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#101776: Sep 23rd 2015 at 5:54:02 PM

Goodness. I know the Constitution is lip service to these people, but... wow.

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#101777: Sep 23rd 2015 at 6:03:06 PM

It’s ridiculous. I’m sure that there are 535 Americans in this country who are capable of serving, they’re not indispensable to the future of our country. So absolutely, not only do we need to change leadership, we need to get rid, I’m ready to fire them all.
He might just be saying he'd have all current Congresscritters replaced rather than abolish the institution altogether, which isn't quite as "you know we have three branches for a reason, right?"

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#101778: Sep 23rd 2015 at 6:05:58 PM

He's still saying he wants those positions to be filled entirely by people that will do exactly what he wants.

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#101779: Sep 23rd 2015 at 6:16:56 PM

Quite. But even a vague understanding that the legislative branch is supposed to be a thing is better than I was expecting going in.

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#101780: Sep 23rd 2015 at 6:19:27 PM

Among those 535 are a good chunk of Tea Party and other Conservatives. I don't like Jindal but I'm pretty sure he knows about separation of powers, and this is just echoing the most common complaint that Congress doesn't do anything and the most commonly expressed solution being to get rid of them all and replace them anyone else.

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#101781: Sep 23rd 2015 at 6:39:50 PM

The Separation of Powers function of the Constitution is explicitly designed to prevent the executive from firing all the legislators. In some countries that's called a coup.

edited 23rd Sep '15 6:40:08 PM by Fighteer

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#101782: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:11:54 PM

He's polling in rounding error territory. Leave him to ramble.

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#101783: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:16:24 PM

Probably one of his advisers said, "Hey, Bobby, old pal, you need to say something really crazy to get people to pay attention to you."

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#101785: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:21:08 PM

Hmm, that's actually bit surprising. I figured he was too rich to fall for that Klan nonsense.

Oh really when?
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#101786: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:24:22 PM

While that certainly sheds some light on Trump's antics should we really be holding the actions of his father against him?

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#101787: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:25:06 PM

Not necessarily but it says quite a bit about his upbringing.

Oh really when?
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#101788: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:28:47 PM

I'm kinda surprised, they actually arrested people at Klan rallies?

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#101789: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:29:16 PM

It does but people can rise above their upbringing. My political views are nothing like my parents. In fairness this isn't the case with Trump but for consistency's sake I don't think we should hold his father's actions against him.

edited 23rd Sep '15 7:29:28 PM by Kostya

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#101790: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:30:18 PM

We can hold his reaction to the revelation against him though.

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#101791: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:36:57 PM

I found it interesting trivia, even though it doesn't reflect on Donald himself.

Hmm, that's actually bit surprising. I figured he was too rich to fall for that Klan nonsense.
I don't think there's any particular correlation between wealth and lack of racism. Q.v. the way Trump the younger talks about Mexicans.

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#101792: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:43:23 PM

Trump did his usual routine of sorta-kinda-not exactly denying the accusation whilst making ad hominem attacks on the news outfit reporting it.

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#101793: Sep 23rd 2015 at 7:57:37 PM

The Klan was at its most mainstream in the 20s. Not to say it was justifiable, but it didn't brand you as "lost cause rebel" (like in the 1860s) or "fringe racist" (1960s to present).

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#101794: Sep 23rd 2015 at 8:05:03 PM

No just a mainstream racist. I'm pretty sure that still applies to the Klan in some bits of the Deep South, being part of it marks you as part of the establishment racist class.

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#101795: Sep 23rd 2015 at 8:15:10 PM

[up][up]Well, at least until the Grand Wizzard/Cyclops? Was caught for pocketing money or something like that, then it kinda died down.(The twenties Klan.)

[up]In the 20s, A majority of the revied Klan were for prohibition, and against Catholics, Jews, and immigration of Southren Europeans.

edited 23rd Sep '15 8:19:36 PM by Skycobra51

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#101796: Sep 23rd 2015 at 8:25:49 PM

[up] Exactly why did early white supremacists hate other white people like the Irish (and southern Europeans)?

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#101797: Sep 23rd 2015 at 8:26:16 PM

Because they aren't white

Oh really when?
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#101798: Sep 23rd 2015 at 8:30:48 PM

My grandmother recalls that in her youngest days in 30's Atlanta that the Klan there was mostly composed of fairly affluent middle class businessmen and workers. The lower class racists that filled the rank and file mobs weren't often seen around the upper echelons outside of their rallies.

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#101799: Sep 23rd 2015 at 8:36:07 PM

[up][up][up] What [up][up] said. Race is a bullshit concept anyway, so it shouldn't be surprising that racists are a bit fluid about who they like.

Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.
Ben Franklin, folks.

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#101800: Sep 23rd 2015 at 8:36:21 PM

Irish didn't count as white, they were the original job stealers remember, but eventually the Irish were integrated. It happens over here to, the joke goes that you can tell a properly integrated migrant/person of migrant descent, because they spend all their time moaning about how migrants are coming over and stealing their jobs.

I think Mock the Week once did an accidental skit about how Eastern Europeans were coming over and stealing the jobs of hard working Indians who'd come over, and who had stolen the jobs off hard working Irish who'd come over, and who had stolen their jobs off 'British' people.

[up] Wow I didn't realise you guys actually defined white as Anglo-Saxon in the States, like I'd commented that that seemed to be what you guys consider as white (myself and several European tropers have noted that Hispanics would be considered whites in Europe) but I didn't realise it was actually a thing you'd had important people strait up say.

edited 23rd Sep '15 8:39:09 PM by Silasw

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