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That doesn't change anything. Trump is your president. You can't have a fraction of the presidency.
Right. I don’t disagree, unlike those dummies that insist the election was rigged against him, I believe trump won and is a legitimate president. I don’t believe his slim margin win gives him any sort of “mandate” to take the country in whatever direction he personally chooses.
So there is no “mandate.”
Some of them did. Most voted against him. We see that by how unpopular he is. The idea that because he won he can now shape the country any way he pleases just doesn’t hold up for me.
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The Bush/Gore election was decided by the Supreme Court which stopped the recount prematurely.
We used to have this thing called Congress that was set up as the voice of We the People and they would pass bills in conjunction and coordination with the executive to make laws that properly reflect the will of the American People and not the whims of one man, but somewhere along the way some people decided they wanted to scrap that system and vest all this power into one single, deeply unpopular person who seems to act entirely self interested and only ever tries to appeal to his shrinking minority of supporters.@essentialsaltes and @GoldenBoy89
I disagree. Or rather, that is not how I would organize a country if I were a lawmaker.
What would be a good thing is to guarantee ways in which the electorate can influence the policies between elections, like triggering a referendum or via recall elections including at the presidential level.
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Reality disagrees as the ballroom is 100% privately funded.
Reality disagrees - the only people who do not want the National Guard's help are those who support criminal behavior and have no care that innocent lives are lost. They have to ignore the millions of dollars in damages the guard is preventing. - it is the constitutional obligation of the federal government to ensure domestic tranquility. When local leadership refuses to maintain public safety, the federal government has both the authority and the responsibility to act. Calling this "ill-advised" is an insult to the communities whose residents actually want law and order restored.
Reality disagrees, support for Israel represents a decades-long, bipartisan commitment to America's most reliable democratic ally in a strategically vital region. Framing Israeli self-defense against terrorist organizations as "human rights violations" adopts the language of bad-faith actors who hold Israel to standards applied to no other nation. American investment in Israel's security is American investment in regional stability.
Reality disagrees,
The people have legal soveriengty, but that does not make them correct. The notions of "young earth creationists" are objectively false and the partial popularity is irrelevant. The war on expertise is part of the war on facts, just like this war on science is part of it.
The next time you need surgery, make sure to let it be done by someone who is not an expert.
I am not looking for someone trained in doing surgery. Often in medical history many proceedures , as well as medicines were harmful.
We the people will keep our government.
Currently not. And of course I wish you to stay free of any medical issue.
And how often were they successful?
Inevitably.
Not if that implies to take away constitutional rights or an attack on Human Rights.
