“Russia did not help me get elected. You know who got me elected? I got me elected.” -el diablo naranja
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Trump would fail a basic civics test with all of the correct answers highlighted for him. Anyone still trying to ascribe some 12-dimensional chess maneuverings to his behavior is overthinking things at a truly galaxy-brain level.
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Trump’s lived most of his life using the courts and the appeal system to stall things or get what he wants; I think he views any judgement of himself through the “I’ll just have a lawyer handle it” lens. What’s especially weird about this and other GOP saying that impeachment is impossible due to the ‘absence of high crimes and misdemeanors’ is that they’ve all apparently forgotten President Bill Clinton, still alive and well, husband of the winner of the popular vote two years ago.
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It’s also the only branch he’s put effort into (and had success) dominating and keeping staffed up…
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We won’t know until the end of June if this SCOTUS hold will stop Michigan and Ohio redistricting. SCOTUS took up cases from North Carolina and Maryland that may decide the Michigan and Ohio cases when they publish the opinion.
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I was just thinking, if the many other terrible presidents before him were a contact high from being ‘shotgunned,’ then 45 is like a direct hit taken to the face on a dab rig.
He’s terrible on steroids, with a chaser of meth.
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Specifically, he wrote in a 2015 study commissioned by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news website, that adding a citizenship question to the census “would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” and “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites” for future redistricting efforts.
They are pretty much being open about this shit now, at least amongst themselves, and Trump has brought it all more into the open.
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It could be argued that those Presidents, bad as some were, had positive qualities and strengths.
Trump has all the negatives and no counterbalancing positives or strengths.
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That’s honestly what makes him stand out to me. I thought the excuses for praise were weak with Bush II’s “affability” but what is there to praise about Trump? He… appears to have a metabolism! Let’s hear it for that I guess? He’s like a sentient puddle of human folly.
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He obeys the law…of gravity.
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But he’s having his lawyers look into it.
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Yup this. I can find a modicum of good things to say about Nixon, Reagan, and Bush the Lesser and Greater for example. I can’t find a single positive or redeeming thing to say about Trump (other than that he’ll likely die in my lifetime).
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Oh man, when a conservative brings up the word, “Natural” you know you’re in for some bullshit.
OK, really, anyone really. That word is used to justify an unbeleivable amount of bullshit all around.
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Oh, man, when they start throwing around catch phrases that have no definition, you know they are getting ready to throw some serious repressive shot down. JK, that is when they get up in the morning. This is just more meaningless gobbledygook to signal their base. You knew it would be evil or they would not be doing it.
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The Trump administration plans to launch a new panel to offer "fresh thinking” on international human rights and “natural law,” a move some activists fear is aimed at narrowing protections for women and members of the LGBT community.
I dare say minorities should be more concerned too, considering this mob.
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“Europeans conquered the world because they’re better predators. That’s just nature!”
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Since it’s State Department related- I’m guessing that part of this will be revoking the Obama transgender passport policies.
This administration has a real hard on for screwing with trans people.
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I think this is going to be about “life”, since they’re saying it’s about “unalienable rights”. Not the pursuit of happiness.
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