Posted on 01/10/2025 9:41:54 AM PST by DallasBiff
Whatever you think 2025 will bring, you’re most likely wrong.
If Donald Trump’s first term taught us anything, it was that even preparedness has its limits. Trump’s knack for stoking high-level uncertainty keeps his opponents off-balance while forcing the media into a constant state of catch-up. That puts the president-elect in a uniquely powerful position, even before considering his governing trifecta.
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What does an America without democracy look like?
CALIFORNIA
What do I win???
This, in the face of this week’s judicial clown show up in New York, where the wetback cur Juan “Colombian Coffee Boy” Merchan got to label President Trump as a “felon”, in collusion with our own Supreme Fart.
For later.
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Check his basement.
Suzanne takes you down..
Back in the early 2000s, I was helping create a database of every US college, and their average applicant's SAT/ACT scores and GPA and IQ, further broken down by the individual schools within the university system...
As I was a schoolteacher back then, I was saddened to see that the Schools of Education were consistently in the Bottom 5 of almost every university's list. (The sciences and med schools were almost always at the top, of course.)
But I also noticed that the one school that was pretty much always in the Bottom 2 was NOT from the Arts or the Athletics or the PoliSci majors... no, it was the Schools of Journalism that almost universally had all of the worst students and least intelligent applicants.
I doubt that has changed in the last 2 decades.
And it clearly shows.
A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.In history and present times, those regimes named “democratic republic” have been communist dictatorships (e.g. East Germany, North Korea).
In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.
In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.
— Dan Smoot Report, 1966
“What does an America without democracy look like? We’re about to find out.” A constitutional republic works OK for me. I get a taste of that ‘democracy’ every four years when the liberals elect a democrat governor here in KS. I don’t much like the taste.
Again, any time you see these people use the word “democracy” replace it with “oligarchic rule by the Deep Staters” for a more accurate reflection of what they’re saying.
......What does an America without democracy look like? We’re about to find out......
That’s just total baloney!
Not a friggin democracy. Wake up chowder heads
https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/max-burns/
We are a representative republic. The word democracy is nowhere in our founding documents. In fact, the constitution in article IV, section 4, refers to our form of governance as “a republican form”. Nothing there containing the words democratic, democracy or democrat.
😂😂😂😂😂😂. Oh, otay buckwheat!
The Hillington Post. What a joke. Waaaah, muh uncertainty! This doofus “writer” wants the “certainty” of a continued foreign invasion. How do people become this stoopid?
Democracy...2 wolves and a sheep deciding who is for dinner.
Reminder: Don’t forget to say “barf alert” when posting fake media lies. Although we like to think all FReepers are savvy, there are a lot of dumb FReepers who will actually believe these things if you don’t put them in the proper context.
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