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Funny, remember how all the liberals complained about the heinous injustice of Trump using executive orders excessively.... well surprise surprise Biden issued many times over what Trump issued in executive orders already. In fact in just one day in office Biden had already twice the number of executive orders as Trump had after 2 weeks... funny dont hear a single liberal complaining, not one... its almost as if they were just complaining because it was a republican doing it and they have complete double standards... nah that couldnt be it right?
@cjd@mastodon.social @freemo@qoto.org america was founded as a country that can go to war with anyone and act ike it doesnt want war at the same time
Nobody was complaining just because he used execs. We were complaining because Republicans criticized Obama for his executive orders, then immediately cheered Trump for boasting about all of his executive orders in one of his first news releases.
Now half of Biden's orders are undoing what Trump did, and others apply only to the federal government, which is perfectly within his bounds.
And it's BS to measure first 24 hours. Let's see how he does over time
@bnmng You may have been saying that, but that certainly wasnt what I saw from the vast majority of people, not one of them even mentioned obamaor the points you mention
> And it's BS to measure first 24 hours. Let's see how he does over time
We already did, i showed the 24 hour stat, which was horrendous, but the other image shows the 100 day stat comparison and he is already ahead of every other president after 100 days, and he hasnt even been in office 100 days yet...
So yea, pretty horrific track record so far (and this is barely the start of it, he already undid trumps scaling down of our nuclear arsenal too by pushing forward on R&D of one of the biggest nukes in US history compared to trump who largely scaled down the yield of the bombs in our arsenal)
@bnmng Oh and by the way, over the course of their career Obama has more presidential Orders (which would include memoranda and executive orders which are both functionally similar) than Trump has.. so even if we do bring this back to Obama vs Trump the liberals are still the ones in the shitter
@freemo
Not sure about memoranda - have to take your word for that. People defended Trump saying his exec orders were less overreach by nature than Obama's. I disagreed, but I think it applies to Biden. He's undoing Trump's executive orders and dealing with a national crisis which demands immediate action.
@bnmng And Trump didnt have a national emergency to deal with? This is my point.. liberals always find the excuses when they do the things they complain about, suddenly they find a reason to make it ok. The truth is this should have never been an issue in the first place, but liberals spent 4 years turning mole hills into mountains :)
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Liberals aren't the only ones who find excuses to support their own team and damn the other. Consider national debt, family values, military service, honesty.
@bnmng I never said liberals were the only ones, but we are talking about liberals, what other people do is no excuse.. you can say "yea we are bad people, but look at bob over there, he is a bad person, so its ok"
Ok... you got me on that maybe, but I felt picked on for something everyone does
The truth is the liberals the past 4 years have been completely off their rocker with the accusations.. Trump sucked, he sucked bad, so did Obama, so did Bush.. plenty of things to complain about. But after 4 years of liberals lying 24/7 and exaggerating every little thing to the most extreme proportions it is pretty damning to now see them blind to Biden.
we literally have the first segregationist president in office in living history, a man who started his whole career to try to support segregation and to stop desegregation efforts... there could not be a bigger disgrace, and the liberals who are suppose to care about racism and be appalled at such things are all of a sudden silent after 4 years of throwing a fit every time Trump put ketchup on a steak.
If the only excuse liberals have is "well the right does some shitty stuff, so were good".. sorry, thats a horrible excuse.
It was prorated, the numbers were looked at with comparable time periods in all cases.
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@freemo they both have double standards though
@louiscouture Both? Both who? We are only talking about liberals.. who is the other group your talking about and why is it relevant?
@freemo oh because republicans literally impeached over a blowjob but seems to be totally fine with encouraging a coup,
@louiscouture Not true.. they impeached because a president lied, under oath, and in court... thats pretty serious. The fact that he used his position to take advantage of a woman isnt the best but it is not what he was impeached over.
Trump on the other hand never planned or asked anyone to do a coup. The moment any violence broke out he immediately was on TV asking everyone to go home and asking for there to be no violence.. he did not start, encourage, or perpetuate a coup.
Now what Trump was legitimately guilty of was being a fucking nut job conspiracy theorist and spreading that bullshit and others believed him... Which is totally legitimate to dislike Trump for that, but it is hardly illegal.
@louiscouture I've read this before.. does not disprove a single thing i just said.
@freemo itโs pretty obvious so I donโt know why you say this
@louiscouture Not sure how any of that even remote supports your point.. those words and those instructions have been given countless time sto countless crowds in similar political protests.. marching on the capitol and "fighting for our rights" is a very common motif and never once represented someone intentionally inciting a coup.
@freemo no other president ever said โfight, donโt concedeโ The context clearly shows that heโs trying to incite them
@louiscouture actually several have, in fact i had this conversation just a week or two ago and found quotes of both kamala and biden using very similar wording in the past.
@freemo not in this context.
Clinton conceded
Romney conceded
McCain conceded
Gore conceded
Trump never conceded
What are the people to do when the system designed to give relief fails utterly and completely?
Agreed, Trump's lack of evidence means he wont get a court case heard in many circumstances, thats normal and the appropriate response.
Also many courts **did** take his case and he still lost.. so its moot either way.
Observers were removed in Nevada, Philadelphia, and kept away at a distance so far they couldn't challenge any ballots.
Did Trump win or loose? Who the fuck knows. It's impossible to know when you dump hundreds of thousands of unsolicited mail-in ballots into the system.
Does Trump talk like an idiot? Sure, he's annoying to listen to. Should he have fought? Absolutely. The election irregularities were massive.
Election fraud is always difficult to prove. That's why they did it.
It doesn't matter what you believe about it; this is the most contentious election in recent American history. We've had worse of course. We've had a president elected without the popular or electoral vote. But it's the most significant one from our lifetimes.
That causes instability and a loss of confidence. If Biden was so sure of his 80m vote victory, why is there a military occupation in DC and why is he questioning the loyalty of military officers? That is not a sign of confidence. That's fear.
We can go through each of those points one by one.. each are pretty trivially debunked with a little research.
For example in philadelphia, observers were allowed in all the places the law allows them to be (and have been allowed in previous elections). The argument made is that they were denied access to certain areas where poll watchers are and always have been explicitly denied access to.. so whats the legal argument there your trying to make at all? Where is the unfairness.. it was handled exactly as it was supposed to be.
Poll worker denied access in Nevada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X2V5hPPp6w
In Detroit, they cheered when they removed GOP Observers: https://twitter.com/aricnesbitt/status/1324105401814626304
I covered a lot of this back in November: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-return-of-american-corruption/
How exactly do you "debunk" the counting continuing after the "pipe burst" in Fulton Co?
Whats to debunk, we know what happened quite well, the pipe burst, **part** of the building was evacuated. The part where they were counting the ballots wasnt effected and the ballot counting continued after the pipe break, which occured in a different area of the building.
Whats even to debunk, there is literally no evidence anything other than what i just recited occured.
Bullshit, many cases were heard, the courts gave very clear answers. In some situations courts of course didnt hear cases, largely because **there was no evidence**... The courts responded exactly how they should have, Trump was wrong, dead wrong, and he had no evidence. There is nothing wrong with how the courts responded.
I am not and never would argue Trumps stance was right, it wasn't, he lost and he was a pathetic sore loser who couldn't handle that. But it is still laughable to claim he intentionally started a coup.
Yes they did, and yes Trump didnt.. at best that allows you to say Trump is a sore loser, and I would agree with you on that. You can also say he is a conspiracy theorist, I would also agree with you on that. But none of that makes your earlier statement true. Thinking you lost an election unfairly (and being wrong about it) and wanting to fight to right that perceived wrong, through the courts, through protests, through government action, is all fine, it doesnt make you the master mind behind a coup, it just makes him an idiot.
@freemo there is nothing wrong with thinking the election was unfair, but inciting violence is clearly not.
Watch the video
Weโre gonna walk to the capitol, and Iโm coming with you
@louiscouture he did not "incite violence".. again walking to the capitol is a pretty standard protest tactic.. the million man march marched on the capitol too. The idea of marching on the capitol in protest is a **very** common motif so your arguments are really really weak, these exact words have been said a hundred times over from a hundred different politicians in similar settings.
@louiscouture it also is a horrifically inaccurate account (to be expected considering the source which is pretty bias)... but thats another matter.
@freemo ok so now thatโs fake news too?
@louiscouture I wouldnt use the term Fake News.. discredited for sure though. It is clear their intention is not an objective analysis of both sides.. it is pretty obvious by the wording and context the intention is to sell a particular political perspective... is that not even obvious to you? seems pretty obvious to me, you just happen to agree with that agenda, but you suddenly become blind to the bias just because the bias is the same as yours?
@freemo ok,
1) whatโs the agenda, where is the agenda? Trump lost and Biden won and there was next to no voter fraud, and if there was, it wouldnโt change the outcome.
2) Facts arenโt opinions, you donโt have two side of the same fact.
> whatโs the agenda, where is the agenda?
What do youmean where is the agenda. Its literally right in the **title**
> ...of how Trump incited...
The very title says "We have decided that Trump is guilty of inciting a coup and here are all the reasons you should agree with our agenda to sell that perspective.
Any news agency that had even a smidgen of journalistic integrity would not be telling you how to interpret the days events they would simply give an unbiased accounted of what happened, both supporting and contradicting any such agenda, and let the reader decide what conclusions to draw.
The article has no intention of doing that, they have a very clear agenda and the article is cherry picked and written to try to support that agenda, so very clear bias. Not a single mention of any counter points that might lead someone to disagree. That is **not** journalism.
> Trump lost and Biden won and there was next to no voter fraud, and if there was, it wouldnโt change the outcome.
Yes he did... your point?
> Facts arenโt opinions, you donโt have two side of the same fact.
What someone deems to be a fact (true) or not **is** a matter of opinion.. your opinion is that trump tried to incite a coup, you have the **opinion** that that is a fact. I am of the opinion he did not try to start a coup, I declare that him intentionally inciting a coup is **not** a fact.
There may be only one of those two facts which are true, but your opinion as to which of them that they are, and my opinion are still opinions. Saying "Facts dont care about your opinions" is a pretty dumb argument considering as it doesnt do anything to help support that your opinion of what is fact is any more valid than mine.
@louiscouture @freemo
not really.. yes there is a lot of disinformation, and that disinformation poured in from both sides, so neither gets to play the good guy in that respect, though I admit liberals are a bit more guilty of that the last 4 years, but when a democrat president is in the republicans are the more guilty party in that regard.. either way both sides did it in spades.
There were virtually no illegal election changes. All changes were perfectly legal except for one that I know of which effected about a dozen votes total and didnt appear to be an attempt at rigging an election so much as just a poorly constructed law that was overthrown. For the most part there is no evidence to back up your stance in any meaningful way.
Election laws were illegally changed to allow for votes to be counted without signature checks, by getting judges to change them, instead of going through the state legislature. This is illegal under the Pennsylvania Constitution, and I'm sure the same for Georgia too.
Mail-in ballots is an illegitimate method voting based on the fact that it cannot be cast anonymously.
Theses illegal and unethical things affected 100s of thousands, probably millions of votes in Joe's favor.
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I agree, the news had shitposted like crazy trying to destroy trump and exaggerate every nonsense thing.. but the republican news does the **exact** same thing. The issue here is that the democrats just happened to do it better, and it won them an election. I am not saying that is ok, its completely unacceptable. But the republicans should have thought of that and not acted the same way and then maybe they would come out smelling like roses.
Instead as far as I can see it both sides have been completely bat shit crazy slinging shit for over a decade and the liberals just happened to out exaggerate the right and won. Yea its wrong, yea it should get the democrats abolished, but it should also get the republicans abolished for doing the same thing, they dont get a free pass just cause they did a shittier job at it.
> Election laws were illegally changed to allow for votes to be counted without signature checks, by getting judges to change them, instead of going through the state legislature. This is illegal under the Pennsylvania Constitution, and I'm sure the same for Georgia too.
You will have to site the specific examples if you want to discuss this point. I have reviewed a shit ton of law changes on this topic and have yet to find one that is illegal and effected any significant number of votes.
> Mail-in ballots is an illegitimate method voting based on the fact that it cannot be cast anonymously.
Wait what, no votes are cast anonymously, including mail in ballots. Which have been a legitimate form of voting for multiple elections now. They were used and legal when Trump won too, why were you up in arms about it then, you had 4 years to get it changed before Trump lost, after which any such efforts are too little too late.
Republicans do not control who gets banned/shadowbanned on Twitter/Facebook, nor do they control what gets trending and what doesn't. Jack and Mark do.
Same with Youtube. Google controls what get trending, it suppresses and alters view count and likes to skew its own algorithm. In this way, it suppresses content they deem wrongthink.
This is entirely different than a co-ordinated group of Republicans, or leftists for that matter, organizing together on a hashtag "campaign" or whatever social media campaign.
This explains how they changed the signature verification in pennsylvania illegally: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/12/07/levin_why_pennsylvania_mail-in-ballot_changes_are_unconstitutional.html
>no votes are cast anonymously
No, you're wrong. In a traditional lever machine voting booths, they are cast in secret. It's the same with the scanning machines. Your vote is literally anonymous. There is no way to determine who voted for who, although there are methods to determine whether you voted or not. (I mean, if you voted at the physical polling station) A secret ballot is crucial to a free and fair election. Otherwise, you can be extorted, votes can be bought, etc. You cannot cast a mail-in ballot in secret, therefor it is an illegitimate method of voting.
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Another variant of this: