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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I wonder if Trump will try and limit state power as a result of this. Which would then doubtlessly lose him a lot of his own party, since state power has always been a Republican favourite, from what I've seen in the news. That is, assuming they genuinely care about state power as opposed to only invoking it when the state in question agrees with them and there's a Democrat in the White House.
edited 2nd Jun '17 7:49:33 PM by PresidentStalkeyes
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!If anything, these states' decision to take matters into their own hands actually seems pretty clever, because Trump is caught in a Catch-22.
- Trump does nothing, making him look 'weak' and harming his future re-election prospects.
- Trump overrules these States' decisions, causing a lot of republicans and other right-wingers to denounce him or resign, harming his future re-election prospects.
- Trump overrules these States' decisions and nobody bats an eye, exposing the republicans as hypocrites... thus harming his (and their) future re-election prospects.
- Some combination of B and C (some denounce him, some don't)... which harms his future re-election prospects.
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I mean, Republicans only wanting to delegate things to the states when they know the states are going to do what they want should be pretty obvious by now. Not sure if Trump or the Republicans trying to do anything would make it more obvious. Then again, everything looks worse when associated with Trump, except to his most die-hard supporters.
edited 2nd Jun '17 8:09:32 PM by LSBK
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I know, but I meant if they did denounce him in the hypothetical situation of him meddling in these states' affairs, they'd do so because he was meddling in states' affairs, not because said states were paying to help the environment. I'm not entirely sure how seriously the Republicans take states' rights on the whole.
edited 2nd Jun '17 8:11:43 PM by PresidentStalkeyes
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin wants to create volunteer groups to pray on streets in cities... In order to reduce Crime.
I am not making this up.
It's optimistic as hell, but not only would it violate the 1st Amendment, it would not reduce crime, and it would get more people killed.
Makes me wonder if he'll be able to win New Hampshire again in 2020. From what I remember of that US Politics module I took (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), NH is a libertarian hotbed and one of the key swing states. It would explain why they voted for him given his pretensions towards being anti-big government, but I can't imagine them voting for him again if he becomes the big government. Edit: Ignore that, I'm an idiot.
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffff :P
Reminds me of the Left Behind video game I remember seeing listed in So Bad, It's Good. Apparently it was an RTS that involved people frantically praying out in the streets of NYC to avoid having their faith eroded by hordes of buskers.
edited 2nd Jun '17 8:28:36 PM by PresidentStalkeyes
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
New Hampshire went solidly Clinton in 2016. It was Maine that gave Trump 1 Electoral College Vote, and it was the only vote from New England to go to Trump. I'm almost certain that most Libertarians are solidly against Trump.
I know I am.
SJW outcry in 3... 2... (At least they aren't hypocritical, like a lot of Republicans are. They will at least rage about Liberals doing anti-PC things.)
edited 2nd Jun '17 8:25:27 PM by DingoWalley1
"Governor of Massachuetts joined the Climate Alliance formed by New York, Washington, and California. And he's a Republican."
Baker is the Bluest Republican, tho.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Former mayor of New York City pledges $15M to UN to cover US climate share
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/336143-bloomberg-pledges-15-million-to-un-to-repay-us-climate-debt?amp
Governor of Massachuetts joined the Climate Alliance formed by New York, Washington, and California. And he's a Republican.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/336169-republican-governor-joins-coalition-to-uphold-paris-climate
Is it horrible that it takes Trump to make us get our act together on climate?
Update: since that story was written, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Vermont have joined
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Climate_Alliance
edited 2nd Jun '17 7:45:44 PM by megaeliz