Trumped

[mtangelsfan]

3 minutes ago, Thomas said:

Unpleasant slippery slope. You could continue that logic further and apply it to Democrats filibustering the next pick or many other scenarios. However elections are supposed to deal with this kind of chicanery.  

Sad but true.

[Thomas]

Many voters, especially conservatives stated that the seat was major influence on their enthusiasm to vote.  Perhaps the vacant seat was enough to push Trump over in the EV?

[Spirit]

18 minutes ago, Thomas said:

Many voters, especially conservatives stated that the seat was major influence on their enthusiasm to vote.  Perhaps the vacant seat was enough to push Trump over in the EV?

 

If the Dems would have played that strategy harder, they may have won.  

 

That and if they would have run another candidate. 

 

 

[Glen]

And then there's this shit: 

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-trailguide-updates-trump-administration-orders-media-1485281190-htmlstory.html

[mtangelsfan]

I can tell you that is why many of the ones I know voted for him.  Not because they believed he was some great guy or would bring "God" back.

I didn't agree with them but I understand the sent

[Taylor]

54 minutes ago, Thomas said:

Many voters, especially conservatives stated that the seat was major influence on their enthusiasm to vote.  Perhaps the vacant seat was enough to push Trump over in the EV?

As an evangelical, this is most likely the case. I highly doubt 81% of evangelicals would have voted for Trump if the Supreme Court wasn't an issue.

I'm one of the 19% who isn't paranoid that a lineup of brand-new socialist Supreme Court justices will make Christianity illegal and institute Sharia Law by 2020.

[Tank]

i'd like to see the sideshow that would happen if trump nominated the same guy for SCOTUS that obama nominated and the repubs shot down.

[the dude abides]

1 hour ago, Glen said:

And then there's this shit: 

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-trailguide-updates-trump-administration-orders-media-1485281190-htmlstory.html

The media blackout is a tad concerning.

But hey, he's making america great again.

[the dude abides]

4 hours ago, Glen said:

And then there's this shit: 

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-trailguide-updates-trump-administration-orders-media-1485281190-htmlstory.html

Created a new thread for this.  Didn't want it to get lost here.

 

[Spirit]

16 minutes ago, the dude abides said:

Created a new thread for this.  Didn't want it to get lost here.

 

How proactive of you. 

 

 

[the dude abides]

2 minutes ago, Geoff said:

How proactive of you. 

 

 

I'm a doer.

 

[Amazing Larry]

Tomorrow Trump will be ordering the wall to be built. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/wall-border-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[Ordos]

Thank god, I'm tired of those damn Canadians coming here for all the acting jobs

[UndertheHalo]

hopefully at least some portions of it are gold giled.  You know, so everyone knows exactly who built it.  It can be fake, that would actually make it more appropriate.

Edited January 25, 2017 by UndertheHalo

[Tank]

45 minutes ago, Ordos said:

Thank god, I'm tired of those damn Canadians coming here for all the acting jobs

I'm looking at you, Michael J. Fox and Nathan Fillion.

[nate]

Remember when people were saying Hillary was a warmonger etc.  Well in the last couple days Trump has said that he is willing to work with Russia in their fight against Syria, and then this:

Mango Mussolini is a real pile of shit as with the rest of his cabinet.

[Spirit]

5 minutes ago, nate said:

Remember when people were saying Hillary was a warmonger etc.  Well in the last couple days Trump has said that he is willing to work with Russia in their fight against Syria, and then this:

Mango Mussolini is a real pile of shit as with the rest of his cabinet.

 

Hey stranger!

 

 

 

[mtangelsfan]

10 minutes ago, nate said:

Remember when people were saying Hillary was a warmonger etc.  Well in the last couple days Trump has said that he is willing to work with Russia in their fight against Syria, and then this:

Mango Mussolini is a real pile of shit as with the rest of his cabinet.

She is a warmonger.

and this is awful.

[Jay]

Trump can't order the re-opening of CIA prisons, or institute torture practices, these things are banned by statute.

He can order a review but that's all he can do.

 

[Glen]

Can he do it via executive order?

[Stradling]

Mango Mussolini is stupid.  

[the dude abides]

3 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Mango Mussolini is stupid.  

Bullshit.  It's hilarious.

 

[Stradling]

Except it is gay, really, really gay.  It is the @Adam of nicknames.  

[Jay]

8 minutes ago, Glen said:

Can he do it via executive order?

I read a couple of news stories on it and while the headline blares, "Trump Poised to Lift Ban on Black Site Prisons" when you read the article it says...

The draft order does not direct any immediate reopening of C.I.A. prisons or revival of torture tactics, which are now banned by statute.

and if you read further...

While Mr. Trump’s order says no detainee should be tortured or otherwise subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment “as prescribed by U.S. law,” it makes no mention of international law commitments binding the United States to adhere to humane standards even if Congress were to relax domestic legal limits on interrogations, such as the Convention Against Torture or the Geneva Conventions.

So it's more of the same from the media.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]