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Ed Is Humayun Khan Trump's Turning Point?

SezMe said:
For heaven's sake why not just toss Trump overboard and stand up for other GOP people and values that need defending. Trump is not worth your honor.
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Two words: Supreme Court.

There is very high statistical chance that during next 4 or 8 years at least one more judge (beside Scalia) and as many as four will need replacement. Replacing them with progressive-leaning judges would mean complete catastrophe for conservative values (and I couldn't be happier for that, since I consider these values in majority immoral and degenerate).

This is why Trump was not dumped long ago by literally everyone in republican party. If not for Supreme Court, four years lost to Hillary would be stomachable.

In fact, many republican faced with perspective of Trump presidency already disavowed him, even after taking in account Hillary presidence and Supreme Court risks. This is how bad Trump is.
 
Mader Levap said:
Two words: Supreme Court.

There is very high statistical chance that during next 4 or 8 years at least one more judge (beside Scalia) and as many as four will need replacement. Replacing them with progressive-leaning judges would mean complete catastrophe for conservative values (and I couldn't be happier for that, since I consider these values in majority immoral and degenerate).
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The republicans aren't going to let anyone be confirmed to the court until they control the white house. Regardless of how long that takes.
 
ponderingturtle said:
The republicans aren't going to let anyone be confirmed to the court until they control the white house. Regardless of how long that takes.
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That'd be rather difficult to do assuming Clinton is elected. I don't think the Republicans can afford to be seen as that obstructionist for another four years; they've likely got folks coming up for reelection two years after this election in both the Senate and the House and they can't take the chance that they'd lose any more seats. As it is, they may lose the Senate just with this election, although we've still got three months until the actual election.

I'm voting early; so much easier than waiting in line on Election Day when you've either got to get to work or just got off work and want to go home. Although I'm sure there'll be a long line to vote early; there usually is in my area.
 
Trebuchet said:
Ya know, the whole NAMBLA thing was kind of amusing for the first two or three minutes. Now it's just annoying. Or so people are saying.
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I think it is an important reminder of how Trump talks. A reminder that he says nothing when he is speaking.

When he says things like "People say" or "A lot of very smart people have told me" or "there is a lot of talk about" then whatever comes next must be held to the same standard as the talk that he is giving lots of money to NAMBLA.

It only serves its purpose by being so outrageous. Maybe they should have picked a less offensive but equally outrageous entity, such as PETA or Planned Parenthood or Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, but it needed to be obviously false to get the point across. Because Trump has taken so many positions in the past any of my suggestions just aren't obviously false enough. He forced them to make it NAMBLA by running against every position he has ever taken in public life.
 
Sabrina said:
That'd be rather difficult to do assuming Clinton is elected. I don't think the Republicans can afford to be seen as that obstructionist for another four years; they've likely got folks coming up for reelection two years after this election in both the Senate and the House and they can't take the chance that they'd lose any more seats. As it is, they may lose the Senate just with this election, although we've still got three months until the actual election.

I'm voting early; so much easier than waiting in line on Election Day when you've either got to get to work or just got off work and want to go home. Although I'm sure there'll be a long line to vote early; there usually is in my area.
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It really will be interesting to see the impact of Trump down ticket.
 
ponderingturtle said:
The republicans aren't going to let anyone be confirmed to the court until they control the white house. Regardless of how long that takes.
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If Trump is successful in drowning congress election and Hillary becomes POTUS, afaik there will be impossible for republicans to prevent democrat nominations for supreme court since they will have sufficient amount of votes. They said with Kaine as VP dems would need only 4 votes more in Senate.

By they way, 538 still shows Hillary beating Trump by extremely wide margin. I am surprised, I thought Trump would bounce up faster. While a lot can change in three months, Republicans cannot afford to ignore this kind of result.

As last comment, I am also surprised that Republican (and I assume Democrat) party has no rule for forced replacement of nominee that fails catastrophically in polls in period between nomination and general elections. I guess that will now change...
 
Mader Levap said:
If Trump is successful in drowning congress election and Hillary becomes POTUS, afaik there will be impossible for republicans to prevent democrat nominations for supreme court since they will have sufficient amount of votes. They said with Kaine as VP dems would need only 4 votes more in Senate.
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I think a filibuster proof majority is unlikely so they will need some republican support.
 
ponderingturtle said:
I think a filibuster proof majority is unlikely so they will need some republican support.
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Or change the senate rules (aka the nuclear option). Nobody wants to but if a seat is open for several years it'll probably become popular or enough Rs will cross over.
 
Regnad Kcin said:
Apparently, there's video of lots of NAMBLA members jumping up and down, celebrating Donald Trump's involvement with the organization. People are saying they've seen it.
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Please, give it a rest. The point has been driven into the ground by now.
 
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