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As for my mask being racist, was the "Spanish Flu" term in 1918 racist too?
Ofdly enough, the Spanish Flu did not start in Spain, the US was a likely source. It got named because, unlike the US and other waring powers, they did not censor reports of the flu.
Truman dropped the bomb without Congress or the Supreme Court. Is that an illegal executive act?
Congress declared war so clearly not.
 
Of allowing thousands of Americans to die from COVID each day?

Nope. Not true


Of removing American military forces in areas that benefits Russia?

Nope. Not true

Of funneling millions of tax payer dollars to his personal businesses?

Nope. Not true.

Of supporting and defending literal NAZI’s?

Nope. Not true.

Of appointing cronies with no qualifications and massive conflicts of interest to head numerous government agencies?

Nope. Not true

Of ordering secret police to attack American citizens in violation of their constitutional rights?

Nope. Not true.

Which disaster of Trumps are you particularly proud of?
 
Best interests for the US or not aside, it’s worrying that the President has the power to literally dictate stuff like this - without any consultation with the broader governing system. A very dangerous precedent is being set here!

Congress routinely cedes its power to the president or executive branch via statute. This is likely well within the law. As for a worrying precedent I’d be more concerned about wage and price controls, theft of private gold, locking up media critics and deporting a congressman. All of those happened and it wasn’t the current president that did it. The imperial presidency started over a hundred years ago.
 
168,000+ people have not died due to COVID. Note that I said "due to" not "with". Reports have already stated that around 25% of all deaths reported as COVID deaths are actually deaths with COVID as opposed deaths due to COVID.

It's only recently that a handful of states have begun to report these statistics separately. I think you will be very surprised once all of the excess death figures are calculated at the end of the year and you'll see that not nearly as many people have actually died from COVID than is being reported at the moment.

Aside from the above, how can you possibly blame Trump for COVID deaths? Is he also responsible for the ~50,000 flu deaths that occur every flu season?

Deaths are under reported.

Trump is the President. He said COVID is a hoax. This is a coverup by the President. How can you possibly not blame Trump?
 
Congress routinely cedes its power to the president or executive branch via statute. This is likely well within the law. As for a worrying precedent I’d be more concerned about wage and price controls, theft of private gold, locking up media critics and deporting a congressman. All of those happened and it wasn’t the current president that did it. The imperial presidency started over a hundred years ago.


As it did in Obama's presidency during the period when both Senate and House were under gop control?
 
Congress routinely cedes its power to the president or executive branch via statute. This is likely well within the law. As for a worrying precedent I’d be more concerned about wage and price controls, theft of private gold, locking up media critics and deporting a congressman. All of those happened and it wasn’t the current president that did it. The imperial presidency started over a hundred years ago.

Should we focus on what we can fix now or lament about Hermione hooking up with Ron?
 
So it’s now possible for one man to circumvent the American constitution, congress and the senate, basically all governing bodies and order the shut down of an American company without providing any evidence of law breaking or intent to break the law.

And do this without the company having any legal means to challenge this?

it Makes me wonder why half the country is up in arms about threats to the 1st and 2nd amendments but are totally happy with this one?

surely this undermines the basic freedom of America and is more inline with a dictatorship than a democracy?

Weird.
Bytedance is NOT a US company. It is a private Chinese company that operates internationally.

This is NOTHING to do with dictatorship or democracy. This is simply about foreign policy.
 
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Trump Campaign: "Pandemic? No, the important thing to Americans right now are privacy issues with a Chinese Social Media app."
And don't forget that terrible scourge of the US at the moment... not the virus and the thousands of dead Americans, the collapse of the economy, his attempting to steal the election, country being a laughing stock... no - the worst thing at the moment is... low pressure shower heads!

 
I sort of understand why people are pissed about it. The way it is shown, written or spoken doesn't inspire lots of confidence, especially to the Anti-Trump camp.
 
USA in becoming like those shady countries (China, Turkey, Russia, etc. ) that does censorship. 🤣

You reap what you sow!
 
As for my mask being racist, was the "Spanish Flu" term in 1918 racist too? Is that what was the first thing on dying peoples minds? This is "snowflake" thinking and ...............
Incoherent, almost desperate babble. Your mask is not vile, racist and borderline inhuman, it's you I'm referring to. Or, to be kind, perhaps you're just a sheep, mindlessly following the crowd at the head of which, is an aberration.
 
Truman dropped the bomb in a time of war. It was not an executive order because congress declared war and it was simply a military action. There is no war with China. The president has zero authority to take military action as such (though the “Police Action in Korea” does show a highly unpopular example of a president skirting this check). This order is as such simply mucking in the American economy for political gain. Truly, if you look at it, it is the government controlling means of commerce or production. It is actually an act in line with communism.

Thank you, I was about to make the same point.
 
One would think this guy has more urgent matters to attend to at this moment. Wasn’t there a pandemic or something going on?
He’s bored with the pandemic, he’s trying to change the topics away from the pandemic (this is something he has a lot of practice doing, changing the topic away from something he’s doing badly on by starting other fires) and he’s desperately looking for something he can point to at election time and say that he did something.
 
Your system of government allows the President to sign executive orders. If you don't like that, then you need to change how you vote and how your government is set up, to something like Australia and the UK have.

Secondly, I am glad the President has powers like this. Without such powers, very little positive action can happen as without the numbers in congress and the senate all good policy just get blocked based on pure hatred of the other side. No care is given to what's best for the nation.
When required the President can bypass that non-partisan stalemate in congress/senate and just get the job done.

*******

A lot of people here hate this just because they hate Trump. The hatred of Trump runs so deep that those who try to defend him get censored all over the place, even on these forums.

This comment section here is just devolving into an anti-Trump hate fest. The reality is the President has done a great job. So good in fact that everyone here is benefiting from his work. A large number of people are blind to this because they refuse to admit that anyone from the side they hate can actually do a good job.
In November the silent majority (of states) will be heard, just like they were heard four years ago.

I'm glad the President got the job done here and is putting his country first.
 
God Bless this amazing President. He's done so much for our country and many are just too ignorant to see it. Can't wait to see him win again in November and keep our country great!
He’s isolating you from the rest of the world, thus making you weaker. Another term and China will replace you as the dominant player (if that hasn’t happened already).
 
Your system of government allows the President to sign executive orders. If you don't like that, then you need to change how you vote and how your government is set up, to something like Australia and the UK have.

Secondly, I am glad the President has powers like this. Without such powers, very little positive action can happen as without the numbers in congress and the senate all good policy just get blocked based on pure hatred of the other side. No care is given to what's best for the nation.
When required the President can bypass that non-partisan stalemate in congress/senate and just get the job done.

*******

A lot of people here hate this just because they hate Trump. The hatred of Trump runs so deep that those who try to defend him get censored all over the place, even on these forums.

This comment section here is just devolving into an anti-Trump hate fest. The reality is the President has done a great job. So good in fact that everyone here is benefiting from his work. A large number of people are blind to this because they refuse to admit that anyone from the side they hate can actually do a good job.
In November the silent majority (of states) will be heard, just like they were heard four years ago.

I'm glad the President got the job done here and is putting his country first.
It's not a Trump hate fest - that would be an irrational response. What you actually have is perfectly reasonable response to a person that is ignorant, egotistical, racist and misogynistic. A person who will do absolutely anything to stay in power, fuels baseless conspiracy theories if he feels it suits his own ends, is utterly incompetent at everything he does (He had three casinos - they all went bankrupt! Casinos - where people come and give you money for nothing), cares not a jot what effect his actions have on you, is a corrupt, greedy liar, and has turned the USA into a laughing stock in the rest of world.
History will record his single term as aberration, a disaster for the US, a turning point and a terrible warning that on no account must a person as inept, vile and loathsome as Trump ever be allowed to hold that office again.
 
The reality is the President has done a great job. So good in fact that everyone here is benefiting from his work. A large number of people are blind to this because they refuse to admit that anyone from the side they hate can actually do a good job.
Who's reality? Yours? It's easy to say he's done a great job, but why does no one who claims that ever follow it up with a comprehensive list of accomplishments that have benefited the American People and not himself? Waiting...
 
well...if America is banning TikTok for its national security, then all other countries should ban Facebook, Instagram, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon for national security.
 
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well...if America is banning TikTok for its national security, then all other countries should ban Facebook, Instagram, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon for national security.
Yes, this is indeed already increasingly being discussed internationally (MS is of course only one of many information providers to NSA, as all services in the world know).

At least the rest of the world would still not endanger the continued existence of the Internet.
45 does not understand the global dimension, of course.

One should not build walls into the Internet. That can't improve anything.
 
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