And he probably misread it as s-word and thought swearing made him tough.
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Okay, so, I saw a piece on 60 Minutes yesterday interviewing various IG’s from the govt., and how a lot of them were probably illegally fired, due to no reason at all being given on their termination sheet, despite there being a very clear a definitive 3-point system to do so.
And now we also have student protesters being arressted and potentially deported if this goes through.
So… can someone help me understand why there’s so many very clearly illegal and suspicious oversights happening, yet no one has the backbone or the power to intervene or stop it?
Have everyone who fits that criteria already been fired? And why haven’t They been covered for either?
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The American system doesn’t have any real punishment for a president who doesn’t follow the law except that congress can impeach them (needs a 2/3 vote in the senate for removal) or their own cabinet can declare them mentally unfit through section 4 of the 25th Amendment. If the 25th was invoked and the president challenged his own cabinets decision to remove them then that ends up back in congress where, again, a 2/3 vote is needed to remove the President. It’s never happened.
Nixon resigned after top members of both the House and Senate visited him. It’s likely they told him if he didn’t resign he would be impeached and removed. Andrew Johnson was impeached by the house back in 1868 but the senate voted to keep him in office (fun fact: came down to just one vote), Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are the only other presidents who have been impeached by the house but both also survived the senate trial.
The current congress is unlikely to remove Trump under any scenario. He can do what he wants until such time that more than 2/3 or the Senators would pull him out of office.
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It’s also worth knowing that we have some past examples of US Presidents breaking the law and those acts not even triggering an impeachment. Andrew Jackson openly defied the US Supreme Court. They told him he couldn’t remove Native Americans from a piece of land bc the US Govt had agreed that land belonged to them. He did it anyway. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. I’m sure there are others but those two always come up when people talk about this stuff.
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Lincoln was never impeached over that because he never broke the law. The suspension of habeas corpus was legalised under a bill that passed through as official channels as Lincoln had during the civil war.
No defending Andrew Jackson though. Half gator, half horse but a complete dickhead.
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I’m not saying Lincoln was wrong to do it, but his initial suspension was ruled unconstitutional by the courts. He ignored the courts and then when a Baltimore newspaper criticised him for it he had their editor locked up till the end of the war with no charges.
Another fun fact: the newspaper man was locked up in Fort McHeny. That’s the fort we sing about in the star spangled banner which was written by the newspapers man’s Grandfather.
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Ironically you are not going to believe who and what Lincoln used as a basis to justify that decision. It was Andrew Jackson ignoring the Supreme Court in order to establish the BoIA because time is a flat circle.
Fun Fact: Frank Key Howard was related to the judge who declared Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus as unconstitutional. That judge was Roger Talney who had written the Majority Opinion on the Dred Scott case.
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Ultimately, it comes down to this: the American was founded and is based on an honor system. Everything from our laws to our constitution is only enforceable as long as people are willing to do so, because the higher up you go, the fewer enforcements and punishments there are, because our founders never imaged it would come to that. So now, we have a huge portion of our leaders, in all sectors, without honor. They do what they want to do because they can and nobody who could hold them accountable wants to because they benefit. So the reason we are currently fucked is because the whole thing was built on an honor system and now nobody has any.
Taney* was as bad as Andrew Jackson and, yes, I knew he was related to the newspaper man, but I had no idea that Lincoln’s rational was that Andrew Jackson had previously ignored the courts 
. That’s wild. Thanks for sharing.
*spelling
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Information sends its regards.
Of course you have to consider if it is just some sort of crisis actor.
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Trump using the white house as background while advertising Elons company. This is so embarrassing for America.
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Trump thinks the peace talks are going a little too well.
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Fun Fact About Lincoln and what actually happened that night all those years ago at the Fords Theater.
American Historians and Documentarians believe that the actual events were far to embarrassing for a growing nation to endure
But Abraham Lincoln actually got hammered in the ass so much that he died of being hammered in the ass.
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Honestly, I would love to see this. While I don’t want to give Putin any praise, the man was a KGB-trained soldier and even now in his old age, is pretty much ripped. Musk, on the other hand, has probably never thrown a punch outside of a controlled scenario like a sparring session in his life, and as of now is second only to Trump on the global list of people who need the ever-loving dog shit beaten out of them. To get an idea of how this would go, those of you who have it in Arcade, just load up The Disruptor ET and watch as TD rag-dolls Tim Quinn, and that’s pretty much how it would play out.
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If you’re wondering what is at risk of being “woke”, apparently being intolerant of slavery extending to children as young as six is possibly “wokeness” according to some.
We cannot have our elections soon enough.
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