Did it change what you saw with your own eyes that day? Or did Fox News not cover J6?
It's not that he's just bad, it's that he's the worst at it in U.S. history!
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Good point. That if democracy survives Trump it's a great risk that democracy will be ended by future leaders. Because Trump show the wealth and power political leaders can get by breaking the rules and norms.
How Donald Trump has profited worldwide from his presidency – DW – 07/05/2025
With Donald Trump's return to the White House, the Trump family's fortune is surging as many question the line between presidential power and private profit.
Especially since the Republican party so willingly show their obedience to Trump.
Reclaiming power granted by the constitution......
Which part of the constitution allows him to control spending appropriated by congress?
Yup, we are deporting the "tourists". Millions embedded left to find by Commander in Chief and Chief LEO.
100% on Americans. If we accept this as the norm, then it's the norm.
They're failing because you allow your Presidency, along with the three branches to be co-opted by wealth. All of your Administrative, Legislative and Judicial members can be (and have been) virtually bought and paid for.The system is not working as intended. Why? Because we have depended on the idea that anyone able to rise to the presidency will have some character, scruples and a sense of shame. Trump has none of those.
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Checks and balances.
I can’t count how many times I heard those words in the history and social science classes of my youth. They were less a phrase than a mantra, repeated endlessly by teachers assuring us of our Constitution’s genius. To answer monarchy, to deter despots, our nation’s founders had created this elegant separation of powers and these brilliant checks and balances, which supposedly had the added benefit of inoculating us from extremism. Checks and balances were our tyranny vaccine.
Its efficacy is fading fast. Since his inauguration in January, President Trump has exerted unfettered authority over pretty much anything and everything that tickles his fancy, caresses his ego or bloats his wealth. And he has been largely unchecked by Congress, whose Republican majority is his pathetic pep squad. He has been inadequately balanced by the courts, as his administration contrives ways to delay, defy or otherwise evade their rulings and as he benefits from decades of Republicans’ painstaking elevation of jurists friendly to the party.
He’s the monster the founders dreaded, rehomed from their nightmares to the Resolute Desk, where he’s teaching us a lesson I didn’t get in school: Some of the most important checks and balances reside not in the architecture of our government but in the stirring of our consciences, the murmurings of our souls.
Why is Trump attempting and getting away with power grabs that so few of his predecessors — and certainly none in the past half-century — did? Because he’s unscrupulous and unashamed. Because he’s unmoved by precedent, propriety, decency. Because he’s rapacious, and he has no interest in appetite control.
Presidents as a rule relish ruling, and believe that they’re especially suited to it. That amalgam of ambition and arrogance is what made them reach for the presidency in the first place. But most of our presidents before Trump seemed to worry at least a smidgen about overreaching — about dictatorial behaviors that would alienate allies, offend voters and earn them damnation from historians. They felt pinpricks of honor. Flutters of humility.
Trump is carefree. “I have the right to do anything I want to do — I’m the president of the United States,” he said on Tuesday, when, for three appalling hours, members of his cabinet competed to find the loftiest superlatives, the rosiest adjectives, to describe his majesty. Had one of his recent predecessors uttered that line, it would have been the story of the week, the month, the year.
But from Trump it’s routine. It’s also an uncharacteristically truthful review of the past seven and a half months, during which he and his helpers have unrestrainedly brandished such tools as executive orders, emergency declarations, lawsuits and investigations to extort law firms and universities; dismantle programs that Congress already funded; lay claim to all trade policy and tariff rates; fire federal workers who might resist his corruption of the Department of Justice or undercut his claims of unalloyed success; torment people he regards as political enemies; intimidate and marginalize unsupportive media organizations; and take over the policing of the nation’s capital. That’s a partial list. And Trump is probably just getting started.
More at the link.
Opinion | The Un-Checked, Un-Balanced Reign of King Donald
Is our vaunted system really safe from the shameless likes of Trump?flip.it
You guys don't get to swing the law around like it's your personal fanny pack anymore. That's all gone now.
Yes it is and not the way you think.
The unedited video exposed multiple lies from the propagandists in media. For example, Jacob Chansley the buffalo horned guy was shown being chaperoned by Capitol Security officers. They not only escorted him, they assisted him as if was on a tour. At the time the surveillance tapes were made public he was serving 4 years in prison for violent offenses. Shortly after the video became public he was transferred to a halfway house then released on probation.
Even to Orange Man Bad zealots the Democrat narrative concocted for J6 is blatantly deceptive.
I believe these things are true: 1- Donald Trump accepts the 2020 election results and there is no storming of the Capitol; 2- Donald Trump’s speech about people losing their country if they didn’t act and his delay in telling his supporters to stop makes him morally responsible for what happened. 3- It’s a pretty heavy lift to make him criminally responsible, with the 1968 Chicago Convention riot and those tried for inciting it somewhat analogous. I believe that impeachment was justified, however.
We could easily have made him responsible if the damn AG had moved faster and prosecutors had been aggressive.
An appointee for life. Who would not wonder if that Judge would feel beholden to his appointer? The U.S. political system is rife with those opportunities for corruption and graft.
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