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Best Cop, Bad Cop?
I personally love what President Trump is doing, in his daily exposure of the entirely corrupted professional media, which sold itself long ago to the secular left wing of the Democrats. Today’s briefing was one of the best, as he went all multi-media on them, making them look into the mirror as he showed the American public their hackery. At the same time, we got First Lady Melania Trump talking to children, urging them to listen to their parents and reading them a story. So, is this a bad cop, best cop act? What do you think of this team?
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It is only dictatorial if he actually does dictatorial things. If he simply misstates his authority, that’s not dictatorial. It’s just clumsy and confused.
He often says clumsy and confused things. But he has thus far been wonderfully non-dictatorial.
What did the civil war fall under? Was war declared? A declaration of a state of emergency in all fifty states seems like a national disaster. Are you still living under the Articles of Confederation? If we are attacked and the president orders the governors to resume production and the military to Stand guard over our vital manufacturing and health infrastructures, does he need to wait until Congress can convene to approve a declaration of war? Remember, we think either the capitol or the White House might have been the ultimate targets for Flight 93 on 9/11, we’ll probably never know for sure.
And in other news, heard this morning on the Rush Limbaugh program that legislators have ‘fled the capitol.’ (his words, not mine)
Bill’s comment regarding a declaration of war is simply mistaken. The President has certain very specific emergency powers that are granted with a simple declaration of emergency — for example, the right to freeze assets of foreign powers and restrict trade with foreign powers. Emergency authority is limited and is subject to Congressional revocation, but it’s nonetheless real.
During the Civil War, Pres. Lincoln suspended the Right of Habeas Corpus. This was overturned by the Supreme Court, though after the war. The constitution makes no allowance for a state of emergency. And the constitution is quite clear that the federal government only has the specific powers enumerated in the constitution. The remainder are left to the people or the states. Now, the states are also obligated to insure they do not oppress the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
Yes.