USA Policy positions of Donald Trump; let's see how many he achieves

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They will suppress the vote even more now they have almost absolute power. It has been done this way in other countries when authoritarians come into power and decide to stay. The mob is running the US now, TOC.


Voting rights (and the election process) are mostly established and controlled by the states, not the federal government. These have been eroded over a period of time, accelerated by the move to the right of SCOTUS, which has rolled back many of the protections against vote suppression and election distortion.

Other than empowering states to suppress more (inspired by MAGA philosophy) and emboldening of SCOTUS, I'm not sure the federal government has many tools to suppress the vote directly. I may be proven naive on this.

I do think the threats - real or implied - against the media might have an effect. And possibly the likes of Elon throwing his money around like confetti will further distort democracy.
 

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Voting rights (and the election process) are mostly established and controlled by the states, not the federal government. These have been eroded over a period of time, accelerated by the move to the right of SCOTUS, which has rolled back many of the protections against vote suppression and election distortion.

Other than empowering states to suppress more (inspired by MAGA philosophy) and emboldening of SCOTUS, I'm not sure the federal government has many tools to suppress the vote directly. I may be proven naive on this.

I do think the threats - real or implied - against the media might have an effect. And possibly the likes of Elon throwing his money around like confetti will further distort democracy.
For a long time it was the Federal DoJ which had to enforce voting rights in the US South. It was one thing to have federal laws. It's another to enforce them. Same with media ownership laws, electoral interference, if the DoJ isn't looking for it, or charging it, then it doesn't matter what the law says. The new AG is being questioned now, and she's a 2020 election denier who is a complete zealot. She'll do so many illegal things it'll be the USGovt in court more than any law-breaking fascists.

It's like tax dodging. The rich get away with it because enforcement is non-existent. The GOP voted to reduce IRS enforcement as the first thing they did in budget negotiations.

They'll go even further in the first GOP budget. The only thing which might hold them back is there are at least a dozen GOP Congress people and senators who actually faithfully believe in reducing the deficit. There are also Republicans who will not like to see an end to Federal spending in their districts.

So the GOP has to cut taxes without increasing the deficit too much and also not obviously reduce spending in their districts/states.
 
Tech billionaires Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will be seated in pride of place at Donald Trump’s inauguration on the platform next to his cabinet.
A source familiar with inauguration planning told America’s ABC News the three men would have ringside seats for what promises to be an entertaining swearing in of the colourful President-elect.

Did bf boss get a gig ?
 
Tech billionaires Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will be seated in pride of place at Donald Trump’s inauguration on the platform next to his cabinet.
A source familiar with inauguration planning told America’s ABC News the three men would have ringside seats for what promises to be an entertaining swearing in of the colourful President-elect.

Did bf boss get a gig ?
Will there be another round table photo op where they all praise Dear Leader in turn, like last time?

That alone should have tweaked a red flag in even Fox viewers.
 
Tech billionaires Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos will be seated in pride of place at Donald Trump’s inauguration on the platform next to his cabinet.
A source familiar with inauguration planning told America’s ABC News the three men would have ringside seats for what promises to be an entertaining swearing in of the colourful President-elect.

Did bf boss get a gig ?
Americans voting for the "Drain the swamp" party

"I didn't think they'd be draining MY swamp"!
 

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They voted for him fully aware of what he's like.
You reap what you sow.
A whopping 77 million Americans voted for Trump so I'm extremely tempted to say **** 'em all.

But a whopping 75 million voted for Harris, and uninspiring as she was, they don't deserve this for one minute.

Nor did the many millions who were prevented from voting.
 
How about those who just couldn’t be arsed?
**** 'em.

But many millions of Americans are prevented from voting, particularly by specific actions by the Republicans.

As I never tire of saying, Trump - in one of his rare lapses into telling the truth - actually said a few years back "If we make it easier for people to vote, we (Republicans) will never get in again".
 
**** 'em.

But many millions of Americans are prevented from voting, particularly by specific actions by the Republicans.

As I never tire of saying, Trump - in one of his rare lapses into telling the truth - actually said a few years back "If we make it easier for people to vote, we (Republicans) will never get in again".
I don’t think that was a Trump original. The right wing has been saying that for decades. Mostly in private (or so I imagine) but occasionally out loud.
 
I don’t think that was a Trump original. The right wing has been saying that for decades. Mostly in private (or so I imagine) but occasionally out loud.
Doesn’t alter my point, that though it’s tempting to just switch off and leave the US to its miserable fate under Trump, tens of millions of Americans - in fact the majority - did not vote for the dickhead, and do not deserve to suffer the misery he has in store for them.
 
Trump tackling the real pressing issues of society appointing ambassadors to Hollywood. Are they paid positions?
Treating the arts in your own country like a foreign nation. American is governed by savages.
 

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