The Official Former President Trump thread

[Dan Steele]

4 hours ago, NotThePars said:

If only RBG had the opportunity to give up her position to a liberal pick of Obama's instead of allowing the moronic reality TV host to name anyone his handlers tell him to

She said it was time a Native American woman was brought into the Supreme Court. I'll have a wild guess at Trump not doing that.

[GNU_Linux]

I'm really old and don't understand wtf's going on in the last couple of pages. Is it too late for a third candidate?

Libertarian's lost my vote when they didn't select my man Vermin Supreme.

[BFTD]

It is amazing that there are always a number of third-party and independent candidates that run for president, considering nobody would ever know they existed without going out of their way to find out.

Heaven help any of them if they somehow manage to approach Ralph Nader's giddying 2000 performance, when he was famously castigated for costing Al Gore the presidency by taking a massive total of, erm, well under 3% of people who could be arsed to vote.

[Adamski]

GOP not nominating anyone before the election. They say that the senate doesn’t have time. More likely there’s enough GOP rebels to block it?

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[BFTD]

Hadn't occurred to me before, but I wonder how many plots to murder Democrat-appointed Supreme Court judges are foiled during Republican presidential terms.

I suppose it'll be academic for the foreseeable once The Donald gets his second term.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

Fascism has been defeated. Trump’s executive order to ban the Tiktok app has been stopped at the 11th hour.

Bytedance will create a separate company called Tiktok Global and operations will be moved to the US and Oracle have agreed to store US data on their cloud.

 

In other Tiktok news, kids have started a trend that has people grinding down teeth with a nail file.

[Mark Connolly]

6 hours ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

It is amazing that there are always a number of third-party and independent candidates that run for president, considering nobody would ever know they existed without going out of their way to find out.

Heaven help any of them if they somehow manage to approach Ralph Nader's giddying 2000 performance, when he was famously castigated for costing Al Gore the presidency by taking a massive total of, erm, well under 3% of people who could be arsed to vote.

 

[Bairn in Exile]

Can't wait to see this Trump toady tying himself in knots trying to say that isn't what he meant.

 

[Aladdin]

GOP not nominating anyone before the election. They say that the senate doesn’t have time. More likely there’s enough GOP rebels to block it?
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In all likelihood, they're going to use the prospect of the open seat to shore up support amongst any wavering evangelicals before the election and then try and push it through before January irrespective of the result.

[Dunning1874]

1 hour ago, Aladdin said:

In all likelihood, they're going to use the prospect of the open seat to shore up support amongst any wavering evangelicals before the election and then try and push it through before January irrespective of the result.
 

Yeah, it's an electoral calculation that with a vacant seat any Republicans unsure about Trump or unhappy with the Covid response will put their objections aside and vote for him to ensure the court gets another social conservative.

Of course, the flipside of that is it could have a similar galvanising effect for potential Biden voters and the Democrats could get a bigger boost. Biden has a considerably more lacklustre campaign at a grassroots level, a more apathetic base and could get more voters to his left holding their nose to vote for him than otherwise would have, whereas there is no apathy among Republicans and no stay at home electoral group on their right needing a nudge to turn out.

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, MixuFruit said:

I quite like how every election some electoral college votes end up going to randoms. A native American lady got one last time.

This democracy shit really is for the birds, when you think about it.

I wonder what the going rate is for an electoral college vote in Florida. Asking for a mate.

[Granny Danger]

Much talk about increasing the number of justices if Trump tries to force through a nominee following a Biden victory.

[BFTD]

28 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Much talk about increasing the number of justices if Trump tries to force through a nominee following a Biden victory.

They might as well. If one group's desperately trying to bend (or break) the rules, the other(s) would be stupid not to follow suit. It's not like the voters appear to give a shit.

A full-bore race to the bottom. Should be fun to see how far they're all willing to go.

[Baxter Parp]

17 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

They might as well. If one group's desperately trying to bend (or break) the rules, the other(s) would be stupid not to follow suit. It's not like the voters appear to give a shit.

A full-bore race to the bottom. Should be fun to see how far they're all willing to go.

Strictly speaking, there isn't a rule for how many justices of the Supreme Court there are. "The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and such number of Associate Justices as may be fixed by Congress"

[BFTD]

1 minute ago, Baxter Parp said:

Strictly speaking, there isn't a rule for how many justices of the Supreme Court there are. "The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and such number of Associate Justices as may be fixed by Congress"

Aye, I know - it's just tradition/accepted thinking/the way things are done.

It'll be interesting to see how far everyone's willing to push the idea that, if it isn't explicitly written down in law with no wiggle room, it's fair game to be ignored.

[Baxter Parp]

Oh gee, thanks.

[BFTD]

I'm still at a loss to understand how somebody can read/watch this stuff online and think, "I have in some way seen evidence that this is true".

[btb]

6 hours ago, Aladdin said:

In all likelihood, they're going to use the prospect of the open seat to shore up support amongst any wavering evangelicals before the election and then try and push it through before January irrespective of the result.
 

If Biden wins I reckon he'll have enough patronage to persuade 3/4 Republican Senators to vote against any Trump candidate.

[O'Kelly Isley III]

Aye, I know - it's just tradition/accepted thinking/the way things are done.
It'll be interesting to see how far everyone's willing to push the idea that, if it isn't explicitly written down in law with no wiggle room, it's fair game to be ignored.

One of the weirder Supreme Court traditions is that of the judges' job for life. Imagine if an arsehole like George Foulkes fluked a seat.

[BFTD]

32 minutes ago, btb said:

If Biden wins I reckon he'll have enough patronage to persuade 3/4 Republican Senators to vote against any Trump candidate.

The trouble is, this isn't a Trump issue. The Republicans have been drooling at the prospect of stuffing their guys into the Supreme Court for decades. Doing so is key to their hopes to re-shape American society. It's hard to imagine a candidate that Trump could put forward that they wouldn't approve.

Well, unless it's an even-handed moderate Republican. But there's little chance of that.

9 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:

One of the weirder Supreme Court traditions is that of the judges' job for life. Imagine if an arsehole like George Foulkes fluked a seat.

One of the many oddities about US politics that you can use when the subject of insanities like our monarchy comes up. The freedoms of their entire society rely upon flukes of timing and untouchable auld farts not deciding, "f**k it, I've always thought emancipation was a terrible idea".