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It was a win win for Trump and Cruz. Cruz is betting on Trump being a disaster so he will look prescient in 2020. Trump is thrilled to have a WWE style convention. He can come out with the doom and gloom tonight and sling mud at the same time.Cruz just couldn't help himself, could he?
It was not scripted as much as it was totally expected by all involved.
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And still, he's not LIAR.
Of course he is. What's his stand on abortion. Gay marriage. NATO. He changes with the wind.
He's just less scheming than Hillary.
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"Vote your conscience."
The Real World/Apprentice is happening at the R Convention. Give it up for Trump for making the convention into reality TV. He knew this was likely and now everyone is talking about the Republican convention, where tonight Trump will deliver a huge (and winning) counterpunch to Cruz. Trump can be in no more perfect position than needing to take the stage after that. No one stands more comfortably atop a pile of shite than Trump.
What Cruz did was no surprise to anyone in the Trump camp. It's everything they hoped. Probably would have liked even more mud-slinging.
Grotesque how easily he manipulates his feeble-minded minions.
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In my America, an unqualified community organizer doesn't get elected senator, let alone president...because he's black.
Then leave.
It's OUR America no matter who gets elected.
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They both said teach your children to dream big, work hard and they can succeed, and your word us your bond. I'm sure someone else said this before Michelle.
Come to think of it, I think my peewee football coach told us this too.
Michelle's delivery was way better though.
This is a non-issue but it was still copied. A bad PR moment for the campaign and I feel bad for Melania. Someone messed up.
It's OUR America.
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Are they ripping people off, or is it just the same script every year with the names changed? Maybe the public is just dumb enough to keep buying tickets to the show.
Trump is anything but the same script.
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With Hillary you know exactly what you are getting, someone who craves power and won't hesitate to use it. She is dishonest and a proven liar. You can call that my opinion if you wish, but there is a long, long list of people and examples that bear me out.
I agree with this.
You have no idea what you're getting into with Trump. None. No one does. That's not a vote for anything but chaos.
Get Johnson to the debate stage and into the spotlight at least. He's 100x better than these two.
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It's being reported that her speechwriter lifted parts from Michelle Obama's speech when she spoke in 2008.
It's almost like the Trumps are trying to let Hillary win.
No one will care. He's neck and neck with Clinton. The reality of "reality TV" is that idiocy is now acceptable.
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Trump and 4 years of meh.
HRC and a possible civil war thanks to her maliciousness and stupidity.
Choose.
Trump has the potential to be a lot worse than "meh."
"Books'll trick ya" is not a campaign slogan.
You have no idea what Trump will do in the White House. Hillary will just work with the strings that pull/pay her. That's some sort of predictable.
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LIAR is a bigger disaster. She's spent hundred of millions to his almost nothing, only to be in a dead heat. If The Donald could stop saying stupid stuff, he'd be running away with this thing.
Trump will never stop saying stupid stuff. I'm a hell of a lot more worried about the stupid stuff he'll actually do.
Hillary is bought and sold. Everyone knows that.
On another note, Johnson is polling at almost 12% in some polls. At 15%, he gets into the debates. The guy presents like crap but I'd still like to see a viable 3rd party option to these two nightmares.
Edit: Saw 12% in a single poll. RCP has him at 7%. Come on America--get him to the debate stage when those poll calls come.
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By that I mean: what do they have to do for you to personally declare war on them?
Post 9/11, there is no debate about declaring "war on them" but only what is "war" and who is "them."
I don't have any problem with killing bad guys, and have no trouble leaving the issues of collateral damage in the hands and judgment of the military.
The hard part is that "them" are hard to define regrettably. And killing "them" has been a long game of whack-a-mole. We obviously need a better plan.
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Trump has run zero ads to Hillary's 14000. Yet surveys show 46% of people think they've seen a Trump ad.
Hillary has an organized political machine. Trump doesn't even have campaign offices in most states.
Hillary outspend Trump something like 26M to ZERO in the last month.
And the candidates are in a dead heat.
Trump is a disaster but he is exposing a messed up system.
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We ruled out a cruise through Europe this summer expecting lots of trouble to happen.
Nothing says "American Target" quite like hiking around in tour groups wearing radio sets with earphones following a docent holding a banner through crowded European streets.
Live in fear or live a life. The good news is that you have a choice.
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The US has been at war pretty much since WWII. So you only consider the number of body bags to determine how safe people feel? Pretty dumb benchmark when it comes to how safe people feel. How safe did people feel in any major city after 911. How safe has any white person felt in downtown Oakland since the BLM? How safe have people felt in discos since Orlando or concert venues since Paris? I go to concerts all the time and wonder how many people are CC and hope they are next to me. I think if you did a survey most people would not feel safer today than they have in the past.
Ok add that to my list. Observer doesn't appear to be very observant.
You know how strong people get in times of real danger and conflict? Imagine if all the"sky is falling" pu$$ies were that strong in a time of relative peace like now? Easier to wine and cry.
On any realistic level, though, you're right. But the traditional definition (which isn't necessarily correct) of "nation-states invading nation-states," we've been in maybe a half-dozen. Observer just happens to be using the most restrictive definition of "declaration by Congress," which is such a load of semantic bull **** on his part there's no sense even discussing it with him.
No I'm not you ninny. I even made fun of that limited definition. It's a shame that the people stopped caring about the expansion of executive power. War is war, though any generation in the US would happily trade the post-Vietnam wars for their generations wars.
And that has been my limited point in this thread.
The "wah life is so hard in 2016...world is falling apart" people have a seriously limited perspective on human history. Things are pretty great in 2016. Anyone who travels internationally or reads a lot can't but help feel like what we have in the US is an absurd sense of peace.
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Hey, a shout out!
Sorry FireChan. I forgot which crazy bastard thinks we're all entitled to nukes so long as we can afford them. All credit to you.
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The facts and reality make this statement quite arguable. Which is the point. We've currently been at war longer than any other point in our nation's history. Let that soak in before you do your victory lap.
The scope of war has changed, as well as the ability to keep conflicts somewhat contained to specific regions. But it's folly to say it's a "down time for war". It's not. War is a booming business.
And yet despite this we're living in a world with the greatest wealth disparity in modern times. Employment for men and women under the age of 35 is cratering all over Europe which is grappling with austerity and an imploding financial system. There's a sense, for the first time in generations, that the world being given to the young will be considerably worse than the ones given to their parents. Totalitarianism is on the rise, masquerading as Globalism.
Again, the actual realities do not match the sunshine and rainbow picture you're painting.
You have me all wrong.
The US hasn't been at war since WWII. See expansion of executive authority chapter 1, verse 1.
The last major conflict the US was in was Vietnam. Iraq, Iraq II, Afghanistan, WoT have been drops in the bucket compared to Vietnam, Korea, and the WWs. Those generations would be happy to be in your "longest war."
Anyone whining about rich people isn't doing what's necessary to one of said rich people: Dream big, get smart, work hard.
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But the reasoning for not holding the vote WAS because Obama was in his last term...whether you agree with that or not. IT was even supported by Obama when he was a Senator.
Alternately, the OTHER precedent was Rs hearing and approving the Wise Latina, which is why...to answer your original question...the Ds WOULD hold a hearing on any R president's recommendation.
I understand the point you were trying to make. You were just not making it very well.
I don't care if my mom supported the "last term of presidency reasoning," it's crap reasoning. Constitution says advise and consent. Do your job. Don't punt it.
But Tom is eminently consistent like the poster here who says we're all entitled to handheld nukes: No need for Congress to ever act on any nominee according to his rationale. Congress's procedure can be to hold a hearing on pres SC nominations every 999 years if it wants to.
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Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine... That's not even factoring in sectarian violence in Turkey, the Sudan, government wars against the cartels in South America...
(Typing while on the run and hit submit too soon:) There's also massive hacks going on between the East and West, NATO and Moscow building up tensions and arms on the continent, growing civil unrest throughout the western world as people are rejecting totalitarianism...
Everything is peaceful. Everything is fine. Nothing to see here.
There is ALWAYS some conflict. That this is a down time for wars is inarguable.
One of the gifts each generation gives the next, and it's accelerating, is the gift of prosperity. 300 years ago, extremely few people could imagine giving a domicile to a succeeding generation. Now, even in some of the poorest countries this is happening. And we're also giving roads, railroads, boats, airplanes, knowledge, liquid wealth, medicine...and so much more to each succeeding generation. Any of these things was unthinkable even in your grandfather's time. My grandfather lived the first 3 quarters of the 20th century. Worked hard, had a nice blue collar job. He passed on a home, some hand tools, and a dining room set to his children. His grandfather passed on a pocket watch to his entire child set. I will pass on who knows what to my kids, but something more. Where we are has never been better, especially anyone who can post on this board.
But the sky is falling. And get the hell offa my lawn.
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I wonder how minorities would feel if they knew 40 or 50 million black babies were going to be aborted in the near future? Yeah, things sucked back then.
Abortion in a doctor's office vs abortion in a back alley? They'd probably take the former.
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Except that Trump wouldn't be in the last year of his final term when he would appoint a Scalia replacement.
Other than that, though, you may have a point!
If there's nothing in the Constitution about what Advise and Consent means, there's even less about this "last year of the president's term" BS.
In a few years, there will be no SC because all the Justices will die or retire. And that's exactly what a President Trump would want. Muahahahaha. Deranged Rhino, amiright?
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He'd only get in if Trump had the House and Senate. The left would soil their Depends at the mere mention of it.
Why would the Ds hold a hearing on any R president's Supreme Court candidate?
Precedent is a B word.
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Explain why you feel the world is a safer place.
World largely at peace, a prolonged peace. Food/famine violence less than ever. Race/religion issues while headline dominant in the moment not causing widespread safety issues. Violent crime on the decline.
Some people (old ones) claim the 50s, 60s were better. Ask young draftees or minorities if they agree? Ask the kids coming home in body bags. And the children in bomb shelter drills. The media was Mayberry. The reality was not.
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I like the one that specified the roles and responsibilities of the different branches and levels of government, and the relationships between and limitations on them.
That one was ripped up sometime in the 2006-2010 timeframe.
The expansion of the executive, growing powerr of congress to legislate (how much can you justify under the commerce clause? A whole lot), and triumph of the federal over state government was well in hand long before 2006.
Thanks Obama.
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lol
Gotta think Ginsberg would like those remarks back. No Justice should ever comment on an candidate--completely out of line even when the target is so inviting.
Trump vs Clinton: Pre Convention matchup
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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He's not run an ad. He spent no money last month. He's in a dead heat with Clinton.
Tell me how he's not managing his campaign wel again.
Now if your point is that he's not presenting a cohesive message, that he's a narcissist to a degree never seen, and that he has left behind intellect in politics, that's a bad campaign. But you can't argue his popularity with the mouth breathers.