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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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The Brain

#24435
February 08, 2020, 05:19:15 PM
Quote from: katmai on February 08, 2020, 04:45:59 PM
How can the most powerful man in US not have a competent Makeup Artist?

1. You're not royalty.
2. Ewww!
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Razgovory

#24436
February 08, 2020, 08:10:16 PM
When Trump wins reelection this year I wonder if he'll start pushing for a constitutional convention.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Minsky Moment

#24437
February 09, 2020, 01:38:51 PM
That would require both some basic understanding of the contents of the constitution, and some level of concern over acting in accordance with the constitution, neither of which applies.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Brain

#24438
February 09, 2020, 02:45:15 PM
Indeed. And Trump can do as he pleases now. Who would stop him?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Eddie Teach

#24439
February 09, 2020, 03:14:19 PM
Quote from: The Brain on February 09, 2020, 02:45:15 PM
Who would stop him?

Bad time to be an atheist.   :sleep:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

#24440
February 09, 2020, 03:20:18 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on February 09, 2020, 01:38:51 PM
That would require both some basic understanding of the contents of the constitution, and some level of concern over acting in accordance with the constitution, neither of which applies.


You'd think that wouldn't you?  But Trump has expressed his desire to be President for life and there are already several movements in this country pushing for a new constitutional convention.  I know this idea is out of left field but I could see a situation where advisers tell him that he could have a third term (and maybe jail journalists he doesn't like or maybe alter birthright citizenship), if he would take up the constitutional convention cause.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#24441
February 09, 2020, 03:23:11 PM
I'm not terribly worried about Trump winning a majority in the House and Senate and ratification by 3/4 of the states legislatures.

Oexmelin

#24442
February 09, 2020, 03:27:31 PM
I think it is useful to go back to the origins of this thread and confront all of our beautiful 2015 certainties about American political process.
Que le grand cric me croque !

Razgovory

#24443
February 09, 2020, 04:37:00 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 09, 2020, 03:23:11 PM
I'm not terribly worried about Trump winning a majority in the House and Senate and ratification by 3/4 of the states legislatures.


Dozens of states have already passed laws requesting a convention.  Plenty of Democrats want this as well.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#24444
February 09, 2020, 05:06:00 PM
Good point.  Or rather, series of points.

Razgovory

#24445
February 09, 2020, 05:23:07 PM
God damn it.

I meant to write that several Dozen states have already passed bills asking for a Convention, and the idea has some support among Democrats as well.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#24446
February 09, 2020, 06:36:39 PM
So what?  You still need 3/4 of states to ratify any changes to the Constitution.

Tonitrus

#24447
February 09, 2020, 07:26:51 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 09, 2020, 06:36:39 PM
So what?  You still need 3/4 of states to ratify any changes to the Constitution.

In a Constitutional Convention?  I thought it just needs 3/4 states to request one, and then we get an  unlimited, free-for-all constitutional reboot that will likely (in this day and age) descend into a giant turd of a grandstanding shit-show.

If we ever actually get a CC, we're probably fucked.

PDH

#24448
February 09, 2020, 07:33:31 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 09, 2020, 07:26:51 PM
we're...fucked.

I shortened your post to its salient point.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Admiral Yi

#24449
February 09, 2020, 07:40:59 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 09, 2020, 07:26:51 PM

In a Constitutional Convention?  I thought it just needs 3/4 states to request one, and then we get an  unlimited, free-for-all constitutional reboot that will likely (in this day and age) descend into a giant turd of a grandstanding shit-show.

If we ever actually get a CC, we're probably fucked.

2/3 to request, still need 3/4 to ratify.  Chillax.  The Constitution is designed to be impossible to change and Trump is not going to change that.
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