USA Policy positions of Donald Trump; let's see how many he achieves

[campbell]

On your first point, my evidence is stark, just as we are the evolutionary process of our paternal grandmothers, donold is shorter than 6 feet.
FACT.
On your second point, he’s a bloviated nappy wearing fat campaigner that has dementia like his Dadda and just like his father before him whom was a Brothel owner.
FACT.
History is so cool, ain’t it?

Damn straight it is.

 

[Gethelred]

He can’t change the constitution

Neither could the nazis.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Gee these girls have improved so much from last year

 

[Royces Hart]

Gee these girls have improved so much from last year

Noem, MTG and Boebert?

 

[OneGreatClub]

Noem, MTG and Boebert?

Haha oops wrong thread

 

[sdfc]

Neither could the nazis.

A bit different. The German constitution was 14 years old, not 240 odd. Germany had lost the biggest war in history, had huge reparations to pay, endured the French occupation of the Ruhr, went through a hyperinflation and were in a deep depression.

 

[Gethelred]

A bit different. The German constitution was 14 years old, not 240 odd. Germany had lost the biggest war in history, had huge reparations to pay, endured the French occupation of the Ruhr, went through a hyperinflation and were in a deep depression.

... all of which is to say that the Weimar Republic's constitution didn't protect them from a single party or dictator from taking control, despite being in minority.

Which is the point.

 

[darrenmorgan]

... all of which is to say that the Weimar Republic's constitution didn't protect them from a single party or dictator from taking control, despite being in minority.

Which is the point.

The US constitution is extremely robust. No doubt it will be tested immensely during the next 4 years. but there sure as shit won’t be any constitutional changes (nor reichstag fire moments), that I’m fairly sure of.

 

[Gethelred]

The US constitution is extremely robust. No doubt it will be tested immensely during the next 4 years. but there sure as shit won’t be any constitutional changes (nor reichstag fire moments), that I’m fairly sure of.

... you - and I - hope.

 

[sdfc]

... all of which is to say that the Weimar Republic's constitution didn't protect them from a single party or dictator from taking control, despite being in minority.

Which is the point.

Equating a 14 year old constitution with a 240+ year old constitution and the institutions surrounding it isn't making much of a point.

 

[SeaOfFire]

 

[Gethelred]

Equating a 14 year old constitution with a 240+ year old constitution and the institutions surrounding it isn't making much of a point.

.. which is a whine rather than a rebuttal.

 

[Randomizor]

So Trump rallies against DEI, but zero of his staffing picks are based on merit?

 

[samFFC]

They were warned..

Dearborn is 100k people.
Dems lost >5m votes. It’s white people and the party.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

So Trump rallies against DEI, but zero of his staffing picks are based on merit?

That cartoon from the AFR yesterday summed up Trump’s operating principle - Me, the People.

 

[Baldur]

He can’t change the constitution

The supreme court can and already has in his favour by inventing presidential immunity. Furthermore, in Rucho v Common Cause they found that federal courts have no role in limiting gerrymandering. It is not to hard to see the present supreme court deciding unfree and unfair election are fine.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/the-end-of-the-rule-of-law/the-supreme-court-gerrymandering-and-the-rule-of-law/

"Although the U.S. Supreme Court has undermined the rule of law in a whole variety of areas, its treatment of partisan gerrymandering is arguably the most destructive. The reason is that gerrymandering is the one area of the law where the Court itself acknowledges that state and local officials are regularly violating the Constitution, but it has refused to allow any federal judicial remedy."

 

[smelly cat]

Depends what you mean by…”election”

What do you mean?
Just a regular election, the same that is held every four years.

 

[OneGreatClub]

So Trump rallies against DEI, but zero of his staffing picks are based on merit?

He has a different idea of what merit means.
Loyalty to him alone, pathological liars, history of corruption, willing to do whatever it takes …are what he holds in high esteem.

 

[OneGreatClub]

What do you mean?
Just a regular election, the same that is held every four years.

Can’t be bothered. You don’t even try to get it.

 

[Satan]

President-elect Donald J. Trump tapped Chris Wright, chief executive of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based fracking company, as his choice for secretary of energy.

Mr. Wright, who calls himself “a tech nerd turned entrepreneur,” is a media-friendly evangelist for fossil fuels who promotes a feel-good message that oil and gas can lift people out of poverty, while disparaging climate science.

 

[campbell]

That cartoon from the AFR yesterday summed up Trump’s operating principle - Me, the People.

Who me a dictator on day one, stuff that. Me a dictator forever. Do as I say,NOW.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I dont see any policy and achievement trackers on our politicians but we do it for the US?! Makes sense /s

There’s never been an Australian politician as flagrantly dishonest as Trump. People keep overlooking his astonishing dishonesty for some reason, yet it’s his defining characteristic as a human being.

 

[Gough]

There’s never been an Australian politician as flagrantly dishonest as Trump. People keep overlooking his astonishing dishonesty for some reason, yet it’s his defining characteristic as a human being.

They're not overlooking it, it's being purposefully ignored.

 

[smelly cat]

The supreme court can and already has in his favour by inventing presidential immunity.

On this point though, this ruling was not conjured out of a vacuum. And it shouldn't be portrayed as being part of some over-arching Trump superplan.

It was sought as a legal defence. It couldn't have existed without prosecution.


It occurred in the context of what was perceived as politically motivated pursuit of an ex-president. And will now prevent the sort of retributional tit-for-tat that this partisan climate promotes.

I consider the immunity ruling has resulted more from the conduct of Trump's opponents rather than Trump himself.

 

[smelly cat]

Can’t be bothered. You don’t even try to get it.

It's because you've got nothing