NYTimes.com: The Constitution Won’t Save Us From Trump

[John Clark]

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The Constitution Won’t Save Us From Trump

Turning the page on the man — and on the politics he has fostered — will require fundamentally changing the text of our founding document.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/constitution-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU0.rnQs.QV0uvE7XIlSy&smid=em-share

[Brent Meeker]

So the proposal is to have dueling Constitutional Conventions...in which case "dueling" isn't metaphorical.

Brent

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[spudb...@aol.com]

We could do it. However Don the Dictator, didn't emerge the last time. 

As I nagged JC, its policy that matters, and personality can Go Fish. 

What policies ruined your lives? Just asking? In reverse, I could list Joe's policies that I view as bad for this nation state.

But since aggravation runneth over, I shall skip that. Meanwhile, from The Babylon Bee, a retrospective on Don's military prowess-

Donald Trump Describes 9 Historical Battles

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[John Clark]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 4:19 PM 'spudb...@aol.com' via Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

>  Don the Dictator, didn't emerge the last time. 

True but you certainly can't say Don didn't try, on January 6, 2021 he came within a hair's breadth of achieving his dream of becoming King Donald I.

> As I nagged JC, its policy that matters, and personality can Go Fish. 

I've said this before but I'll say it again. During the Trump administration at least 1,219,000 Americans died from COVID, more than all who died in all of America's wars put together. And this came at a time while Trump's policy was saying Covid was overblown and the Democrats were just trying to make a big deal out of nothing, and then telling us that vaccines cause autism and proposing quack cures for Covid like Hydroxychloroquine, even though it just increased the death rate, and don't forget that other new wonder drug that Dr. Trump discovered, Clorox.

And Trump was as bad an economist as he was a doctor. On the last day of the Trump administration there were 2.9 million fewer jobs than on the first day of the Trump administration, and that's the first time something like that has happened since Herbert Hoover. If we consider the overall growth from the beginning to the end of Trump's presidency, the economy expanded by approximately 7.5% in real terms (adjusted for inflation). But that was over 4 years, in just one year, 2021, the first year of the Biden administration, the economy grew by 5.7%,  In 2022 it was only 2.1% but in 2023 it was 2.5%.  

The federal debt went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion during the Trump years.
The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million during the Trump years.
Home prices rose by 27.5% during the 4 Trump years.
The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008.
Handgun production rose by 12.5% in 2020
In Trump's last year 2020,  the murder rate rose to the highest level since 1997, 6.5 per 100,000 residents.
And despite all of Trump's many bombastic and fascist speeches, illegal immigration over the southwestern border increased by an estimated 14.7%.

And then there's the fact that Trump reneged on the Iran nuclear deal guaranteeing that Iran would become a nuclear power. 

And Trump will probably get out of NATO in order to give his boss, Vladimir Putin, a free hand to invade any country in Europe that he wants. 

And then there's the criminal trial Trump is now facing for forging documents when he was paying off a porn star so she would keep quiet about his mushroom shaped penis and the fact that he liked her to spank him with a copy of Forbes magazine that had him on the cover just a few days after his wife had given birth to his son. 

But besides all of that the Trump presidency was fine and peachy. 

> What policies ruined your lives?

See above.  

 

 > In reverse, I could list Joe's policies that I view as bad for this nation state.

Apparently you believe that Joe ruined your life because immigrants created too much competition and interfered with your lifelong ambition of become a professional tomato picker.  

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