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Trump Loyalist Pushes 'Post-Constitutional' Second Term
A battle-tested D.C. bureaucrat and self-described Christian nationalist is drawing up detailed plans for a sweeping expansion of presidential power in a second Trump administration.
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Death to traitors.
EVERY LAST ONE
#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-06-09 10:17 PM | Reply
One wonders just how closely the American Taliban will come to resemble the one in Afghanistan. It will be about money and power and the ultimate grift...pretending to be the true spokespeople for their god, or gods.
#2 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-06-10 06:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6
What fresh fecking hell is this?
Jesus H Christ on a pogo stick!
I only have 4.8 years to retirement people! Can't you just let me slip into retirement and get out of the country before it all goes to hell?!
Is that too much to fricking ask?!
#3 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-06-10 06:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Earth: retirement? I'm almost there. My concerns, if Der Dotard is in place again: -that Social Security I plan on taking at about 70 will be gone -the capital markets will be so roiled that my retirement savings will shrink bigly, causing me to remain employed perhaps until the orange oaf dies
#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-06-10 09:23 AM | Reply
In other words, he is going to try to get Trump to do EXACTLY what Biden did in his first month of office when he abused his powers...the same powers liberals demonized Trump for doing in office right before him. Why are liberals so hypocritical? If it's so bad to do this, why wasn't it bad when Biden did it? I know you are going to try to give context and spin that makes Biden right and any Rep wrong but, no matter what you present, all it is is partisan bias because you can't erase facts. Well, liberals can eventually like they have rewritten a lot of history already but 4 years ago is too new to get rewritten. Sorry about your luck.
#5 | Posted by humtake at 2024-06-10 11:43 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
#7 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE
Such as? Enlighten us.
What did Biden do that was so beyond the Constitution?
#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-10 12:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
He dared to defeat Tangerine Jesus.
#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-10 01:09 PM | Reply
"Morning Report " Some in GOP unhappy about Trump's revenge' agenda
Some GOP senators, whose overarching ambition is to wrest the majority from Democrats in November, believe Trump's talk of retaliatory prosecutions against former Biden administration officials is damaging to the party and other candidates " and to the country.
Moreover, there are some Republicans in the Senate who would rather not scuttle the appropriations process this year amid government shutdown risks by waging political war over the Justice Department's budget, as some conservative colleagues seem eager to do.
Trump's closest allies want to try to hobble Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of the former president using Congress's power of the purse.
For reasons that have nothing to do with budgeting, the government's prosecution of Trump for alleged election interference in 2020 is unlikely to come to trial before the election."
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thehill.com
#8 | Posted by Corky at 2024-06-10 01:25 PM | Reply
#6 Catdog, you should definitely take SS at 62 or 63 at the latest. I'm due to retire in 2029, SS is due to go teats up about 2 years later. Check out 'Holy Schmidt' on Youtube. He is a good financial advisor handing out free advice. He has a video on 'when it is optimal to take SS'. Check that video out. Man is very bright, knows what he is talking about. He recommends taking SS at 62.
#9 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-06-10 02:22 PM | Reply
it's not going teats up. There might be a reduction in payout, but it's not bankrupt and it's not going to go bankrupt. There are breakeven points on when to take it. You also need to consider how much you have saved when making that decision.
#10 | Posted by YAV at 2024-06-10 08:28 PM | Reply
SS is due to go teats up about 2 years later.
#11 | POSTED BY EARTHMUSE
Yes.
Take it as soon as you can.
I'm not sure why you're posting lies about social security, though.
#11 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-10 10:26 PM | Reply
Its impossible for it to "run out of money."
Every worker in the United States of America would have to quit working at the same time for it to "run out of money."
I'm not sure why you'd tell ridiculous lies about it.
#12 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-10 10:30 PM | Reply
Did the "very bright"guy who you posted about in #11 tell you that every single worker in the US was going to quit working on the same day?
Man...
He's obviously someone with some smarts....
#13 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-06-10 10:32 PM | Reply
"SS is due to go teats up about 2 years later."
SS is an equilibrium equation. One additional point on both the employer and employee puts the equation in balance into perpetuity*. Eventually, we'll have no other choice than to increase payroll rates. But suggesting bankruptcy (or Ponzi) just means the author doesn't fully understand the equation.
*actuarially = 75 years.
#14 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-10 10:46 PM | Reply
It will be about money and power and the ultimate grift...pretending to be the true spokespeople for their god, or gods.
Posted by Hughmass at 2024-06-10 06:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy
That's Squeaker Johnson to a T
#15 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-11 07:20 AM | Reply
Do that if you are counting on exiting life early. For me delaying until I'm 70 increases my monthly by over a thousand. With that I worry less about outliving my cash cache. The SSA website has a "breakeven" calculator on it. Of course delaying and why you'd do that varies from person to person based on circumstances. Historically every year you delay is like an 8% bump in what you'll receive. If you can make that in your investments, then take SS early and beat that 8%. If you aren't confident of that, then relax and let SSA take care of that for you for that part of your retirement income.
My thoughts about it, anyway.
#16 | Posted by YAV at 2024-06-11 09:17 AM | Reply
#7 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE Such as? Enlighten us. What did Biden do that was so beyond the Constitution? #8 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT
And still waiting...
#17 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-11 10:32 AM | Reply
Because only the 1% are entitled to retire and have health care in GQP land.
#18 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-11 11:10 AM | Reply
#19 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-11 10:32 AM | Repl
Might as well ask him to cure cancer while you're at it.
#19 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-11 11:11 AM | Reply
" Do that if you are counting on exiting life early."
The usual break-point is 78.
If you've got longevity in your family's genes, delay as long as possible. Meanwhile if grandma and mom both died in their early 60s, take it as soon as you can.
#20 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-11 11:35 AM | Reply
Good to see a confirmation on what I thought, Danforth. Thanks.
#21 | Posted by YAV at 2024-06-11 12:58 PM | Reply
"One additional point on both the employer and employee puts the equation in balance into perpetuity*."
Or, you know, just make it a flat tax instead of a regressive tax...
But like George Carlin said: We don't have time for serious solutions.
#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-11 01:05 PM | Reply
Sorry about your luck.
Yawn.
#23 | Posted by cbob at 2024-06-11 02:39 PM | Reply
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