If it doesn't work for him, then it’s really a bad thing for the country.

SAD.

without such a pesky Constitution.

Maybe Russia.

It is not so far fetched...

Hell, in a lot of ways, he's already done it. And please, don't advise me on what not to make light of. It makes you seem a little authoritarian.

do it in a heartbeat if he thinks he can get away with it but then again power mongering dictators do tend to prefer to do away with things that are a check on their powers be it term limits in the case of Putin to Erdogan and his working to do away with the position of prime minister in order to consolidate even more power in his hands.

I find that scarier than Trump, because Trump will eventually go away but those people will still be able to vote.

draft their own, and do away with the original.

preferably Fascist tyranny, but as long as he's the tyrant, he'd be happy with any kind...... What. A. Fucking. Weeenie.

Gawd, he is awful.

It kicked the oval office door open with it's crackly little leg and was all like

"HEY. A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME THAT SOMEONE IN HERE HAS GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME? YOU? I'M'MA ISSUE SOME EXECUTIVE ORDERS STRAIGHT UP SOMEBODY'S PASTY ORANGE...WAIT. JESUS CHRIST. WHO PICKED THOSE FUCKING CURTAINS? ..."

a fucking bully with an attention span of a few seconds at most

Lets hope that old piece of paper keeps on kicking ass. It's the heart and soul of the Republic. It and all those dusty books of the US Code and Statutes at Large are what rules the country. Not personalities or mobs or dictators. When or if that stops, I'm going bye, bye.

... blaming the lines when he fails to crayon inside the lines.

He could have at least gone for a little originality.

Supreme Court because why do we need it when we have Herr Trump to make the important calls on whats legal and not legal?

Countries where, as the late Robin Williams put it, the constitution is written in pencil.

tear the page out of a law book and say, "that was a bad law. I just repealed it."

GOD, PLEASE don't let him see that movie!

I suppose the next thing Trumpf will blame will be the Declaration of Independence and Thomas Jefferson.

...in the interest of consolidating HIS power:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028994884

Is he sounding like a Nazi now, or what?
Archaic is our health care system.
Archaic is trickle down economics.
Archaic is a society based on the extremely wealthy.

He took a freaking oath to 'protect and defend the Constitution'. He just violated that oath, proving once again that he is not fit to spend another night in the White House.

GOP, get off your asses, disavow this traitor, and impeach him before he kills us all!

Dubya started his time in office complaining that the executive branch didn't have enough power.

America, stop BEING asses and disavow that party.

You know, something passed a few months after his rise to power that centralises all power in the one man ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

...just contemplating that.

Should maybe read up on the English civil war. There are serious risk involved with trying to become a dictator.

He sees himself holding court, proclaiming things which will be carried out, etc.
I cannot disagree with that self-concept because that is exactly how he is acting, and whining when he cannot do it his way.

Wayne Barrett wrote a good bio of Trump, and of his father. ( Barrett passed last year)
He reported that Trump was such an excessive micro-manager and bully that competent people fled.
When he had those casinos in Atlantic city ( thereby competing against himself) he decided he could manage one better than any one else.
He saw himself glad handing all thru the place, looking every inch the fat cat. In truth, he lost staff, lost suppliers when he did his usual stiffing them of payment ( which he sees as a negotiating tool to get lower bills--he got lawsuits instead).
Took him about 3 months to run it into the ground. He later ran them all into the ground and had to file for bankruptcy of them all.

Who thinks our country should be run like a company with a CEO who acts like a king.

He's exactly the type that our forefathers wrote the Constitution the way it is to protect our country from. It's not like they weren't mostly well educated and/or businessmen themselves so I'm sure that if they had wanted our country to be run like a business they would have set it up that way instead of with the system of checks and balances they deliberately chose to use.

of the Constitution and wave it around while they pontificate about something are so far absolutely fine with everything Der Trumpenfuhrer has done.

Considering that Republicans blame all the truly horrible things they do on either the Bible or the Constitution, it's a pity they've never read either of them.

I can hear him now, telling us he never said that.

-- Mal

"'Loyalty Day' was originally observed during the First Red Scare in 1921, but was called 'Americanization Day.' During the Second Red Scare, it was recognized by the U.S. Congress on April 27, 1955.

Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1955, the first observance of 'Loyalty Day,' moving 'Child Health Day' to the First Monday in October in 1958, to avoid conflicting with 'Loyalty Day.'

"'Loyalty Day' has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958."


I'd say it was about as well-observed as the equally-useful 'National Walnut Day' and 'National Catfish Day,' but when your president does nothing of consequence for 100 days, 'National Catfish Day' becomes a hot political topic.

Interesting that every President has chosen to perpetuate this farce, but I suppose that the first one who didn't would be accused of 'disloyalty.' Thanks for the extra background!

-app

If Democrats had a spine, they'd go after him for disparaging our Constitution and for all his Constitutional violations.

although i'm pretty sure i blame a different part of the Constitution than Dear Leader does
Article II, Section I has been a thorn in my side since 2000: no "electoral college", no first 100 days for Trump, no Trumpian chaos, no problem
to be fair, it's not the only reason, but it did make a significant difference

Thank God the man and his advisors are all stunningly incompetent. Let's pray they remain hubristic and idiotic.