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MisdemeanorRebel
2016 Nov 9, 11:06am
This the second battle.
But Trump's weapon is a stunning victory, and that every representative runs every 2 years.
The other secret weapon is that the Constitution does not prohibit the President from abrogating treaties. It only says the Senate must approve them, but nothing about the Senate's ascent required to abrogate them.
The trend in SCOTUS since the beginning of the Republic has been to empower and confirm the President's primary control over foreign policy.
Heraclitusstudent
2016 Nov 9, 11:16am
Thunderlips Russian Agent 0069 says
the Constitution does not prohibit the President from abrogating treaties
Yeah ok, there is a he can do, even just in the management of agencies and the people he puts there. IFhe has the appetite to combat bureaucracy.
Nonetheless, the establishment is still in power as we speak.
And the things that look most certain, the lowest hanging fruits, seem the ones that go in the wrong direction.
Heraclitusstudent
2016 Nov 9, 11:23am
Repealing Obamacare - if replaced with nothing - will be catastrophic for the working class (whites or not) and the economy as a whole.
The thing we need most economically is a crackdown on the healthcare industry (and the housing complex), through ultra stringent regulations, or even government control. I don't see this happening now.
Unless he is more surprising still. Who knows what goes through his mind.
Congress is the heart of the rot.
Surely your not calling Ds & Rs in congress rotten.
How dare anyone say a negative thing about one of the great branches of govt.
& the officials elected by the delusional.
Can't help laughing at the tard voters.
The next 4 years is going to be a blast!
Heraclitusstudent
2016 Nov 9, 11:34am
the officials elected by the delusional.
That's great. I think many people think like you. Do you have any concrete proposals?
If not, what's your point exactly?
Ok, what now?
Beyond the immediate concern of what Trump actually intends to do vs what he said he would do (a real question), there stands congress in the way of actual action.
No doubt part of the republicans will align with Trump, but certainly many are still subservient to the rich and special interests.
Congress is the heart of the rot.
There seems very little Trump can actually do about it, within the constitutional limits that guaranty normal checks and balances.
And these checks and balances (whatever remains of them) are more necessary now than ever, when you have a character like Trump sitting in the white house.
So what seems likely is that they will do the things on which they agree with Trump:
- lower taxes for the rich
- repealing Obamacare
- leaving Paris accords on climate change
- less regulations
- ...
I suspect this is why the market is actually higher today. Corporatists know they still own the world
But all this would be disastrously wrong headed.