Becomes Trump a dictator?

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ZNP

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Since you're being deliberately up to and refusing to have empathy for someone else's point of view, this concludes our interactions and you will be going on ignore now.
Don't worry Gideon, this happened to me and it is wonderful to not get his trivial responses to your posts.
 
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It's not slander to say someone is speaking from a position of not having to have their culture mocked , so they lack empathy That's why there's not a football team called the honkeys

White privilege has nothing to do with why the Braves got their name, or any other team. smh
 

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White privilege has nothing to do with why the Braves got their name, or any other team. smh
If one team is called the Patriots and another team is called the Redskins doesn't that mean we are all one country? If you think the Redskins are being mocked then why don't they also think the Patriots are being mocked?

Teams have "Indians", "Redskins" and "Braves" as names. You choose a name based on what you want to emphasize about your team. You aren't mocking your own name? The reasoning on this was idiotic.

I played on a team called "the Lions" and the cheerleaders would cheer "We are the Lions, the mighty, mighty Lions". We weren't mocking lions. The whole thing was idiotic.
 

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For a start, the idea that America can negotiate Ukraine peace with Russia is the height of arrogance. The idea that Putin will accept anything but the complete capitulation of Ukraine such that it becomes Russia's puppet is the height of ignorance.
Such may or may not be arrogance nor ignorance, but the face one must put on in the art of the deal to assert strength and resolve in order to play out one's hand.

Being front and center in global let alone national politics must be quite an art. Obviously the risks are great, and the strategies must be sound, or great luck (aka favor from the Lord) is hopefully intact. Thus, the command to pray for our leaders. If they come out with the winning hand, we know who ultimately provided both it and the leaders to play the hand.

Give him some room.
 
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White privilege has nothing to do with why the Braves got their name, or any other team. smh
That's not what I said they lost to trademark because they were sued by native americans. The white privilege is not having empathy because people don't appreciate their culture being mocked.
 

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Such may or may not be arrogance nor ignorance, but the face one must put on in the art of the deal to assert strength and resolve in order to play out one's hand.

Being front and center in global let alone national politics must be quite an art. Obviously the risks are great, and the strategies must be sound, or great luck (aka favor from the Lord) is hopefully intact. Thus, the command to pray for our leaders. If they come out with the winning hand, we know who ultimately provided both it and the leaders to play the hand.

Give him some room.
It's not Mr Trump's game to play. If he had treated Ukraine and Russia equally, then he could be seen as an honest broker. He has shut out Mr Zelensky. It might work in real estate, but even then, who would agree for someone to sell your house without your knowledge or permission?
 

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It's not Mr Trump's game to play. If he had treated Ukraine and Russia equally, then he could be seen as an honest broker. He has shut out Mr Zelensky. It might work in real estate, but even then, who would agree for someone to sell your house without your knowledge or permission?
Of course, it's his game to play on our behalf and he and his team will play it as best they see fit weighing the pros and cons as best they can in any concept of fairness they determine will be in our best interests with the best chances of success.
 
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Now the Donald thinks he's the one who can decide the fate of anyone who breaks the law and what their punishment will be, even US citizens. He's seriously delusional, and I don't think he even comprehends how this sounds to a rational person who is outside of his cult.

 

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Now the Donald thinks he's the one who can decide the fate of anyone who breaks the law and what their punishment will be, even US citizens. He's seriously delusional, and I don't think he even comprehends how this sounds to a rational person who is outside of his cult.

Honestly, you seem to be purposefully asserting delusion. At least twice he spoke of laws and looking into our laws to see what can be done. If the type of insane criminals he was mentioning can be legally deported to sit in an effective prison system in a cooperative country that has a good prison system, then more power to him. If they can't the DOJ should explain why. And there will be lawsuits filed to take it legally as far as it can go.

I for one hope he cleans up the mess and rids us of as much of the criminality as he can. It's had its day IMO.
 

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"I'm Not Going To Do It": El Salvador Refuses To Return Alleged MS-13 "Terrorist" To US

Monday, Apr 14, 2025 - 12:39 PM
Update (1235ET): El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will not return an El Salvadorian citizen mistakenly deported from the United States, suggesting that to return the man would be to smuggle a terrorist into the United States.

"Well, I'm supposed to have suggested that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States, right?" Bukele said when pressed on returning the man to the US. "Return him to the United States. I smuggle him into the United States. I'm not going to do it."

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran national, was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration, after which the US Supreme Court ruled that the administration must facilitate his return.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also chimed in, saying: "So it's very arrogant, even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens. As a starting point, as two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13," adding "When President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law... for any form of immigration relief in the United States."

"So he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that, under our law, he's not even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation," Miller added. "This issue was then by a district court judge completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and flying back here. That issue was raised to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed."
 

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Imagine saying that about Trump after watching the performance of Biden. :ROFL:
I am sorry but you don't accomplish the things he has accomplished by being "stupid". You can agree or disagree with what he is doing, that is fine, but for someone to actually think that Trump is stupid, it boggles my mind. I can't understand how any human being could be that clueless, but I do have a theory. Perhaps he has gotten all his shots and booster shots?
 

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Of course, it's his game to play on our behalf and he and his team will play it as best they see fit weighing the pros and cons as best they can in any concept of fairness they determine will be in our best interests with the best chances of success.
Are you Ukrainian? If not, your best interests have nothing to do with the war. And unless Ukraine has a seat at the table as an equal, the American government has no right to intervene either. The absurdity of the situation is that the promises of Putin have already been broken. The ink is hardly dry on his signature. To negotiate requires good faith by all parties. Putin has demonstrated that he has no intention of honouring any agreement anyway.
 
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Putins goal is at least the great Ruß. This are the borders before 1914.

I think he's not the only one in Russia making the decision's and that similar to most nations there's probably others behind the scene that all decide what is their plan. Those people would just go into Putin's office and lay a pistol on his desk and tell him to resign if he doesn't or cant do what they tell him. Because of certain world events out of Russia's control they see the need to bring all of Europe under their control by about 2030. If you listen to the EU,NATO,UK ect. and realize their making the decision to massively build up their defenses that should be a definite indication that their intelligence gathering branches of government have seen multiple sources of information that make them believe they should do this. A peace time economy is different from a war time economy and a peace time economy is more desirable, so nobody shifts to a wartime economy unless it's absolutely certain it is needed. Nobody likes hearing this let alone coming to admitting to it's reality not even me.
 
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I am sorry but you don't accomplish the things he has accomplished by being "stupid". You can agree or disagree with what he is doing, that is fine, but for someone to actually think that Trump is stupid, it boggles my mind. I can't understand how any human being could be that clueless, but I do have a theory. Perhaps he has gotten all his shots and booster shots?
Did you know my father or have conversations with him when he was on the forum?