Dear Chris,

You've hit the nail on the head.

Trump is behaving like a dictator. No question.

I read a recent article where it was pointed out that
He cages children, he holds military parades (last year
on Independence Day, in Washington), he muses about being
President for life - and nobody seems to see him for what
he is. People think he's a clown and laugh.

That's no longer good enough.

It blinds us to the chilling fact that the leader of the
world's most powerful nation is behaving like an
authoritarian dictator, one who not only threatens
democracy in his own country but beyond.

No wonder he identifies so strongly with Putin.

The man used Independence Day last year to stage a military
display in which M1A2 tanks and Bradley armoured vehicles
rolled into Washington, while fighter jets and helicopters
filled the sky.

We're told that the generals, mindful of the need to
separate military and political power had long
opposed this extravaganza and tellingly most of the joint
chiefs contrived to stay away.

They understood that such a pageant is the stuff of despots,
not democrats.

We're told that we should not treat Trump's Presidency
as if it is normal. Which it is nothing of the sort.
But first we need to see it clearly for - what's
happening and perhaps stop laughing.

Foxy wrote: "...law enforcement who used tear gas and flash-bang grenades to dispel the crowd."

Apparently this information " was taken from the US newspapers."

And who ever heard of US newspapers making it up. Foxy spent 2+ years believing the Mueller rubbish that US newspapers fed her and still believes every word they tell her!!

In fact the protesters around the church were moved on because they were the opposite of peaceful, the church having been torched. And they were throwing rocks at the police.

Even worse for Foxy's gullibility, the tear gas story was just a media fabrication. But Foxy will still believe it.

I suggested to Toni/Paul that being so misled by the media over the upside-down bible meme might be a learning experience. And it was for Paul who learned to ignore unwanted data. But I won't make the same suggestion to Foxy - no point.

Foxy claimed "We lived and worked in the United States for
close to ten years." And previously she's shown (for example in regards to the Electoral College which she understood the same way my budgie understand nuclear fusion) that she has no understanding of the US system.

She write: "There is a vacuum in response to the chaos, just as there is with Covid-19. It's every state for itself."
It'll come as a shock to Foxy that the US is a federal system and Trump has little power in regards to the rioters. The police forces are state police forces. Trump's only play is to send in the army and that's a step too far at this point.

What the Foxy's of the world ignore is that these are state issues. The WuFlu responses were state response where some did well and some did abysmally (eg Democrat run New York City). Equally with a few exceptions these riots are in Democrat controlled states and cities where Trump has little power.

"He should be removed from office..."
Well they've been trying (and lying) for 4 years but he's too smart for them. This is just the latest attempt.

Foxy, you lived there all those years and knew how it works and yet
you still said that !
Don't worry the courts are still there.
As Churchill said, democracy makes for a terrible government but it is
still the best.

You people crack me up.

Chris informs us Trump's a fascist demonstrating that Chris has no idea what a fascist is.

Trump is also no better than Putin or Xi according to some.

Now according to several here, Trumps's a dictator.

Now I seem to recall that there's gunna be election in 6 months where Trump could loose power. How many dictators hold free and fair elections? (now I know that you will now quibble about the minutia of the elections, but no dictator gets unelected - ever).

Oh and the press in the US (almost to a man) regularly attack Trump, his policies and his government. How many countries with dictators have a free press?

Oh and there's a chap who is heading the official opposition to Trump in these upcoming elections. And he's free to say and do whatever he wants, even though little of it makes sense. Want to know what happens to opposition candidates in real dictatorships?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7827569/Anti-Putin-Russian-opposition-leader-Alexei-Navalny-arrested-raid-Moscow.html

Oh and as you might have heard there are riots and protests in the streets of the US. Want to know what happens when there's riots in a real dictatorship? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RzKKfNkTk
http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/nikon-scan-original_4.jpg

Trump's a dictator? Seriously? Just children stamping their feet.

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"When I was a child I wanted to be everything Donald Trump is today: a clown."

And you succeeded. Congrats.

Mhaze,

obviously there are democratic constraints, but i believe that Trump has total disdain for such impediments.

That is why i think he is not much different from Xi or Putin.

Fortunately, the US has a good chance of limiting his desires, but we shall see.

Go democracy.

Well Foxy knows President Trump very well, she reads all about him in the Left wing media, and SBS and the ABC. They present him as the person she believes him to be. In her eyes Trump is responsible for the tensions and violence raised in the current riots.

Let us look at the alternative, a weak leader, easily influenced. Biden supports the genocide of the Black population by funding Planned Parenthood; which Trump rejects.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/biden-rescued-by-black-voters-now-has-to-enthuse-them

Joe Biden’s political resurrection in the race for the Democratic nomination was due largely to overwhelming support from black voters. Yet racial tensions laid bare by nationwide protests have revealed a problem for Biden in the November election -- he doesn’t excite younger black voters who want change, not just a sympathetic ear.

Biden supports Planned Parenthood whose record is genocide by abortions on black babies.The inconvenient truth of “black genocide” significantly decreased the potential black population of Georgia over the past fifty years. According to recent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) statistics, while African-Americans constitute 32.2 percent of Georgia’s population, 62.4 percent of abortions in Georgia are performed on African-American women.