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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Almost certainly a typo, but the idea of this old man calling Trump "The Donald" like some guy on the internet is pretty funny to me.
I said state sovereignty. Not the existence of subordinate administrative jurisdictions.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Then you're going to have to define what you mean by "state sovereignty". States obviously aren't sovereign in the same way that nations are, but if they don't have authority to impose rules on the people living and conducting business within their borders, then they might as well not exist at all.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.The states' rights crew still wish to believe that the states are sovereign nations that ceded a little bit of power to some dudes in an east-coast swamp so they wouldn't have to all give up their slaves.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"What did we think a reality TV star was going to do as President? He's running it like his reality show. Because that's all he knows how to do.
"Chris? You're fired."
Nothing would make me happier if one of the victims of Trump's last-second transition changes wound up being Mike Pence. I would get so much schadenfreude out of that. He did so much for Trump, helped carry his message, presented it in a way that was less hateful, gave him an illusion of legitimacy, and at the end of the day, Trump rewards him in the only way he knows how: by not paying him his dues.
edited 16th Nov '16 9:26:13 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.What do you actually want to happen? What specific things would you change in federal law or the constitution in order to have the effect you want? Keeping in mind that simply saying "the federal government should be able to overrule any and all decisions made by state government" would mean that states wouldn't be allowed to do things like desegregate, allow gay marriage, raise taxes to better fund services like health care and public schools, etc etc, unless the federal government said so.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.They can't "fire" Pence without an impeachment (or a forced resignation) but they can stonewall and ostricise him. That's pretty much what ended up happening to Aaron Burr (this being before he shot Hamilton). After this they figured out that having the runner up of the election be the vice president was a bad idea.
Also, any VP to replace Pence would have to be confirmed by Congress.
edited 16th Nov '16 9:50:58 AM by Elle
So an optimistic view of how President Trump might be expected to handle American foreign policy posits that, should Donald Trump's impulsive tendencies be reigned in, we could see a sort of neo-Westphalian geopolitical order emerge
where territorial status quo is regarded as the highest priority, and the internal affairs of nations are regarded as that nation's own business.
I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. Unlike in 1648, there's no more world left for the great powers to divide up between themselves, but whether that would be essential to that sort of detente is somewhat questionable. It would entail voluntarily ceding the United States's mantle of a global hyperpower in favor of a multipolar world order with the US as first among the great powers, so obviously neoconservatives and other hawkish factions in the US government would be vehemently opposed, though as the author points out, it's something that's compatible with the current world order and with Trump's particular brand of "America-First" populism.
edited 16th Nov '16 10:04:12 AM by CaptainCapsase
As far as foreign relations go, I'm mostly just hoping we don't invade Iran. We're really giving them a lot of reasons to get back to work on those nukes already.
Give him a chance, sure. "This guy threatened to stab me! Why did you support him?" "He might not stab you though!" "But he said he was going to and you said that was okay!" "He hasn't yet, though, right? Maybe he'll give you a hug instead." "He's actively befriending professional people-stabbers and giving them jobs as advisers." "But you don't physically have three inches of steel in your gut right now, do you?"
People are just desperate to justify the unjustifiable.
edited 16th Nov '16 10:19:36 AM by Karkadinn
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.@Caspase
Weren't you the one who was furious at the USA for having supported dictatorships in the past? Yet here you are wanting them to have a working relationship with Vladimir Putin, a man who is not only a brutal dictator, but who exports violence outside of his own country and, oh yeah, tampered in the goddamn American election.
Re: #155746
Do we really have any choice but to give him a chance and hope for the best? The only thing that would potentially keep him out of the Presidency will kill the legitimacy of whoever it benefits (Electoral revolt) or just put in a Republican who may be just as bad and knows what he's doing.

I never said they were completely pointless, but the idea of state sovereignty is dangerously obsolete.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"