Posted on 10/25/2024 9:25:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump has described at length the dangerous and disturbing actions he says he will take if he wins the presidency.
His rallies offer a steady stream of such promises and threats — things like prosecuting political opponents and using the military against U.S. citizens. These statements are so outrageous and outlandish, so openly in conflict with the norms and values of American democracy that many find them hard to regard as anything but empty bluster.
We have two words for American voters: Believe him.
The record shows that Mr. Trump often pursues his stated goals, regardless of how plainly they lack legal or moral grounding. The record further shows that many of his most reckless efforts in his first administration were stymied only because of others in his administration who blocked, delayed or watered down his aims to ensure that he could not put himself above the law or the country. Mr. Trump has learned from that experience to surround himself with supplicants who would instead obey his wishes and bring his words and ideas to life even if they contradict facts, the public interest or the Constitution.
For this reason, Americans would be wise to see this language as a genuine threat, not simply Mr. Trump on a tangent. We should take the painful step of imagining America were his plans and promises to come to pass, to imagine the impacts to our culture, to our economy, to our security, to our shared commitment to the rule of law.
The promises Mr. Trump made during his first presidential campaign, in 2016, turned out to be a pretty good road map of the policies and priorities he pursued as president. Today he says he is ready to deploy the military against his political opponents...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I love the smell of defeated Democrats in the morning.
I am going to post it again, because I think I am so clever.
“Hitler is Germany’s Joe Biden.”
More NY times hysterical rantings
Wait... it’s wrong to arrest the opposition? When did this change?
I hope when Trump selects his team this time he stays away from military generals. I hope he learned that they are disloyal and cannot be trusted. O’Bama owns them all. IMHO.
I was already voting Trump; no need to sell me.
Here he is again folks, linking to his favorite rag, posting here everything the NY times vomits up from the lying pits of hell.
Thanks for nothing E.
Imagine the hundreds of whistle blowers that might emerge. This would insulate Trump from claims of simple revenge.
Yes,
There is a big chunk of useless desert between Phoenix and Yuma.
Good place for summer government headquarters.
No air conditioning! We need to save the Earth!
Hurry up before they waste it on solar.
For those who do not know, the heat in AZ is more determined by elevation than latitude. Southmost AZ is actually cooler, because it is higher. The hottest places are around lower Colorado and Gila rivers. Yuma and environment.
“prosecuting political opponents...so openly in conflict with the norms and values of American democracy”
Only a psycho could write this sentence after Biden’s lawfare campaign to ruin Trump. I hope that Trump announces that he is appointing special persecutors to investigate the Obama, Clinton, Biden and Pelosi crime families during his inauguration speech.
Imagine imposing quotas on the MSM but instead of race based quotes, political belief based quotas...
EVERY media outlet would be required to have 50% of their editorial and reporting staff right aligned.
oh, they’d go street rat crazy :)
When caught and brought to justice the guilty criminals always claim they are the victim.
He cannot appoint special prosecutors since he is arguing in Court that the administration cannot do that.
Spill your guts about what you know or you are fired for obstruction of justice.
And projection, they are scared shitless that Trump
“Might” do what they have already been doing
And NINE YEARS of unrestricted and highly illegal lawfare directed at one man.
No, they should not be sent to AZ, since they would turn AZ blue. Instead they should be sent to the worst places in blue states, such as Death Valley, or along the Canadian border in NY, VT, NH, MN or rural IL or anywhere in NM. Even better, most should be just laid off.
Yep...
@nytimes
Wow, I can smell the desperation from here.
Oh noze!, Trump may do, to the actual bad guys, what the bad guys have been doing to him despite his innocence.
Waaaaaaaaa!
The NY Slimes has become so pathetic I’m surprised Y’all aren’t jumping out windows...
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