This kind of exemplifies the hyperbole that destroys decent debate.
I remember when he was running during the general election, and a lot of us who didn't like him generally said we were voting for him anyway because of the Supreme Court. We were told that was dumb, because he was an absolute liar and wouldn't follow through, that he'd appoint the same kind of people as Hillary would, etc.... I remember also being told over the summer that there was no difference between Democrats and Republicans in general, that McConnell was a weasel would confirm Merrick Garland in the lame duck session anyway, etc...
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who remembers those discussions.
Well...that didn't happen. McConnell actually hung firm on Garland, and kept the GOP majority in line on that issue. Then Trump appointed the most consistent originalist/textualist possible in Gorsuch, and McConnell again rammed it through. Since then -- for anyone who knows anything about the people who've been nominated -- Trump has been incredibly consistent in appointing more of the same to the federal bench.
Like I said, I understanding not liking a ton of things about the guy. Plenty of stuff I don't like about him either. But this 100%, balls to the wall cacophony of "Trump is horrible and I refuse to consider any exceptions to that" attitude destroys the ability to have decent discussions on anything. Because no matter the topic, there is an immediate influx of people who basically ignore the topic itself, and just reiterate the same "Trump is a horrible person whom I hate and do not trust" line in every single thread.
I was just hoping things might be just a little bit different after more than six months, but nothing has changed even in the slightest, even though everyone already has made their positions clear to everyone else at least 10 times. Some folks in here are like pull-string dolls with 4-5 set phrases, and all they do is keep yanking their own string in every thread, making the exact same arguments and hyperbolic statements over and over and over again.
@Maj. Bill Martin ,
So you consider my calling him a liar hyperbolic?
I will offer you the same challenge I have offered since the primaries. Find me ten minutes of Tump footage that does not contain a lie. Just ten minutes. At the time I first offered the challenge, it was nigh on impossible... And I doubt that has changed at all.
If there is anything true about Tump at all, it is that he is a liar. That is not hyperbole, that is bare fact. And in that fact, my folks taught me all I need to know about liars, and that has served me well my whole life long.
There is *nothing* to hang Tump's promises on, because his word has no value. He means nothing. There can be no guarantee. That has been my argument from the beginning, and it is necessarily true.
You may well, be right about judges - But since Roberts, I will withhold opinion entirely, to include giving anyone credit - I had accredited Bush for Roberts, but look at where that 'conservative stalwart' went. Never again. So I may well owe Tump credit on judges, once they prove to be as they have been presented. And that will take more time than Tump's ill-begotten administration to determine.
And you are welcome to inquire again in another 6 months, or another 6 years. The result will remain the same. If you are looking for approval of Tump, you won't find it here. I set aside rose colored glasses long ago, in my youth, and Tump will still and always be a liar... So predictably, nothing will change in any significant manner.
