Trump’s VP pick is a naked authoritarian

christiefan915 said:
Let's see how he goes over with mainstream repubs and the rest of America who aren't magas.

"[Vance's]worldview is fundamentally incompatible with the basic principles of American democracy.

Vance has said that, had he been vice president in 2020, he would have carried out Trump’s scheme for the vice president to overturn the election results. He has fundraised for January 6 rioters. He once called on the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a Washington Post columnist who penned a critical piece about Trump. After last week’s assassination attempt on Trump, he attempted to whitewash his radicalism by blaming the shooting on Democrats’ rhetoric about democracy without an iota of evidence.

This worldview translates into a very aggressive agenda for a second Trump presidency. In a podcast interview, Vance said that Trump should “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat” in the US government and “replace them with our people.” If the courts attempt to stop this, Vance says, Trump should simply ignore the law...

J.D. Vance is a man who believes that the current government is so corrupt that radical, even authoritarian steps, are justified in response. He sees himself as the avatar of America’s virtuous people, whose political enemies are interlopers scarcely worthy of respect.

"... it is clear that Vance is deeply ensconced in the GOP’s growing “national conservative” faction, which pairs an inconsistent economic populism with an authoritarian commitment to crushing liberals in the culture war.

He would enable all of Trump’s worst instincts, and put a brake on none — deploying his considerable intellectual and intrapersonal gifts toward bending the government to Trump’s will."

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What a massive pile of bovine bile. If this is radical to you, then you are the radical. A very dumb one at that. :palm:
 
christiefan915 said:
The unitary executive theory is a controversial legal theory in United States constitutional law which holds that the president of the United States possesses the power to control the entire federal executive branch.

The Project asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and unitary executive theory.[6][7] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with loyalists more willing to enable Trump's policies.[8][9] In doing so, proponents argue that the change would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal government bureaucracy.[10] The Project seeks to infuse the government and society with Christian values.[11][12] Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy.[11][13] Many legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law,[14] the separation of powers,[5] the separation of church and state,[15] and civil liberties.[5][14][16]
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Yeah but here's the thing:

All the Federal employees that they're talking are in bureaus which are in the Executive branch and under the president's whim, tbh.

All those bureaus were created by presidents, they are executive bureaus.

Cabinet, bureau..get it?
 
christiefan915 said:

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J.D. Vance got famous for writing a book in which he acknowledged that the only thing that saved him as a child was a grandfather with a union job and benefits, the sort of which he has dedicated his professional and political life to eliminating.


3:15 PM · Jul 15, 2024
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zymurgy said:
is he the next Hitler as well?

a threat to democracy?

keep working on your marketing. it needs to sound terrifying, but not so scary where you are to blame for a wack job shooting at people
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Many women may think he's a threat to them in his opposition to abortion in ALL circumstances. Of course we'll have to see how long that principled position survives.
 
christiefan915 said:
The unitary executive theory is a controversial legal theory in United States constitutional law which holds that the president of the United States possesses the power to control the entire federal executive branch.

The Project asserts that the entire executive branch is under the direct control of the president under Article II of the U.S. Constitution and unitary executive theory.[6][7] It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with loyalists more willing to enable Trump's policies.[8][9] In doing so, proponents argue that the change would dismantle what they view as a vast, unaccountable, and mostly liberal government bureaucracy.[10] The Project seeks to infuse the government and society with Christian values.[11][12] Critics have characterized Project 2025 as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to steer the U.S. toward autocracy.[11][13] Many legal experts have said it would undermine the rule of law,[14] the separation of powers,[5] the separation of church and state,[15] and civil liberties.[5][14][16]
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The MAGAts are simply throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks.
 
An Orange Cat said:
I'm old enough to remember when your stupid ass predicted Trump would win in 2020 and there would be a red wave in 2022.

You were wrong both times.
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I don't think you can remember much at all. Yes, I did say Trump would win easily as long as some unforetold event occurred.....and that was Covid.

The 2020 elections weren't legitimate in so many ways. But alas, I am arguing with an idiot who watches MSNBC and is incapable of comprehending the obvious.

November is going to be harsh on leftist halfwits like you.
 
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