How scared should we be of Trump's authoritarian tendencies?

[KhunLA]

The only thing I fear, is a cashless world currency.   Why I'm happy I'm in TH, as won't happen here in my lifetime.

 

The rest is all noise ... easily ignored by anyone with just a wee bit of intelligent.   Apparently lacking in so many 

[KhunLA]

3 minutes ago, Dan O said:

Give us proof of how many made that comment

Better things to do than waste time replying to your request.  I actually have a memory.

 

Don't need to prove anything to anyone, especially deranged folks like yourself.

 

Have a nice day.

[Dan O]

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

Better things to do than waste time replying to your request.  I actually have a memory.

 

Don't need to prove anything to anyone, especially deranged folks like yourself.

 

Have a nice day.

You cant provide proof because there isn't any that support any large quantity. Maybe 1 or 2 comments that were vague.  

 

 My days are always nice but thanks anyway

[Lacessit]

8 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Better things to do than waste time replying to your request.  I actually have a memory.

 

Don't need to prove anything to anyone, especially deranged folks like yourself.

 

Have a nice day.

When people claim they have a good memory, I ask how would you know?

[KhunLA]

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

When people claim they have a good memory, I ask how would you know?

That's good ... what was the question 😎

[blaze master]

23 minutes ago, Dan O said:

You cant provide proof because there isn't any that support any large quantity. Maybe 1 or 2 comments that were vague.  

 

 My days are always nice but thanks anyway

First I was lying now it's maybe 1 or 2. 

[blaze master]

27 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Better things to do than waste time replying to your request.  I actually have a memory.

 

Don't need to prove anything to anyone, especially deranged folks like yourself.

 

Have a nice day.

 

What do we have to gain on here by saying that. It's strange.

[KhunLA]

17 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

What do we have to gain on here by saying that. It's strange.

He did concede after stating none ...

... "Maybe 1 or 2 comments that were vague." ...

 

I can't waste my time with them any more.  Think I'll just come in on the motor & alternative energy threads.  Talk to only intelligent people.

[BangkokReady]

17 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, has been step-by-step following the autocrat’s playbook. He has gone after universities for not obeying his decrees. He has extorted law firms for having on staff, or just once-upon-a-time having had on staff, people who crossed him. He has targeted for prosecution former aides who challenged him. He has arrested a local judge for not helping him round up migrants for deportation. He has attacked the free press for not bending to his will. On his very first day in office, he released from prison hundreds of domestic terrorists, effectively a personal militia, who assaulted police officers in his name.

 

Mostly lies or exaggeration.  Not sure how you expect anyone to take you seriously.

[Dan O]

50 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

He did concede after stating none ...

... "Maybe 1 or 2 comments that were vague." ...

 

I can't waste my time with them any more.  Think I'll just come in on the motor & alternative energy threads.  Talk to only intelligent people.

Where did I say none?  Blaze claimed their were repeatedly posters calling for trumps death. You made the same claim I believe?  I said there were not "many" . You and blaze need to learn to read and stop trying to twist statements to match your narrative

[Lacessit]

18 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

Sexual predator, lol.

 

I bet you swallowed Me Too hook line and sinker.

The state of your mental health has never needed to be debated.

[hotsun]

14 hours ago, KhunLA said:

The only thing I fear, is a cashless world currency.   Why I'm happy I'm in TH, as won't happen here in my lifetime.

Bitcoin. And yes it is possible depending on inflation

[Cryingdick]

Another thread from spidermike...

[Tug]

53 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

Another thread from spidermike...

And an appropriate one thanks Mike it’s good to know who the people are that hate democracy.

[spidermike007]

58 minutes ago, Tug said:

And an appropriate one thanks Mike it’s good to know who the people are that hate democracy.

Exactly. Trump's autocratic tendencies are very indicative of his hatred of democracy and open and free speech, so what does that say about his continued support? 

[Dan O]

16 hours ago, KhunLA said:

He did concede after stating none ...

... "Maybe 1 or 2 comments that were vague." ...

 

I can't waste my time with them any more.  Think I'll just come in on the motor & alternative energy threads.  Talk to only intelligent people.

Bye

[BritManToo]

24 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Exactly. Trump's autocratic tendencies are very indicative of his hatred of democracy and open and free speech, so what does that say about his continued support? 

I think it says they didn't like Kamala.

Nothing more.

 

Publicly choose a better candidate (rather then trying to slip in another sock puppet at the last minute), and see how it goes, or choose no-one and enjoy Trumps continued support.

[Lacessit]

Perhaps we should be more scared of this, and how it affects the White House.

 

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/health/2025/04/28/junk-food-memory?

[MeRakThai]

29 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Exactly. Trump's autocratic tendencies are very indicative of his hatred of democracy and open and free speech, so what does that say about his continued support? 

Thanks mike, agree with you completely, who else wants to make their neighbour a state of their own country (except russia,) who wants to take over greenland, the panama canal, disregard the judicial system, get rid of people before a court determination etc etc. It  sounds very much like the playbook in Germany in the 1930's

[Jim Blue]

On 4/28/2025 at 9:42 AM, thaipo7 said:

In a word you are all nuts on this subject.  You have taken the Left's propaganda, hook, line, and sinker.  All useful idiots as Stalin called people like you.  You said nothing when Obama brought us Marxism and a soft Tyranny.  

Hello Obama was worth 4 million when he went INTO office  Sounds like capitalism to me ?

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, hotsun said:

Bitcoin. And yes it is possible depending on inflation

Unless it get banned, hence my 'world currency' comment.

[hotsun]

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

Unless it get banned, hence my 'world currency' comment.

China has tried many times already. It’s inevitable, whether in your lifetime i dont know

[Harrisfan]

43 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Perhaps we should be more scared of this, and how it affects the White House.

 

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/health/2025/04/28/junk-food-memory?

Why is a pensioner wasting his retirement on all this Trump hate?

[hotsun]

4 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Why is a pensioner wasting his retirement on all this Trump hate?

And fearmongering about medicare and social security to retirees in Thailand. That guy is a bottomfeeder

[Tug]

25 minutes ago, hotsun said:

And fearmongering about medicare and social security to retirees in Thailand. That guy is a bottomfeeder

Naaa the dudes paying attention no more no less some folks are aware of the threat some aren’t.then there are others that try to convince others not to worry about the obvious threat.now there’s a bottom slime dweller.

[rough diamond]

2 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Why is a pensioner wasting his retirement on all this Trump hate?

Why are you doing the same?

[Ubonian Canadian]

On 4/28/2025 at 12:06 AM, spidermike007 said:

Is Trump a Fascist, or Marxist? Does Trump want to become a dictator as he has so often said in the past? How worried should we be? 

 

However scared you might be for our democracy, you are not scared enough.

 

The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, has been step-by-step following the autocrat’s playbook. He has gone after universities for not obeying his decrees. He has extorted law firms for having on staff, or just once-upon-a-time having had on staff, people who crossed him. He has targeted for prosecution former aides who challenged him. He has arrested a local judge for not helping him round up migrants for deportation. He has attacked the free press for not bending to his will. On his very first day in office, he released from prison hundreds of domestic terrorists, effectively a personal militia, who assaulted police officers in his name.

 

And now, not 100 days into his term, he has done what so many democracy advocates have feared he would eventually do, something that no president has dared try in the more than two centuries since Marbury v. Madison’s precedent that the judiciary would be the ultimate authority on what is and what is not legal: He is straight-up defying the United States Supreme Court.

 

For three years, Trump and his apologist echo chamber repeated, over and over, that the flood of migrants coming over the southern border without authorization constituted an “invasion.”

Of course, it was no such thing. However much a person chooses to hate illegal immigration, whether based on a strict, rules-are-rules belief system or a pragmatic concern for the effect on border communities or even straight-up racism, the migrants coming here these past several years did not represent an invading army, regardless of how frequently Stephen Miller and his allies tossed around the phrase “military-aged men.”

 

The overwhelming majority of migrants come to this country for the same reason all of our ancestors came here: To make a better life for themselves and their children. For generations now, those entering from Mexico have picked our vegetables, made the beds and cleaned the toilets in our hotels, and laid shingles on our roofs under a scorching summer sun. In short, they’ve been doing the work that native-born Americans have been unwilling to do.

 

To contrast that against an actual invasion, check out what’s happening in Eastern Europe right now. Notice that the Russians aren’t trying to get jobs and make new lives in Ukraine. They’re trying to kill the people who already live there and steal their land.

In executive order after executive order, public statement after public statement, Trump has cited the presence of migrants in the country illegally as an “emergency” to justify sweeping powers that allow him to round up people and ship them to a foreign prison where torture is routine where they will remain, possibly forever.

 

And that’s not the only emergency. There’s an energy “emergency” that allows Trump to trample environmental laws to bring about an infinite amount of oil-drilling. There’s an economic “emergency” that lets him impose tariffs on whatever countries’ imports he wants, notwithstanding the Constitution that specifically grants the power of taxation to Congress.

 

The dangers in those emergency authorities, though, pale before the ones given to a U.S. president facing a literal invasion, which is why the confrontation between Trump and the U.S. Supreme Court over purported members of criminal gangs has such high stakes.

 

Perhaps it hasn’t occurred to many, maybe even most, Americans, that the Chief Justice of the United States commands no army, can summon no police force. Nor, for that matter, does Congress. They, and all of us, are dependent on Donald Trump and the police and military under his control to honor the Constitution and the rule of law.

 

What’s to stop him from declaring that those who protest against him are agents of a foreign power and need to be rounded up and imprisoned? What prevents him from declaring that news media are “enemies of the people” and jailing them, as well? And what about all those disloyal judges who are trying to prevent him from “saving our country” — shouldn’t they be sent to El Salvador’s torture prison, too?

 

Yes, absolutely, this sounds alarmist, because we have a normalcy bias in this country. Nothing this bad has ever happened here, and therefore it cannot. And it is this failure of imagination, the same failure that refused to foresee Jan. 6 before Trump had unleashed his armed mob on the Capitol, that is again endangering the republic.

 

“If today the executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?”

 

 

 

 

One things for sure, he won't let the USA fall like Britain & Europe or Canada etc... It takes a strong stance to go up against bleeding heart liberals.

[newbee2022]

There are not only authoritarian tendencies but fascistoid  tendencies for a kleptocracy. 

What a mess.

[ignore it]

Come on, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

[Chosenfew]

On 4/28/2025 at 12:06 AM, spidermike007 said:

Is Trump a Fascist, or Marxist? Does Trump want to become a dictator as he has so often said in the past? How worried should we be? 

 

However scared you might be for our democracy, you are not scared enough.

 

The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, has been step-by-step following the autocrat’s playbook. He has gone after universities for not obeying his decrees. He has extorted law firms for having on staff, or just once-upon-a-time having had on staff, people who crossed him. He has targeted for prosecution former aides who challenged him. He has arrested a local judge for not helping him round up migrants for deportation. He has attacked the free press for not bending to his will. On his very first day in office, he released from prison hundreds of domestic terrorists, effectively a personal militia, who assaulted police officers in his name.

 

And now, not 100 days into his term, he has done what so many democracy advocates have feared he would eventually do, something that no president has dared try in the more than two centuries since Marbury v. Madison’s precedent that the judiciary would be the ultimate authority on what is and what is not legal: He is straight-up defying the United States Supreme Court.

 

For three years, Trump and his apologist echo chamber repeated, over and over, that the flood of migrants coming over the southern border without authorization constituted an “invasion.”

Of course, it was no such thing. However much a person chooses to hate illegal immigration, whether based on a strict, rules-are-rules belief system or a pragmatic concern for the effect on border communities or even straight-up racism, the migrants coming here these past several years did not represent an invading army, regardless of how frequently Stephen Miller and his allies tossed around the phrase “military-aged men.”

 

The overwhelming majority of migrants come to this country for the same reason all of our ancestors came here: To make a better life for themselves and their children. For generations now, those entering from Mexico have picked our vegetables, made the beds and cleaned the toilets in our hotels, and laid shingles on our roofs under a scorching summer sun. In short, they’ve been doing the work that native-born Americans have been unwilling to do.

 

To contrast that against an actual invasion, check out what’s happening in Eastern Europe right now. Notice that the Russians aren’t trying to get jobs and make new lives in Ukraine. They’re trying to kill the people who already live there and steal their land.

In executive order after executive order, public statement after public statement, Trump has cited the presence of migrants in the country illegally as an “emergency” to justify sweeping powers that allow him to round up people and ship them to a foreign prison where torture is routine where they will remain, possibly forever.

 

And that’s not the only emergency. There’s an energy “emergency” that allows Trump to trample environmental laws to bring about an infinite amount of oil-drilling. There’s an economic “emergency” that lets him impose tariffs on whatever countries’ imports he wants, notwithstanding the Constitution that specifically grants the power of taxation to Congress.

 

The dangers in those emergency authorities, though, pale before the ones given to a U.S. president facing a literal invasion, which is why the confrontation between Trump and the U.S. Supreme Court over purported members of criminal gangs has such high stakes.

 

Perhaps it hasn’t occurred to many, maybe even most, Americans, that the Chief Justice of the United States commands no army, can summon no police force. Nor, for that matter, does Congress. They, and all of us, are dependent on Donald Trump and the police and military under his control to honor the Constitution and the rule of law.

 

What’s to stop him from declaring that those who protest against him are agents of a foreign power and need to be rounded up and imprisoned? What prevents him from declaring that news media are “enemies of the people” and jailing them, as well? And what about all those disloyal judges who are trying to prevent him from “saving our country” — shouldn’t they be sent to El Salvador’s torture prison, too?

 

Yes, absolutely, this sounds alarmist, because we have a normalcy bias in this country. Nothing this bad has ever happened here, and therefore it cannot. And it is this failure of imagination, the same failure that refused to foresee Jan. 6 before Trump had unleashed his armed mob on the Capitol, that is again endangering the republic.

 

“If today the executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?”

 

 

 

 

Please keep spreading your leftist communist diatribe and continue loosing…