Trump is back! He has won.

[Patong2021]

4 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

   Biden had been on the wane for the last 2 years of his Presidency , Dems should have thought about that 2 years ago and got themselves a suitable replacement  instead of having Joe going on about him keeping on going 

 

The issue raised was the selection of Harris in July. Could have, should have, would have is not the issue. The fact is that the only viable option in July was a pivot to the running mate.

 

4 hours ago, mogandave said:

You are delusional.

 

Obama’s first two years the court was left and dems controlled the house and senate .This will be no different. 

In fact, the dems are much better at holding the party line than the republicans ever thought about. 

Conservative justices are much less likely to try to legislate from the bench than are the liberals. 

Many more Republicans went against Trump than Democrats went against Biden or Obama, and the left controlled the court for over forty years. 

All the court is supposed to do is interpret the Constitution as it was intended. 

 

The Obama Democrat majority was moderate and  hardly  "leftists". The Obama administration did pass all of its key legislation in the first 2 years of the mandate. 

 

Do you know what legislating from the bench means? It is an expression that gets tossed around alot, and funnily enough, Conservatives are often accused of legislating from the bench too. The Lewis and Clark Law Review describes  Legislating from the bench appears as a kind of catchall term, containing many threads of objections to judicial behavior. Judicial critics do not clearly define or consistently use the phrase, and in some cases this may be part of a deliberate strategy of muddling, serving the purpose of allowing the speaker to project different definitions and emphases depending upon the audience addressed.

 

Conservative justices can and do legislate  from the bench. The SCOTUS took on two cases where there were no injured parties and where the arguments were in large part motivated by hypothetical  scenarios. These cases were the  student loan  management program and the affirmative action suit. For example,  U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen  was concerned about the impact of several recent Supreme Court decisions, saying the sitting justices are “legislating from the bench.” “That’s not the role of the Supreme Court,” the Democrat from Moline told WCBU . “The Supreme Court should be interpreting laws; the legislative branch of the United States government, we’re the ones to make the laws.” The court handed down a string of controversial decisions just ahead of the long July 4 weekend. Two addressed the world of higher education: ending the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program and declaring affirmative action policies at major American universities unconstitutional.

 

 

56 minutes ago, tai4de2 said:

There are several US states that have one-party (D) government, the largest being California but also Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and others. No checks and balances there either, but I don't see Democrats complaining about it.

 

Ok, and yet you are the first to complain about the state of California.

It is not healthy when there is no opposition or system of checks and balances.Many of California's  problems are a reflection of the failure  to have alternative views considered.

And the reality is that an individual state has neither the same  responsibility, nor scope of power that the federal government has.

 

Trump has a mandate to govern. Whether or not he governs responsibly is to be seen. he is a man who needs to have parameters set.

 

 

 

 

 

[Patong2021]

28 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

All I can think about it ,is those poor migrants who are crossing the border for a new life will now have this evil man stop them

 

If past history is an indication, the reduction in immigrant numbers will be achieved by reducing the number of visas granted. This was the farce that no one wishes to acknowledge and it is why business was opposed to Trump's immigration strategy, he says he will go after the unauthorized, but in reality he blocked the students, green card holders and migrant workers.  Good luck on deporting the millions of unauthorized people. The USA will require the cooperation of places like Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Iraq, Syria, et al.

[IC2000]

11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

It's fascinating how a supporter of the most divisive, and the most hateful candidate for the office of presidency in the history of America can even talk about unity and harmony, after this man has run the ugliest campaign I've ever witnessed in my lifetime. Talk about hypocrisy. 

Beta much?

[IC2000]

40 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

All I can think about it ,is those poor migrants who are crossing the border for a new life will now have this evil man stop them

 

We can only hope that those illegally crossing will be stopped.

 

Thank you beta

[Rhys]

...a different Foreign Policy will take place...

[dinsdale]

The woke nutter progressive left is dead. Let rational thought once again dominate. The Democrats must abandon their blind support of the radical woke progressive left agenda and move back to the centre if they want to get back their actual base. The working class and middle America. These are the people that put Trump into office. Crazy politics indeed when a Republican appeals to the left more than what should be the party of the left. Having said this Trump ain't your typical Republican.

  

Edited 40 minutes ago by dinsdale

[Kiwiken]

R.I.P USA enjoy you setting Sun. Now Putin will be more emboldened and Taiwan's days are numbered.

[dinsdale]

Trump will end with 312 (my call was 287. I was wrong). An absolute thumping and as I previously said a total landslide. I got some comments (negative) when I said there would be a huge swing in NY. There was a huge swing in NY. There were swings to Trump across the nation with zero swings to Harris.

[dinsdale]

2 minutes ago, Kiwiken said:

R.I.P USA enjoy you setting Sun. Now Putin will be more emboldened and Taiwan's days are numbered.

The complete opposite.