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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. Aetius

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    What tipped you off, Pete Hegseth constantly referring to "warfighters" and insisting that women and dudes with beards have too much dick-sucking-lips to qualify as such?
     
  2. NatCH

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    “We need strong, heterosexual leaders, like the Romans had! Where’s the Sulla of today?”
     
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    Okay, so is anything actually going to happen to the people in charge?
     
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    Right now? No. If a Democrat takes the White House in 2028? Really depends on what kind of pardons are issued and how hard people vote. A 51-49 victory with a divided Congress isn't going to give them a mandate to do much. A 65-35 victory with supermajority in the Congress? They could stack the Supreme Court, redirect all ICE funding to DOJ and just Nuremberg this shit.
     
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    So nothing is going to happen.

    Gotcha.
     
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    Instead of stacking the Supreme Court to make up for their electoral shortcomings, maybe they could try to nominate someone the electorate actually likes for once. It can't just be retarded gamesmanship forever.
     
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    I mean stack the Supreme Court to overrule that historically corrupt Trump immunity decision. Plus we're probably going to need to need a ruling that the pardon power is not an unlimited President-gets-to-order-subordinates-to-do-crime provision.
     
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    I disagree. They need to focus on grassroots campaigning for House and Senate seats in 2028. 2026 might not be mathematically possible, so they need to make a like a shitty sports team and spend a few years rebuilding the program and the brand. Congress has spent 35 years ceding its authority to the executive branch, might be time to actually have a distinct legislative branch again. The strikes on the Venezuelan drug boats this week likely constitutes a war crime, so they should be ready to hold some trials.
     
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    I'm not sure where you're disagreeing with me. My post presupposes massive Congressional victories in 2026 and 2028. The SCOTUS reforms are just what's necessary to actually allow the prosecutions to go forward without being derailed by Republican judicial wishcasting about "absolute immunity."
     
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    Maybe Im disagreeing with you, or maybe the 3 lunch beers I had are tricking me.