em2nought wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:49 pm
I think my MAGA hat is in, can't wait to see it! I certainly hope everything is spelled properly.
Does it look like this?
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LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:31 pm
Fitzy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:27 pm
I’m voting for an incumbent Democrat instead of voting for, donating to and volunteering for my dream moderate independent. The sacrifice is real.
Truedat. It's going to gall me to vote for the some of the people I'll have to vote for but I've changed my tune sort of. I'm not a democrat but I've been voting democrat primaries for a while now. Essentially I'm "caucausing" with them.
I am forced to treat the Dem primary as my general election where I actually get to choose the best I can and then get stuck with the results.
I don't like it but it's the best I got. The only alternatives I see are bleaker.
I tried voting for a more moderate person in the Dem primary, for the Congressional District I live in, but she lost by like 90%
Incumbents are hard to beat, especially with no money, fame, or coverage. Oh well. On the plus side I won’t have to vote for my Congressperson as I don’t think there’s actually a Republican running.
El Guapo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:56 pm
I know that that's Trump's most important thing, but whether it's ignorance or indifference or whatever, that's not always what he gets. Remember that Trump (or his team) nominated Rosenstein and Wray for their current posts. And Trump's announced list of justices (from the Gorsuch nomination, which he has said he'll reuse) doesn't have any hacks on it (no Pirros or Cohens or Guilianis). Maybe X circuit judge will be more likely than Kennedy to rule in Trump's favor on this stuff, but that's not obviously so.
But anyway, the main thing is that the SCOTUS isn't really the main line of defense anyway. It's the 2018 elections (and also the Mueller investigation). If Trump has 2+ more years of tearing down the system without anyone in Congress impeding him, I'm not sure that the Supreme Court is going to be able to do much regardless.
Journalism is taking a hit lately, but I think much of our defense has to come from them. It was journalists that brought down Nixon. I’m hoping someone out there is doing a deep dive, which takes a long time, but I fear the immediate gratification society we live in prevents that.
I am curious why people think the courts and Justice Department were ever an option to removing Trump? Mueller and the Department of Justice might be able to uncover proof, but it was always going to come down to Congress. Which is why I’m holding out hope that there are long term investigations by journalists going on and they are finding crimes that will bring Donald down once and for all.
I know relying on Congress is depressing given the ridiculous level of partisanship displayed by the Republicans right now, but I don’t see another legal way.