Kim Jong Un, used Donald for his own purposes knowing that Donald just needed the photo op for his own propaganda.

Russia has used him like the patsy he is, http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates...

China has just used him to reverse the ban on ZTE.

However you can forget all of the above because they all pale into insignificance against how Donald has been utterly and completely pwned by the most ruthless, shrewd and single minded politician in the capital. None other than Mitch McConnell.

As far as McConnell goes, it's job done now and Donald will be discarded by the time of the next election. Donald has done all this for his own vanity and greed, he's sold himself like the three dollar w.hore that he is.

McConnell's admittedly brilliant, cunning, ruthless, shameless plan began with the unprecedented blocking of Obamas choice for the replacement of Alito, Merrick Garland. He simply refused to allow it. That was part one and like a two part glue it's useless without part B.

Part B of course was to realise that Donald was the only person shameless enough, vain enough, vacuous enough to say any bullshit necessary in order to get elected. For example Donald was for a woman's right to abortion. Now I don't want to get into a debate about whether that's good or bad, that's not the point I'm making which is that Donald has no compunction at all to throwing that principal of his out the window when he needed to.

And Mitch knew that the key to the election was not just the midwestern states but the Bible Belt. So Donald suddenly became a supporter of overturning Roe vs Wade. And the Bible Belt also are ready to stomach Donald's treatment of immigrants in order to get their precious Roe vs Wade overturned.

But Mitch was still above all of this, the main game for Mitch was to simply get a republican president for the next term in order to stack the Supreme Court with two new appointees which is what the real fight is about because they are for life. The next election was going to shape the Supreme Court for the next 40 years. At least. Didn't matter if Russia helped, nothing mattered. He'll subvert the FBI and the entire presidency for plan B

This is where the will of the people has been trampled on. Whatever your personal beliefs are the majority of Americans, by three million, voted for the democrats and then they would have been the ones to set the Supreme Court for the next 40 years. This was never about the next president it was always about the Supreme Court.

As soon as Gorusch was in the writing was on the wall. In the past week we've seen the Supreme Court make three crucial 5/4 decisions. One will decimate the unions, another has already indicated that Roe vs Wade repeal is coming soon, and the third was the upholding of the Republican voting gerrymander, where they can draw the most convoluted and insane voting boundaries to limit the effect of those who won't vote for them.

Mitch McConnell can now die a happy man knowing that whether the Dems or Republicans win the next election or the one after that is pretty well small beans, because the long game is set and match to the Republicans. Against the will of the majority of the people they have set themselves up nicely.

Most members of this forum will be long dead by the time the true horror that began with the withholding of Merrick Garland is realised.

Unlike Donald, McConnell couldn't give a rat's ass how he is perceived, what people think of him, how he'll be remembered what his legacy is non of that matters to him. You've got to admire this focus of purpose, and it's 'job done' as far as he's concerned. His three year plan is over.

Trippah wrote on 06/29/18 at 13:42:25:

I think you are spot on, but the pendulum will swing back and some replacement Supremes will reverse the present lot within a decade, despite the plan.

The LSS is just the distraction.

Why 10 years? Kennedy is going to be replaced with a Gorusch clone and Ginsberg will be the next to go. It does look like the court is shaped to wreck havoc with democracy for at least 30 years, barring some uncanny luck.

This is a well analysed and detailed account of the horror that the political appointees of the Supreme Court have just inflicted on democracy.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/the-lochner-era-is-set-for-a-comebac
k-at-the-supreme-court.html

Gorusch is staunchly anti worker and pro employer as well as against women's rights, the blue collar workers who decided to go with Trump are going to find themselves mightily screwed for a generation  and voting the dems back in will not help them now.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/neil-gorsuch-demolished-labor-rights
-in-epic-systems-v-lewis.html

Gorusch is staunchly anti worker and pro employer ..

I didn't know that..

Got anything I should see so I can agree?

 Well the NRA was developed primarily for hunting and education, and now it lobbies against any reform to firearms.  It doesn't help when some of their leaders say we should curb stomp any opposition and such, I mean that's a far step from the days of firearm safety and hunter education.

 So yeah it was started because we had guns, but there would be more gun reform, good or bad, if they weren't involved.

JoG,

In case you didn't notice, the actual point of this particular thread was not to engage in the normal petty squabbles, and it's not about Trump it's about the evil genius of McConnel and that Trump was just a pawn in the long game which was of course stacking the Supreme Court with obviously political appointees. Judges who'll do what the Republican Party are all about which is making the wealthy people richer at the expense of the less fortunate. Twas always thus.

This is democracy under the pump.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/30/18 at 23:49:39:

So sad..
When I've asked you to explain Constitutionally how things are justified, I get nothing. What you accuse is what lefties have been doing.

Gorusch is staunchly anti worker and pro employer ..

I didn't know that..

Got anything I should see so I can agree?

The only thing that's sad is your bs. You asked for some proof about Gorusch being pro employer and I provided it in the form of the fact of his decisions favouring employer 21 out of 23 case, and then I provided a dissent by the majority judge in the classic Gorusch case where Gorusch sided with an employer who sacked a worker because the worker didn't want to die. This actually came up in his confirmation hearing.

And your response is. "yeah that's what lefties say". You truly are the embodiment of sad. You'll forgive me for not taking any more of your questions seriously because you're obviously just trying to wind me up so I'll call you a f.ucking imbecile then you can run to the mods. But I'm not going to do that. So in stead I'll simply ignore you. So you're free to say whatever you want without fear of reply. Have at it!

eau de sauvage wrote on 06/30/18 at 22:51:43:

"...  it's not about Trump ..."

                         

Trippah wrote on 07/01/18 at 09:34:16:

And JOG, I simply pointed out that now, with the NRA, we now have access to more, and more deadly weapons than previously: there was no judgemental coloring -" just the facts, ma"m, just the facts."

Please describe, ”…More Deadly…”

Would that be a gun invented in 1905, semi auto, using .35 Rem rounds. (Aprox .358 dia)
Or would that be a AR-15 type using, .223 rounds, (Aprox, .224 dia)
Would that be a pump 12g shotgun, shooting #4 Buck shot, (Aprox, .25 dia) each shell using 35 #4 Buck pellets, firing, 10 times = 350 pellets.
Or would that be, a .22 Rim Fire revolvers, firing a (Aprox .223 dia bullet)

 (and the List could go on for HORUS)

Which one would make you, MORE Dead, if you were hit in a vital area ?

Gee, if the Screw, splits the wood, Blame the Screwdriver !
Because it could NEVER, be the screw !