Is Biden a dictator?

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  1. Louisiana75

    Louisiana75 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That's an interesting squirm there.

    Are school boards able to make their own decisions and mandates or is it a responsibility of the state?
     
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    Speaking of squirms, are you concerned with what it means to be a dictator, or do you want to argue school board law?
     
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    Jan 6? Where he said to peacefully and patrioticaly March to the capital? I don't think there were consequences if they didn't March. I think he was just acting a leader.
     
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    Louisiana75 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I was responding to your reply mentioning school boards. That's how discussions work.
     
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    A governor governing government institutions is not at all related to telling private citizens and businesses what they must do or be punished.
     
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    Ruling over other institutions unilaterally is dictatorial, regardless of the status of those institutions.
     
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    Which was an example of what you highlight about Biden. They are both "dictator like."
     
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    Correct; he's NOT.
     
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    Maybe if he used those institutions to restrict peoples freedoms. He is restricting those institutions from restricting peoples freedoms.

    I don't see, tying the hands of local dictators, as acting a dictator. I see it as doing his duty to protect the freedoms of the people and protecting the state and usa constitution.
     
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    Of course you do.

    Understanding basic concepts requires a lack of partisanship.
     
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    Not what, not a dictator or not acting like a dictator? He is definitely acting like one and I will risk my job to oppose his dictates.
     
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    Holy cow. What blinders you have on. His CDC tried to extend the eviction moratorium unconstitutionally and now his OSHA is trying to mandate a vaccine that they clearly don't have constitutional authority to do. Trump never even came close to doing anything like this. The left now claiming that Trump wanted to be a dictator are just as blind as they are now about Biden.
     
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    Is that why you don't understand the constitution and how the powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved fore the states?
     
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    Nonsense. Biden is not trying to be a dictator anymore than Trump did. Once again I need to remind folks there is a reason the founding fathers set up our govt with checks and balances. We should thank them all.
     
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    dictator
    [ˈdikˌtādər]
    NOUN
    1. a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
    Stay focused please. Don't derail the OP.
     
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    Neither.
     
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    Louisiana75 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If you truly believe that, your blinders are so thick, you can't see through them. Trump never threatened his people with their jobs, he never scolded them in his speech, he never told Governors that he would get them out of his way to accomplish an unconstitutional mandate on the working class.
     
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    Biden may or may not be a dictator, but the people who are telling him what to say are. He has the friendly backing of the media so no one but us is going to call him out.
     
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    Biden telling his governors that they can't get in his way to he can rule the working class with his threats. After all, his patience is wearing thin with those people.
     
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    When Biden knows he cannot do something and does it anyways,that is trying to dictate.
     
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    And DeSantis telling local governments what they can and can't do, with his threats, is the same.

    The POTUS and state governors have lots of authority. Doesn't make them dictators.
     
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    No, he never threatened his people but, he was on TV or Twitter every day sowing division and hate between Americans.
     
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    You clearly don't know what a dictator is. You are hyper partisan so you have to believe he is. Just like the hyper partisan left had to believe Trump was a dictator.
    Our govt doesn't allow for a leader to be a dictator. Again...thank our founding fathers for checks and balances.
     
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