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How about instead it immediately triggers another new election and the people who ran previously are not eligible to run ever again
Slightly less left field proposal: failure to pass a budget should immediately force fresh elections (both houses plus presidency), as it would in a Parliamentary system. None of this "shutdown" nonsense.
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You have a curious habit of comparing your opponents to Nazis. You should be careful, that's +40 points on the crackpot index.
Everyone always says as if it is obvious, go back in time and kill Hitler. That this would be a overwhelming good.
But, if you go back, and he was a baby. At that time, there is no indication of evil, so you would be a baby killer, but for good. You would look crazy.
So, extrapolate that to present. Killing someone today, might also be seen as a universal good, but nobody would know it yet.
Is todays crazy, really crazy? or just not obvious yet. And some would say, it is pretty obvious.
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A lot of Trump supporters, including Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Dave Smith, voted for him because of his anti-war stance during campaigning. I’m not defending their poor judgement of an infamous con artist (I didn’t vote for Trump) but we should ask ourselves how democracy can function if candidates can just make things up during campaigns and do the complete opposite when they’re elected. We should also ask ours…
> but we should ask ourselves how democracy can function if candidates can just make things up during campaigns and do the complete opposite when they’re elected. Education. Actually teaching people how to think critically about what they see and hear needs to start as soon as they get a phone in their hand, if not sooner. That education in critical thinking needs to come from family, school, social clubs and religio…
>The Trump administration is making no real effort to crack down on whoever is trading using inside information, and these inside traders are operating with a complete sense of impunity, assured that they can get away with it. Yeah that's because IT's HIM. Jesus how much more proof do you people need that the Trumps themselves are looting the country.
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I didn’t vote for Trump but I don’t blame the voters. I don’t think many people foresaw him doing this on either side of the political aisle. Other stuff we disapprove of, yes. But not this. I say that because he had famously resisted to enter extended conflict in his first term. Maybe he wanted to but now has the chance since he’s in his final years. (At least, I hope it’s his final years.) But I didn’t hear anyone…
"We didn't see it coming" is not very believable. Trump campaigned on a general theme of chaos and griefing, and he is delivering on exactly what he promised.
Ordo ab chao in full swing.
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I think you’re giving Trump too much credit. If he starts firing shots again the war is illegal. The 60 day window is over. He has no appropriated money to fight the war, no public support, and no way out. There is no chess game here. It’s not even checkers. He is just trying to not have to admit he made a mistake - just with billions of dollars and lives on the line. Such sad.
He will just say it's a different operation. That's what they've been doing and it's working. Republicans have no desire to stop Trump. Democrats don't care either cuz they want this power once they're elected.
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"All the airlines cancelling flights and adding extra charges amid jet fuel crisis" https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/jet-fue...
You have to read more than the clickbait headline > While this figure might appear significant, it constitutes a mere 1.5 per cent reduction in total worldwide aviation capacity,