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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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HVC

#40875
Today at 07:58:35 AM
I dont get it, were reporters just stumbling around the Pentagon aimlessly before?
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

grumbler

#40876
Today at 08:01:34 AM
Quote from: HVC on Today at 07:58:35 AMI dont get it, were reporters just stumbling around the Pentagon aimlessly before?

No.  I saw a reporter maybe twice in the three years I worked there. They enter the building for interviews and meetings.  They don't hang out there waiting for something reportable to happen.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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The Minsky Moment

#40877
Today at 08:08:05 AM
QuoteHegseth can revoke press access to reporters who ask anyone in the Defense Department for information — classified or otherwise — that he has not approved for release

I assume the objection is to this, a straightforward violation of the First Amendment. 

The good news is that we don't have to worry about $50 toilet paper at the Pentagon anymore; they use obsolete paper copies of the US Constitution for that now.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

Syt

#40878
Today at 08:10:18 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on Today at 08:08:05 AMI assume the objection is to this, a straightforward violation of the First Amendment.

... but only if the Supreme Court says so. :(
We are born dying, but we are compelled to fancy our chances.
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The Minsky Moment

#40879
Today at 08:15:03 AM
At this point, I don't think Supreme Court decisions can be taken as precedential.  No one thinks that the holdings the Court has been announcing over the past 6 months expanding executive power will be honored if the Democrats ever retake the White House.   
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

Syt

#40880
Today at 08:19:47 AM
They will bend over backwards to figure out a random argument why all this doesn't apply to Democrat presidents.
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crazy canuck

#40881
Today at 11:04:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on Today at 08:19:47 AMThey will bend over backwards to figure out a random argument why all this doesn't apply to Democrat presidents.

"Trump is no longer President, therefore the case is clearly distinguishable"
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