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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Also Trump could do irreparable damage to the US's diplomatic situation. He may well withdraw from East Asia (possibly also putting South Korea's security at threat) and would likely piss Europe off so much that NATO could fall apart.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranYep, President Trump would get to replace Scalia and Ginsberg (one of the bench's most liberal members) with god knows what kind of far-right nuts. And Bayer and Kennedy aren't young either. You could easily see 4 years of Trump giving the right a 6-3 edge in the SC.
Sometimes I wonder if NORAD could survive a Trump presidency. I want to say yes but...
edited 20th Jul '16 6:51:25 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Plus, a Republican led executive branch, judicial branch, and legislative branch would lead to a guaranteed follow through on multiple policies in the GOP's platform. You could easily see gay parents lose custody of their children, kids being put in conversion therapy, muslims and mexicans being rounded up en masse, and women and gay people and racial minorities losing the rights we've fought so hard to get over the decades.
A Trump Presidency would drive all sorts of racial nationalisms out of the woodwork. He's already done it for a certain segment of whites, and if he is elected I fully expect the more radical Black and Chicano groups to emerge from obscurity. Expect new calls for the Republic Del Norte and the Republic of New Afrika. After all who would want to be in the same country with that Orange fuckface.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Let's look at the Republican's new platform:
GOP platform pushes for return of Glass-Steagall.
Republican platform labels internet pornography 'a public health crisis'.
It also opposes a carbon tax.
GOP platform includes building Trump's wall, but does not specify who will pay for it.
Republican platform claims Coal is a "clean" energy source.
There's more, and I'll get to it later.
That title actually goes to Herbert Hoover's Native-American VP Charles Curtis.[1]
Also Libermann was a Jew if you want to count that.
edited 20th Jul '16 10:31:44 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Heck, if they want Glass-Steagall back, we could at least meet on one point. Although G-S is kind of obsolete in the modern banking environment, it would at least restore another bulwark against gross incompetence within the financial system.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I saw it mentioned on another forum follow that Gingrich's planned speech was supposed to reference Cruz endorsing Trump, forcing a rewrite at the last moment. Any truth to that?
EDIT: Here we go
edited 20th Jul '16 8:52:10 PM by sgamer82
Republican Platform part 2: The Social Conservative Strikes Back
The GOP’s Platform really rails on Public Transit.
Highlights include:
- Ending all federal funding for mass transit.
- It encourages opening the Northeast corridor to private competition for publicly subsidized Amtrak.
- The platform calls for the federal government to get out of “bike-share programs, sidewalks, recreational trails, landscaping, and historical renovations,” arguing that money for these things should come from “other sources.”
This is a change from 2012, where platform’s only reference to the Bible was to opposing any bans on it in military forces.
It should be noted the RNC platform is not binding.
edited 20th Jul '16 11:46:26 PM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.@Rational insanity- Yes. I think the question was about Vice Presidents though. I can't find statistics on other "minority groups", but there this listing of African-American major party candidates
. Due to what's almost a technicality, Frederick Douglas was a "candidate" in 1888, so he probably would win. There's also this George Edwin Taylor from 1904. In both cases, this is when parties had nominations directly on the floor of the convention, but obviously neither of them was actually on the final ticket. I'm guessing Hoover's VP would win for that.
edited 20th Jul '16 8:57:47 PM by Hodor2
Is it possible to convict the entire GOP on account of just being fricking nuts? Because right now, they're coocoo for cocopuffs. Heck, they're beyond coocoo for cocopuffs at this point. They're either that or straight out delusional. (Or both.) When was the last time we had a sane, rational GOP that actually made sense? Because I'd like to have two balanced sides that I could see myself swinging towards either way depending on the situation for a change; not just one side that's actually decent while the other evokes the gaping maw of Satan. Is that so wrong?
edited 20th Jul '16 9:56:43 PM by kkhohoho
A big chunk of their platform just makes me wonder what good they could possibly get out of it.
Like, the coal thing. I assume that West Viriginia was involved somehow, but a huge part of the reason West Virginia is in such awful shape is because their entire state is in thrall to the coal industry, which has proven over and over that it doesn't care about the effects they have. But pretending that coal energy is clean is insane! When burned, coal is highly radioactive. Like, a nuclear plant is way less radioactive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/us/politics/donald-trump-issues.html
Holy fuck.
HOLY FUCK.
Not defend the Baltics?! Are you serious?! NATO would be destroyed literally, LITERALLY overnight if he does nothing.
New Survey coming this weekend!

He's probably still burning over the whole Zodiac Killer thing. That seriously got under his skin.