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Should be a wild four years.

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This is the first Democrat W in a while. Letting them have control over what is acceptable thought by renaming it after a completely different Bragg is complete loser mentality.
(Yes, I'm aware that the Biden admin made it illegal to name things after Confederate Generals. But choosing to skirt around the law rather than either ignore or repeal it is gay and retarded. It also makes Trump taking the Jackson option in regards to the Judges significantly less plausible.)
They should give all the bases back the same name, just named after a different person with that name. Both the north and the south struggled with reconciliation after the war and this was part of it as was the confederate monuments. A symbol of a healing nation after a brutal war. If these shit heads want to rip those ancient wounds open then we should rub their faces in the shit that follows.
 
Thomas Kinkade is an American treasure and I will take his art over any of the post-modern garbage that is paraded about as art in current year.

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People call his art kitsch and say his use of values (how light or dark the colors are) wasn't as good as Rockwell's, but it's very warm and genuine in a way that you don't really see anymore. If you look closely at some works, you'd notice that there's less detail in, say, the ground than the sky, or the hands than the eyes, because your brain is designed to focus on some things more than others, usually what has the most information. Typically this is actually a good thing, because if you're not careful the details would fight each other. You can tell a lot about an artist by what he focuses on, for better or worse. Sometimes it's subconscious, but most artists make a point to include the most information where they'd want you to look, usually the face or body. Kinkade didn't do this. He gave each element enough detail to make the whole piece feel real. There's a clear Romantic influence and I'd rather see more of it than fucking Alegria.

Anyway, ICE is apparently scaring the illegals into hiding. Businesses are starting to hire citizens again because certain places have cleared out.
 
but it's very warm and genuine in a way that you don't really see anymore.

This is exactly it. It's nice seeing a romantic, idealized version of things rather than how everything these days is cold and sterile and abstract. You really see how people yearn for something happy with how popular the whole Frutiger Aero aesthetic is now. It's probably the last art movement that was truly optimistic for the future.
 
Where would you rank Trump45 among all presidents? Where would you rank Biden? I think Biden is objectively on the bottom of the barrel.

I would be somewhat generous to Obama and FDR despite the ideological differences, but Biden was just a clusterfuck of gaslighting, ranking debt, and being braindead.

As for Trump45 I wouldn't rank him that high but because he wasn't really consequential.
Trump's first term was special insofar as he was inept at managing the executive branch for the first 2 years, and by then he had lost his mandate and control of the house and Senate. He really did try to put America first though based on his actions. The issue is that there are people in his cabinet who were smarter than him with their own agenda to enrich themselves or their associates while harming the public. This combined with a penny smart dollar dumb approach to cost cutting is what lead to covid being so damaging.

The CDC had a fully funded SOTA task force to track novel diseases globally. Their main purpose was to notify the government if the threat of a pandemic was immenant, and provide strategies to minimize the immediate impact of an emerging global pandemic on the U.S.

Trump shut down this department as a cost cutting measure. A year later COVID broke out in China.

That was his first term. Now we are in his second.

He has had 4 years to plan his actions as president, and immediately started to implement them. It shows intiative and that's a good thing. Promises made promises kept is a killer slogan, it's his approach right now. If his whole cabinet was on board with his approach, America would enter a new golden age. It's about time the west had a leader who believed his people were capable of greatness, and was willing to sacrifice the perpetual maintainance of "the now" to empower his people.

The main issue with Trump is that he surrounds himself with incompetent or self interested people. He hasn't fixed that and those people have had 4 years to plan what they can squeeze from the American people. They do not share a vision of an American made great, and view America as a chest to plunder.

I'm seeing this behavior again with vital departments like the Consumer Protection Agency, which was founded to prevent 2008 from ever happening again. Those have to go if his millionaire friends want to pad their pocket books more for the next 4 years. After that they'll retire, and the public can subsidize the long term consequences of not having departments enforce the law.

But hey it's just for 4 years right? It's all fixable right? Just like fucking with the department of immigration or border patrol. We're gonna deport all of the illegal immigrants that got in lickety split during Bidans presidency. America's gonna go back to being majority white and rent and housing rates are gonna go down, as those landlords decide to charge less out of the goodness of their hearts.

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To the left, not caring about strangers in another country is a moral failing. So yes, they think it's a gotcha. The idea that you might put your wife, son, neighbor, countryman ahead of someone else who is suffering is anathema to them.

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(Hat tip to Hoe Math for the cleaned up and updated version of this chart.)

No, literally. The left empathizes, or at least pretends to empathize with, the general range of "all animals in the universe to Every natural thing in the universe, including rocks," whereas Conservative empathy is focused on "Extended family to all your acquaintances." As defined as, "if you could spend your capacity to help, give, be charitable, to be empathetic, or to be generous on something, where would you spend this capacity?" Or, to put it another way, "what circle of stuff are you concerned about right and wrong being done towads them."

The right cares about their family, extended family, closest friends, friends, and aquaintances, mostly the extended family/closest friends. The left almost doesn't give a fuck about those people and instead claims to care about every living thing or every nonliving thing in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

It could be that the left are faking it cause they think that's what a "good person" would say. Or they could be absolute sociopaths covering that up with pathological altruism. Of course, they never sacrifice anything themselves, but they're happy to give away your money and your resources at will.

Either way, we need to reboot the mental health and education industries, shoo out the marxist rot, and figure out how to fix this brain rot REAL fucking quick.
Did they test for Libertarians?
 
Am I off base in thinking “Congress allocates the money, therefore the Executive must spend every single dollar” is as ludicrous of an argument as “Congress writes the federal criminal statutes, therefore the Executive must prosecute every single crime”?

Either way, my concern isn’t that SCOTUS will (mostly) strike today’s rulings down - it’s that they’ll bitch out and keep the counter rulings narrow in scope to avoid “muh diminished judiciary”. And then we’ll just see edge case after edge case filed (they’re already saying changing websites is illegal lol) which will be very effective at gumming up the works.

I wouldn’t say it’s over yet, but either SCOTUS has to do the needful and set widely scoped precedent or Trump has to defy the courts. The shock and awe campaign will quickly fizzle out if they’re allowed to keep up this blatantly baseless lawfare and then we’re right back in 2016 land.
 
This is about as popular as pizza made with a whole wheat base.

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lmao the niggers are jealous of the gibs. if they see any other shitskins trying to crowd in on their gibs it lights a fire. of the 6% of niggers that could read or were read this, second lowest grouping favorability (besides registered demoncrats at 5% looks like)
 
ither way, my concern isn’t that SCOTUS will (mostly) strike today’s rulings down - it’s that they’ll bitch out and keep the counter rulings narrow in scope to avoid “muh diminished judiciary”. And then we’ll just see edge case after edge case filed (they’re already saying changing websites is illegal lol) which will be very effective at gumming up the works.
Playing with fire. They can order Trump to do whatever they want. But Trump controls the payroll, the keys and the guns. He can just ignore any court ruling pertaining to how he runs the beaurocracy. And if he does, what realistically can the Judicial Branch do? Not a god damn thing. SCOTUS has to be aware of the fire they are being thrown into here with this lawfare. Trump is done taking orders from midwits in funny robes. The Judiciary has REVIEW power over laws and the implementation of laws. But it cannot commend the Chief Executive over the administration of executive agencies. They would be utter fools to try and argue otherwise. This is less about law and precedent and more about hard nosed practical implementation of power.

Lets not forget how the Supreme Courts Dredd v. Scott decision was rendered moot. By the liberal use of extreme violence, legal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and burning down Atlanta, Richmond and Savannah for good measure.
 
This is exactly it. It's nice seeing a romantic, idealized version of things rather than how everything these days is cold and sterile and abstract. You really see how people yearn for something happy with how popular the whole Frutiger Aero aesthetic is now. It's probably the last art movement that was truly optimistic for the future.
20-year nostalgia cycle strikes again. I actually grew up with it, and a common way people describe Frutiger Aero stuff now is, "the future we were promised." Who knows, with a lot of photos looking like classical paintings now and AI making certain kinds of art less profitable, there might be a future movement with that kind of optimism. At the risk of sounding 🧩 there's been a push in recent years to make everything ugly and sterile, and I believe it's on purpose. It's to demoralize people. For instance, look at this "picture" from Trump's first assassination attempt.

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Wikipedo doesn't show it because they know how completely powerful it is. They broke their own site just to make it harder to see it. It shows when you click the link, but nowhere else do they disable thumbnails like this.
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It makes Trump look too good, and the less of that the better. They don't want people to believe anything but what they're told, like the faceless corporation being trustworthy and having their best interests at heart. I won't post that parody based on Saturn Devouring His Son but you get the point.
 
And if he does, what realistically can the Judicial Branch do? Not a god damn thing.
It can beg congress to impeach him, with no actual force of law behind the begging. Whether a republican-majority congress would actually impeach over this is yet to be seen.

Wikipedo doesn't show it AT ALL because they know how completely powerful it is.
I'm surprised they renamed the article to acknowledge it was an assassination attempt. Initially the Wikipedo article about it called it a "shooting incident" at the rally, with the article doing all it could to downplay the fact that someone had just tried to assassinate a former president and current presidential candidate (the word "assassination" didn't appear in the title or body; the fight on the talk page was quite entertaining).
 
Am I off base in thinking “Congress allocates the money, therefore the Executive must spend every single dollar” is as ludicrous of an argument as “Congress writes the federal criminal statutes, therefore the Executive must prosecute every single crime”?

Either way, my concern isn’t that SCOTUS will (mostly) strike today’s rulings down - it’s that they’ll bitch out and keep the counter rulings narrow in scope to avoid “muh diminished judiciary”. And then we’ll just see edge case after edge case filed (they’re already saying changing websites is illegal lol) which will be very effective at gumming up the works.

I wouldn’t say it’s over yet, but either SCOTUS has to do the needful and set widely scoped precedent or Trump has to defy the courts. The shock and awe campaign will quickly fizzle out if they’re allowed to keep up this blatantly baseless lawfare and then we’re right back in 2016 land.
The best thing SCOTUS can do is reiterate that Trump has full power to disband the judicial branch and start recommending that the worst offenders get disbarred.
 
Am I off base in thinking “Congress allocates the money, therefore the Executive must spend every single dollar” is as ludicrous of an argument as “Congress writes the federal criminal statutes, therefore the Executive must prosecute every single crime”?

Either way, my concern isn’t that SCOTUS will (mostly) strike today’s rulings down - it’s that they’ll bitch out and keep the counter rulings narrow in scope to avoid “muh diminished judiciary”. And then we’ll just see edge case after edge case filed (they’re already saying changing websites is illegal lol) which will be very effective at gumming up the works.

I wouldn’t say it’s over yet, but either SCOTUS has to do the needful and set widely scoped precedent or Trump has to defy the courts. The shock and awe campaign will quickly fizzle out if they’re allowed to keep up this blatantly baseless lawfare and then we’re right back in 2016 land.
The "You must spend it all!!!!" is because they don't want to get less funding the next time funding is given out so if they show we only spent 50% of whatever they will only get that much total next time. Dumb system but that's how it works even in business in many cases.

Roberts doesn't want to be ruling on cases about executive power for the rest of his time as Chief Justice so I would expect a wide ruling. If he passes something narrow he will be doing them every week for the rest of his life.
 
I'm surprised they renamed the article to acknowledge it was an assassination attempt. Initially the Wikipedo article about it called it a "shooting incident" at the rally, with the article doing all it could to downplay the fact that someone had just tried to assassinate a former president and current presidential candidate (the word "assassination" didn't appear in the title or body; the fight on the talk page was quite entertaining).
I remember that. I remember journos dragging their feet towards calling it an assassination attempt in the first place. "Trump falls at loud noises." Those cocksuckers.
 
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