“Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” [Trump] wrote.
Nor would they want false and fraudulent politicians sullying the office further, if we’re being honest.
Just like how elected representatives have no duty to support their constituents
Or police to protect citizens.
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Maybe, but this goes much further. This is a president of the United States literally declaring himself not to be duty-bound to the constitution, the one document that limits their power.
Lord Varys : Power is a curious thing, my lord. Are you fond of riddles?
Tyrion Lannister : Why? Am I about to hear one?
Lord Varys : Three great men sit in a room: a king, a priest, and a rich man. Between them stands a common sellsword. Each great man bids the sellsword kill the other two. Who lives, who dies?
Tyrion Lannister : Depends on the sellsword.
Lord Varys : Does it? He has neither crown, nor gold, nor favor with the gods.
Tyrion Lannister : He has a sword, the power of life and death.
Lord Varys : But if it’s swordsmen who rule, why do we pretend kings hold all the power? When Ned Stark lost his head, who was truly responsible? Joffrey? The executioner? Or something else?
Tyrion Lannister : I’ve decided I don’t like riddles.
[pause]
Lord Varys : Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
I love game of thrones because of this but hate it bcoz of grr
yeah, these exchanges were some of the absolute highlights
Did he? Because that’s not what the article said. Where did he declare himself not duty bound by the constitution, aside from it being his layers words and not his, thats not even the nitpick being made. Did you actually read it?
Are you seriously trying to argue “it was just his lawyers arguing this point, he didn’t say it himself”?
That’s not what he’s saying, and I’m not a Trumpet but the article’s pretty clear: Trump’s argument is that he swore to “preserve, protect and defend” but that elsewhere the constitution defines officers as people who swear to “support” so he’s not an “officer”.
It’s stupid and nitpicky but not as clickbaity as the headline.
I’m not “arguing” anything. Thats what the linked article says.
You do understand that as his legal representation, they are arguing for him, which makes their argument legally literally his argument?
No actually, thats not how lawyers work, you tell them your part, and they say itn how it needs to be said to work for you, hence the part of hiring them, its almost never verbatim.
So again, his lawyers words, not his. Can you quote HIM saying it, yes or no?
Why are you complaining to me, while the Independent must have made the same mistake in your eyes?
Trump actually did a lot of what he said he’d do. He was incredibly effective. This isn’t praise for him. I’m just saying, MAGA mostly agrees with you, but see an archon of action in Trump.
he didn’t really get a lot done
That’s actually not how most maga people feel as far as I can tell. Trump’s Twitter feed and candidacy compared to Trump’s government were quite different. As president he did maybe too good of a job keeping his hands off of things. Considering the massive riots during a good chunk of his presidency, many conservatives including maga conservatives wanted him to be a little bit more like the fascist that the left pretends he was instead of the 90s Democrat he actually was.
There’s actually quite a bit of criticism of trump from his supporters. He passed terrible budgets, he didn’t pardon Assange or Snowden or the j6 protesters, he put swamp monsters like John Bolton into positions of power when they should have been put into positions of prison cells or at least unemployment lines, he went along with covid mandates, and project warp speed that resulted in the untested experimental vaccines being mandated to countless people around the world was his idea.
People talk about the supreme Court, but that’s turtle man McConnell’s crowning achievement, not Trump’s.
You are acting like the vaccines were a bad thing. Also, especially if you think of the first wave of vaccines that went to at risk groups as field trials, they were very much tested. The fact that trump didn’t support the vaccines publicly and push his constituents at the very least to use them is a large mark against him.
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Do you think that if you put 9 women who arent pregnant together then you can make a baby in 1 months, and if you put 275 women who aren’t pregnant together that you can make a baby in a day?
I would say you can’t do that, it takes 9 months to make a baby even if you put 1000 women who aren’t pregnant on the job.
The same way, you can’t do long-term testing without a long term. That’s one of the reasons why when Trump originally started project warp speed everyone told him that it was absolutely impossible to create a vaccine in that period of time, because you still needed to test it. And they didn’t, not in the long term.
Now I took the untested experimental vaccine before it was mandated that I shall take it or else lose my job. I took it because I feel like it was the right thing to do, but unlike the establishment that lied to everyone by claiming they knew everything about the long-term effectiveness and safety of the drugs, I went into it understanding it was ultimately a gamble. It was a gamble that I won on the safety front, I’m just fine. But it was a gamble I lost on the effectiveness front, I ended up getting covid anyway not long after I and 85% of people in my country took the vaccine.
Trump was never against the vaccines and always advocated that his supporters take them. Of course he wasn’t against them, it was one of his achievements as president. Whatever you think of the vaccines, if it wasn’t for his policy initiative project warp speed they never would have been developed as quickly as they were. He openly told people to get vaccinated. The problem is that most people don’t actually know anything about Donald trump, they only know what the latest rage bait article says. It’s really sad watching people who claim to be free thinkers just doing whatever they’re told by the Teevee.
Can you share the testing schedules for long-term testing which were skipped? I’ve asked this every person that I’ve seen share your position, but I’ve never gotten an answer. Somehow, everyone knows that long-term testing must mean more than the tests that were done, but nobody can tell me how long it has to be.
Any kind of official source is fine.
There are typically 3-4 phases of testing for vaccines.
Phase 1: Small groups of people (20 to 100) receive the trial vaccine. This phase gathers information on the vaccine’s safety, identifies side effects, and studies how well the vaccine works to cause an immune response.
Phase 2: The clinical trial expands to hundreds (100-300) of trial participants who have characteristics (such as age and physical health) similar to those for whom the vaccine is intended.
Phase 3: The vaccine is given to thousands of people and tested for efficacy and safety.
Phase 4 (if applicable): Ongoing studies after approval, designed to monitor the effectiveness of the approved vaccine and detect any side effects not identified in the clinical trial.
The Emergency Authorization from the FDA allows the use of unapproved drugs in the case of emergencies. the 4 vaccines to be used starting in late 2020 before Phase 1/2 trials were complete for Moderna and before Phase 3 trials were complete for Pfizer/Biontech, Astrazeneca, and Johnson&Johnson.
Phase 3 trials would be completed in late 2022, by which time many covid restrictions and mandates were already dropped and a majority of many populations had already been vaccinated by the time the normal required testing was completed.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-319.pdf (Figure 8)
https://www.fda.gov/media/144636/download
I can’t argue against the idea that we were in a situation where we needed something fast so decisive action needed to be taken, but we can see some of the effects of the fast tracking. First, the AstraZeneca vaccine (which I don’t think was accepted under the Emergency Authorization in the US) was found to have a higher risk of blood clots than the others (Phase 3 testing of that particular vaccine lasted until early 2023) so was restricted for use in places like England and Canada where it was accepted for use. As well, because testing was fast tracked, politicians were out there making false claims about the effectiveness of the vaccines. If the vaccines were really as highly effective as touted, then covid should have gone extinct in populations that were fully vaccinated, but that didn’t happen (and the counterpoint to that was that the virus mutated and so the vaccine wasn’t for those viruses, but it doesn’t particularly matter – if it doesn’t prevent covid it doesn’t prevent covid). As well, because of the limited data set due to fast tracked testing, it wasn’t known until later that boosters would be required to maintain efficacy after a certain point.
In the United States, the Johnson&Johnson vaccine was first accepted under the emergency use authorization, but later had its use restricted, and then later fully revoked as it became obvious there were potential issues with blood clots:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/health/fda-johnson-johnson-vaccine-eua/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/health/johnson-johnson-covid-vaccine-end/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/janssen/index.html
The US government and the CDC was recommending that pregnant women get the vaccine in April of 2021, over a year before phase 3 testing was completed. That really set off alarm bells for me because typically pregnant women are excluded from medical trials because of the ethical implications of potentially harming a baby in the womb. Thalidomide is a famous example where a drug was approved (not in America but in many other jurisdictions – For her role in preventing the approval of thalidomide in the U.S., President John F. Kennedy presented Frances Kelsey with the highest award for civilian federal workers, the Distinguished Federal Civilian Service medal.) and it turned out to have unexpected side-effects on unborn children. Given all this, that was a potential risk and I think a lot of pregnant women didn’t have the facts required to make a good decision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdoXen3AR8
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pregnancy-idUSKCN24W1NZ
At the end of the day, while COVID vaccine skeptics predicted absolutely genocidal consequences for rushing the development of the vaccines, the reality is that the risks paid off. There are some side effects from the vaccines no doubt, but overall we were able to get society back on track significantly before the standard testing regime was completed. The only thing for me is that the government was not being honest to the people about the fact that it was a risk. In my case, I took the vaccine knowing there was a risk because I had a duty to my family to keep my workplace going so I could continue to support them, but some people took it without being properly informed as to the potential risks or the fact that the vaccines were operating under an emergency authorization and testing was not completed.
Thank you for the links. I understand your point, though I still question which parts of which phase were skipped - there is a big difference between “XYZ wasn’t done” and “XYZ was in the process of being done, and preliminary results were analysed”, which seems to be the case for the trial phases.
Well I am no expert so here is an article based from experts for you.
Your impressive amount of down votes show how fucking stupid people truly are, they’re literally like kids that dont know the difference between TV and real life. “But they said…”
Unreal. Makes no difference what side you’re on, they’re all politicians.
