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Umm...what?

https://www.police1.com/crime-reduction/it-is-historic-u-s-sees-dramatic-drop-in-homicides-violent-crime-in-2023 "The national homicide rate has fallen nearly 13% since 2022, and local law enforcement agencies are also reporting drops in violent crime, ABC News reported. The homicide drop is the most dramatic decrease on record with nearly 2,000 less people killed in homicide incidents than in 2022, according to a report by National Crime Analyst Jeff Asher, which was comprised of data from 180 different law enforcement agencies."

"I have the right to do whatever I want as president" If that's not an authoritarian's fever dream I don't know what is. Soon we'll get to see if the Supreme Court agrees. If they do, that literally will be the end of democracy and the rule of law. VI. Purging Federal Employees "As Democracy Forward explains, “Our nation’s career civil servants — federal employees who serve the public regardless of the political affiliation of the President or partisan divides in Congress — are foundational to American democracy… Anti-democratic, far-right organizations and activists have voiced increasingly alarming threats against the civil service — ultimately threatening democracy itself.” "The Agenda47 plan includes: Gutting the federal bureaucracy and consolidating federal power under his direct control, Trump and his advisors plan to centralize the distributed powers of government agencies by installing loyalists in leadership positions using ideological pre-screening, reclassifying tens of thousands of civil service employees as political appointees, purging civil servants within the national security and intelligence apparatus, and subjecting independent agency actions to presidential review." Trump allies are already employing ideological purity and loyalty pre-screening, including these vetting questions, in preparation for the 2025 administration. In 2020, the Presidential Personnel Office, under the leadership of Trump aide John McEntee, began conducting “loyalty tests,” including one-on-one interviews with “hundreds of … political appointees across federal agencies” in order to “root out threats of leaks and other potentially subversive acts.” Installing temporary “acting” officials in senior government roles to avoid Senate confirmation. During Trump’s presidency, he made unprecedented use of the “acting” designation, and has signaled that he may do so again. Trump has wrongly claimed that the Constitution gives the president the power to do whatever he wants. . June 19, 2019, Trump said: “I had absolutely Article II powers. I could’ve done anything I wanted. I don’t even bring it up because we don’t even get there. Absolutely, I have Article II. We could have used that instead. I wouldn’t even have to bother talking to you about all the other things. I wouldn’t have to talk to you about conflicts. I could have fired [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller for conflicts. I could have fired anybody.” “Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President. But I don’t even talk about that.”

If only a third of the Haley voters keep their word and don't vote for Trump that's roughly 95,000 votes which fully offsets the Hamas Bros burning it all down because, of course, Trump would be a better option.

V. Draconian Abortion Access Crackdown 'Trump recently signaled his support for a national abortion ban. Feb. 16, 2024: Trump reportedly said in a private conversation that such a ban would prohibit abortions starting at 16 weeks, “Know what I like about 16? It’s even. It’s four months.” The Project 2025 agenda would roll back abortion access expansions under the Biden administration and go even further by restricting abortion medication. (Meds like the morning after pill do not terminate a fertilized egg, they stop or delay ovulation. Don't believe MAGA will distinguish between meds and mode of action including birth control) Project 2025 also proposes using the Comstock Act of 1873 to ban mail delivery of abortion pills. Project 2025 proposes holding doctors criminally liable for sending abortion pills and patients criminally liable for using the pills. Project 2025 proposes rolling back the expansion of HIPAA privacy rules to cover abortions. So much for the "it's a states rights" narrative but we knew that was just disinformation to cover for what's coming next.

IV. Persecuting his Perceived Political Enemies Trump said, “As soon as I am reelected, I will appoint a real special counsel, or maybe you’ll call him a special prosecutor, whatever you want to call it … to look at all of these bribes, kickbacks, and other crimes, as well as the shameless attempt at a coverup. Justice will be done. The Biden crime family will be looked at. We have to get there first, we have to win the election. They’re trying to step in my way at every path because the one person they don’t want to run is Donald Trump. But when we get there, the Biden crime family will pay a price like other people are being forced to pay. And that price will be very, very substantial.” Trump said: “If I happen to be president, and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them.’ Mostly that would be, you know, they’d be out of business. They’d be out of the election.” Trump said, “This is third-world-country stuff, ‘arrest your opponent.’ And that means I can do that, too.” As President, Trump repeatedly told his Chief of Staff John Kelly that he wanted the IRS to investigate several of his perceived political enemies, including former FBI director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe. Both Comey and McCabe were subsequently subjected to a rare, intensive IRS audit that affects only one out of every 30,600 tax filers. Trump has expressed support for executing high-ranking American government officials, and while in office he used the levers of government to harass and intimidate his political opponents. Trump’s words and actions suggest he would interfere with or stop prosecutions of his political allies. On Jan. 6, 2021 Trump expressed support for the January 6 rioters who were chanting, “hang Mike Pence,” including commenting that Pence “deserve[d]” it. Trump claimed in an interview with the New York Times in December 2017 to have “an absolute right to do what I want with the Justice Department.”

Only a wannabe dictator would think he needs complete immunity from the rule of law. III. Subverting the Rule of Law to Protect Himself from Prosecution "Trump wrote, “A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MUST HAVE FULL IMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM/HER TO PROPERLY FUNCTION. ANY MISTAKE, EVEN IF WELL INTENDED, WOULD BE MET WITH ALMOST CERTAIN INDICTMENT BY THE OPPOSING PARTY AT TERM END. EVEN EVENTS THAT “CROSS THE LINE” MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD…ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, OR THE AUTHORITY & DECISIVENESS OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE STRIPPED & GONE FOREVER.” "Trump’s legal team argued before the DC Court of Appeals that a president could direct SEAL Team Six to assassinate his political opponent and be immune from prosecution."

II. Day 1 Dictatorship Promise: Energy and the Environment "Trump plans to violate statutory requirements by using administrative agencies within the executive branch to promulgate rules that prevent oversight and regulation required by Congress." "For instance, Congress passed the bipartisan Toxic Substances Control Act in 2016, but Trump’s EPA illegally withheld chemical safety studies where public disclosure was required, violated the law’s requirements to review new chemicals, and refused to ask companies to disclose data required under the law.''' "Trump has called for dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Trump’s 2024 plan includes “systematically dismantling” the EPA, including cutting funding, rolling back regulations, forging closer ties to the fossil-fuel industry, and loosening fuel economy standards."

What it the world of incoherent babblings is this?

I. Day One Dictator Promise: Immigration "Next we will implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants to the United States. No longer will we allow dangerous lunatics, haters, bigots, and maniacs to get residency in our country. We’re not gonna let them stay here. We’re…gonna have the largest deportation effort in history.” "You’re disqualified if you’re a Communist, a Marxist, or a Fascist, other than the people that are already here you are, of which many are in the Biden administration, you’re disqualified. We’d like to get them out too. Maybe we’ll work on that.” “We’re going to keep foreign, Christian-hating communists, Marxists and socialists out of America." Trump also said that there was a need for a “new law” to address Americans he characterizes as communists and Marxists but didn’t elaborate any further. Trump wants to refuse asylum claims by reimposing Title 42, a policy he used during Covid-19 by claiming that migrants carry infectious diseases like tuberculosis and other communicable diseases. Trump said that immigration into the United States is “poisoning the blood of our country.” “Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.”

Here's a good detailed analysis of the threat to democracy of second Trump term and the GOP's plan to install an autocracy. "As Alyssa Farah Griffin, former Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications, noted, “Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly.”. She's only one of many former Trump officials who are sounding the alarm. Why would that be? MAGA will tell you it's all because they are "Deep State". Occam's Razor would suggest that it's because autocracy is exactly Trump's and the GOP's goal. A long thread expanding on the evidence. Link to the analysis. https://www.justsecurity.org/92714/american-autocracy-threat-tracker/ Contents Introduction I. Day 1 Dictatorship Promise: Immigration II. Day 1 Dictatorship Promise: Energy and the Environment III. Subverting the Rule of Law to Protect Himself from Prosecution IV. Persecuting his Perceived Political Enemies V. Draconian Abortion Access Crackdown VI. Purging Federal Employees VII. Rigging Elections and Promoting Harmful Election Conspiracy Theories VIII. Rejecting the Constitution IX. Demonizing Americans with Whom He Disagrees X. Trump’s Effusive Praise of Autocrats XI. Enriching Himself and His Family XII. Creating an Unconstitutional Criminal Justice System XIII. Wielding the Military to Suppress Civil Dissent XIV. Undermining America’s Stature Abroad and Eroding International Alliances XV. Discriminating Against LGBTQ+ Americans XVI. Attacking the Free Press XVII. Spreading Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories on Public Health XVIII. Embracing Christian Nationalism XIX. Politicizing Education & Censoring Disfavored Ideas XX. Condoning Anti-Semitism XXI. Bipartisan Actions to Counter Autocratic Threats

Graphic video warning: A sample of the war crimes the Russians are engaged in.

It looks like inexcusable doesn't really mean inexcusable. It means "I really thought the base would dump that guy for trying to overthrow democracy but since they didn't I better get my a$$ back on the train because I love power over country".

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/125-house-republicans-including-speaker-mike-johnson-back-a-life-at-conception-bill-without-any-ivf-exception/articleshow/107953568.cms "Most House Republicans have cosponsored a bill declaring that life begins from the moment of conception, a position under increased scrutiny after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are "unborn children." "This Congress, 125 House Republicans — including Speaker Mike Johnson — have cosponsored the "Life at Conception Act," which states that the term "human being" includes "all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being." "The bill does not include any exception for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a reproductive treatment that allows mothers to fertilize several eggs outside the womb in order to increase the chances of a viable pregnancy"

Just one example of the Republicans scrambling to cover their tracks. When you vote for laws stating life begins at conception this is what happens. They didn't think it through but now they're scrambling for two reasons. 1) people will hold them accountable at election time 2) this will affect people they know who need IVF if they want to have kids.

Obviously Trump never read the letter or is lying or has difficulty comprehending words

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/former-us-spies-warned-2020-hunter-biden-scandal-russian-fingerprints-rcna140240 "Derogatory information, purportedly from Hunter Biden’s laptop, had surfaced in a New York Post article. Soon afterward, 51 former intelligence officials signed and blasted to the media a letter warning that the laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The letter continued: “We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails … are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.” “It validates exactly what we were warning about,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a 26-year CIA veteran who supervised operations involving Russia. “Ours was a prudent warning. The Russians were going to push this narrative of Hunter Biden and corruption, to hurt Joe Biden.” "Sipher said the group never claimed that material about Hunter Biden was made up — only that the story fit a narrative being pushed by people with ties to Russian intelligence, including some who had met in Ukraine with Trump’s lawyer and adviser Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani had provided the laptop materials to the New York Post. “This has always been an ugly political game from the beginning,” Sipher said. “Anyone who actually bothered to read the letter would realize that the focus was on warning about Russian subversive efforts prior to the 2020 election. The recent revelations show that we were prescient. While I would love to gloat, the important issue remains the same — foreign interference in American democracy, and unethical, cynical and faithless behavior by members of Congress entrusted to provide oversight of our important institutions.”

I'm pretty sure all the things he listed as the cause for school shootings also exist in countries that don't have nearly the frequency of school shootings as we do. Could it be the guns? Nah, it's the women. Women cause school shootings. Peak MAGA.

Uh oh...new scandalous news coming from Jonathan Turley, who we've been told isn't a Trump shill, about possible criminal activity committed by Biden's great-great-grandfather.

Imagine getting so far out over your skis that you'd continually side with the Russians and instead try to discredit 51 former intelligence officials. It mirrors Trump's Helsinki performance where he came to the side of Putin and threw our intelligence services under the bus. Why does MAGA hate America so much?

Kind of lays waste to the notion of Russian invincibility in Ukraine.

I'm glad you agree with his statement that it's not an irrational fear for Poles or others to have when Russia threatens nuclear annihilation but rather to trust those threats.