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Etiquette
DP Etiquette
First rule: Don't be a jackass.
Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Regarding djt's vindictive dictatorship
In this 57 second video, djt publicly threatens to withhold all federal funding from the state of Maine. The dispute is over a transgender athlete ban law. He threatened that after Maine's governor, Janet Mills, said she would comply with state federal law. djt responded: "We are the federal law. You better do it (comply with the MAGA law) because you're not going to get any federal funding at all of you don't. .... your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. .... And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics."
That is dictatorship, plain and simple.
So there we have it. If a state fights in court against a MAGA law, djt threatens to withhold all federal funding.
In my vision of American democracy and rule of law, djt's threat constitutes an impeachable offense. But as we all know, impeachment is no longer a viable threat to a Republican president. It will stay that way until the day that another party controls the House and has the votes to impeach in the Senate. For now, that day in nowhere on the horizon. That other party may not be the Dems.
