He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

 HaydukeTwo wrote:

From a man who, inarguably

cheated on all three of his wives
is an adjudicated rapist
has been convicted of 34 felonies
and has pardoned thousands of insurrectionists and other criminals

Irony alert

 HaydukeTwo wrote:

Well now we know that there is no constraint whatsoever.

Sinistrophobia

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Our local newsreader used that word in the quote. Freudian slip?

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Mortality though...

 HaydukeTwo wrote:
Manifest destiny

There was never a set of principles defining manifest destiny; it was always a general idea rather than a specific policy made with a motto. Ill-defined but keenly felt, manifest destiny was an expression of conviction in the morality and value of expansionism that complemented other popular ideas of the era, including American exceptionalism and Romantic nationalism.

Very Fine People

 HaydukeTwo wrote:

Someone should gently remind the @$$#0|es in the White House that all their whackadoo justifications can be used by other countries against American possessions in other countries or against American allies. I'm sure Xi Jinping is taking notes on Trump's claims while gazing at Taiwan...

 HaydukeTwo wrote:

He has no morality.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’

President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

In 1992, American conservative writer Michael Ledeen reportedly said: “Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”

Actually, such gratuitous demonstrations of might betray the fear that American world power is slipping. Beating up a weaker opponent to prove your strength is the action of an insecure bully.

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Mother Of All Rackets. Because tariffs.

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Microsoft and McKinsey pay up to $1 million each to back Donald Trump’s Davos hub

 R_P wrote:

Davos; where everyone will be laughing at him behind his back.

In Davos, where the oligarchs hobnob