What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Minsky Moment]

Huh. Wonder why the WH put the House Impeachment Manager's opening statement into their report.

Reverence for the Laws

The principles of equality and consent mean that all are
equal before the law. No one is above the law, and no
one is privileged to ignore the law, just as no one is
outside the law in terms of its protection.

In his Lyceum Address, a young Abraham Lincoln
warned of two results of a growing disregard for the
rule of law. The first is mob rule: "whenever the
vicious portion of [our] population shall be permitted to
gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn
churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw
printing-presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and
burn obnoxious persons at pleasure and with impunity,
depend upon it, this government cannot last."

...Whether of the Left or of the Right, both mob rule and
tyrannical rule violate the rule of law because both are
rule by the base passions rather than the better angels of our nature. Both equally threaten our constitutional
order.

When crimes go unpunished or when good men do
nothing, the lawless in spirit will become lawless in
practice, leading to violence and demagoguery.

Patriotic education must have at its center a respect for
the rule of law, including the Declaration and the
Constitution, so that we have what John Adams called
"a government of laws, and not of men."

In the end, Lincoln's solution must be ours:
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to
his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to
violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and
never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of
seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of
Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws,
let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred
honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to
trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of
his own, and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws,
be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe,
that prattles on her lap-let it be taught in schools, in
seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers,
spelling books, and in Almanacs;-let it be preached from the
pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts
of justice.

[The Minsky Moment]

Dropped on MLK Day.  Classy act all the way to the end.

[grumbler]

Dropped on MLK Day.  Classy act all the way to the end.

You didn't read it.  Dead Civil Rights leaders are good.  Live ones are evil and anti-American.

[The Minsky Moment]

Dropped on MLK Day.  Classy act all the way to the end.

You didn't read it.  Dead Civil Rights leaders are good.  Live ones are evil and anti-American.

Right - same thing they said in King's day.

"Oh if only he was nice and respectful like Booker T instead of being so uppity.  And you know he's a red . . ."

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

I don't think that cartoon is authentic.

[Valmy]

I don't think that cartoon is authentic.

It is actually from 1974 and refers to the Junior Senator from Delaware for some reason.

[katmai]

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[garbon]

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[Syt]

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Do we need a Trump fallout thread?

[The Brain]

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Do we need a Trump fallout thread?

You mean the Biden presidency thread?

[Sheilbh]

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His final full day in office:

[Syt]

As others have commented before on this: It sounds like what a child thinks the president does (the description has been a default text for a long time).

[Solmyr]

Well, he is supposed to sign 100 pardons today.

[Solmyr]

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Do we need a Trump fallout thread?

You mean the Biden presidency thread?

Would be hilarious if Trump was still the most common topic in Biden's thread.