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   From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com   
      
   Stephen Harding  wrote in news:104b21q$1f4b1$1   
   @dont-email.me:   
      
   > 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 Budget is not the only "law" of this Administration. tRump has issued   
   166 Executive orders so far this year.   
   >   
   > The Courts are still a means of restraining executive orders that might   
   > over-reach.   
   >   
   The SCOTUS is twisting themselves into pretzels to sanctify tRump's   
   lawlessness.   
      
   Let's take an example - tRump's ending Birthright Citizenship. SCOTUS has   
   not directly ruled on that issue, but has allowed it to be in effect   
   everywhere not actively being challenged in lower courts - and   
   injunctions only apply to litigants - so it is de facto law.   
      
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