Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dave Froble Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: [OT] What is happening in/to the US ? Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:13:47 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <0deacdee3af55f25007e4493e3d24d54e6b7a13f.camel@munted.eu> <9337nk-j4g.ln1@paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 04:13:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a670b2664521547afa0fc3ac2c83928b"; logging-data="2798846"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BK3Icy/Wha0buBRozMA2+6B3o60Ul85U=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:d084asWkv6DBBqYuON/Vg8T9r9k= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2869 On 7/25/2024 7:14 PM, Chris Townley wrote: > On 26/07/2024 00:00, Scott Dorsey wrote: >> Gary R. Schmidt wrote: >>> On 22/07/2024 23:01, Scott Dorsey wrote: >>>> In article , Richard <> wrote: >>>>> Just out of curiosity, how have you been responding to all the people >>>>> who repeatedly ratched up the hysterical incendiary rherotic by constantly >>>>> calling Trump "Hitler" and constantly claiming he is a threat to democracy >>>>> and so-on. >>>> >>>> You see, Americans traditionally have not approved of authoritarian >>>> governments. We did actually start the country in reaction to a British >>>> king who was becoming increasingly oppressive. >>>> >>> >>> It always amuses me that the USA didn't just stick "Elected" in front of >>> "King" and toodleloo along. ;-) >> >> Some folks wanted to do that. Jefferson was totally against it. >> >>> It's not like they don't have much the same power... >> >> They don't at all, as Mr. Trump discovered to his amazement. It's true >> that since the constitution was written, a lot of rights were delegated >> to the president by Congress (such as the ability to make war) and across >> the board that has been a bad thing. It's not too late to undo some of >> them. >> --scott >> > > Then we should hope that Kamala gets in > I'd rather hope that Trump doesn''t ... -- David Froble Tel: 724-529-0450 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc. E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com DFE Ultralights, Inc. 170 Grimplin Road Vanderbilt, PA 15486