BF2S Forums Presidential Election 2016

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

We're pushing 2019 and there's posts in a 2016 election thread about how the US started WWII. Seriously, what did I miss?!

Trump was elected President - rightfully so, with no help from anyone, not even the GOP - and had the largest inauguration crowds in history, crooked Hilary is in prison awaiting sentence (having skipped the trial), America's greatest patriotic allies - the Russians - now own Facebook, Google and Twitter, having agreed to take them as payment for invading Crimea and the Ukraine.
Trump's approval ratings are higher than ever, the economy is doing great, many milestonic trade deals have been signed, America is the most beloved and respected nation this side of the moon.
There's a certain amount of fake news floating around  but you can filter that out easily - if its written down or in some form of spoken word its probably lies.

"glid"

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I would like to one day write a book teaching people how to best pick the hills they wish to die on. Kavanaugh on the SCOTUS is a bad hill to pick. Just switch him out with a conservative woman judge and move on with the process. Even if the allegations aren't true, Kavanaugh isn't worth a fight over considering he there is a line of people who would glid through the process if they were put up.

Fascists do tend to come with a bit of baggage, and Trump wants a fascist.

Not on the internet we don't

because they see it all as a 'leftist' (whatever that means) conspiracy, no? they're playing politics rather than examining the actual issue.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I get that to a lot of them it is a big game but I don't know what end goal they are working towards or think they are working towards. They just seem to run on emotion. Even the area's I am conservative in they don't seem to think through when I interface with them or read their opinions. I was very precise with what I want to do with law enforcement for instance but whenever I read LE stuff on right wing media it is all just bitching about BLM and kneeling. It is like: what is wrong with you people?

And hysterical women wielding their supposed past trauma as a club to shut people up isn't an emotional game?

Gorsuch didn't threaten the balance of the court.

Or he's a prolific judge that has been cited numerous times and he's incredibly dangerous to the left because his opinions will be very difficult to overturn.

Jay wrote:

Or he's a prolific judge that has been cited numerous times and he's incredibly dangerous to the left because his opinions will be very difficult to overturn.

even his colleagues and associates at yale have spoken about the chauvinism around his office. only recruiting ‘model’ looking females, liking them to ‘dress a certain way’ etc. the guy sounds rapey as fuck. i think the moral integrity of literally the most powerful legal and moral authority in the country should be watertight. plenty of non-rapists for the bench.

https://twitter.com/jeremycyoung/status … 56289?s=21

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the swiss poet Lavater developed the discipline of physiognomy into a full diagnostic technique. you can tell a lot about a man from his face. supposedly.

you can also tell a lot about a man from multiple rape accusations by unaffiliated and separate victims. putting this down to ‘the left’ is hilarious.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Jay wrote:

Or he's a prolific judge that has been cited numerous times and he's incredibly dangerous to the left because his opinions will be very difficult to overturn.

If he's an impartial judge how would he be 'dangerous to the left'?

He's the GOP placeman and he and they know it. Endlessly blocking Obama's nomination was a cheap trick.
I hope putting up an obvious lying sleazebag backfires on them.

Frankly his face tells me everything I need to know.

The purpose of the Federalist Society is to restore the doctrine of Federalism to the country. This means that ultimately, power would devolve to the States at the expense of the Federal government because the Constitution limits the scope of the Federal governments power. Things like Chevron Deference, abortion and gay marriage etc. are in danger at the national level because they were decided by the Supreme Court rather than legislated in the Legislative Branch. To conservatives, this is called legislating from the bench and to conservative judges, it is an evil.

In sum, the left lost their collective fucking minds when Kennedy stepped down because he represented a tie-breaking vote as he tended to vote rather randomly for either liberal or conservatives. The court was essentially 4-4-1 with Kennedy as the tiebreaker. Now it will be 5-4 in the conservatives favor and they are terrified that everything they have advocated for over the past 85 years will evaporate. It didn't matter who the Republicans put up for this nomination, they would've gotten the same treatment. There were literally thousands of reporters digging into every last detail of his entire life looking for something, anything, that could be used to sink his nomination. Kavanaugh isn't uniquely bad by any stretch, he just had the misfortune of being nominated in a midterm election year when the Democrats are out for blood and we have hysterical activists screaming that anything Trump must be stopped By Any Means Necessary.

If I was the left, I would be terrified of his confirmation right now, because the way they treated him, if he's a normal human being, he'd be out for vengeance. I certainly would be.