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39 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Justice Roberts’s words are nice but if there’s no such thing as Obama or Trump judges, why is McConnell so eager to stack the court with Trump judges?

There is no such thing as a “Trump judge.” Trump wouldn’t know a judge’s philosophy if you drew it for him in color crayons. To trump, a good judge is one that rules for him and what he wants. A bad judge is one who rules against him and what he wants. It’s that simple.

Since trump doesn’t know shit about judges he’s been relying on the federalist society to pick his judges. What that means, is we are going to get a whole bunch of judges like the former SCOTUS Justice Kennedy, except even much more conservative. I predict that is how both Kavenaugh and Gorsuch end up, as well as most of the rest of the federal bench. 

What that means is that we are going to get from the Trump judges decisions that corporate America wants, because Kennedy has always aligned with them 100 percent, even on divisive social issues like abortion and the gays. Corporate America and the Chamber of Commerce have zero problem with how Kennedy ruled on those issues, it helps to give the people they control a passionate distraction while they get fleeced. 

Cavanaugh and Gorsuch and the rest will impose further restrictions on abortion, and not always rule in favor of the gays, but they are not going to overrule those decisions. Instead what they are going to do is steadily erode the rights of individuals in favor of corporations and what they want. As will most of trumps judges. 

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29 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

Nah, war is critical to our economy.  Elites love it. Instead of stimulating our economy by investing in infrastructure, education, and healthcare, we invest in shit that’s used to murder poor people in poor countries. 

All America makes is bomb craft and spy craft. Media & Military, nesting together. Like electing an actor as president, then wagging the dog. Then some sheep herder somewhere is napalmed and he's never "herd" of CNN so he has no fucking clue as to why. Meanwhile we're throwing a Super Bowl halftime show parade party celebrating our war victory and honoring our troops and the sheep, everywhere, are on fire.

Rockets red glare. Nip slip. Napalm.

That's America. 

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47 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

I’m ready for Trump to resign or at a minimum announce he is not running for re-election. I’m a Republican and appreciate his Supreme Court picks but enough is enough. What the fuck was he thinking with that press release? You’d think he’d grow into the job a little. Just embarrassing. Please resign and let Pence finish the term. We need to rebuild the Party from the ground up. Focus on improving wages through more favorable trade deals, reducing immigration and not looking like assholes doing it. Disavow neocon foreign policy and day use that for national infrastructure New Deal.

 

 

I agree with the whole post except the SC picks. 

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47 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

I’m ready for Trump to resign or at a minimum announce he is not running for re-election. I’m a Republican and appreciate his Supreme Court picks but enough is enough. What the fuck was he thinking with that press release? You’d think he’d grow into the job a little. Just embarrassing. Please resign and let Pence finish the term. We need to rebuild the Party from the ground up. Focus on improving wages through more favorable trade deals, reducing immigration and not looking like assholes doing it. Disavow neocon foreign policy and day use that for national infrastructure New Deal.

 

 

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Mistakes were made 

https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/11/22/the-head-of-russia-s-gru-spy-agency-is-reported-dead-after-a-long-and-serious-illness

Igor Korobov, the head of Russia’s Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU), died “after a long and serious illness,” a Defense Ministry spokesperson told the news agency RIA Novostiearly on November 22. Korobov was 62 years old. He served in the Soviet and Russian armed forces since 1973, joining the USSR's military intelligence in 1985 and becoming Russia's GRU director in 2016.

Korobov 's predecessor, Igor Sergun, died suddenly on January 3, 2016. Officially, he passed away at his home outside Moscow after suffering a heart attack. According to the American geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor, however, Sergun died on New Year’s Day in Lebanon.

 

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American officials added Korobov to their sanctions list in December 2016 for his “efforts to undermine democracy” by organizing hacker attacks. Nevertheless, Korobov and the directors of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) made an unprecedented trip to Washington in February 2018 to meet with members of the U.S. intelligence community to discuss the war against terrorism.

 
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BUT OBAMA!!!

 

Chief Justice Roberts realizes he is now one of the most powerful person in America. He is not only the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, which is akin to being the Senate Majority leader or Speaker of the House with control over who gets to decide what, but is also the ultimate swing vote on the inevitable 5-4 Supreme Court decisions. He is the new Kennedy. 

So of course Trump is going to go to war with him and insult him whenever he can. trump is such the short sighted idiot. Oh well. 

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1 hour ago, retread said:

You get to fly on the most tricked out plane in the world to Florida for Thanksgiving, and you spend the whole time trolling. smh.

I guess his family is with him?

Oh, his family is probably with him, but only in the sense they are in the same building.  He's one lonely bastard.

 

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Year by year this Nation grows in strength and worldly power. During the century and a quarter that has elapsed since our entry into the circle of independent peoples we have grown and prospered in material things to a degree never known before, and not now known in any other country. The thirteen colonies which straggled along the seacoast of the Atlantic and were hemmed-in but a few miles west of tidewater by the Indian haunted wilderness, have been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen. Its domains stretch across the continent from one to the other of the two greatest oceans, and it exercises dominion alike in the arctic and tropic realms. The growth in wealth and population has surpassed even the growth in territory. Nowhere else in the world is the average of individual comfort and material well-being as high as in our fortunate land.

For the very reason that in material well-being we have thus abounded, we owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things. With a nation, as with the individuals who make up a nation, material well-being is an indispensable foundation. But the foundation avails nothing by itself. That life is wasted, and worse than wasted, which is spent in piling, heap upon heap, those things which minister merely to the pleasure of the body and to the power that rests only on wealth. Upon material well-being as a foundation must be raised the structure of the lofty life of the spirit, if this Nation is properly to fulfil its great mission and to accomplish all that we so ardently hope and desire. The things of the body are good; the things of the intellect better; the best of all are the things of the soul; for, in the nation as in the individual, in the long run it is character that counts. Let us, therefore, as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good-will toward all men, but with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life.

—Theodore Roosevelt

1908 Thanksgiving Proclamation

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13 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Hey, it's Thanksgiving.  Gotta keep slamming on the 9th Circuit:

 

 

In fact, the Supreme Court reversed about 70 percent of cases it took between 2010-15. Among cases it reviewed from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, it reversed about 79 percent.

The 9th Circuit’s reversal rate is higher than average, but it’s not the absolute highest among the circuit courts. That distinction goes to the 6th Circuit, which serves Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, with an 87 percent average between 2010-15.  The 9th Circuit is in third place.

6th Circuit - 87 percent;

11th Circuit - 85 percent;

9th Circuit - 79 percent;

3rd Circuit - 78 percent;

2nd Circuit and Federal Circuit - 68 percent;

8th Circuit - 67 percent;

5th Circuit - 66 percent;

7th Circuit - 48 percent;

DC Circuit - 45 percent;

1st Circuit and 4th Circuit - 43 percent;

10th Circuit - 42 percent.

We also found that the 9th Circuit never had the highest reversal rate in any individual term between 2004-15. (That’s the farthest back we could go.)

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11 hours ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

In his 70s and not getting his way for the first time in his life. 

This is the underrated angle to me.

Despite his shitty businesses, multiple bankruptcies, and failing at most everything, he's managed to always get his way and have things break his way.  

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3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

This is the underrated angle to me.

Despite his shitty businesses, multiple bankruptcies, and failing at most everything, he's managed to always get his way and have things break his way.  

I will give Trump this:  He made it all the way to the top despite being one of the worst Americans in history.  That probably says more about us than him but it’s still remarkable.

Yeah, he was born sliding into home and given more advantages than most can imagine but he managed his failures well enough to keep the con going. 

Around the world, he will most certainly be remembered for generations to come, but not in a good way.

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