President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Until President Kamala appoints 12 brand new raving liberal justices, all under 35* and 7 of them women, on Jan. 22, 2021, to be immediately confirmed by voice vote (without hearings).


* Except for Justice Merrick Garland and New Chief Justice Barack Obama, selected by a 14-7 vote of the entire court.

 

Any word yet if he served hamberders again?

 

People can argue about the abortion debate forever. We know a certain portion of the populace will view it as a woman's choice and another portion will call it murder. But how on Earth can anybody defend a state's right to prosecute a citizen for leaving that state's borders for another state to do something that is legal in that other state? There is absolutely no justification for such a prosecution.

Let's consider the laws of Kansas, where those under 21 are allowed to consume alcohol if supervised by an approving parent in certain circumstances. If a Georgia resident goes on a family vacation to Kansas, enjoys the product of Boulevard Brewing Company with parental consent and supervision and then returns home, will Georgia then arrest said minor? I doubt it. And if it does not prosecute the 17-year-old boy in my theoretical example but does prosecute the 17-year-old girl for going to Virginia for an abortion, should it have an equal protection issue on its hands?

 

Yep.

Are they going to make women save the contents of their miscarriage to show that they didn’t abort?

How are they going to stop women from just getting abortion pills in the mail? We can’t stop illegal drugs from being mailed and they’re going to stop abortion pills?

Like I said. Dumb law.

 

No dog and no knowledge of sports - you don't get more American and 'manly' than that.

 

I’ve written this here more than a dozen times — Trump’s financial dealings in the past 20 years make very little sense and for me set off huge alarm bells that he’s sustained his fortune by being a money launderer through his real estate sales. Of course there is the morally reprehensible stuff involving his charity, but I think the voters should have the full picture of all of their candidates.

 

I realize you're talking about whether or not the quotes damaged him as opposed to their accuracy, but wasn't he correct about almost half the country not paying (federal income) taxes (because their incomes weren't high enough)? (Digression: I wonder what the percentage is now - I assume incomes have become somewhat more unequal over the last 7 years, so the % might be slightly smaller, but if unemployment is lower the percentage might be slightly higher.)

I think journalists make too much fuss over a lot of these "gaffe" quotes - I think I know what he was trying to get at with the binders of women quote, and I don't think Gore really meant to say that he had invented the Internet but that as a Senator he had been involved with/supportive of funding for its development, and I assume Obama's "you didn't build that yourself" meant something like "you didn't build that alone but in the context of a government-provided infrastructure, both physical and legal, without which you couldn't have built it." Even Hillary's "deplorables" quote, while a really stupid thing to say during a campaign, was in the context of saying that there were lots of nondeplorables among Trump supporters who had real concerns that Ds should try to address. And Bush 41 knew what a grocery store checkout scanner was, he was just musing over how impressive the technology was if you thought about it for a while and how it hadn't existed fairly recently. Opposing partisans are going to jump on that sort of quote as evidence of narratives they want to push, but it would be nice if supposedly nonpartisan journalists wouldn't play them up so much.

 

Here he is celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week ...

 

As a teacher, please dear God let me respond in kind.

 

Well yes, he was accurate. But it comes off as tone-deaf to have a member of the 1 Percent whining about little people not paying taxes.

A lot of it, I agree is about short attention spans. Republicans hyperfocused on Obama’s association with Rev. Wright because he yelled “God damn America!” during a sermon. But if you read his whole speech, you would see he was citing the country’s history of oppression (African-Americans, Native Americans) and said God doesn’t bless a country for oppression.