The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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This rambling mess from yesterday.



Colbert, Fallon and Conan put this out.



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Adisa said:
Depends entirely on the independents. There is no evidence they've abandoned him.
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He scraped 2016 against one of the most unpopular candidates in history and his support has shrunk since then. Unless the Dems manage to field an equally unpopular candidate he's really going to struggle. Of course it's possible he could be re-elected but the acceptance of inevitability by some is baffling.
 
Donk87 said:
He scraped 2016 against one of the most unpopular candidates in history and his support has shrunk since then. Unless the Dems manage to field an equally unpopular candidate he's really going to struggle. Of course it's possible he could be re-elected but the acceptance of inevitability by some is baffling.
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It's basically just winning back a few counties in the upper Midwest which shouldn't be hard if,you know, they actually try...
 
Oooh. Also any case involving gay/trans issues. That and abortion were the 2 things he was good on. The rest (unions, private power, guns, voting rights) will continue as badly as before.
 
Pexbo said:
This to me suggests that the GOP are definitely expecting to lose the the Midterms.
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Why risk it either way? If they thought there was even a 0.1% chance they might lose, it's better to play safe and get him to step down now.
 
In his opinion on the travel ban, Roberts basically said Trump should stop acting like himself. And now Kennedy gives him the gift of framing the SCOTUS for the next 25 years. feck off.
 
Reposting this

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-announces-court-packing-plan

Relevant portion:
During the previous two years, the high court had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government. Flushed with his landslide reelection in 1936, President Roosevelt issued a proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over 70. If a justice refused to retire, an “assistant” with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority.
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In April, however, before the bill came to a vote in Congress, two Supreme Court justices came over to the liberal side and by a narrow majority upheld as constitutional the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The majority opinion acknowledged that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted.
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For me, proof that judgement are often the result of tortured reasons and words to suit the judges' pre-existing politics. It's why so many contentious decisions are 5-4 along very well-known, pre-existing partisan lines. There is then no such thing as an objective, pre-existing law/constitution, all that matters is who is in charge of interpreting it. The 5-4 in the 2nd amendment case and the 5-4 for Citizens United, and earlier, the 7-2 on whether people are entitled to equal votes, and the 1-8 on whether slaves have rights - all that proves it).
 
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langster said:
Didn't Mitch say it's up to the American people to decide the Supreme Court judge?
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The American people have given them both the house and the senate. Don't think the situations are comparable.
 
Well that's America f*cked for a generation. Well played McConnell, well played.

Also way to go non voting Democrats, your most liberal ambitions are now dead. Elections have consequences folks.
 
Raoul said:
Buckle up folks :nervous:

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And there it is. My post from the Abortion thread...

adexkola said:
It's a contentious issue here in the states. While there is a big correlation between the pro-lifers and conservatives/evangelicals, enough citizens are against abortion that dismissing opposition to abortion as "religious nutters haha" is short-sighted. Roe vs Wade's chances of survival depend on the health of 2 octogenarians in the Supreme Court. One of them croaks in the next 2 years and it's curtains for legalized abortion at the federal level.

Personally I'm pro-choice (very reluctant), but it's a trade-off between 2 horrible alternatives.
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Forgot the possibility of Kennedy pulling a stunt like this. Oh well.
 
Raoul said:
Buckle up folks :nervous:

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Democrats should just do what Republicans did to Obama and Garland even though it's probably unconstitutional. Just cite his terrible (albeit slightly improving) approval ratings.

Dems are looking better for the midterms anyway, so just hold on until then when the majority should be flipped.
 
A traitor who colluded with a hostile foreign leader to ascend to the presidency gets to shape the Supreme Court--and the American social and political landscape--for another generation.

America has seen it's better days.
 
Sigma said:
Democrats should just do what Republicans did to Obama and Garland even though it's probably unconstitutional. Just cite his terrible (albeit slightly improving) approval ratings.
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They don't have the numbers.
 
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