What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[garbon]

This reaction of Merkel when Trump said they had being wiretapped by the Obama administration in common is also priceless:

https://gfycat.com/KeenCleanGallowaycow

That was good.

[celedhring]

So he wants to turn it into a protection racket now? That's different than asking allies to increase their own defence budgets.

Hardly.  US allies have always paid some share of the cost of US troops on their soil.

Pretty sure we don't pay anything, and you pay for building up infrastructure and shit. Before we joined NATO you also paid rent.

We shoulder part of base maintenance though, so I guess that's indirect support, but not checks written to Uncle Sam.

[garbon]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-allies-20160930-snap-story.html

[Ed Anger]

Feels good the nagging euros are getting nagged now.

[CountDeMoney]

Feels good the nagging euros are getting nagged now.

Shut up.  There's a difference between nagging and talking out of your ass.  You of all people should know the difference.

[Ed Anger]

Feels good the nagging euros are getting nagged now.

Shut up.  There's a difference between nagging and talking out of your ass.  You of all people should know the difference.

No, u shut up.

[CountDeMoney]

No, you.

[Admiral Yi]

Grouch fight!

[Ed Anger]

Grouch fight!

Shut up, Wesley.

[jimmy olsen]

New Jersey passes bill that forces presidential candidates to disclose their taxes. If they did not, New Jersey electoral voters will not be allowed to vote for them. Is this constitutional?

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/324609-new-jersey-passes-bill-forcing-presidential-candidates-to#

[Admiral Yi]

New Jersey passes bill that forces presidential candidates to disclose their taxes. If they did not, New Jersey electoral voters will not be allowed to vote for them. Is this constitutional?

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/324609-new-jersey-passes-bill-forcing-presidential-candidates-to#

Can't see how it would be.

[alfred russel]

Why not? A legislature could cancel the election and just decide all the electoral votes will go to the democrat (or republican).

[Tonitrus]

Why not? A legislature could cancel the election and just decide all the electoral votes will go to the democrat (or republican).

There is what the original Constitution says, then there is what someone claiming the Equal Protection clause says, and then there is a long judicial process followed by what the U.S. Supreme Court says (or doesn't).

[DontSayBanana]

Can't see how it would be.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct (emphasis mine), a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress

Because this is the difference between electoral college and no electoral college.  Both the US and NJ constitutions have lots of things saying why somebody can't be deprived of the right to be an elector, but neither seems to say anything about being barred from the ballot.

[DontSayBanana]

There is what the original Constitution says, then there is what someone claiming the Equal Protection clause says, and then there is a long judicial process followed by what the U.S. Supreme Court says (or doesn't).

There's no equal protections issue.  "Candidates" are not a protected class.  All classes are equally free to disclose, and be on the ballot, or not disclose, and not be permitted to be on the ballot.  The only claim I could see getting any traction is a privacy rights claim, but the state would have a pretty strong case in the public interest argument.