09-20-2020, 02:30 AM
(09-19-2020, 07:40 AM)Antisthenes Wrote: The American people should now expect the same consideration to be applicable. Particularly since the politics are deeply in play....when the Republicans win...nominate. Conversely, should the Dems win....
Agreed. Indeed the American people SHOULD now expect the same consideration to be applicable. Obama got to nominate a candidate for the SCOTUS in his 11th presidential hour, and Trump should be afforded the same consideration. Anything else is just base hypocrisy. No one waited for the election then - why should they wait NOW? Just because it's an opposite party president?
No, that's not how politics work. We don't get to hamstring the president from fulfilling his duties just because we don't like him. It wasn't done to Obama, and should not reasonably be done to Trump. That opens the floodgates for an even worse free-for-all than we are already experiencing. Why even HAVE a government if you're not going to let it perform it's duties?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’