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Sir Humphrey Profile picture
@bdquinn
May 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Strong evidence that this is bullshit: Trump was president during the ongoing War in the Donbas that precedes this and... it never ended.

The thing the Trump cultists like to imagine, what I call "The Magic Donald Theory," is so weird because he failed in almost everything
Seriously, Trump achieved close to zero of his stated objectives as president.
Increased real GDP growth to 5/6%? Pre-pandemic it was 2.3% in 2019 and falling.

Eliminate the trade deficit? Nope. Not even reduced.

Increased employment growth? Nope.

Restore American manufacturing? Industrial production had barely budged at all vs. 2016.
Repeal Obamacare? Nope. Big fail there.

Eliminate the budget deficit? Pre-pandemic, it was increasing.

Build the wall? Nope. Failed there, too.

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May 17
The president either has to unconstitutionally usurp Congress's authority to appropriate money by not spending money and instead honoring debt in lieu of that or he has to break the statutory cap on the debt ceiling to raise the money to fund Congress's obligations.
Neither the president nor Congress can default on the debt. The Constitution limits the actions of the federal government in all manner of ways. This is one of the ways it limits those powers.

So, when Congress appropriates money deep into deficit spending but doesn't raise
the statutory debt ceiling, you have a big problem. The executive branch must follow Congress's commands on spending. That's a settled question. Presidents can't just go "No. I don't want to."

Without further instructions from Congress, which extra-legal action should the
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May 17
Indeed. I never fully understood how firebombing Japanese cities with the deliberate intention of killing as many Japanese civilians as possible to force Japan to surrender was morally tolerable but dropping the atomic bombs was just way too much.
I'll grant that those who died from radiation sickness died terrible deaths. That wasn't fully understood at the time, as you can see from war plans that called for tactical use of nukes when we were going to invade Japan and our troops would go through irradiated areas.
Dying from having your skin burned off from firebombing, sometimes days or weeks later from third degree burns isn't exactly a good way to die either.
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May 16
It's particularly ridiculous because the legislative bill doesn't even do a good job of aiding smaller cities and villages, much less the large ones. It's an abomination that tilts things overwhelmingly toward the low service, low tax, and already over-aided (due to GTAs) towns.
This gets to one of the things I've complained about so much in recent politics. Bills that do "something" that sort of/kind of is in the general range of a certain issue get treated like a binary on/off. Then, when they pass, we look at them later and they're a mess.
This isn't even an ideological thing. The basic competence here by the Legislature and the different local government organizations has been staggeringly poor.
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Feb 25
So many conspiracy theories today have the same flavor of probably the worst one from my youth: "Why did no Jews die on 9/11?!?!?!"

The actual number was roughly 400, but that didn't matter to the conspiracy theorists and their credulous readers/listeners.
The claim was leveled with such confidence that the underlying assertion was true that a lot of people were frequently caught unprepared to rebut it.

It was for that reason that it spread far more than it should have.
The absurd and ridiculous lies of @catturd2 and @kylenabecker regarding war footage in Ukraine are precisely the same as that 9/11 conspiracy theory regarding Jewish deaths.

It's such an outrageously crazy thing to say that it leaves people unable to respond immediately.
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Feb 25
This gets back to what I said earlier. Back when Communism was a bigger present threat, you had a lot of leftie malcontents who embraced Communism and its utter hatred for objective truth.

Now, we have this horseshoe of malcontents, left and right, who do it together.
No autocrat could maintain their power if people knew the truth. In democracies, governments are defeated all the time because people aren't happy with what's going on. Autocracies go "Well, what if we delude people with a fantasy?"

The Eastern Bloc did that.
It's a horrible thing, by the way. People deserve to know the truth as a moral matter so they can make informed decisions. I'm stepping wildly out of character for this because it's important.

The idea that truth is subordinate to some goal is horrid. No goal is worth that.
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Feb 25
I think it's important to understand that political ideology isn't a useful way to look at someone like Carlson. He's the same as Lenin. The ends justify the means, no matter what. Truth vs lies? Whatever works.

It's why I always have feared the far left for the same reason.
Whenever you have someone who cares so much about what they're trying to achieve that nothing is off limits, you're dealing with someone who is truly evil.

There's a portion of the right that embraced the idea "We have to be like Lenin because our foes are like Lenin."

Really?
Most American progressives would rather lose an election than win it in "the wrong way." Seriously, ask certain trans activists about Biden's "There are at least three genders" answer. They think he was bigoted in saying that.

Point is, there is a political mentality that
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