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Originally Posted by Traum
I can't say I follow the Trump administration at as fine a level as you have mentioned. What I do see though, is that a lot of Trump's idiotic executive orders got shutdown by the courts.
As far as tipping the balance and chipping away at the restraints that were built into the system, I'd say the most significant damage Trump has done were the massive number of judge appointments under his presidency, with Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett's appointments to the Supreme Court being the most significant. If I am understanding things correctly though, the problem really came from the Democrats themselves when they relaxed the federal court appointment requirement. So in that sense, Trump was merely milking a Democratic policy for all it is worth, so I don't think it is right to blame Trump alone for tilting the system.
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You're not understanding things correctly, and I guess that's my issue here. You haven't applied a proper understanding of an issue to which you've decided to form an opinion on.
Let me give you a history lesson, much of whatever rightwing media you're following loves to utilize the tactic of revisionist history, specific to the point you just made. You convey a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.
You're referring to the "nuclear option" Harry Reid utilized back in 2013, correct? Do you remember why the Democrats had to utilize that option? It was due to the fact that the Republicans, who touted in 2008, Obama would be a lame-duck president, with nothing passed or appointed. What did they do from there? Even while Democrats still controlled the Senate (2009-2015), Republicans filibustered pretty much all of his nominees, essentially making it impossible for him to elect a judicial nominee, because of course in their eyes, why should that N-word be able to appoint a judge?
You have to realize their filibustering was unprecedented in any prior administrations, and was only imposed against the first black president. Thus in 2013 the so-called nuclear option was invoked and the Senate rules were changed, meaning that a simple majority vote would suffice for all nominees except for the Supreme Court.
A brief history lesson on the subject, let this be clear, this was not started by Democrats, but rather the utter cynicism by the Republican party who wanted to provide Obama with none of the authorities levied to
every prior president before him.
I swear, the Republicans are like school children in a fight. They poke you and poke you until you punch back, the minute you punch back, they cry foul and say you started it
