When a giant portrait of a sitting president is unfurled over the Justice Department, our democracy has a problem. When a sitting president says "I'm ashamed of certain members of the (Supreme) court. Absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for our country," our democracy has a problem. When a sitting president claims that the Supreme Court is “very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution." we have a problem.
As Trump berated the Supreme Court, it became indisputably clear that he is unfit for the Presidency. He doesn't know and understand the difference between the branches of our government. The sycophants that surround him, many of whom are lawyers, have compromised themselves for their careers.
The only tool we have to defend our system of government is the ballot box. None of the Republicans running, even for special elections, have repudiated Trump.
Earth to Molovinsky . . . the Supreme Court is entirely made up of politically appointed people.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the democrats have shut down the federal government for the second time in less than six months.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you’re already working on a post about that, but please tell me which of the democrats running in the 7th District have repudiated THAT.
The tariffs have been successful in meeting the objectives of creating new revenue for America and developing new job opportunities through billions of dollars of returned manufacturing initiatives, some already up and running.
ReplyDeleteWhat practical purpose could there be by placing a roadblock in front of all that? The answer is none. The rejection of this single form of tariff was purely a political one intended to make Trump look bad. That is truly a sad commentary on the state of our judicial system.
Oh, well, the tariff effort is continuing on by using a different version of the same source of revenue generating. That is, until some New Democrat-leaning political hack rules otherwise.
The President has other tools still to use, all in effort to help this, and not some other, nations. Trump has every right to express his unhappiness with this latest impediment placed before him.
anon@4:28,6:21and again@7:03: You're a good Republican puppy, but you know nothing about business. The tariffs have been a haphazard disaster. They have hurt business because nobody knows replacement costs as they change every ten minutes. They have been a foreign policy disaster as trading partners became disgusted. Hopefully the midterms will put a spine back in your party.
ReplyDeleteI read no statements in those earlier posts that are false. Maybe someone can elaborate.
DeleteConcerning the midterm elections, this Independent voter agrees the Democrats will retake control of both houses. You see, many on the Republican side are totally useless. They well might be misusing and stealing tax dollars themself. Lots of reasons out there to gut both sides of this standing Congress.
In my opinion, Democrats controlling both Houses is not a good thing for our country. That would mean plenty of reversals and all kinds of wasted time and effort.
Whenever congress is derelict in their duty, excesses from the executive branch are inevitable. Most members of congress are only worried about reelection, not obeying their oath to the constitution or the long range good of the country.
ReplyDeleteChanging from Republican to Democrat will make NO difference, just change domestic abuses.
Are you more comfortable with woke policies, abuse of children, open borders, lack of law in the cities.
Flipping from one kind of abuse to another will not be an answer.
Maybe refusing to vote for anyone who has never had real job will be a start. Or refusing to vote for anyone who takes massive amounts of money from lobbies.
MM 7:17 said:
ReplyDelete“They have hurt business because nobody knows replacement costs as they change every ten minutes.”
Without arguing over the flaws in your partisan reply, it follows logically that business WOULD KNOW their replacement costs, IF they bought American.
Imagine that, trade policy designed to not only level the playing field, but that works to the long term benefit of businesses in America - and their WORKERS. How radical!
Correct! We don’t NEED to rely on other nations to do our manufacturing for us.
DeleteMeanwhile, the best story of the weekend remains the US Men’s hockey team winning the gold by beating Canada 2-1 in overtime!
ReplyDeleteThat follows the US Women’s hockey team also beating Canada 2-1 (in OT) to win the gold on Thursday.
That’s a tough few days for Canada, but hey, at least they still have statehood to look forward to! đ
anon@10:11: Even the products promoted as made/assembled in United States very often have some components made elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteOne step at a time, one step at a time. Still heading in the right direction.
DeleteIt is hard to find and often impossible to find products made in USA and then if you look close you often see it is the same product, with just made in USA.
DeleteI have attempted to have several products manufactured in USA and either there was no one making such a product or they would take your order and then have it made somewhere else.
I have had products made in China and have found the response to be very professional, transparent even for small quantities, and then clear on pricing, shipping etc. often receiving custom products in around 2 weeks.
Much more than tariffs are needed to make America competitive. it needs to start locally, state wide and federal, regulation, taxes etc. need improvement. If there would be a consensus, and there is not, it would take decades not months.
Attempting to hinder or hamstring others will not make us more competitive.
anon@10:44&10:56: Nobody would have an issue with an intelligent tariff program designed to incentivize American manufacturing. Trump based it on slights and reprisals, without congressional cooperation. One day 25%, the next 50% percent, etc. On Friday he went from 10% to 15% in an hour. He's hopeless...The big question is how long it will take to undo the damage he has created.
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