XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-12-27, Governor Swill  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:39:24 -0000 (UTC), pothead   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2025-12-26, Governor Swill  wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:16:43 -0800, Pluted Pup    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>As for the thread title, leftists have been promoting   
   >>>>dragnet surveillance of cities in America and the UK and   
   >>>>around the world by claiming the only thing wrong with it   
   >>>>is because it might be used by immigration enforcement.   
   >>>   
   >>> Two words:  "Patriot Act"   
   >>   
   >>The Patriot Act took away more rights to freedom than anything in recent   
   times   
   >>from my perspective.   
   >>And like classic government manipulation of the masses, they picked the   
   perfect   
   >>time to put it on the table. ie:9-11.   
   >>There is some good in the act but there is also some overreach as well.   
   >>In fact a LOT of overreach.   
   >>And while it did expire in 2019 I believe, the government is still using some   
   >>of the main provisions as if nothing changed.   
   >   
   > Power is rarely returned once given.   
      
   Kind of like the price of merchandise.   
      
   > The thing is, we have to trust the bureaucracy to use this info   
   > wisely.  Trump and his appointees are eroding that trust.   
      
      
   The government as a whole doesn't give a hoot about the common taxpayer.   
   The system encourages them to enrich themselves with money and power.   
      
   Trump has been cutting red tape and regulations pretty good. As a businessman   
   he knows full well that government overreach stunts business and growth.   
   Are his policies perfect?   
   Of course not.   
   Do I agree with everything he does?   
   Not even close. Venezuela for one other than the drug runners. Ballroom for   
   two.   
   Kennedy Center rename for three. And that's just a start.   
      
   What I *do* like about Trump is that he does what he says, at least as best   
   as he can.   
   Nigeria ISIS camp attack is one example.   
   They were warned to stop the persecution of Christians and apparently they   
   did not so Trump fulfilled his promise.   
   He did the same thing in Trump 1 when Syria was gassing their own people.   
   That's a true leader IMHO.   
   No more of this wimping out line in the sand or "don't" rhetoric.   
      
   You can be certain other world leaders are watching Trump carefully and they   
   are aware that if they test him, they had better be ready to deal with the   
   results.   
      
   And that is 100000% opposite of Obama and Biden who were weak and lining their   
   pockets   
   at the expense of the US sovereignty.   
   Appeasement and capitulation never works. Our adversaries sniff it out like a   
   Mississippi hound dog and take advantage.   
   See Biden for details.   
   See the Iran nuclear deal for more.   
   See Nato nations not contributing their fair share.   
   etc.   
      
      
   The USA has been taken advantage of for at least 2 decades, maybe more, and at   
   the   
   same time politicians and corporations have been selling us down the river.   
      
   It's time to stop the waste of the taxpayers money going to organizations like   
   USAID and many others which are nothing more than money laundering operations   
   for the democrats and maybe some republicans as well.   
      
      
   --   
   pothead   
      
   "No Kings" Protests.....   
   Brought to you by the party who anointed   
   Kamala to be their candidate w/o a single vote....   
   Let *that* sink in.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)