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2016 U.S. Presidential Race Megathread Mark 2.
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I came across this image on Reddit and thought it raised a very valid point.
I'd also like to note that Trump stayed up until 5 in the morning to tweet that Alicia Machado had a sex tape (she doesn't). It's starting to become clear that Trump is the most pathetic "human" to ever run for the US Presidency.0 -
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Repost from Scalia thread, re: SCOTUSOh and there's another wrinkle in the GOP's arguments: they had complete control of the court for decades!In fact this is the only period since Whittaker resigned that Republicans have NOT had a majority.
Working backwards from 1991 to the start of the Nixon Administration, the GOP appointed 10 justices to the Supreme Court:
Clarence Thomas (1991)
David Souter (1990)
Anthony Kennedy (1988)
Antonin Scalia (1986)
Sandra Day O'Connor (1981)
John Paul Stevens (1975)
William Rehnquist (1972)
Lewis F Powell Jr. (1972)
Harry Blackmun (1970)
Warren Burger (1969)
And thats even overlooking the fact that Eisenhower appointed 5 justices in the 50s, 4 of whom were still serving throughout some of that timeline. Prior to this, Truman and 4 term president FDR had established a Democratic appointed court. JFK appointed Byron White and Arthur Goldberg both in 1962, and LBJ appointed Abe Fortas (1965) and Thurgood Marshall (1967) the only Democratic appointees between 1949 and 1993.
Which explains a rationale behind why Biden might have been outraged at the prospect of appointing yet another GOP judge to the court in 1992 - a speech by which McConnell and his cronies are now calling "the Biden Rule" because - god forbid, Clinton was able to appoint 2 justices, Obama was able to appoint 2 justices (how dare he! Nixon only got to pick out 4!), and now for the first time since the Space Age, there is no longer a conservative majority on the supreme court, which of course, if you're a Republican, means the sky is literally dripping with flaming blood. And god forbid the Democrats should be able to appoint 5 judges to the court, it would be all out chaos. Satan would literally rise from the earth and start showering gay couples with birth control pills.
So, with that in mind, it should come as no ****ing surprise that they are doing everything they can think of to dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge, filibuster, dodge, and dodge having to perform a hearing for someone that the filthy Democrats want in the seat! I thought it was interesting anyway, nobody has really mentioned that in the news; the Republicans would rather spit out strong-sounding-yet-flaccid soundbytes how this is the first election year this or that in 130 years bla bla bla without pointing out 'hey, we have enjoyed majority control of the Supreme Court for two or three generations'. But it's not bad when 'they' have the control, it's only catastrophic when 'the liberals' have any control. These Republicans have never even lived in an age where there wasn't a Republican majority in the Supreme Court.
edit: full breakdown of all justices appointed since FDR:
D - Elana Kagan (2010)
D - Sonia Sotomayor (2009)
R - Samuel Alito (2006)
R - John G. Roberts (2005)
D - Stephen Breyer (1994)
D - Ruth Bader Ginsberg (1993)
R - Clarence Thomas (1991)
R - David Souter (1990)
R - Anthony Kennedy (1988)
R - Antonin Scalia (1986)
R - Sandra Day O'Connor (1981)
R - John Paul Stevens (1975)
R - William Rehnquist (1972)
R - Lewis F Powell Jr (1972)
R - Harry Blackmun (1970)
R - Warren E Burger (1969)
D - Thurgood Marshall (1967)
D - Abe Fortas (1965)
D - Arthur Goldberg (1962)
D - Byron White (1962)
R - Potter Stewart (1958)
R - Charles Evans Whittaker (1957)
R - William J Brennan Jr (1956)
R - John Marshall Harlan II (1955)
R - Earl Warren (1953)
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members.aspx
cross-checking with this page, I charted the justices based on which party's president appointed them, just so you can physically see why Republicans would elect a horse if it meant they were in office.
46 years of Supreme Court control, and they don't want to lose it0 -
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Haven't you gotten the memo? You and about a dozen other's job here is to attack Trump in the election cycle in order to score points. I and one or two others attack Hillary. We call that a fair fight 'round these here parts.Oh ho, original. I definitely haven't heard this one hundreds of times on social media. Ahah! Ahaaaa! But seriously, it's beneath you to cry about that and ignore the money shenanigans of Trump and Co.
You can answer that yourself by looking back at the numerous times I've addressed it in this thread.Which policies, specifically, do you find better for the country?
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You can answer that yourself by looking back at the numerous times I've addressed it in this thread.
So you support the banning of muslims, the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants, bombing the **** out of the middle east, raising the debt another $5T and shaking down our allies while we abandon all our treaties and make idle threats about nuclear winter? Those policies? I'll assume that must be what you mean, if you don't want to answer the question.0 -
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Haven't you gotten the memo? You and about a dozen other's job here is to attack Trump in the election cycle in order to score points. I and one or two others attack Hillary. We call that a fair fight 'round these here parts.
Difference is you never have to recycle year-old quips about Trump: there's fresh material every day, sometimes during baker's hours.0 -
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I wonder how Snopes would rate this claim?You can answer that yourself by looking back at the numerous times I've addressed it in this thread.
Posts by Amerika featuring the word 'policy' not just in this forum, but the whole thread - http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?user=313784&sort=best&date_to=&date_from=&query=policy&forum=1728
This is the best I could find:Yes, Donald Trump, for many of us, might not have been our first choice for president, but his tax plan, his positions on immigration, law enforcement, terrorism, jobs and foreign policy address our concerns, and are better than what the other candidate is offering.
To call it threadbare would be very, very polite.0 -
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Nothing funny about this tabloid's reporting on Trump ( http://nypost.com/?s=trump ) or Clinton ( http://nypost.com/?s=hillary+clinton ) to see whatsoever. :pac:0 -
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