What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Valmy]

though your president has more powers than a run of the mill monarch.
It's one of the reasons monarchs are popular: they're without teeth. Having been brought to heel by constitutions, mostly.

Our President had far more power than the British Monarch from day 1 of our Constitution. Ironically I guess.

Well...outside of Hanover anyway.

[Bauer]

though your president has more powers than a run of the mill monarch.
It's one of the reasons monarchs are popular: they're without teeth. Having been brought to heel by constitutions, mostly.

Our President had far more power than the British Monarch from day 1 of our Constitution. Ironically I guess.

Well...outside of Hanover anyway.

I always assumed the founding fathers of America wanted to create their own monarch in a way.  Ironic indeed.

[viper37]

The monarchy is still largely a popular institution

Everywhere they are, these people remain popular.
Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, US, UK & Commonwealth, people seem to love them.

Personally, I blame Disney for this idea that having a King or Queen is super cool.

Hey! We're not a monarchy yet.

I see someone noticed 

Some people sure seem fond of absolutism.

[viper37]

though your president has more powers than a run of the mill monarch.
It's one of the reasons monarchs are popular: they're without teeth. Having been brought to heel by constitutions, mostly.

Our President had far more power than the British Monarch from day 1 of our Constitution. Ironically I guess.

Well...outside of Hanover anyway.

Interesting readings I just did.

The first attempt to expand the President and government power came from Thomas Jefferson.  Criticizing the government became a crime.

Interesting.  Never knew that.

[viper37]

Anyway, public enemy #1 has been identified.
Your new Cobra Commander leader of the Antifa:

Feds Identify "Leader of Antifa" 

Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news.

To the Department of Homeland Security, "he is the leader of Antifa in Portland, OR."

That phrase appears in an internal report produced by DHS, the largest law enforcement agency in the country. As they see it, Patey—a young man accused of no crime and who looks like a random protester plucked off the streets of Minneapolis—is a domestic terrorist.

In Patey's apartment, Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Jesse Waters saw something sinister: an "Antifa safe house," as they called it in multiple segments. This kind of idiocy is hardly unprecedented by the standards of cable news, of course; but the federal government is buying into the hysteria, too. Documents leaked to me show Patey and countless other American protesters have been branded as domestic terrorists. As a result, their private information is now being collected and stored in a DHS intelligence system shown below.

[grumbler]

though your president has more powers than a run of the mill monarch.
It's one of the reasons monarchs are popular: they're without teeth. Having been brought to heel by constitutions, mostly.

Our President had far more power than the British Monarch from day 1 of our Constitution. Ironically I guess.

Well...outside of Hanover anyway.

I always assumed the founding fathers of America wanted to create their own monarch in a way.  Ironic indeed.

Not really all that ironic.  The Founding Fathers wanted to combine the offices of Head of State (the king in the UK) and Head of Government (Prime Minister in the UK).  To offset that, they divorced the executive from the legislative branch.

[The Minsky Moment]

Not really surprising that apart from a quickly deleted (and to be fair probably indeed over-the-top fake) testimony, I haven't seen anything found about Trump yet in the millions of newly released documents. Which is quickly making him the only celebrity in America not to be featured in there somewhere.

Very convincing.

There is quite a bit about Trump, including incriminating testimony about him, but it's not getting covered presumably because the press has been intimidated about reporting on unconfirmed claims, even if their existence is newsworthy.

More broadly, if people are waiting to find Prince Andrew kinds of revelations of Epstein procuring girls for Trump, I doubt that is in the cards.  I don't think that was the nature of their relationship.  Rather, they were both parallel players who understood and respected each other's "game". and enjoyed playing it alongside each other.

There is rarely much subterfuge or subtlety for Trump, his crimes and vices are usually in the open for all to see, if one is looking. Both Trump and Epstein were deeply involved in the model agency world of the 80s and 90s, which was all about recruiting teenage girls and marketing them out to wealthy men. Trump even founded his own agency in the 90s; he also acquired Teen USA and famously would stroll through the changing rooms to ogle the teens. Epstein and Trump both had close ties to Paolo Zampolli, a model agency head who brought Melania to Trump and teamed with Epstein to try to acquire the infamous Elite agency. Zampolli later did work for Trump Org and has been appointed to various federal jobs.  It's all there, all out in the open.  People have just decided to look the other way.

[crazy canuck]

Bloomberg has created a manual for CEOs on how best to run their businesses.  It should be entitled Be the Best Suckup You Can Be

https://www.instagram.com/p/DT_RZAQDPGX/?igsh=MXE0eHNueXI5anc4OQ==

[viper37]

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[Valmy]

Anyway, public enemy #1 has been identified.
Your new Cobra Commander leader of the Antifa:

I am glad the government managed to identify the charismatic leader none of us have ever heard of.

Reminds me a little bit of when BLM first came along in 2016 or so when suddenly the Right Wing conspiracy guys had all these secrets about the founders and leaders of BLM, some guys that none of us had ever heard of. OUR ILLUSTRIOUS LEADER!!! What's his face.

As it turned out BLM was actually founded by a few women...who we had also never heard of.

Sort of like how our secret puppet master and financier is George Soros, a completely uncharismatic finance guy whose net worth is 7 billion dollars which is basically pennies compared to the right wing moghuls.

Obviously leading a giant leftwing movement requires little money, no charisma, no known opinions, or even having name recognition.

[Jacob]

As I said in the other thread: I have a lot of respect for ordinary Americans standing up and fighting for what is right in the face of the machinery of the Trumpists.

[crazy canuck]

The recent JE disclosures point to a total failure of American law enforcement over decades.  All of this information was in FBI files, and nothing was ever done with the exception of a very light deal in Florida for JE. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Something was done.  There was an extensive investigation, a criminal prosecution, witnesses were identified and made ready to testify.  Then a ridiculously favorable deal was made, pulling the rug out from under the line agents and prosecutors and the victims.

[Valmy]

Yeah well what about all the people involved who weren't JE? Though I guess it made sense to go after him first.

[crazy canuck]

Something was done.  There was an extensive investigation, a criminal prosecution, witnesses were identified and made ready to testify.  Then a ridiculously favorable deal was made, pulling the rug out from under the line agents and prosecutors and the victims.

That is why I said, "with the exception of...". But what the damning thing that becomes apparent is there were so many other potential prosecutions that could have occurred.