Trump: Forgive & forget??

[OneMoreFarang]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If he was a so called "normal" person he would not have been elected the first or the second time.

 

BTW, there is no real "normal" when it comes to people. All 8 billion of us are different.

People confuse being in a flock with being "normal".

Think about all the US presidents which you can remember.

When George W Bush was elected, many though he was worse than all the others. Until Trump was elected, he made Bush look like a statesman. If you really don't see the big difference between Trump and all the others, then I won't be able to help you.

 

 

[jerrymahoney]

On 12/1/2024 at 8:36 AM, Thailand said:

Interesting times.

Maybe the most interesting time near-term is JAN 6 to JAN20 2025 when Congress esp. the Senate is in session prior to Trump's inauguration.

[ifmu]

On 12/1/2024 at 8:25 AM, Walker88 said:

The President-elect clearly does not like the very first thing Madison and Jefferson put into the US Constitution, which just happens to be called the First Amendment.

 

He does not like Freedom of Speech, absolutely does not like Freedom of the Press, and neither does he like the Right to Peaceful Assembly nor Freedom of Religion.

 

He posted and spoke of ABC and CBS having their licenses to broadcast revoked, he said he does not want journalists to be free from revealing sources. He has made threats against journalists and TV Talking Heads who criticized him. You might also recall that he ordered stormtroopers to use violence and gas to break up a 100% peaceful protest in Lafayette Park, just so he could go hold a Christian Bible upside down in front of a Christian church as a photo op. Just in that act alone he showed his disdain for parts of the First Amendment (Peaceful Assembly and Religious Freedom). Only fools would think that performance art had any meaning to him other than pandering to the Christian Nationalists, with a shout out to fascists.

 

His cult will come in and diss this, perhaps fabricating some 'alternative facts' or maybe try to play the whataboutism game, but as usual, they will be dead wrong and they're heads full of fever swamp vapors, altering whatever rational judgement they might ever have had, if indeed any of them ever did or ever understood the ideals upon which the United States was based.

well said ............       heil trump

[RetiredNavy71]

On 11/30/2024 at 6:57 PM, simple1 said:

trump has selected Kash Patel as future FBI Director. If Congress agrees he will be targeting trump's so called "political enemies", including those in the media who oppose him. One wonders how it will float with Free Speech, does it mean a step closer to an authoritarian government?

Well if ten million people say "I don't like Trump", are those same people going to be shot or thrown in jail? The free speech provision goes out the window and with it The Constitution.  Then he has a real problem with the potential for the kind of violence that he will be facing because no one will ever let him get away with that.  So that said my answer is no 

[simple1]

39 minutes ago, RetiredNavy71 said:

Well if ten million people say "I don't like Trump", are those same people going to be shot or thrown in jail? The free speech provision goes out the window and with it The Constitution.  Then he has a real problem with the potential for the kind of violence that he will be facing because no one will ever let him get away with that.  So that said my answer is no 

 

Opposition goes a lot further than "I don't like trump". We have already seen how trump reacts to dissent with emphatic vilification and threats with very few Republicans objecting. Authoritarian regimes target leaders to create fear to suppress opposition, we will have to wait and see how matters unfold with trump; hopefully I and others are proven wrong.