Opinion The Trump Presidency

[edgie]

These guys will sort em out

 

[raman]

What an absolute shock.

 

[StrappingTape]

Ah salon, never stop for that perfect world where everyone thinks correctly.

 

[Ando39]

Yes, Trump is idiotic for the fact he didnt just straight up condemn the violence. But if you think antifa and the like arent just as violent then quite frankly you arent looking hard enough, or at all.

 

[Forzaport]

Antifa really aren't the horse you want to hitch your wagon to.

The Boston rally was for conservatives to promote free speech, the organisers specifically denounced Nazis, white supremacy, hate, fascism and violence. The vast majority of people right of centre on the political spectrum aren't Nazis or white supremacists. The vast majority of Trump voters likewise detest organisations that promote hate and racism.

Throwing bottles of urine at police, calling everyone who doesn't agree with you a fascist and committing violence in the misguided belief of a higher moral righteousness is anarchist behaviour and actually a form of militant totalitarianism. Text book mass hysteria. If you can't see it, you're most likely in the mass hysteria bubble. Ultimately it will only help to ensure that democrats remain in the political wilderness, unable to wield power in any meaningful way.

Hopefully people will see reason before there are any more deaths and violence.

 

[Grave Danger]

Just as well Bobby Kennedy never got to the White House - didn't he have something like eleven children?


Donald Trump’s lavish travel costs leave Secret Service too ‘tapped out’ to pay agents

The Secret Service, already stretched thin trying to provide security for Donald Trump’s large family, has now found itself unable to pay hundreds of agents on the commander-in-chief’s protective detail, according to a report.

Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles said more than 1,000 agents have already reached the federally mandated salary caps and overtime allowances for the entire year, USA Today reports

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wor...s/news-story/c6fe2ff8e2a4b7dada96612ce3cd5eb1

 

[Portology]

The tsunami is coming for old school white Republicans but they're doing their best to delay it.

Apologies to the hurricane states :/

Mapping the "peak racial generation gap" to "peak whitelash" is a useful way to picture the dynamics. It shows that economic anxieties as well as the less justifiable "status anxieties" need to be accounted for.

"The brown" vs "the grey".

If you didn't know why the GOP have been so much more keen on locking in 10-year-census gerrymanders than any of their predecessors, here's the 10,000 foot view of the racial demographics, and voting implications based on what has already happened where said "peaks" have already passed.

That little court case over the Texas districts will simply determine if justice is finally served in 2020 or 2030. Right now it's looking like 2030 based on the SCOTUS political alignments

http://theatln.tc/2f8solk


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[StrappingTape]

"justice served" hey, they deserve it for being white? Identity politics 101 right here.

 

[Portology]

"justice served" hey, they deserve it for being white? Identity politics 101 right here.

no, that would be "justice served" as in relatively un-gerrymandered-by-race districts. but excellent demonstration of whitelash type status anxiety type reaction right there, regardless of your personal origins, which obviously I know nothing about. so thank you for that.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The tsunami is coming for old school white Republicans but they're doing their best to delay it.

Apologies to the hurricane states :/

Mapping the "peak racial generation gap" to "peak whitelash" is a useful way to picture the dynamics. It shows that economic anxieties as well as the less justifiable "status anxieties" need to be accounted for.

"The brown" vs "the grey".

If you didn't know why the GOP have been so much more keen on locking in 10-year-census gerrymanders than any of their predecessors, here's the 10,000 foot view of the racial demographics, and voting implications based on what has already happened where said "peaks" have already passed.

That little court case over the Texas districts will simply determine if justice is finally served in 2020 or 2030. Right now it's looking like 2030 based on the SCOTUS political alignments

http://theatln.tc/2f8solk

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The GOP dominate, mayor-ships, especially outside the top 50 cities, state governors, state houses and senates and whilst they don't have a long history of dominating the House in Washington they do in the Senate. The POTUSA isn't as important to them ideologically as they have so much control at the state and local level which determines a lot more taxes and rights in the US than these levels of government do in Oz.

State Governors 34 GOP 15 Dems 1 Independent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures
State Legistures
32 Republican-controlled legislatures
12 Democratic-controlled legislatures
6 Split legislatures

Government control
26 Republican-controlled governments
6 Democratic-controlled governments
6 Democratic governor/Republican-controlled legislature
7 Republican governor/Democratic-controlled legislature
1 Independent governor/Republican-controlled legislature
1 Republican governor/Split legislature
3 Democratic governor/Split legislature
50 Total

 

[Portology]

The GOP dominate, mayor-ships, especially outside the top 50 cities, state governors, state houses and senates and whilst they don't have a long history of dominating the House in Washington they do in the Senate. The POTUSA isn't as important to them ideologically as they have so much control at the state and local level which determines a lot more taxes and rights in the US than these levels of government do in Oz.

State Governors 34 GOP 15 Dems 1 Independent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures
State Legistures
32 Republican-controlled legislatures
12 Democratic-controlled legislatures
6 Split legislatures

Government control
26 Republican-controlled governments
6 Democratic-controlled governments
6 Democratic governor/Republican-controlled legislature
7 Republican governor/Democratic-controlled legislature
1 Independent governor/Republican-controlled legislature
1 Republican governor/Split legislature
3 Democratic governor/Split legislature
50 Total

most importantly of all IMO the state levels control the US congressional district boundaries. each state with its own slightly different methodology. and that's why capturing a grab bag of those states before the big once in a decade census-informed but not census-driven redistribution back in 2010 was critical for their next 10 years at the federal level.

Congress matters and POTUS matters partly because SCOTUS appointments are essentially for life. the old consensus to keep SCOTUS balanced between liberal moderate and conservative oriented judges is now dead on the GOP side, because the demographic tsunami is coming, and that has energized "the strategic thinkers" and the crazy thinkers too on that side into a whatever it takes mentality to lock in what they can for as long as they can.

 

[StrappingTape]

consensus to keep SCOTUS balanced lol

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

most importantly of all IMO the state levels control the US congressional district boundaries. each state with its own slightly different methodology. and that's why capturing a grab bag of those states before the big once in a decade census-informed but not census-driven redistribution back in 2010 was critical for their next 10 years at the federal level.

Bingo! Its in the constitution. That's why the GOP pour a shitload more into state races than the presidency.

Congress matters and POTUS matters partly because SCOTUS appointments are essentially for life. the old consensus to keep SCOTUS balanced between liberal moderate and conservative oriented judges is now dead on the GOP side, because the demographic tsunami is coming, and that has energized "the strategic thinkers" and the crazy thinkers too on that side into a whatever it takes mentality to lock in what they can for as long as they can.

Of course they all matter but the hard heads of the party spend more time about strategic state races than the presidency. Its why there wasnt a mass walk out of the party by officials when Trump won. They didnt want him but they figured with control of the senate and house they could control him. The GOP are more restrictionists than expansionists.

 

[Ando39]

the old consensus to keep SCOTUS balanced between liberal moderate and conservative oriented judges is now dead on the GOP side

That'd be why Obama wanted to replace Scalia with a conservative originalist. Oh wait.....

 

[Power Raid]

cropped for world peace

 

[Arthur Dunger]

1 year today

 

[Contested Marx]

1 year today

Yep

And he's done nothing except bluster about on Twitter and in rallies and caused a civil war like split in the country

Mind you, he's not yet started ww3 so

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Yep

And he's done nothing except bluster about on Twitter and in rallies and caused a civil war like split in the country

Mind you, he's not yet started ww3 so

He's been nothing but a limp noodle for 12 months really

 

[Arthur Dunger]

Yep

And he's done nothing except bluster about on Twitter and in rallies and caused a civil war like split in the country

Mind you, he's not yet started ww3 so

Silly old jobs growth and improved economy.

I've recently been chatting to some people from the US and also friends who have visited there and it's quite surprising that there doesn't appear to be any where near the negative rhetoric towards Trump that the media would lead you to believe.

 

[chiwigi]

Silly old jobs growth and improved economy.

I've recently been chatting to some people from the US and also friends who have visited there and it's quite surprising that there doesn't appear to be any where near the negative rhetoric towards Trump that the media would lead you to believe.

Because of measures set up by the last administration, they take time to filter through, yet of course rump will claim credit due to his ??????? policy.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171108-are-american-workers-more-optimistic-under-trump

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Perhaps you should go live in the US Jumbo let Trump really influence ya life.. you know instead of chest beating about s**t that doesn't impact on you in the slightest

 

[Doctor Feel]

Hook line and sinker every time, you lot.

 

[Dylan8]

Hook line and sinker every time, you lot.

Jumbo: Donald... Trump
The BurlyBurleyBoys: Hey what the-

 

[Arthur Dunger]

Perhaps you should go live in the US Jumbo let Trump really influence ya life.. you know instead of chest beating about s**t that doesn't impact on you in the slightest

Why you so mad bro? If he doesn't influence your life why should my occasional mention of TRUMP upset you so much unless you're one of those who still gets triggered by hearing the mere mention of his name.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Why you so mad bro? If he doesn't influence your life why should my occasional mention of TRUMP upset you so much unless you're one of those who still gets triggered by hearing the mere mention of his name.

Triggered brah