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There is a religion that is heavy handed in that way but it's not Christianity. It's a religion that does not tolerate criticism in any way and often responds with extreme violence to such criticism.

Something strange happening in DC as Trump starts to drain the swamp. There has been a substantial increase in the number of people searching for criminal defense attorneys. https://www.independentsentinel.com/people-in-dc-are-in-desperate-need-of-criminal-defense-attorneys/ There has been a substantial increase in the number of homes being listed for sale. https://reventureapp.blog/washington-dc-sees-35-8-surge-in-inventory-reaching-7825-homes-for-sale-in-2025/ Maybe it's all just a crazy coincidence as DOGE keeps uncovering more and more waste(corruption?) in USAID.😉

We can revisit this aspect in 2028 when the next presidential election is due. Or perhaps in 2026 for the mid-term elections? Or do you guys expect there will never be more elections from now on?😐

Don't have a meltdown, but I'll take the opinion of Dershowitz over yours. Are election challenges only illegal when Republicans try it?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alan-dershowitz-explains-why-jack-smith-has-uphill-fight-with-new-trump-charges/ar-AA1pCnrt Dershowitz said that Smith would have an “uphill fight” to prove Trump knew he lost to then-former Vice President Joe Biden in 2020. “The indictment charges that Donald Trump knew, knew and believed that he had actually lost the election. How’s the government gonna prove that?” Dershowitz asked. “He never said that to anybody. He never wrote that anywhere. Did he ever think it? I don’t know. Did he say it on a phone call that was illegally overheard? I doubt it.” “I have spoken to President Trump about this,” Dershowitz continued. “I think he’s wrong. I think he lost the election, fair and square. Now I’m not talking about the influence of Russia and all kinds of things external, but in terms of the counting of votes, that’s just what I’m talking about now, I think he lost Georgia, I think he lost Arizona and I think he lost enough states so that Joe Biden was officially and correctly elected president of the United States. It’s not a crime to disbelieve that, in fact, the indictment says that it’s not a crime to speak about that and to oppose it, but if he believed it, if he honestly believed it, if he talked himself into it, even if he was wrong, if he believed it if he thought he had won the election, then everything he’s accused of doing is protected by the First Amendment, Article Two of the Constitution and the Twelfth Amendment.” Dershowitz said that if Trump did believe he had legitimately won, then his actions were not any different from other historical challenges to election results, including the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, the 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden and the 2016 presidential election between Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “I think it’s an uphill fight for the prosecution to win this case. Now they will win it, it’s not uphill in the District of Columbia. They could have indicted him, for you know, eating a salami sandwich and a jury in the District of Columbia will convict,” Dershowitz said. “We’ll wait and see what the instructions are, whether the instructions require the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence not based on surmise but based on hard evidence that Donald Trump actually knew and believed that he had lost the election and he just was lying.”

Trust me, in four years Americans will again have an opportunity to select a new president. Just as they have done in the past.

That depends entirely on who you listen to. My favourite 'legal source' is Alan Dershowitz as I have mentioned a number of times in here. He was of the opinion that it was basically all BS. They made legal mountains out of molehills time and time again. I suppose the Democrats will once again, do what they can to start up the lawfare machine again and any other dirty tricks they have up their sleeves. Perhaps more assassination attempts?

A headline from the Epoch Times today : BC Firm Drops Decade-Old Refinery Project for Alberta Oil Exports " A British Columbia company has cancelled plans to build an oil refinery on the province’s north coast that would have processed northern Alberta oil for export to Asian markets. Announced in 2014, the Pacific Future Energy refinery project was billed as the “world’s greenest refinery,” with a commitment to operate as a near-net-zero carbon emission refinery and reduce spill risks by shipping refined products instead of heavy oil. The project, which would have refined roughly 200,000 barrels of bitumen per day, had been undergoing environmental assessment since 2016. But in an email in December, Pacific Future Energy’s chief executive officer Samer Salameh notified the government that the company would not proceed with the project. “We hereby terminate our application,” Salameh wrote in a Dec. 3, 2024, email, without providing a reason for the decision. Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, in a Feb. 11 letter to Salameh, responded that the company’s environmental assessment had been terminated."

Every single day, the sky keeps falling in your world.😴

Territorial losses from the 1967 war. Kind of like FAFO for the Arabs. Territory has been lost in conflicts in other times and parts of the world, but those that lost land moved on with life. Not like the Palestinians.

It's a massive overreaction from the left as usual. This is only about reducing waste which is something all Americans should be happy about. I wish we had a Canadian version of DOGE.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-some-covid-19-content-during-the-pandemic https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-lifts-ban-posts-claiming-covid-19-man/story?id=77931433

Not that long ago, Americans were censored for daring to suggest that Covid likely originated from a lab.

So they are above the law? By the way, how many illegals have you taken into your home?

You are aware that Biden publicly admitted doing it? The Trump/Adams quid pro quo thing is quite a stretch. Adams rightfully pointed out the serious issues NYC was facing with the Democrats mass immigration policy and he did so well before Trump won the presidency. Adams was one of the very few Democrats that realized unrestricted mass immigration is an incredibly foolish policy.

Quid pro quo? That rings a bell...let me see....firing a prosecutor investigating Burisma or no aid package?

I'm referring to Israel. It is 20% Arab which doesn't sound like apartheid. And apartheid South Africa was a pretty nasty state. And post apartheid South Africa is still a pretty nasty state.

One of the first links that came up was from NPR stating how his businesses made money while he was president. He has owned various businesses long before he ever entered politics. Is it outrageous that these businesses continued to be profitable while he was president?

Can you provide the evidence for that?

What a cop-out! Even in this clear cut example you cannot bring yourself to admit that a breakout of bird flu in 2022 is something Trump should not be blamed for. Did you have any issue with high egg prices while Biden was president or did you give him a pass?

You didn't mention the effect of bird flu on egg prices. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-a-deadly-strain-of-bird-flu-is-making-egg-prices-soar-nationwide It started around 2022. Are you blaming Trump for that?

Adams himself stated that NYC was getting overwhelmed with something like 10 thousand illegals per month. Not long after that, he finds himself in the crosshairs of the then controlled DOJ. The moral of the story is, even Democrats are not allowed to speak out against the obvious pitfalls of unrestricted mass immigration.

Gender affirming care. It sounds so gentle and wonderful. But the reality is that it's about chopping off healthy body parts of children.

That's kind of a different topic, but it's not just Islamic terrorists that oppose the lgbtq+- gang, it's the entire Muslim world. But the topic is waste in USAID. They are not alone as I'm sure there is likely a huge amount of waste in every country's foreign aid budget.