Politics Thread

[GoMuskies]

Loper Bright was the single biggest reduction in executive branch power in our lifetimes.

[Strange Brew]

Loper Bright was the single biggest reduction in executive branch power in our lifetimes.

You are 100% correct.

It may have bounded the Executive Branch in ways we haven’t seen in generations.

Again, not a lawyer however I am a literate person (which may surprise people).

[Leghorn]

I see these checks and balances crumbling, with a handpicked supreme court granting the executive far more power than envisioned by the framers.
And when a wanna be dictator gets them, we are in danger.
I'm just a retired citizen with these concerns. Why should you worry about my concerns.
You should worry about the people with far more knowledge of the danger he possesses, and when they say he's a threat, perhaps you should listen.
Many of them have no future in politics, or gain anything from their position. They care about our country. So do I.

Serious? Harris has never gotten a vote for president, but now she's the front runner.

[paulxu]

I think it's possible that someday we'll learn Biden had a TIA right before the debate. At any rate, in that debate he didn't seem like someone up to the challenge of being the president for the next four years.
I'm starting to think Trump has also slipped with age, and faces the same challenge.
He spoke at the Economic Club of New York, and was asked a policy question. His answer would indicate he's not up to it either.

"If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable? And if so, What specific piece of legislation will you advance?" And Trump replied (good luck getting through it)...

"Well, I would do that and we're sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Sen. Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It's a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that, because the child care is child care. It's something, you have to have it in this country. You have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about, by taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not use to, but they'll get use to it very quickly.

"And it's not gonna stop them from doing business with us. But they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers we're talking about, including child care. We're gonna have, I look forward to having no deficits within a very short period of time. Coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care.

"But those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers I'm talking about, including growth. Growth also headed up by what the plan is I just, that I just told you about. We're gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it's relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking in.

We're gonna make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we'll worry about the rest of the world. Let's help other people, but we're gonna take care of our country first. This isn't about America first. It's about make America great again. And we have to do it because right now we're a failing nation. So we'll take care of it. Thank you."

[bobbiemcgee]

Serious? Harris has never gotten a vote for president, but now she's the front runner.

3700 delegate votes seems enough. Trump now admitting he lost the election.

[GoMuskies]

I think it's possible that someday we'll learn Biden had a TIA right before the debate.

LOL. Yeah, he was really "sharp as a tack" right up to that point. What a surprise that debate performance was....to anyone who'd been living under a rock or had their fingers in their ears, eyes closed and shouting "LA, LA, LA, LA, LA" over and over for the past year or so.

[94GRAD]

3700 delegate votes seems enough. Trump now admitting he lost the election.

Do you think she would have won that many delegates if she ran in the primary against anyone?

[Xville]

Do you think she would have won that many delegates if she ran in the primary against anyone?

Maybe if it were trump and that’s probably it.

One day I want to wake up and these not be the two options. Feels like we are living in an alternate universe.

It’s really hard to figure out who would fuck up the country less

[GoMuskies]

I think there's an approximately 0% chance Harris would have been the nominee if Biden had decided not to run for re-election and there had been a normal primary process.

[94GRAD]

i think there's an approximately 0% chance harris would have been the nominee if biden had decided not to run for re-election and there had been a normal primary process.

Exactly!