The 2020 USA POTUS election politics, the civil war, and the world war (Part 1)

That would be the worst possible criteria for the Supreme Court. They’re entire purpose is to judge the law, not “do as the people want”. Just like how Congressmen are supposed to vote for what they feel is best for the nation, not what’s best for those in their district/state who voted for them.

(I know that’s not what you were meaning, but that’s how it came off.)

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Term limits for Supreme Court would also help several issues long-term (but have no immediate effect since they wouldn’t be retroactive).

For example, it does not make any sense whatsoever to incentivize appointment of inexperienced justices to have a minority maintain a longer term “control” (with the current partisan selection of Justices). The best candidates should be nominated, there should not be a political “benefit” for instead choosing the youngest possible candidates to nominate.

LOL

Talk about desperation.

That’s funny. But no exactly out of line either.

Although I’d wonder if an additional voice in his ear would be even more confusing for Biden, rather than help.

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Late reports (NY Post) indicate ear inspection was at first agreeable to the Biden side. Then, later, they reneged. Trump has no objection to the inspection, but then he does not need any outside help, either.

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I allow for the possibility that Biden is pulling from Trump’s playbook. Create uproar over something stupid, to distract from what you are trying to do. While everyone is focused on Biden’s ear, no one notices the teleprompter glass being laid on the top of his podium.

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How about Trump naming all the women he had affairs with and paid off and how much he paid them?

Then he can examine Biden’s ears.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/28/usps-poll-vote-by-mail-public-service-business/

Poll:https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/washington-post-university-of-maryland-poll-by-ipsos-on-voting-issues-aug-24-31/d0ca1dc3-4b85-40b1-92b1-4c91986d0be3/

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Will Mexico pay for it?

Do Trump supporters care that Trump lied about Mexico paying for “the wall?”

Do Democrats care that Obama lied about me being able to keep my doctor if I liked my doctor?

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Polls about the Post Office are fine. The fact is, until Congress appropriates funding to the Post Office, they have no choice but to operate within their means.

My only concern would be that it would subject the Post office to political whims. Now, the operation is not politically driven, as their operations are funded by whatever revenue they collect.

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You must’ve went through an entire alphabet’s worth of steps to connect those two dots.

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Former Intelligence Officials Warn Trump’s Debt Is a National Security Threat

One of the fastest ways to be denied a security clearance, current and former intelligence officials will tell you, is to carry a load of debt. And then there’s President Donald Trump.

New revelations in a NYT report show Trump allegedly has $421 million of debt coming due over the next four years. An audit fight with the IRS could cost him another $100 million. At the same time, he reportedly paid taxes to foreign nations far larger than the $750 he paid in the United States the year he won the presidency and his first year in office.

For a sitting president, with the power to impose fear or favor across the country and around the world, not to mention access to the nation’s most closely held secrets, such financial exposure is more than embarrassing, former intelligence officials and ethics lawyers say: it makes Trump a national security threat.

“For a person with access to U.S. classified information to be in massive financial debt is a counterintelligence risk because the debt-holder tends to have leverage over the person, and the leverage may be used to encourage actions, such as disclosure of information or influencing policy, that compromise U.S. national security,” says David Kris, former head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division and founder of Culper Partners consulting firm.

If the due dates reported by the Times are accurate, “a second term for President Trump would result in increased vulnerability—and thus, potentially, risk,” says Robert Cardillo, former deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and ex-director of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. This would look less like traditional foreign influence, and more like “personal financial pressure [that] could adversely affect U.S. national security decisions,” he says.

Adds former Director of Intelligence James Clapper,“That has always been the suspicion about Trump—that the Russians were bankrolling him. If he were a ‘normal’ employee, that would certainly be a counter-intelligence vulnerability. It’s frightening all around.”

But you can…

Dr has freedom to reject you as a patient though, for whatever reason ( like you smelling up the office when you come in for an appointment. I kid, I kid… )

And the ins. companies (not ACA) were already deciding not to pay for anyone outside their shrinking “networks”. Insurance companies continuing their process of restricting networks and large employers decreasing their portion of payment to Healthcare plans and deciding to go with only HMO(and the “EPO” rebranding of HMOs) options was NOT a requirement of ACA, even though those third parties may have stated such as an “excuse”.

So if Biden was $421 million in debt along with possibly owing $100 million to the IRS, and he paid 0 in taxes most years, would Trump supporters vote for Biden?

In 2012, Trump tweeted:

@BarackObama who wants to raise all our taxes, only pays 20.5% on $790k salary. http://1.usa.gov/HFZJKH Do as I say not as I do.”

Obama in 2011 paid $162,074 in federal taxes on gross income of $789,674, according to the return he released that year.

This is probably more than Trump has paid in his entire life – for a fact more than Trump has paid in 18 years.

“Harris and her husband, attorney Doug Emhoff, reported $3,018,127 in taxable income, the majority of it via Emhoff’s partnership at the global law firm DLA Piper. They paid federal income taxes of $1,185,628, or an effective tax rate of 39%. Harris and Emhoff also reported making charitable donations of $35, 390 last year.”

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Tax documents obtained by The New York Times show that during the making of The Apprentice , he deducted $70,000 for the cost of his haircuts and hairstyling. Trump’s businesses also wrote off “at least $95,464 paid to a favorite hair and makeup artist of Ivanka Trump,” the Times reported.

Does the $170k in fraudulent hair deductions dwarf Sarah Palin’s $150k in wardrobe funneled from republican donors in 2008?(and not reported as income) Or does inflation make Sarah’s tax fraud larger, even though it covered physical goods and not just hair?

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I suppose you would never believe Biden could have a prompter in his ear? It’s evident along with taking a drug to pep him up during debates.

Makes since!! :blush: We’ll all be on the lookout.