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Why are you bringing up nonsense hypotheticals when there's real voter suppression. Trumps stolen election ignited states to create many new restrictive voter laws and threw out millions of votes in swing states alone.



You sound like those who voted for Trump in 2020. But you might be right, but then so they may have been.

Trump won because enough people were sick of the garbage they heard from the progressive left being crammed down their throats.

How people can think a billionaire like him relates to the average guy, is quite crazy, but just shows how incredibly bad the democrats are at actually relating to the people.

I didn’t vote for him the first two times, but after I saw his immediate response to the assassination attempt, I knew I would this time. There are millions like me.

I’m all for making it more difficult to vote. Let’s just be ruled by a set of elites like we already are, but at least be honest about it.

If I get what I truly want it won’t really matter as much who is president because the federal government would have like a 1/10 of its power and a 1/10 of its budget, and states and local municipalities would have far more say. Ultimately I think the 18th century anti-federalists were right. I hope Trump just lays waste to the federal government agencies and completely neuters it.


https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won...

Numbers are published by U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. Read it if you want.

They'll dismantle the federal state alright. But not for the reasons you think or want.

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no


> I hope Trump just lays waste to the federal government agencies and completely neuters it.

That would be completely illegal and unconstitutional. If that's the way things are going to go, you're definitely not going to like what will happen when the power is wielded by someone who doesn't align with you politically.

And I've got a brand new shipment of bridges to sell you if you think Trump is out here about to neuter the power of the federal government. He is consolidating power.


So no different than Biden and Obama and Bush. Oh well.

At least it is enjoyable to see progressives squirm. And to gut dept of education and usaid, both very solid ideas so far.


I don't think your comment fully considers the recent history of presidential power. Biden argued in court against Trump to not consolidate power at the executive level. He was against Trump's idea of presidential immunity. Then he refused to use the power given to him, and on his way out of office implored the country to reconsider.

He also signed into law bills that were passed explicitly to reduce the president's power because of the way he saw Trump abuse it.

> And to gut dept of education and usaid, both very solid ideas so far.

You may agree with these ideas now, but you should go through thr proper channels to get rid of them. Otherwise, things you like will just disappear by fiat the first time a progressive is in office.




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