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Trump is taking US down the path to tyranny (CNN alert)
CNN ^ | 07/23/2018 | Jeffrey Sachs

Posted on 07/24/2018 4:32:08 AM PDT by Category Four


The United States was born in a revolt against the tyranny of King George III. The Constitution was designed to prevent tyranny through a system of checks and balances, but in President Trump's America, those safeguards are failing.

Donald Trump holds the grandiose belief that only he should rule America. Unchecked by cowed or complicit Republicans in Congress, Trump invokes executive authority to alter policies and practices long established by law and treaty.

Days after his summit meeting with Vladimir Putin, no one knows what the two autocrats agreed to, or even talked about -- not the President's top aides, nor the Pentagon, nor security establishment or Congress, never mind the rest of us. And in the midst of the ensuing uproar, Trump has invited Putin to Washington, without telling his top intelligence official and no doubt most other key aides and officials.

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KEYWORDS: agitprop; boycotttimewarner; cnn; tds; timelies
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To: Category Four

It’s fascinating what the author regards as “tyranny”. From the article, tyranny appears to be the legal use of executive orders to reverse the executive orders of the previous administration. It’s not tyranny when their guy does it.


21 posted on 07/24/2018 5:08:52 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Category Four

What a bunch of deranged douchebags.


22 posted on 07/24/2018 5:12:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Category Four

Cutting taxes.
Cutting regulations.
Bringing jobs back to America.

Gee, sounds like a real tyrant, that Trump guy.


23 posted on 07/24/2018 5:13:32 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Category Four
Not all is lost. Special Counsel Robert Mueller and lower courts may still stand up to the President, even though the Supreme Court has become a predictable 5-4 backer of almost limitless presidential authority. Trump's assertion of power would also be counteracted if the Democrats win at least one of the chambers of Congress in November.

Jeffrey Sachs is a heavily UN connected Globalist academic. He sees the UN and Globalist organizations as the path to end global poverty. He actually initially supported Trump. That did not last long. The hate Trump crowd are driven by the Globalist agenda. They don't all admit it, but the cheer with glee any time the US is "punished" for success.

24 posted on 07/24/2018 5:16:09 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Category Four

Tyranny is when an alliance between opposition politicians and media propagandists attempts to overturn the will of he voters.


25 posted on 07/24/2018 5:23:31 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Category Four

I guess liberals must have lost count of all the Executive Orders “O” put in place...Not to mention that crowd of treasonous losers who rode into the WH on his coat tails.


26 posted on 07/24/2018 5:26:19 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: Category Four

We have been on that path for eight long miserable years.


27 posted on 07/24/2018 5:30:03 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Category Four

Sometimes I read this pap and substitute “Obama” for “Trump” just to get an idea of what it would have sounded like had the MSM been truthful in those days.


28 posted on 07/24/2018 5:30:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Category Four

There will be more and more of this as the deep state (including global) swamp creatures are taken down. Our nation is being watched around the world.


29 posted on 07/24/2018 5:36:07 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Category Four

Make us awake when he weaponizes the IRS, CIA and FBI to go after his political opponents...


30 posted on 07/24/2018 5:47:47 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Category Four

How many executive orders has Trump issued verses Obama?


31 posted on 07/24/2018 5:49:15 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Category Four

This guy even throws in a Nazi quote at the end of his tirade. Unhinged.


32 posted on 07/24/2018 5:51:55 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Category Four

“Trump has invited Putin to Washington, without telling his top intelligence official and no doubt most other key aides and officials.”

This is clearly a lie.


33 posted on 07/24/2018 5:53:29 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: outpostinmass2

Trump has issued 81 EOs.

Obama issued 74 EOs in his first two years.

https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders


34 posted on 07/24/2018 5:55:24 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: Category Four

I think the media has begun to embarrass themselves. They lie thru their teeth, Major Garret on CBS, to the kooks at MSNBC, it’s basically DEM TV.


35 posted on 07/24/2018 5:56:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Category Four

It would be much more accurate if you would just replace the name “Trump” with “Obama”.


36 posted on 07/24/2018 5:57:09 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Bayan

[Eight years of Obama trying to rule by decree and they didn’t say a word.]

Yes, but he was their tyrant.


37 posted on 07/24/2018 5:57:28 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: headstamp 2

And they are too ignorant of history to understand what tyrants do their media that got them there.


38 posted on 07/24/2018 5:59:05 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: outpostinmass2
The last EO ( addressing Odingo's removal of children from their law breaking parents), the dems begged him to sign it to make things right then their other half bitched and moaned that he was outside the constitution to do what he did.

SO...

I advise buying a whole bunch of brand new manila rope and just ignore the complaining about it when they are hanged.

39 posted on 07/24/2018 5:59:22 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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To: Category Four

And he’s doing it by cleverly putting judges on the Supreme Court who believe in a smaller, limited government, and constitutional restraints. Clever.


40 posted on 07/24/2018 6:00:00 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho) to sun spot6)
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