CaptUSA
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Yeah, dude. Hate to burst your bubble, but this was the very same bill that Johnson managed to ram out of the committee before Massie could kill it, and Trump helped him do it.

LOL That's the kind of captain we do keep getting stuck with. And will, until we decide we've had enough.

So, it's a failure because it's the world's most popular? Democracy has nothing to do with popularity? Of course he fails at doing both. You failed at doing both. They're diametric opposites. It's impossible to do both. Everyone fails at doing both.

They won't need to. You've heard of AI? They're developing ASS. Artificial Senility and Stupidity.

"Never wait for rescue or ask for permission to do what is right."

It's more possible now than ever before in my life to do the 1860 and reject both the Democrats and the Whigs. Yes, RFKJr is a mighty long shot even so. But he's not impossible, because the deep state is going for broke, shooting the moon. They're out to get every last heart and the queen of spades too, and there's quite a lot that can go wrong with that plan. That's what makes it possible. He would prosecute Fauci. His fanbois could never invent enough excuses for him not prosecuting Fauci, if he were given the chance.

See, that's why this ship has no captain. A captain has to be calm and rational no matter how many alarms are sounding all around him. And in a democracy, that guy never gets the job because everyone else assumes he's not taking the situation seriously. Then when he shouts, "Flood these starboard compartments!" all he gets is, "You're crazy! We already took water through the big hole on the port side! You want to take on more water?!" A captain is a nice thing, and we can't have nice things. We have to panic.

Yep. I saw that Justice Thomas brought up Operation Mongoose and I posted about Justice Kavanaugh bringing up Obama's drone strikes. http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?565653-DC-circuit-court-rejects-immunity-for-Trump-SCOTUS-appeal-is-pending&p=7226979&viewfull=1#post7226979 I wish that meant they were ready to reign in presidential power across the board. But we all know that's not true.

Yeah...but you and I both know that the Clintons and the Trumps were friends. Also, Trump tried to at least investigate, if not prosecute, Joe Biden! Of course the difference is that Hillary didn't try to run again. And it's highly likely that Trump wouldn't have been prosecuted if he hadn't tried to run again. Also Biden's Burisma shenanigans were done when he was vice president. And the special prosecutor investigating Biden on mishandling classified documents came to the conclusion that Biden is too demented to prosecute. So....how again are you expecting Biden to ever be prosecuted....for anything? That's especially true if Trump is successfully prosecuted and if those prosecutions prevent him from becoming president. The only way Biden is ever prosecuted is via a Trump Whitehouse / justice department bent on revenge. Really I want Fauci prosecuted more than anybody but that's not likely either.

I brought this very argument up to a friend of mine when the story first broke that Trump's lawyer conceded that under his argument a president who ordered an assassination of a political enemy. But Obama ordered a drone strike of an American citizen, Anwar Al Awlawki, who didn't even get a trial in abstentia and was only arguably "guilty" or what normally would be considered first amendment protected speech. So....a Democratic or neocon Republican president, with the media industrial complex behind him, can declare a U.S. citizen, without a trial, an "enemy" and kill him, and his teenage son...and later his young daughter, with drone strikes with no transparency or accountability and it's okay because....reasons? Meanwhile Biden is trying to send a left wing black socialist to prison for basically the rest of his life for the "crimes" of saying that America is committing genocide against black people (wasn't that the point of Black Lives Matter?) and that our support of the Ukraine war effort is wrong because that's "Russian interference in our elections." Ummm....okay.

Nah. Turned out to be bugs. Or maybe we've only reached soylent brown so far.

I don't know. The Trump fanbois still think he'll put Hillary in prison someday. They're the ones, however, scouting up loopholes through which Biden might escape the same fate. That's all I'm saying. Is this escalation? Does each half of government get to ignore more laws than the last, out of retaliation, forever?

That didn't stop the House and Senate from attempting impeachment for things he did as president. LOL if you think that anybody is going to go after Biden for anything. When Joe Biden was no longer president he bragged on video that as vice president he withheld foreign aid in order to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired. It just so happens that prosecutor was investigating a company that just so happened to be paying Biden's crackhead son $80,000 a year for absolutely nothing. And when Trump tried to withhold aid to get Biden investigated....Trump got impeached. So pray tell how anybody will ever prosecute Joe Biden for anything he's ever done as president or vice president?

I'd hate to see someone set a precedent that would limit which prosecutors could indict Biden a couple of years from now for crimes he's committing in their jurisdictions.

They're grinding down the middle class in more ways than one.

Maybe what he actually needs are some principles that are worth a damn. And a backbone so he’d be able to stand up for them once in a while. FFS! Talk about a cultist.

Good point!

Oh come on. Let's all be honest here and admit the truth. Trump is a man with ZERO principals! None, nada, nothing. About the only thing he cares about is himself. He's willing to go against his "base" on the COVID vaccines because, frankly, he's proud of that "accomplishment." And when it comes to funding for Israel his "base" is split. LOL at SS for claiming that Lindsey Graham gave Trump credit for helping push this through to "hurt" Trump. Nope. It's to save Trump for the wrath of the Zionist faction of the Teocons and for Lindsey to pat himself on the back for saying "I told you so" to anyone who's been attacking Lindsey for being a warmonger. Lindsey doesn't hate Trump. He's come to Trump's defense on multiple occasions. Lindsey loves war and to the extent that Trump will go along with war mongering, Lindsey is happy to "forgive and forget" Trump not doing "shock and awe" on Iran after Iran shooting down a U.S. drone in exchange for Trump killing the Iran nuclear deal and an Iranian general who was in Iraq as a guest of our Iraqi allies. Lindsey is smarter than most in that he knows how to stroke egos. This was a win for the neocons but so was Rand Paul signing the Tom Cotton letter years ago. Only there have been far more moments like this for Trump than for Rand.

I have to give an industry talk on this topic in June in front of a few hundred industry professionals... I wonder if this is when I get fired?? lol. I'm preparing my presentation now, but this administration keeps adding new wrinkles to the insanity. WE all know the emperor has no clothes, but the laptop class doesn't want to hear it.

Absolutely. They're shooting the moon. Go big or go home. They know they only have so much time to pull it off. They certainly want us to believe they'll leave it in ruins if they don't get their way. I have reason to hope that part's a bluff, though. They have more wealth, more skin in the game, tied up in it than, like, everyone else combined. They want it to work -- for them.

Transition? What about diesel trucks that identify space aliens powered by energon cubes?

Beautifully put. When his time comes, if it hasn't already, it should be carved on his tombstone, and the Constitution should be buried with him.

Are you trying to take away her victim card? Don't you realize how deprived she is in the victim card department? Careful. Hell hath no fury...

Yeah....I saw that. I support stopping aid to Israel and Hamas (and Netanyahu facilitated Qatar sending aid to Hamas so he can shut the hell up.) Bug the idea that she is somehow homeless is laughable. So her congresswoman mother can't send her a plane ticket back to DC?

Misrepresent, mischaracterize and ridicule. Haven't we all had enough of those tactics? Beyond misrepresenting, mischaracterizing and ridiculing? Do you? It's 2024. I don't think writing in Ron Paul still rises to that level. I don't see a better real world chance of escaping that trap, a better lawyer to get us out of the clutches of the Bad Cop and the Good Cop than RFKJr. Want to do something that stands a slight chance of producing a positive outcome? Write in Ron Paul. Or maybe do what Ron Paul taught us to do for state GOP conventions, but for our county election boards this time. If they want a fight, let's oblige them.

That's exactly it. Biden's bad cop job here is to make trashing the Constitution look like a reasonable alternative. It wasn't that long ago that nothing could make trashing the Constitution outright look like a reasonable idea, because it wasn't a reasonable idea, it isn't a reasonable idea and it won't be a reasonable idea. But Biden sure is making it look like one. Taking over our own election boards and voting for a non-Demopublican, on the other hand, is an eminently reasonable idea. Isn't it a shame that a vast swath of the population has been brainwashed into thinking it just can't be done? Biden and Trump exactly the same. How does having identical Bad Cop and Good Cop get us to trash our Constitution like fucking idiots? It fucking doesn't.

I don't lie about what you said. Both Trump and Biden lead to the same place. They're playing the age old good/bad cops routine. In the end, you get communist China. And there's plenty of smoke in the air. Industry works. And nobody in government is sabotaging it any more, because they're the only ones getting rich from it at that point. Nobody said Joe Montana and Jerry Rice are the same. They were, however, once on the same team playing toward the same goal. You can disagree. But at least have enough respect for yourself to understand what you're disagreeing with and demonstrate the fact that you do.