversight. It is sabotage via slow-motion.”
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“Speaker Johnson and Leader Thune know all this. Yet they have committed to a recess strategy specifically designed to prevent Trump from using the constitutional workaround: recess appointments. They are ensuring the Senate never technically enters recess, thereby keeping Trump’s hands tied.
This betrayal leaves Trump with one option: to use the Constitution itself. Article II, Section 3 provides that, “[The President] may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
In other words, if the House and Senate cannot agree on the timing of adjournment, the president may force a recess. To trigger this clause, Trump would need one chamber, either Johnson or Thune, to move to adjourn for ten days. If the other refuses, that creates the disagreement necessary for Trump to invoke his power.
This power has never been used. But it was placed in the Constitution for moments just like this, when internal sabotage cripples a presidency. If Trump adjourns Congress, he can immediately begin making recess appointments, bypassing the obstruction and finally filling the positions necessary to carry out his agenda.
President Obama tried something similar. In 2012, he appointed officials to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate held pro forma sessions. The Supreme Court struck down the appointments in NLRB v. Noel Canning because the Senate was not truly in recess. Unlike Trump, Obama could not invoke the Article II adjournment power because the House and Senate were coordinating their sessions, meaning there was no disagreement on the timing of adjournment. To create such a disagreement, Obama would have needed cooperation from the Senate, which despite being controlled by his own party was unwilling to assist.
The Founders did not envision a ceremonial presidency. They designed a balance of powers, and they gave the executive tools to defend itself against legislative sabotage. Jackson understood this when he challenged the Supreme Court to enforce a decision he rejected. Lincoln understood this when he suspended habeas corpus. And Trump must understand it now, as Congress tries to quietly strip him of the ability to govern.
Norms have already been shattered. It is no longer scandalous for the Senate to block entire cabinets. What is scandalous is the failure of Republican leadership to act on behalf of the president they claim to support. Johnson and Thune are not passive participants. They are architects of the obstruction. And they must be held accountable.
Trump should name them. He should campaign against them if necessary. He should force their hand. Use the bully pulpit. Use the rallies. Use the pressure. Either one of them could trigger the necessary disagreement to allow Trump to adjourn Congress. The only reason they haven’t is because they assume Trump will play by the old rules.
But the old rules were never honored by Trump’s opponents. They were discarded long ago by Democrats who now openly weaponize procedural delay as a form of ideological warfare. The only error would be for Trump to remain bound by a set of norms his adversaries treat as a joke.
This is no longer a theoretical debate. The sabotage is active. The betrayal is open. The solution is constitutional.
The president must act. Congress must be adjourned. Recess appointments must be made. And Republican leaders who undermine the president must be seen for what they are, obstacles to be removed, not partners to be placated.”
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Remember NTers, when he does this, it will be completely constitutional.
No crying then, when you leave him no choice.
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I’m not running with any crowd, AJ. But you know what they say about power: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Trump could easily fall into that if he continues to appoint people who push the envelope of legality and who don’t feed his better impulses, which is why I choose to call it out. I think he can and will self correct if his base demands it, though I could be wrong about that.
I’m actually independent…which means I find it acceptable to agree with positions that are all over the political board if I believe them to be just and helpful. I’m not an idealogue: not a communist, socialist, or a capitalist. And I’m definitely not a Zionist (though I have come close to that one in the past).
I thought Mike Johnson was a bad choice at the time because I thought he would stymie Trump’s agenda. But Trump has been abusing lawfare which by definition is a corruption of our legal system. And he has been so over the top in trampling basic civil rights that I am relieved to see him slowed down by other Republicans . At least they are unlikely to impeach him.
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And I still think he can stop the wars in Ukraine and Israel if he still wants to. I’m just not sure his heart is in it any more.
I think he has been badly damaged by the coup attempt in his first presidency and the rank lawfare afterwards. And by the assassination attempts. He looks far more bitter to me. And although it is perfectly is understandable, it’s still unhealthy for him and for the country.
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I would support Congress using whatever constitutional powers they have to prevent Trump from sending the Marines to occupy another American city, or any other city abroad for that matter. If he continues in this manner he will end up being impeached again. In that case it would be sad, but deserved. He’s off the rails and those who care about him and his presidency should help him self correct while he has that option.
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More winning.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1949524312722997682?t=wEiGJL9Xkqzt0H35218jIA&s=19
“BREAKING: President Trump just announced he’s reached a trade deal with the European Union
This is a HUGE deal. European goods coming into the U.S. will have a 15% tariff.
And the EU will:
✅ Put 0% TARIFFS on US goods
✅ Buy hundreds of BILLIONS in military gear
✅ Make $600 BILLION in U.S. investments
✅ Buy $750 BILLION in U.S. energy
A FANTASTIC deal by President Trump!”
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Occupied a city?
Do you hear yourself?
A small contingent of Marines does not an occupation make.
But again, you knew that.
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It was 700, and only do to Cali not doing their constitutionally directed job, and they’ve already left. Just stop.
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Just for fun, I did some math.
The city of LA, Cali is 502.7 square miles, 468.7 of which are land, the rest water.
That’s 1.49 marines per square mile.
Even if you include the NGs 2500 men, it’s still 4 men per square mile.
Occupation?
No.
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Chuck Schumer boasted today that ‘Democrats have appointed over 220 Judges, that can be used to stop Trump”, as we see now.
Interesting …
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Trump needs to be slowed down. He’s running over our civil rights. And the Supreme Court is letting him do it. At least for the time being.
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Not everyone who dislikes or disagrees with President Trump is “Never Trump”. As for Debra, she has certainly given him the benefit of the doubt, and has supported him in some instances.
Among my Facebook friends there is a variety of political stances. There are about two or three who definitely seem to be “Never Trump,” one of whom I stopped following because he was relentless. Others do not like the president, and will sometimes or often share posts or articles about whatever it is they are against. They may dislike Trump, but I do not consider them, nor myself, nor Debra as “Never Trump.”
The “Never Trump” label has become a convenient way to dismiss those who disagree with him, and to disregard anything they might have to say or share.
(FTR, I also have some Facebook friends – even people whom I know and love in person – who are very pro-Trump, almost to an embarrassing degree.)
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Lol. Fun math indeed. I only hope you still find it this funny when President AOC (or whoever) discovers she can use it too. :–)
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Why the focus on the past? You have an admin right now facing serious questions. Epstein isn’t something to ignore. Maxwell is being interviewed by the DOJ. Why? And one of the lawyers used to be Trump’s criminal lawyer. Conflict of interest?
Meanwhile Trump has gone to Scotland. Similar to his Arabian trip, he’s mixing personal business ie golf courses with admin duties. And to think Carter sold his peanut farm.
Yes it was only a few hundred Marines so yeah not much of an occupation. So why do it if it was ineffective. Pure optics. Just to prove he could exercise this power. Do you want the president to exercise arbitrary power for no purpose?
Yes Ukraine is corrupt so is Russia and the point is?
Every time Trump announces a trade deal, the details have to be corrected or even better it actually didn’t happen. Besides why are Americans happy about paying a 15% sales tax on European goods. At least EU residents won’t face tax increases. Again, tariffs make sense if you have an economic plan but there is no plan associated with the tariffs.
But I actually came here to see if there was any reaction to the CBS plan to appoint a gov’t bias monitor in order to get an approval for a merger. Reminded me of the political officers the Soviets used to assign to media outlets and the military. Again, the media seems to be bowing in the same manner we saw in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc
hrw
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