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2024 US Presidential Election

Who will become next President in U.S. what do you think?

  • Donald Trump

    Votes: 42 60.0%

  • Joe Biden

    Votes: 28 40.0%
  • Total voters
    70
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RobFromTX

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Hes the big guy inside your heart mustard. Hes probably sleeping or pooping or tripping over couch cushions but hes here to protect you from those viscous reptilian overlords
 
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As expected...

www.politico.com

RFK Jr. announces he will run as an independent candidate

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is abandoning his challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.
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And the predictable response...

Republicans turn on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he launches independent bid​


Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pivot Monday to an independent run for president met immediate resistance from Republican leaders, who have concluded that his new effort threatens to cannibalize their vote share next year, helping to reelect President Biden.

The Republican National Committee greeted his announcement with a press release that described Kennedy as “just another radical, far-left Democrat,” with a number of talking points that could be used by the expansive network of conservative commentators who tend to take messaging cues from the party.

“Make no mistake — a Democrat in Independent’s clothing is still a Democrat. RFK Jr. cannot hide from his record of endorsing Hillary, supporting the Green New Deal, fighting against the Keystone Pipeline, and praising AOC’s tax hikes — he is your typical elitist liberal and voters won’t be fooled,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.


Steven Cheung, a spokesman for former president Donald Trump’s campaign, echoed the condemnation. “Voters should not be deceived by anyone who pretends to have conservative values,” Cheung said, in a statement. “[An] RFK candidacy is nothing more than a vanity project for a liberal Kennedy to cash in on his family’s name.”

The attacks came as Democrats remained largely silent on Kennedy’s shift, reflecting a relative optimism among the party’s top strategists that Kennedy poses little threat to Biden as an independent candidate. Kennedy’s polling in the Democratic nomination fight had fallen in recent months, and current national polling shows higher approval ratings for Kennedy among Republican voters than Democratic voters.
Kennedy, in a speech Monday at an outdoor rally in Philadelphia, cast his new campaign as an attempt to disrupt the efforts of partisan leaders to pit Americans against themselves for personal gain. He signaled no shift in the underlying conspiratorial and populist theme of his campaign, the idea that the nation’s leaders, in politics, the media and business, have been secretly lying to the American people — and that he is best positioned to expose those lies.


Kennedy spoke Monday about American voters who had been “left behind” and “belittled by a smug elite that has rigged the game in its favor." That language echoes Trump’s appeals, though Kennedy has been a fierce critic of many aspects of Trump’s politics.
“Americans are wary and tired of the culture war, the phony slogans, the politicians who use the partisan blame game,” Kennedy said. “And people believe that the divisions are purposely orchestrated and getting us to hate each other is all part of the scam.”
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igrowone said:
congress would have to agree to that, at least 1/3 of them
unlikely, but not impossible
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That is interesting if you have anything, I would be interested in reading it.
The article says that he would be able to take power with an executive order. A signing of the pen .and that It would be stopable with an act of congress, that he could veto.
 
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I know orange man bad 👍
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You are so desperate to paint Biden in any kind of bad light.

What makes you think that Biden would consider doing as you say he can with impunity? Do you think the Democrats would all gather around and cheer?

You fooled me for a little while with your sealion bit. Good for you. Clown shoe.
 
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right said:
That is interesting if you have anything, I would be interested in reading it.
The article says that he would be able to take power with an executive order. A signing of the pen .and that It would be stopable with an act of congress, that he could veto.
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I'm looking at the same article, the 1/3 I mentioned is a garbling
saying that a veto proof majority in congress is likely, I don't sense Biden pulling that off
but as a wise man once said, "you never know"
 
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igrowone said:
I'm looking at the same article, the 1/3 I mentioned is a garbling
saying that a veto proof majority in congress is likely, I don't sense Biden pulling that off
but as a wise man once said, "you never know"
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I will reread the article and post anything pertinent.
 
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The National Emergencies Act, in its current form, lacks those protections. It allows the president to declare emergencies with nothing more than a signature on an executive order, and presidents can renew those emergencies every year ad infinitum. Congress can vote to end an emergency, but it effectively needs a veto-proof majority to do so.

Their purpose is simple: to temporarily enhance executive power during unexpected crises that are moving too fast for Congress to respond

cataloged 123 statutory authorities that become available to the president when he declares a national emergency.

The National Emergencies Act, in its current form, lacks those protections. It allows the president to declare emergencies with nothing more than a signature on an executive order, and presidents can renew those emergencies every year ad infinitum.


Congress can vote to end an emergency, but it effectively needs a veto-proof majority to do so.

The problems with this system became very clear when President Trump declared a fake emergency to get funding for his border wall after Congress had denied him the funds. Even though a majority of both houses of Congress voted to end this emergency, the president was able to override the veto and continue his blatant misuse of emergency powers.
 
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