ALL HAIL PRESIDENT TRUMP
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They are against all Federalist society nominees which is mainly what Trump nominates for Federal court. Meaning guys who obey Constitution. They want Milquetoast conservatives like Souter. i.e. liberals/RINOs
Trump has only got 51% of his nominees through compared to 75%+ for previous presidents. Trump is actually most conservative on Judges in a couple generations. (since Reagan and maybe moreso) If I have to give it odds I say only 40% chance he's confirmed. Remember we have lots of RINOs in senate. Flake, McCain, Collins etc. Git R Dun! Last edited by Aim_Deep#3474 on Jul 10, 2018, 1:07:06 AM
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"Jeff Flake " John McCain " Susan Collins ""Susan Collins is no maverick with GOP judicial nominees": http://archive.is/Y4TC3 You're too pessimistic. Odds look better than 40%. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB#2697 on Jul 10, 2018, 9:03:12 AM
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There's also Murkowski. And since McCain is chilling at home, one Republican is enough to block the nomination. But she voted for Gorsuch so I'm still optimistic.
For fun, here's a 3 minute video showing that college indoctrination is a hell of a drug. These are supposed to be highly educated critical thinkers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKWXyznS9s GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence. Last edited by Xavderion#3432 on Jul 10, 2018, 9:48:53 AM
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The democrats can't stop the nomination.
Any of you thinking a few republicans like a cancer hospitalized mccain not being able to vote, can somehow stop the pick, aren't looking past the nose on your face. Fact is this is an election year for many democrat senators etc, but especially senators, in peril, in republican states. To deny this pick, they have to in the process shoot themselves in the foot, so there WILL be democrats voting for the pick. It's just a matter of how many of them have half a brain to not shoot themselves in the foot on this issue. Democrats have all these whining protests planned, all this screaming planned... but it won't stop the pick from getting through. Just remind us why we don't want crybabies in power. Thanks social justice warriors everywhere... Trump will be president another 6.5 (or so) more years in small part thanks to the screaming and crying of certain adults. We're politically smacking them around like ping pong balls, and it is very, very satisfying. The presidency, the house, the senate, the supreme court... what's next ? † |
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"That's what I acted like when I was a young man, like 15 years ago. I was a pathological liar; if I didn't know the answer to something, I'd just make up some bullshit and see if it came off as intelligent to whomever I was talking to. When crafting my bullshit, I'd try to size up my mark. I'd try to determine things like their political affiliation Sherlock Holmes style just off clues from their appearance, albeit with lower accuracy than the fictional sleuth. Then I'd make a lie that I felt most people of that description would agree with. What did I believe in back then in terms of politics? Not much. I was a liar and a thief and I got stoned pretty regularly. Technically Democrat, but mostly on drug war alone. I didn't really give a fuck; I was just trying to fit in, in my own stupid and cruel way. So I'd take these videos with a grain of salt. It's very unlikely most of these bullshitters are diehard Democrats; what's more likely is that they don't really give a fuck, outside of thinking it's safer to assume their mark -- a young man in jeans and a T-shirt -- will be impressed with bordeline incoherent NeverTrump rhetoric than with borderline incoherent pro-Trump rhetoric. It's not "omg college Democrats are such misinformed liars," it's "college liars confirm hating on Trump is (still) politically correct." When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
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" Too many people have already "learned" from their childhood indoctrination or preferred news sources whether a given politician is "good" or "evil" and they then slurp up any information that fits the assessment whether it is factual or makes sense. Revisionism is tough to spot for people who aren't willing to dig and didn't live through a given news cycle. Even those that take the time to look for good information are stymied by the fact that they can't magically go back and understand what a given era of history was like - with all the ramifications. As an example, 50 years from now, people will have only a slight idea of how much Trump is opposed at every angle. " Keep watching, and the scorecard will show whether he succeeds or fails. I believe he is doing well given the amount of opposition and that he will continue to gain speed. " That is more of a sign of how vociferous and mean spirited the opposition is. Their latest gamut - stalking employees and harassing them in restaurants - is a perfect example. This sort of bratty behavior is what turned so many people away from the DNC and towards Trump. If the DNC doesn't come up with some plan other than to oppose Trump, they will be seriously wounded in the midterms. I expect late August and early September to be utterly brutal to the DNC politically. PoE Origins - Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910 Last edited by DalaiLama#6738 on Jul 10, 2018, 6:39:52 PM
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"It's coincidental that you bring this up because I just watched one of today's Jimmy Dore videos where he calls Obama a "moderate Republican" and Bill Clinton a "rightwinger." So it's not so much that America has shifted so far right that Reagan is considered leftwing, it's that some Americans are too comfortable redefining "the center" as just slightly less extreme than their own political views, so as to paint themselves as sensible moderates and and their opponents as crazed extremists. This comes from a particular clumsiness in handling the concept of the center by treating it as an average (median or mean) of the larger population, then assuming that most people think as one does. Although this fails in part due to simple misunderstanding of where this average lies -- the popular vote in the 2016 US election was extremely close -- it also autofails when an entire country swings left or right, as the average naturally moves with the overall mass. That's why I use an absolute standard for the center, as follows: * if you support government intervention that consistently benefits those who have performed best according to some metric in the past, or that is detrimental to those who have performed worst according to that metric in the past -- for instance, saying that nonwhite races have lower average IQs and advocating for a white ethnostate -- that is to the right. * if you support government intervention that consistently benefits those who have performed worst according to some metric in the past, or that is detrimental to those who have performed best according to that metric in the past -- for instance, taxing the rich to give government assistance to the poor -- that is to the left. * if you support government intervention that on the whole is perfectly balanced between those two aims, or if you oppose any form of government intervention whatsoever, then that is perfectly in the political center. Libertarianism is by this definition extremely centrist, and since I'm pretty darn libertarian I'm pretty darn centrist. (Aim_Deep and I might argue about that.) By these absolute terms, the US is very much a left-of-center country. The Overton Window is such that libertarians and even anarchists -- who want no government whatsoever -- are often seen as rightwing. It's possible for a pseudocommunist like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to get nominated to Congress; it's unthinkable that an openly white-supremacist candidate could. The actual hard right barely exists in this world, and even then mostly as a 4chan meme. There's virtually no one arguing who government should subsidize -- the answer is pretty uniformly that it should help those who, for whatever reason, have previously failed to help themselves. Instead the only debate seems to be: how much should government help them? Some, a lot, or not at all? When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB#2697 on Jul 10, 2018, 9:17:33 PM
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" We are not even that divided. So ridiculous when people think this. Go back to the 1960s when 100 cities were on fire. Or when congress people used to shoot each other. Or actual civil war which killed like a todays equivalent of 10 million. Whats gonna kill us is debt and you too across pond. Excuse conservatives for wanting caution so we dont get to point interest are more than tax receipts so we cant have anything. Think of the children and grand children. Git R Dun! Last edited by Aim_Deep#3474 on Jul 10, 2018, 10:41:54 PM
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" Nice research Scottie. I hope yer right. Git R Dun!
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Spoiler
 GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence.
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