Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

No they don't. They take an oath to uphold and defend the US Constitution. They also pledge to obey the President and appointed officers, but 'within regulations'. It isn't a case of blindly doing bidding. If they receive an illegal order they can refuse.

Edit: the crux of what the U.S is going through right now is down to the switches Trump is pulling using the power of the presidency. It's not one party or the other, It's purely Trump using all the leverages of the office of the presidency in ways that the powers of the office were granted to the presidency regardless of party were never contemplated as possible. Even Nixon didn't go near as far as Trump did in 2021 and is trying to do again with more experience under his belt. END OF EDIT…

It SEEMED to me, or so I read it, that the other debater was of the opinion that because a person was in the military he/she would automatically be predisposed toward obeying an authoritarian figure, in this case Trump.

Trump is an elected OFFICIAL who, in turn, has legal obligations to comply with, which does not include issuing his heads of departments orders which he knows are, in their core and intent, issued purely for personal gain; that is retention of the presidency, while suggesting to the public they are to stamp out criminality, and criminal gangs, in certain U.S cities.

It is not dissent for any member to vote against a person seeking election to a public office merely because the person is already holding that office. That also, IMO, includes any occasion when a serving member of the military perceives that one person seeking public office would be better for the state of the union than the other person, regardless of party affiliation on a true freedom of vote basis.

They are hiding what they blamed the dems for doing, only difference the WH is full of incompetence, inexperienced and corrupt foxnews hosts and podcasts god forbid if there was an international crisis...

Sorry about the link has to be open in browser its very telling

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/additional-footage-speaker-confrontation-rep-030318044.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM3eaccVSFwOrthOE1xZM8Xx16xYibfDmqL96840hObnMYG_K8B3uYPhSsbMfndsSFaD36Y08d4q1Fn6AjSXiR_AIlwZ9S8WenVJ8lcK9JOvmnDHTgU5j1s6ujYEFh7xh0YceRnMCUMlC34-S_N4j9RJRRxz9HFWB22YVUqHTgfy

The latest jobs report is terrible

Prices are continuing to rise.

Doge was a complete disaster

Trump has been completely unable to do anything about Putins war in Ukraine.

The soy farmers are so badly off due to his tariffs that Trump is now using federal money to bail them out.

He is sending the military on to the streets to fire on US citizens

And now the government has shut down.

I think that with the daily madness we tend to quickly forget just how terrible a job he is actually doing.

Yes, you're right. I went back for another look at the tv news item wording and saw I had left out the word "temporary" from what is, reportedly, in Trumps legal case to SCOTUS. He put it before the word fired to describe how he saw her position after he said he had fired her as in "I have temporarily fired her". How one temporarily fires a person one had already sourced a replacement for on the board may sign a differing of opinion in Trump's HR affairs advisors.

It may be that he knew/knows he is on shaky legal grounds in his claim he could fire her in the first place and if SCOTUS went against him, he could claim the "temporary" firing was like placing her on furlough and she could resume her Board duties without hindrance, which, given he is what he is, would mean she is now on his nasty person list to be gotten even with in time.

Gid forbid anyone thinking there was some back door arrangement done between SCOTUS and Trump's team to get him off the hook and long-finger the case to allow it slip from the public's memory to a time more advantageous to him, should he still be sitting in the Oval Office as president next year. That's only 3 months away now.

I do tend to be highly suspicious of SCOTUS present bench decisions and reasonings where Trump is possibly being given a wider benefit due to being the office holder and nowt else, beyond what seems best practice for supplicants to it.

Not to mention the intentional blocking of the release of the Epstein files.....

Why would China care about Trump and his soy beans ? They have a deal with Brazil for example that still gets them soy beans, probably for less money too.

very likely the strategy, they have been on a relentless recruitment drive and have a near endless budget. It pretty much guarantees a Republican mid term win.

I'm sure Trump will use that against her when he no longer has use for her and MAGA will lap it up

I see the federal government is sueing states for their voter registration information. I'm guessing they are literally going to create a database of suspected Democrats(this will read terrorists in the future). I never trusted this whole registering for a party business or why it is even necessary, I certainly won't be doing it now.

FREE PUDDING.

So, before the election he didn't know what project 2025 was, and denied any ties.

Fast forward to today...

He lies as easily as he breathes.....

Again, America, cmon, do your thing.