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DjTwarrant -1 points ago +1 / -2

I didn't ignore anything.

When you say republic or republican form of government it is understood, as it was understood by the founders, to be a representative democracy.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/republic-government

republic, form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body. Modern republics are founded on the idea that sovereignty rests with the people, though who is included and excluded from the category of the people has varied across history. Because citizens do not govern the state themselves but through representatives, republics may be distinguished from direct democracy, though modern representative democracies are by and large republics.

You are stripping our the nuance between types of democracies and making like it's an either/or choice. It is not.

Is the US a democracy? YES.

Is the US a Republic? YES.

Is the US a direct democracy? NO.

There are democratic ELEMENTS

Yup. Built in. Because republics are democracies.

Many of us view it as TREASONOUS to claim that the USA is a "democracy,"

So Reagan was a traitor? Again this argument seems to lack all nuance.

Without the checks and balances of a REPUBLICAN form of government, you end up in slavery.

Our Republican form of government allowed slavery.

Again you can all forms of republics. Dozens of countries are republics. Saddam Hussein ruled over the Republic of Iraq.

I think your argument starts talking about the character of the county more than the form or government.

Representative democracies like republics are imperfect and made up of imperfect men and women. You can have constitutional republics with crappy constitutions.

One of the reasons we have the ability to amend our Constitution.

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DjTwarrant -2 points ago +1 / -3

Tell your boss your lies don't work on people who grew up in America

And if you're going to lie about a historical figure choose someone obscure.

Hitler's view: Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

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DjTwarrant 0 points ago +2 / -2

Yup. A Republican form of government is a democracy.

It's a type of democracy.

Baptists and Lutheran's are both Christians.

It's kinda of modern arrogance to ignore 200+ years of history and said claim they didn't know what they are talking about.

The founders and most every single politician since then were against direct democracy. They were in favor of representative democracy.

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DjTwarrant -2 points ago +1 / -3

This is deeply ahistorical at best,

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." -- Ronald Reagan

"Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being." - JFK

"We want democracy to survive for all generations to come..." - Dwight Eisenhower

“I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state.” - Barry Goldwater

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DjTwarrant 0 points ago +1 / -1

Also you can expect FED rate cuts on 18th. This is the final piece that caused recession in 2008

These situations seem completely different to me.

And the FED did not cause the recession.

The end of of the housing bubble in 2006 caused problems that eventually let the mortgage backed securities to tank. The FED was REACTING.

When all the data came they realized the start of the recession began in December 2007.

What is different here isthe Fed raised rates to attack inflation, in the 2007-2009 recession they were attacking large job losses.

Inflation is back down to 2.53%.

This is why they doing a big cut.

Folks were saying they could have cut last time, but they picked the can down the road and this big cut is them playing catchup

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DjTwarrant 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, and interestingly, Iran phoned Trump to tell him they will deliberately miss when they would attempt to bomb the base in retaliation.

Basically the US doesn't want war with Iran and Iran doesn't want war with the US.

The bombs were not a direct hit. But US troops did were injured. They suffered internal injuries due to the blast wave.

I wonder if Solimani was working against Iran and they were happy he was gone.

I highly, highly doubt this. The folks who wanted Soleimani gone were Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

while the rest of Iran seems more inclined towards peace.

This is the question of who holds power in Iran and how much. Iran does have an elected legislature and apreaident but they are a theocracy And the supreme leader controls the judges, the media, the Army and overseas the council that reviews candidates for election.

Israel pulled out of the effect to kill Solimani at the last minute. Maybe he was their guy.

He was not.

Israel probably pulled out at the last minute knowing that Iran could do damage to them.

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DjTwarrant 1 point ago +1 / -0

Trump's campaign said it hacked a month ago

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said

the documents “were obtained illegally” and warning that “any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America’s enemies and doing exactly what they want

The Washington Post, Politico and the NY Times have been offered this material.

They have not published it.

The Trump campaign was tipped off by Microsoft that they were seeing evidence of Iran spearphishing people on the Trump campaign.

Reportedly they got Susie Wiles emails

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DjTwarrant 2 points ago +2 / -0

Is Iran low key helping Trump out, by forcing the media to say this type of thing is okay, thus admitting Russia, Russia, Russia wasn't a crime?

Russian hackers who were part of the GRU were indicted as part of the Mueller probe.

So far no media organization has published any of the material offered by Iran.

From last week

Charges coming in alleged Iranian hack-and-leak attack on Trump campaign

Investigators have said the person, or people, posing as Robert was acting on behalf of the Iranian government and offering data files stolen from Trump advisers’ email accounts to news organizations. The evidence reviewed by investigators includes at least some of “Robert’s” emails with reporters, the people said. The persona offered files to reporters at The Washington Post and Politico.

Trump did resist the deep state's urgings to war with Iran in 2019 when Iran, or someone in Iran, shot down the American drone.

He also assassinated the leader of Iran's military. They bombed a US base in retaliation