Managing Politics in FQ

[Dinsdale]

@LSLGuy

Those are two clearly articulated questions. To which the only practical answers are “anything” and “next to nothing”.

I also posted a response w/o appreciating that the thread was in FQ. I THINK the first paragraph of my response might have passed FQ muster:

@Dinsdale

This is exactly the constitutional crisis that we have been moving towards these past several months (has it truly only been 5?!) As of yet, he has not directly told any court to pound sand. Instead, his consistent approach has been to obfuscate and delay, and hope that if need be he will be bailed out by the Supremes.

I’m not as confident about my second paragraph. Tho it includes some language some might consider insulting to Trump, I could argue that it reasonably represents the facts we have experienced:

@Dinsdale

Then, there is always his modus operandi that TACO. As with Abrego Garcia. He’s back in the US, facing a whole new pile of made up bullshit. So far, Trump seems content to cause as much harm IMMEDIATELY to as many people as possible. Then, if some isolated aspect of his action is adjudged improper some months down the line, such judicial relief is unlikely to help ALL the folk he harmed.

And I think I was in fair territory with my closing paragraph:

@Dinsdale

It will be interesting - and not in any good way - to see what happens when/if he directly refuses a court order. Plus, we have the effort by the House budget bill to outlaw contempt judgments.

I think it was a pretty - uh - weak OP, which has been discussed many times before and which lacks a clear factual answer other than, “Who knows? It has never happened before. We’ve never (in recent history) had a president who appeared so willing to ignore a court order.” I also believe that, “Trump is an ignorant asshole” is a factual statement.

In any event, I appreciate the gentle mod reminder, and will do my best to be mindful of the forum in which a thread appears.