The Trump Presidency - Part 2
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I worry he'd be too moderate for them
Matt Gaetz 
He's heading the Truth and Reconciliation Committee.
Department of education already spoken for?
Get them both ala Elon and Vivek!
Question is, if that bimbo is confirmed as NSA then will european countries stop sharing intel with US? since it will be the same as deliver it personaly to Putin
AKA We can't have people being educated, they might develop their own thoughts and actually see through our bullshit.
I missed that. Wild.
Joke of a country innit
In 2024, which country isn't?
Compared to the US? Almost every other country. Maybe not Argentina.
Beyond what he's saying (which is mad) it's really worrying that watching that I can't tell if it's AI or not.
The entire idea is that the Congress is supposed to be a balance in President’s power. The President cannot literally recess the Congress, he will need GOP’s help to agree on that.
The other option is the Supreme Court whom in the past had ruled some recess appointments as not constitutional, but it was a less partisan court.
If EU and UK didn't already adopt this policy when Trump was in office the first time, we deserve to be taken over by Russia.
The UK voted Brexit in 2016 and it took 8 years to swap out the liars. France has a president without a parliament, Germany doesn't really have a government anymore. Italy has Meloni, Brazil just had their clown. Russia has Putin, China has Xi.
If anything voting in Trump was getting in line with the others.
Just saw a link to this classic. Serves as a good reminder of a) How cucked these Republicans are, and b) How much more energetic Trump was in his first campaign.
Red states about to become third world cesspits. Wonder If we'll see literacy rates nosedive. I would say they deserve it but I feel sorry for the sizeable minority of good folk stuck there.
Is it that easy to close a government department? Do the Dems have no say here?
On what planet?
None of these regimes (ok fine, Xi and Putin aside) come near US republicans.
Even Geert Wilders is a moderate centrist compared to that.
Earth
Federal government works under the President, so yes, the President can close some departments.
To be fair, the department of Education is a relatively new Department (I think it was established under Carter). GOP wanted to close it for a while, that Texas meme governor run for President to close that department and then forgot which department it was during the debates (check Rick Perry debate).
Even the most right-wing parties in Europe are Marxists compared to GOP.
GOP were always to the right of any European party, and in the last 15 years they have gone far further to the right.
If Geert Wilders had Alabama as constituency I wouldn't be so sure.
I had a brief wiki run after @Carolina Red posted that clip and it looks like carter just reformed what had existed at least from 1939.
The U.S. voted for Trump in November 2016. Few months later France rejected Le Pen by a 2-1 margin. In 2022, she was rejected again, 6-4. In July of this year, the country put togethr an effort to deny RN the majority.
Don’t tell us please that the U.S. is following others. There is no far right president in France. At least not yet.
I did not mean to imply that they are following the exact route of any other country.
Bipartisan champion.
School counselor supreme.
Fair enough.
It’s important that we look at the chronological order. Yes, Brexit was before November 2016. But since then a decade passed and France still not giving the power to Le Pen. France may end up following the U.S., not the other way around.
Fidesz, National Rally, UKIP.
The GOP without Trump is actually not all that different from European far right parties, it's the strand of nativism/fascism that he (re)introduced that took them from racist capitalists to bona fide authoritarians.
We do have one Trumpish party in The Netherlands, Forum for Democracy. They started out with a hugr victory, but once they unleashed their truly conspiracy driven crazyness they completely collapsed into irrelevancy. The "maga" base is very small over here so far.
Good reminder that aside from every other accusations you can legitimately throw at him - this is a man who normalizes bullying as well. Of course that's but one of the many examples over the years.
Who the feck is this guy? I've seen his name being banded about for various positions.
Does he know who he is?
He was fairly clear on the plan at the start of that speech, but then he starts rambling and then cannot resist a dig at the people who work at the Dept of Education, who mostly it seems hate American children. OK.
"Don't have a lot of energy for pushing back".