I don’t think Smapti was exaggerating at all in saying that we won’t have to worry about judge-picking when Trump’s in the White House because the human race won’t exist. Well, a little bit maybe because there will still be some humans left alive in the Southern Hemisphere.
Trump is absolutely, unquestionably a serious risk to start World War Three and a nuclear holocaust. That’s Smapti’s concern and he’s one hundred percent correct to be concerned about it. Trump has stated as his foreign policy goals actiosn that will destabilize the world’s security apparatus to an extent not seen since the 1930s, and his temperament is, shall we say, substantially more mercurial than anyone else who has been nominated to have the power to launch nuclear weapons. Indeed, the power to take immediate military action is probably the one area in which there are the fewest checks on the President’s power. Quibbling over the Supreme Court appointments is rather small potatoes.
He wouldn’t do it for a reward, he’d do it because he’s stupid and ignorant.
Dismantling NATO or the various Pacific alliances is opening the door to World War Three. That’s why NATO exists. The guy wants to shrug off NATO, openly asks “why don’t we just use nuclear weapons?” for conventional military problems and is rather easily pissed off if he feels someone is unfair to him. His policies point towards global war and his temperament points toward global war.
What is that Holy Second Half Of The Second Amendment going to do for you? Overthrow the government by force? Not gonna happen. Assassinate leaders you don’t like? More likely. Exactly what do you thing your Precious Second does to keep the president in check?
Look, I agree: it’s a terrible idea to tamper with primaries the way some folks talked about doing. Those folks bear some of the responsibility.
But let’s be honest: if we’re apportioning blame for Trump’s candidacy, that’s a minuscule portion of the blame. Start with a Republican establishment that courted and pandered to the Tea Party, and work forwards and backwards from there. The whole rise of Limbaugh and Fox News in the nineties is a good place to look at, their encouragement of reactionary, emotional, lie-based versions of news.
So yeah, tampering in elections is bad. Pandering to the worst impulses of the American public is also bad.
Obama founded Trump. And Hillary too. They actually went back in a time machine, had sex, Hillary gave birth to a boy who was dyed orange to disguise his true identity and then he was raised to eventually discredit the Republican Party. Many people say that this makes perfect sense.
I mean that literally. By which I mean sarcastically.
This is exactly what I’m talking about. Even if Trump gets creamed in this election, the toxicity remains.
I’ve noticed ever since the 1992 election the increasingly extreme reactions among the right wing in this country to defeats at the ballot box. Going back to Bill Clinton, they argued that he wasn’t really a true president because only 40-42 percent of people voted for him. That perception of illegitimacy festered and eventually developed into the hiring of an independent investigator, which then resulted in no charges about any of the original allegations (Whitewater and sexual harassment) but turned into a full-blown impeachment scandal…over a blowjob. Fast forward to 2009 and you have allegations that Obama’s a closet Muslim and that he’s working with Al Qaeda. And now this outrageous stream of comments. There are probably numerous people out there right now who would try to argue that they would be justified using violence.
The left’s own Bernie Bros were fascist by your definitions. And the toxicity they exhibited towards Clinton and her supporters was very nasty. Double standards.
Apparently it’s easier to attack someone pointing out how your side wants to erase the first half of the second rather than explain how you think the second would apply in your sentence:
August 9
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick --if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
August 9
“She said about me not so long ago, my tone, she said I don’t like his tone […] I think it’s time maybe for a little tougher tone, folks, in all fairness. Time for a tougher tone.”
Trump is not an idiot.
He is not joking.
He is not speaking off the cuff.
He is building a frightening narrative using dangerous rhetoric.
This is the point where he has stepped over the line. He and his followers are really starting to scare me.
What’s the purpose of the Constitution again? Why are there checks and balances? Why are other non-government institutions quite powerful? These are all hedges against consolidation of power, obviously.
