Gorsuch will be a good check on executive power creep. Not great for minorties looking for protection based on the intent rather than the wording of the constitution but with the path Bush, Obama, and Trump have taken putting a check on executive power is on balance probably a good thing.
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Gorsuch will be a good check on executive power creep. Not great for minorties looking for protection based on the intent rather than the wording of the constitution but with the path Bush, Obama, and Trump have taken putting a check on executive power is on balance probably a good thing.
Yeah, it'd be awesome if Congress were given more power to do nothing.
I personally think executive power is a good thing - Canada's system allows for an insane amount of executive power and I find it runs much smoother overall than all of their messing around down south.
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The National Security Council has presented President Trump with options to respond to North Korea's nuclear program — including putting American nukes in South Korea or killing dictator Kim Jong-un, multiple top-ranking intelligence and military officials told NBC News.
Both scenarios are part of an accelerated review of North Korea policy prepared in advance of President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.
The White House hopes the Chinese will do more to influence Pyongyang through diplomacy and enhanced sanctions. But if that fails, and North Korea continues its development of nuclear weapons, there are other options on the table that would significantly alter U.S. policy.
What an impressive panel of journalists and experts.
What do they harp about? Endgame or endstate. They are concerned there is no endgame and this was an exercise of military might but without a big picture plan. This has always been the concern about Trump. He's a sociopath and sociopaths are impulsive. This is a time when you wish he were more psychpathic in his ways, because psychopaths plan everything out in excruciating detail. There doesn't appear to be much.detail here. This was a flexing of muscle without engaging the brain.
#FireKushner is trending right now. I wonder if the people trending it realize how much Trump loves nepotism and that getting something like this trending actually increases the chances Bannon gets fired instead. Hopefully not.
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oh boy... i sure hope historians are keeping good notes...in the first 12 weeks we have:
-unprecedented mass protests following the elections
-some of the most bizarre press conferences/spokesperson in history with Sean Spicer and Kelly Anne Conway
-one of the quickest firings of a senior cabinet position in history of US politics with the firing of Flynn
-Trump calling white house press corp "Fake News"
-a fracturing between the Freedom Caucus and moderate GOP on Trumpcare
-the failure of Trumpcare to pass
-Tweets too numerous to call out, but unfounded accusations versus Obama qoute wiretapping unqoute him...voter fraud...the "bowling green massacre"..."Alternative facts"...
-onging investigations of Russia influence on the elections
-the Nuclear option being used on a SCOTUS nominee
-Assad gas attack
-Ouster of Bannon from the NSC, most likely as a result of a lost power struggle between him and McMaster/Kushner
-the 180 turn from isolationist policy he ran on to striking Syria with cruise missiles ...
Those are just the biggest things! That's in 12 weeks!!!
that's better than House of Cards or the West Wing...
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oh boy... i sure hope historians are keeping good notes...in the first 12 weeks we have:
-unprecedented mass protests following the elections
-some of the most bizarre press conferences/spokesperson in history with Sean Spicer and Kelly Anne Conway
-one of the quickest firings of a senior cabinet position in history of US politics with the firing of Flynn
-Trump calling white house press corp "Fake News"
-a fracturing between the Freedom Caucus and moderate GOP on Trumpcare
-the failure of Trumpcare to pass
-Tweets too numerous to call out, but unfounded accusations versus Obama qoute wiretapping unqoute him...voter fraud...the "bowling green massacre"..."Alternative facts"...
-onging investigations of Russia influence on the elections
-the Nuclear option being used on a SCOTUS nominee
-Assad gas attack
-Ouster of Bannon from the NSC, most likely as a result of a lost power struggle between him and McMaster/Kushner
-the 180 turn from isolationist policy he ran on to striking Syria with cruise missiles ...
Those are just the biggest things! That's in 12 weeks!!!
that's better than House of Cards or the West Wing...
It's often occurred to me how challenging it will be to document, recreate, or dramatize the Trump rise to power and administration. There's just too much, too fast, and half of it is barely credible.
You'd need about a hundred hour long episodes and a hell of an investigative staff to do it justice.
It's often occurred to me how challenging it will be to document, recreate, or dramatize the Trump rise to power and administration. There's just too much, too fast, and half of it is barely credible.
You'd need about a hundred hour long episodes and a hell of an investigative staff to do it justice.
The Drunk History episode on this time period will result in ambulance rides.
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oh boy... i sure hope historians are keeping good notes...in the first 12 weeks we have:
-unprecedented mass protests following the elections
-some of the most bizarre press conferences/spokesperson in history with Sean Spicer and Kelly Anne Conway
Speaking of Conway, where has she been lately? I haven't seen her on any news recently or heard anything from her. Has Donald locked her up somewhere? I wouldn't be surprised if she was fired sometime soon.
It's often occurred to me how challenging it will be to document, recreate, or dramatize the Trump rise to power and administration. There's just too much, too fast, and half of it is barely credible.
You'd need about a hundred hour long episodes and a hell of an investigative staff to do it justice.
very i would imagine... however, the benefit, is that in this day and age, there is so many sources of information that cannot be deleted very easily...
once you tweet something, so have a press conference saying something, its there forever...
Going to wait and see, but someone like PBS Frontline could basically have a mini-series on the Trump admin, if thing continue even remotely on the same pace...
Conway, i think has been gagged for the time being... being good in front of the press is an art form... KAC just comes off very, very poorly, to put it mildly
Kellyanne still goes on FOX relatively regularly. I'm not sure if she's been outright banned from other networks or if the Trump administration has simply decided to keep her on safe airwaves only, but she's still around.
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Congratulations to our great military men and women for representing the United States, and the world, so well in the Syria attack.
If our military men and women keep playing like this, I think they could even snag the gold medal this year! Congratulations, and keep it up!
There goes between 50 and 60 million USD, its crazy how we talk about cutting all these tiny programs like PBS, the arts endowments, etc... Yet the military is the yuuuuugest of yuge spending programs.
Speaking of how the money is spent, where does the actually money come from for the airstrikes? DoD budget?
What do they harp about? Endgame or endstate. They are concerned there is no endgame and this was an exercise of military might but without a big picture plan. This has always been the concern about Trump. He's a sociopath and sociopaths are impulsive. This is a time when you wish he were more psychpathic in his ways, because psychopaths plan everything out in excruciating detail. There doesn't appear to be much.detail here. This was a flexing of muscle without engaging the brain.
I think people are over-analyzing this. Syria crossed a line that the world has agreed shouldn't be crossed, and the US punished them for it. It's a simple black and white, 'law and order' transaction that seems pretty consistent with Trump's general approach (his previous tweets about Obama's handing of Syria notwithstanding).
All the discussion about effectiveness, impact on strategy, why don't regular bombs count, this is helping ISIS, this is a false flag, etc. seem to be reaching for a bigger story.
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