President Donald Trump - J.D. Vance Administration

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RockyTop85 said:
Yes. Reassigning a new date to wait for lab results or discovery etc. I can sign up for a doctor’s appointment or a haircut without going to the office, there’s really no reason to take up the court’s time with that, in my opinion.

Can’t do jury trials remotely, like I said.

Also, DA’s NEED to give defendants sweetheart deals, Covid or not, because scratching your ass is a crime and the system gets bogged down with that crap. A lot of times, the victims of crimes aren’t believable or the police are dumb and messed something up.

Dumping bad cases should be the norm. Makes time to put the screws to the perp in big cases. If you don’t trust your DA’s decision about which cases to dump, you need to find somebody better and volunteer for their campaign.
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Totally agree on the new date assignments when purely administrative. Should absolutely be done unless one side or the other objects because they want to be heard before the court on some issue - bond, reason for discovery delays, etc....

Missed where you said anything about jury trials, if you did, I just missed it. My bad. 🤷‍♀️

DA's do need to plead cases out. Didn't mean to imply that they don't. That said, our DA used the opportunity presented by COVID to move some cases that had hair on them. Good politician, that one. (Sometimes he even makes the right calls, but don't let him know I said that.)
 
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sami said:
Agree. First, he has to know that he can't eliminate birthright citizenship with an EO. And second, the entire EO thing has gotten completely out of control. Like you said, now it's "our" guy doing it so everyone on our side cheers every move, even the ones like TikTok that should make any critical thinker cringe.

My biggest concern about Trump is that he sees himself and government as the solution to virtually every problem, which is the exact thing we need to get away from. Creating more bureaucracy to solve problems is the opposite of draining the swamp, it just replaces 'your' swamp with 'our' swamp, and the bureaucracy never goes away and is generally warped when the other side gets control. See Homeland Security as the classic example.

DOGE is theoretically supposed to be dissolved by July 2026, but I'm not holding my breath. If it is, it will be the first ever federal bureaucracy to my knowledge that didn't grow into a permanent monstrosity.
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He does know as implied, upon the EO signing, by his statement it may face judicial challenge and they think they have a compelling argument (my paraphrasing). Thus knowing, I assume this is a tool to generate public conversation and advocacy toward amendment, or states convention. A deleterious constitutional provision I favor riddance of, but it IS there until addressed constitutionally.

I have not followed the TikTok ban talk, but my understanding is he's placed a moratorium on the ban, so there's break between his prior rhetoric and current position. What is the 'national security' concern that has led politicians to demand it be sold, and SCOTUS to confirm the basis of that demand?
 
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Hearing active duty troops are in the process (by the end of the month) of being sent to the border, maybe confirmation on this soon.

Its actually amazing what one can do in 48 hours. (not sure if this was trump's doing but my guess having the orange in the process of coming in probably didn't hurt)

 
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Orangeburst said:

How come this wasnt discussed in here? Who signed us up for this 120B commitment?
And to think how close we came to this garbage, and the thought that the choice between Biden and Trump dont matter.

But countries that have adopted the 15% global minimum tax may be in a position to collect a "top-up" tax from U.S. companies paying a lower rate. Trump's memo referred to such actions as "retaliatory."
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That's a good catch.
I literally saw just this morning - haven't read the bill yet - that 12 Republicans have introduced The Fair Tax Act which would replace corporate/personal income tax with national sales/consumption tax.
 
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NCFisher said:
That's a good catch.
I literally saw just this morning - haven't read the bill yet - that 12 Republicans have introduced The Fair Tax Act which would replace corporate/personal income tax with national sales/consumption tax.
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Why would you need either. We're already living off the printing press. Why have people hired to process something multiple times? You literally can tax through the inflation rate, which is already happening anyway.

The whole thing is a lie.

I said long ago, one of the reasons why I don't vote is don't know who would bring the system down first.... Trump could cause the system to implode as its a scam. 😂
 
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n_huffhines said:
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I actually agree with the take here. I don't agree with what the Bishop said but I can just ignore her. Her ideas fly in the face with everything Paul wrote in Romans Chapter 1 for example and I trust Paul's understanding of the Gospel more than her. This is where you clearly have a Biblical interpretation that is not in line with her LGBT comments. However, our nation believes in freedom of speech and she should be allowed to use it.

Granted the take on Women preachers that I have heard from critics is off. Paul's letter to Timothy was taken out of context because in another letter, he recognizes Dorcas who is a female disciple Dorcas - Wikipedia and praises her ministry as well as other women teachers in the Bible... BUT I don't think they would agree with the idea of you being a pastor because "you" want to be a pastor. It is more on whether God wills that you be a pastor (i.e. you need to have a humble heart of servitude for it). People today, especially with Feminism, are doing it for their own pride and not for a Higher purpose.
 
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CABVOL said:
My years spent in the military, I can say with conviction that at least half of the civil servants I worked with were lazy, did the bare minimum, and we could have easily done without them. Once they got past their probation period, they knew they’d never get fired.
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Surely can't disagree with that, there are some who put in a full day,but not many.
 
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LSU-SIU said:
A little more that might cover this, I was digging around.

Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915)

To me, what might need to occur is go ahead and indict someone like Fauci if you have evidence of a crime. He accepts the pardon and enters it into the record of the docketed criminal complaint. Once he does that, in theory Congress could summons him to testify. The issue is, I think* is that he could basically plead the 5th.

In my opinion, they should indict first and see if the pardon is accepted and move from there.

So... the investigations should be beginning on all these people obviously Biden thinks they are guilty of something and he was supposedly the top law enforcement official. 🤷‍♂️
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I'd read the 5th amendment right is void in a pardoned person's situation, as they not implicating themself in a crime in what is not a criminal hearing.
 
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NCFisher said:
I'd read the 5th amendment right is void in a pardoned person's situation, as they not implicating themself in a crime in what is not a criminal hearing.
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Yes, but they have to first accept the pardon. So, if Congress or a Grand Jury summons them for questioning they can invoke the 5th as they have not accepted the pardon. That is my reading of the SC ruling.

If they haven't been indicted, you would want to hold your cards until you are indicted. Basically, the government has to go with investigation and indictment, to see if they accept the pardon.

We're talking people that have been indicted vs non-indicted which have been pardoned.... there is a difference.

The pardon is moot until its used. Fauci could claim the 5th if he was summoned and feared criminal prosecution, he can still be indicted and should be if there is evidence of a crime.

(some of this actually came up in Hunter's case after he was pardoned, they wanted the court to grant a motion to dismiss... DOJ said nope, we just close the case once the pardon is docketed)

This is why DOJ and the SC say if you accept a pardon you are accepting the guilty. Hunter was found guilty and admitted to guilt by accepting the pardon.

(edit: I replaced paroled with pardon, sorry)
 
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LSU-SIU said:
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Hearing active duty troops are in the process (by the end of the month) of being sent to the border, maybe confirmation on this soon.

Its actually amazing what one can do in 48 hours. (not sure if this was trump's doing but my guess having the orange in the process of coming in probably didn't hurt)

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Thanks for posting the NC video. Our citizen should come first. Praise God they are finally getting some real help!
 
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LSU-SIU said:
The elephant in the room is the system is built like all the prior systems i.e. attachment of interest to your medium of exchange. Once interest is attached to the medium of exchange, the system must expand exponentially forever to survive. The issue here is humans don't have unlimited power to expand the supply or demand long-term (say a generation or two) without having the power needed for the exponential expansion. The current system only lives by fiction because the Federal Reserve was able to put us into overtime in 2008-2010 with a stick save. You might be able to find articles about China speaking (in 2008) of not able to break off from the U.S. dollar/Federal Reserve System as that would mean RESET.

You have fake money, and plenty of it as it which is expanding the corruption, bizarre behavior, etc. At the same time, you are having a slow breakdown of being able to maintain the actual economy i.e. no skilled labor, nobody works, lack of supplies, bizarre behavior, etc.

There really isn't any easy fix to these problems... the fix is RESET. You're entering where the interest rate chart goes vertical.

Nobody has explained to me the idea of how you exponentially expand the money supply infinitely without the exponential growth of the supply of resource/labor and demand. We're living a lie. 🤷‍♂️
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Yes, we've a fiscally illiterate society, and why I think an assault on the Fed Reserve system must be predicated or back-doored with something else.

Perhaps the tax system as initial step along with DOGE, or federal reduction generally.

I haven't read the bill yet, but saw you commented on my post re: The Fair Tax Act 2025. "But milk will cost $8/gallon and..." is an easy thing to educate upon, when you explain it's already $8/gallon, you just don't get to see the shell-game that took the other $4 out of your pocket; do you want to see the actual cost at POS, or or have no visibility of the actual price you're already paying. I've been familiar with the Fair Tax proposal for roughly 30 years and strongly favor having that conversation.

It'd also be a good time to talk about reducing the states dependence on DC by reducing the federal tax burden generally, pushing social and infrastructure funding back to the states while reducing the Fed size and expense. No need to continue filtering $ through DC for skimming off the top before returning left-overs to the states. For large projects, states can float a bond to see if anyone wishes to invest in that state's good faith and credit. By extension, I think we then begin re-federalizing the nation into 50 laboratories of ideas and liberty and see where people's feet tell them to go. Well-managed states should do well, while CA will remain CA, for example.

Within a year, begin the conversation re: the Federal Reserve, explaining we can continue boom/bust cycles of central planning, or we can have a $ with inherent value again, something to be accumulated rather than riddance of. And perhaps have competing currencies within the nation, and educate on the erosion of wages and illusory nature of appreciating assets in an inflationary, fiat system. Why deflation is not an economic evil when you understand this.
 
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