Skadden Arps in talks with Trump team to avoid executive order, New York Times reports
By Reuters, March 27, 2025
The firms targeted so far have employed lawyers who investigated Trump or worked with his political rivals. The orders restricted access to government officials and federal buildings for lawyers at the firms and threatened to cancel government contracts held by their clients… [end quote]
No that is a lame excuse. Hitler was elected and so is Trump. When Trump was voted this time, there was no excuse. Everyone knew what he is, and everything the administration is doing now, he said he is going to do it. Don’t say people are powerless. They voted for this.
Don’t absolve democrats either. They knew about Biden’s decline and hid it. Instead, they should have forced him to step aside much earlier, and did a proper primary and let the party elect their candidate. That would have allowed sufficient time for the candidate to walk away from Biden’s policies.
Even for Trump, he cares about elections, and consequences. There is a reason he pulled Elise Stefanik nomination. So all it takes is 3 republican congressman to cross the party affiliation and you can flip the house and basically make it very difficult for the administration.
When I look at senate democrats, I could not differentiate them from republicans.
So it is the will of the people, not that people are powerless.
I don’t think the torrent of crazy executive orders, the chaos in government institutions, threats to Social Security, tariffs, and destroyed foreign relations is something people voted for, but, hey, you seem to know more about the will of the people, so I could be wrong.
Are you saying people were surprised by Trump? They know exactly who he is, and voted for him. Either the democratic candidate and democratic policies are so horrible they thought Trump is a better alternative or Trump is what they wanted. Which one is it?
I don’t think it’ a dichotomy. There’s probably a third possibility, or more, in there but I’m getting tired of guessing what people may have wanted.
I just know we’re in deep kimchee right now, it’s getting worse, and people don’t know how to stop it. Like when Hilty swept into power and so quickly dismantled Germany.
Do you know what is the cure for the high prices? High prices. If people really care, then they can swing the congress in mid-term.
But, if your democrat congressman talks for 30 minutes on a 45 minute townhall about transgender.. this is what he gets… People just don’t show up…
Adolf Hitler never won a majority in a free and open national election. He never received more than 37% of the vote in a free and open national election, but he argued that 37% represented 75% of 51%, and demanded political power. It was the political calculus by which the N azi leader disabled, then dismantled, the Weimar Republic. Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures. …
Reichstag delegate Goebbels had observed a few years earlier, “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”
There are college-smarts and street-smarts, unfortunately they don’t respect each other. The president had to deal with the NY Mafia, street-smarts.
I wonder how many know about German politics before Hitler was elected and took power, the end of the Weimar Republic, 1918 to 1933. There were militias on the streets, Communists and Hitlerites opposing each other. Both socialists so that was not the issue. Communism is international. The other party had the word “National” in its name. Fast forward to the 21st Century, Davos vs. Great America. That’s where the similarities end.
Melting-pots, by definition, are not the same as a master race. Melting-pots, to function, need new members to become assimilated. Successful melting-pots are homogeneous diversity.
Why did the Communist and the National-Socialialists fight against each other, when Communism and National Socialism are essentially different versions of the same thing?
They wanted him. So, they are going to get him–good and hard. They will lose jobs, houses, cars, etc. They will go bankrupt–again. Choices have consequences. THEY SHALL PAY THE PRICE.
In a large part of the country, there are very few voters. They lack education, training, and are relatively OLDER, so they tend to vote conservative. They are being killed at a relatively high rate compared to historic norms. Plus, what health care MIGHT be available is being discontinued as this administration considers them to be a fraud on the govt. Guess what? Corporations do not have a vote at the ballot box. Liberals are moving into more areas and turning them more purple, moving toward blue as more and more of the old voters die and are not replaced.
I know how we got here. And this guy says it pretty clearly:
Meanwhile, we resist, and protest, and wait for our chance to vote in the mid-terms, hoping that right will still be there, after much, MUCH, probably irreparable, damage has been done.
The overall approval polls move slowly since it takes a while for an issue or issues to sink in to an opinion about the person as a whole … but the issue polls really stink.
For overall polls, Nate is the gold standard and while the disapproval is not where one might hope, the movement is significant, especially for the time period.
