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janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I watched a documentary on the History Channel yesterday about Donald Trump and his path to the White House. If that had been aired before the election I might have voted for him. It's amazing how many of his old elitist friends turned their backs on him. I think I watched the same documentary the other week. It started with his upbringing in Brooklyn and Queens. Beeing sent to an army school because of his bad manners. Still he acts like a high school teenager bullying others. No votes from me. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I watched a documentary on the History Channel yesterday about Donald Trump and his path to the White House. If that had been aired before the election I might have voted for him. It's amazing how many of his old elitist friends turned their backs on him. Yes I think that that doco was was more a morality test for the viewers than anything else. Some failed while most passed. Cheers. |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Like always, people's point of view is colored by their politics. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11360 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Like always, people's point of view is colored by their politics. Alternative facts? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
If he can't get this dismissed by the end of the week, it is game over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/liberal-watchdog-group-sues-trump-alleging-he-violated-constitutional-ban/2017/01/22/5e8b35c2-e113-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
If he can't get this dismissed by the end of the week, it is game over. I look forward to hearing our forum's 2 constitutionalists opinions on the subject. #resist |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
The article speaks for it self. “This is not what the Constitution says. Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present, and it has nothing to do with an office. It’s not an emolument,†Dillon said then. Another problem is the question of the watchdog group’s standing to sue. There is a general legal rule that to file suit against someone for wrongdoing, a plaintiff must have suffered some specific harm from that wrongdoing. That’s an issue that has hung over all the discussions of an Emoluments Clause lawsuit: If Trump does violate the Constitution, whom does he hurt? ... |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The article speaks for it self. emolument noun (usu. emoluments) formal a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office Another problem is the question of the watchdog group’s standing to sue. There is a general legal rule that to file suit against someone for wrongdoing, a plaintiff must have suffered some specific harm from that wrongdoing. That’s an issue that has hung over all the discussions of an Emoluments Clause lawsuit: If Trump does violate the Constitution, whom does he hurt? Which is what they will vigorously argue. However, a well placed, if not a citizen, then who does have standing? "Or does this clause not exist in the constitution?" is going to get it on a district judges calendar. We will have to see about how SCOTUS takes that. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Isn't it just amazing how many ways people can interpret a few simple words to mean something totally different to what their actual meaning was meant to be. I only thought that we had 1 Guy here, but it seems I was wrong. It seems that Trumped up supporters seem to have a totally different meaning to simple words. That maybe because of a few reasons and none of them point to anything close to being intellectual let alone being morally competent. Cheers. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
That has a label: It's called politics :-) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
And Trump is now back peddling like crazy, what's in his tax returns that has him doing a 180 degree turn now? Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I've been telling you idiots that for some years now and you've finally woken up to that fact instead of attacking me over it. Good going Guy, you just prove how out of touch you and others really are. :-D Cheers buddy. ;-) |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Or, it's sarcasm. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Or, it's sarcasm. Guy would go back to his greedy bible bashing ways before he would try to seriously take sarcasm out on us again as he has failed miserably each time that he's tried that before. In fact I don't remember where Guy didn't fail big time, though I do remember all the big time fails that he has had over the years. He's guaranteed to show us more failings yet. ;-) Cheers. |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
If he can't get this dismissed by the end of the week, it is game over. Well, for what it is worth, the courts do not really have much jurisdiction over it at this time. Who does? Congress. Only Congress can remove him from office. Easy way around it for Trump anyway. Get consent of Congress. I dispute that this is a little-known provision of the US Federal Constitution. Every single US President (and quite a number of other US Federal Government officials) in my memory has gotten into a scandal over it, though it is usually over a personal gift of a valuable trinket of some sort. Trump is merely doing business, preexisting from well before his election. Renting rooms in a hotel. Guess what, he also does the SAME business with various parts of the US Government, as well. All of this said, it would be best for Trump to divest himself of his holdings in some way while he is president. Would avoid the appearance of impropriety. But filing a lawsuit? They are barking up the wrong tree. Concerned US Citizens need to lobby their Representative and Senators in Congress over an impeachment proceeding, not file some nuisance lawsuit. Non-US Citizens? Not really any of your business. https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE #Texit Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016. Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Non-US Citizens? Not really any of your business. He is not a Trump supporter. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
Non-US Citizens? Not really any of your business. Well, as BAD as Trump is, Clinton would have been WORSE. I voted 'according to my political views' and also refused to vote for anyone who I considered to be BAD THINGS (tm). If I had been willing to vote 'for the lesser of two evils'... it would have been Trump. But, no way in HELL was I going to vote for that (quoting my earlier posts) 'poison, fascist dictator wannabe'. ME? A Trump supporter? <spit> We DO need a business-person as President, in my opinion... Just NOT that Orange-rug wearing buffoon. And our Constitution is not old and outdated... Your ideology is, ya commie-pinko. Even Cuba is undergoing some capitalist reforms under Fidel and now his little brother Raul. With the possible exception of that cesspool DPRK, name me one 'communist' nation that isn't. Russia/USSR -> abandoned Communism. the PRC -> huge Capitalist reforms in their economy. Cuba -> growing number of Capitalist reforms in their economy. Vietnam -> Mixed economy since the mid 1980s. Communism FAILED. https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE #Texit Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016. Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power. |
bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 2866 Credit: 17,789,109 RAC: 3 |
Non-US Citizens? Not really any of your business. This is so wrong as to be laughable. It is perfectly reasonable for non-US citizens to be concerned about who has the position of POTUS, just as it is perfectly reasonable for US Citizens to be concerned about the Head of State of, for instance, North Korea. I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ... |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Non-US Citizens? Not really any of your business. As well as whether Brexit succeeded or failed. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
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