UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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eople have been asking, so I'll answer: what do I think of Kamala Harris? I think she fucking sucks. She's a DEI dingbat and a closeted socialist. Her behavior as a prosecutor was sociopathic.
However (BIG however), Trump has explicitly stated he wants to terminate or suspend the Constitution. That is just 1000% unacceptable to me. What he has verbatim pledged to do is considerably worse that whatever monster Harris *might* turn out to be. So, I'm going to hold my nose and eat the shit sandwich by voting Democrat for the first time in my life.
My thinking is, we can undo the damage from 4 years of Harris. Heck, we may even be able to hold her in check by electing a GOP congress so the gridlock keeps both sides from getting anything done.
But we will never be able to undo the sort of damage Trump wants to inflict. Once we've strayed too far from the Constitution's limits on state power, it will become a meaningless piece of paper and we'll never go back to any concept of restrained government.
And the Supreme Court's ruling - issued by judges that Trump himself appointed - that a president has almost no accountability whatsoever just dumps gasoline on the uncontrolled fire of authoritarianism. Now, more than ever, character matters - because in the absence of any other legal restraint, the president's own character is the only goddamn thing keeping him/her from abusing us.
We all watched Trump attempt a coup on Jan 6 to stay in power. He's reckless, he's dangerous, and he has no respect for our Constitution or the will of American voters. Usurping the sovereignty of the people is COMPLETELY antithetical America's founding principles, and it's not possible for him to lower taxes enough to make me overlook that.
If one wants to trade one's voice in government for lower taxes, fine. Move to one of the places where that's already a reality, like the Persian Gulf states. Live under a king and pay no taxes.
But don't mess up our country. The rest of us want the people to maintain ultimate authority over politicians.
Sounds like they were ready to endorse harris.
Yeah they were
Doesnt this clown rail against any judge that doesn't kiss his ass?
Very interesting interview with $PLTR cofounder
@JTLonsdale
this morning talking about
@elonmusk
’s secret conversations with Putin, and the Dept of Government Efficiency
“My understanding is that you’re not allowed to do diplomacy on behalf of the United States. I’m confident he’s not.”
“Europe is panicking. The Harris campaign is panicking. There’s two weeks til the election. And they’re throwing stuff at the wall…”
“Elon works for the national security state… you have to follow rules if you work for the national security state. I find it highly unlikely he’s breaking the very clear rules you’re given when you do that, so I think it’s probably a very silly attack.”
“I have a lot of friends even on the moderate left that are totally aligned with the Department of Government Efficiency.
“I have friends who are in various senior positions in Israel, I have cousins in Israel, I have friends that work there, obviously Palantir supports Israel closely, and my friends are extremely frustrated with this administration.”
BREAKING
Chinese Hackers Are Said to Have Targeted Phones Used by Trump and Vance.
The Trump campaign was informed this week that hackers may have gained access to data from the phones through a breach of American telecommunications systems.
Security officials discovered the presence in American telecommunications systems of a China-affiliated hacking group earlier this year.
But investigators determined only recently that the hackers were targeting specific phone numbers, the officials said.
Good afternoon. I hope your Friday is going well. This rhetoric about Kamala being dumb has been echoed on right wing media outlets for one reason, and one reason only...to delegitimize the educations received at HBCUs. To a racist, a black college couldn't possibly be a good educational institution, even though some of the brightest minds in this country are alumni of those colleges. Remember they don't trust black pilots, black doctors, black cops, black anyone with responsibility.
I figured this out yesterday when I was doing debate prep with the guys in my men's group.
