XPost: or.politics, rec.aviation.military   
   From: smharding@verizon.net   
      
   On 7/4/25 10:46 PM, Baxter wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   The recently passed budget became law via one tie breaking vote.  It was   
   not an executive order.   
      
   The Courts are still a means of restraining executive orders that might   
   over-reach.   
      
      
   SMH   
      
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