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Justice Kennedy retiring; Trump gets 2nd Supreme Court pick

DiAnna said:
I am not a fan of either the democrats or the republicans. My SCOTUS wish list is that Sandra Day O'Connor comes out of retirement and throws her hat in the ring. I believe we need a strong, issue-based moderate/centrist to balance out the rabid liberals and the control-freak conservatives currently in SCOTUS.

Yes, I'm a social liberal. I believe all citizens, be they democrats, republicans, independents, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or ethnic origins be treated equally under the law. But I'm also a fiscal conservative, who wants to see balanced budgets, congressional oversight of greedy banks illegally gobbling up citizen's homes/property, strong border protection and control, protections from corporate abuse, and affirmative action based on merit and economic need versus purely race-based preferences. I also want to see our alliances respected and nurtured, not tossed into a trashbin to win a weenie-wagging contest, and I do NOT want to see an American president praising despots like Putin, Kim Jong Un, Duarte and the like, while disparaging NATO, our EU allies, our Asian allies, and our closet historical allies, like the UK, Canada and Australia.

If we get a swing-vote SC justice who is a populist, nationalist, anti-choice, anti-secular, avowed Trump loyalist, I believe the next generation will be screwed, and our nation will be relegated to a historical garbage heap of what could have been, but wasn't.

And yes, I believe Trump is the most corrupt president in my lifetime, who cares only about using his office for self-gratification, self-enrichment, and profit for his family business.

All the GOP had to do was nominate a qualified candidate like Kasich or even Jeb Bush, and they would have had my vote. They nominated Trump. That's on them, no one else.
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All the candidates you named were liberals pretending to be conservatives. The left nominated Clinton, of all people.

Let's approach this from another perspective. Trump is going to nominate "someone" that he hasn't named yet. The first reaction the public sees from the left is that they should reject any nominee that Trump names. The general public (normal person that isn't a political junkie) becomes immediately desensitized to the rhetoric on the subject of the nominee of the SCOTUS because the public is tired of rhetoric. Even if the left has a valid argument about whomever the nominee is the public has already started to tune out. They lost the audience before the fight even began. It would have been better to wait and argue their case about the nominee after the nominee had been named.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/glob...americans-desperately-seek-to-escape-the-news
 
NonoBadDog said:
All the candidates you named were liberals pretending to be conservatives.If The left nominated Clinton, of all people.

Let's approach this from another perspective. Trump is going to nominate "someone" that he hasn't named yet. The first reaction the public sees from the left is that they should reject any nominee that Trump names. The general public (normal person that isn't a political junkie) becomes immediately desensitized to the rhetoric on the subject of the nominee of the SCOTUS because the public is tired of rhetoric. Even if the left has a valid argument about whomever the nominee is the public has already started to tune out. They lost the audience before the fight even began. It would have been better to wait and argue their case about the nominee after the nominee had been named.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/glob...americans-desperately-seek-to-escape-the-news
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If the bolded is what you believe, then we clearly have nothing further to discuss. Have a nice evening.
 
NonoBadDog said:
Dude. I'm not trolling. It isn't my fault most of the left has lost their mind. I have said repeatedly that they should pick their fights. Now I just kick back and enjoy the overly emotional stupidity. By the way, I am a minority also. Just one more thing you got wrong.
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You are trolling. You're "kicking back and enjoying the overly emotional stupidity." What started it? Could it be the original post you wrote? You're flat out admitting that you're trolling. That's the definition of trolling. Here it is, straight from the formal definition:

make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them.
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So you're saying you made this post to make people emotional... but you're not trolling? Looks like that's very untrue. Do you know why I get emotional when I think about an overtly partisan supreme court, which is what Trump's base wants? Because I know what's happening in schools and nursing homes and health care facilities, among other places. Their funding is being gutted. You don't have to see it. Congratulations. Ignorance is bliss. A lot of liberal friends of mine work in senior living facilities or teach. In 20 years, we'll see how much you hate liberals while they're helping you clean up your accidents.
 
NonoBadDog said:
Didn't say they were. It was a statement. It doesn't take a brain trust to figure out that the public is tired of the constant "sky is falling" statements from the left. People are tired of hearing all the asinine predictions that the left has collectively wet themselves about that never came to fruition.
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OK, so you have no specifics, you just like so speak in generalities. Pretty weak!
 
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