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   Message 101,502 of 102,158   
   Baxter to Stephen Harding   
   Re: What are we celebrating?   
   05 Jul 25 02:46:47   
   
   XPost: or.politics, rec.aviation.military   
   From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com   
      
   Stephen Harding  wrote in   
   news:1049c3e$1070j$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > On 7/4/25 11:31 AM, a425couple wrote:   
   >> On 7/4/25 08:05, Baxter wrote:   
   >>  > What are we celebrating?   
   >>   
   >> We are celebrating the fact that we have made ourselves a free   
   >> people, and as such, free to accept what we believe to be the truth.   
   >> We do not have to accept what a King dictates.  We do not have   
   >> to accept what liars named Clinton, Obama, Biden, Harris, Schumer,   
   >> Jeffries, MSNBC, or CNN tell us.  We are able to accept what   
   >> we believe to be the truth, and make decisions that will give   
   >> us a better future.   
   >>   
   >>> Are we celebrating the fact that our Democracy is fragile? That   
   >>> there may NOT be any more elections?   
   >>   
   >> Why do you keep spouting that horrible lie?   
   >> You have believed too many lies.   
   >>>   
   >   
   > Given we constantly hear from Democrats that Trump lies in everything   
   > and cannot thus be believed, I don't understand the "end of democracy"   
   > crap making the rounds from liberal-progressives.  Why do you believe   
   > Trump is going to end democracy?  Because he says he'd like to run for   
   > a third term?  You believer that will happen?   
   >   
   > Why do you believe Trump is going to make Canada the 51st state, or   
   > annex Greenland or change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf   
   > of America?   
   >   
   > If he lies about everything, why get bent out of shape about such   
   > statements that one knows are not going to happen (at least during   
   > this Trump administration).  Why lose sleep over the "end of   
   > democracy"?   
   >   
   > The end of American democracy will probably come at some point, but   
   > more likely from demagogues on the Left rather than authoritarians on   
   > the Right.   
   >   
   Democracy ends when the President rules by Executive Order.   
      
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