Trump is more like a Confederate States President than a US President given how he governs.
ShivaX
3610
Ironically the CSA would’ve impeached him because of his flagrant overreach and power grabs.
Matt_W
3611
FTFY. Trump is a problem, but THE problem in American politics has, for decades, been the GOP and the conservative voters who have, every single election cycle, made the conscious, willing choice to sacrifice principle for political expediency.
Shit has officially gotten weird in this thread.
Sharpe, actually. He’s one of the law-talkin’-guys around here.
Yup. Davis pushed pretty hard in cases (military necessity being the overriding concern for his entire presidency), but he got a lot of pushback, especially from state governors. The Confederates were white supremacists who believed in owning other humans, but they were not interested in a dictator any more than the liberatores of 44 B.C. (who also believed it was OK to own other humans) were.
Yes - McMullin’s sentence is strictly true - but I hadn’t heard of this Hyde guy so I looked him up. He’s a candidate for a local office, not quite yet “running the party”.
The point is that he is tolerated, perhaps even encouraged.
ShivaX
3619
Hyde personally isn’t, but people who think like he does do. That was the point he was making.
She missed the obvious third thing for alliteration points.
CraigM
3622
Dumb racist weasel. Fuck off Nikki.
sassafras tea? seafood gumbo? southern fried chicken?
no, I feel like there must be something else Scott was alluding to that the antebellum south was known for. . .
No, she just used a synonym.
I ever tell you guys about the Crazy Guy Hunted By Witches story?
(it’s slightly less interesting than the title makes it sound)
I will never turn down an opportunity for an @ArmandoPenblade story hour, whether we’ve heard it before or not!
