Trump this.

[rareboy]

Or a prostatectomy patient....that way he is likely impotent.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

It's not as if we can revoke West Virginia's statehood now ...

But why not? Do we need two Dakotas? Why is Wyoming a State when it has a little over 500K people (less than DC!)? At least West Virginia has 1.7 citizens in that tiny little plot of land, although comparatively the population of Los Angeles is nearly 4 million.

Okay ... What legal or Constitutional mechanism would you use to revoke a state's statehood, and how would you get it past an evenly divided House and Senate and the Supreme Court?

 

[KaraBulut]

Okay ... What legal or Constitutional mechanism would you use to revoke a state's statehood, and how would you get it past an evenly divided House and Senate and the Supreme Court?

I would point you to some of the proposals from the Right for a Constitutional Convention to codify the Right's agenda.

The US government created most of those state boundaries. It was often arbitrary- based upon NSEW lines, surveys or natural features like rivers (which are not static).

The Federal government can redraw boundaries at any time. The obstacle would be the power structure in those States. Wyoming's two Senators who represent 500,000 people enjoy the disproportionate power they have in comparison to Texas which has two Senators for 30 million people or California which has two Senators for 40 million people.

 

[KaraBulut]

I would point you to some of the proposals from the Right for a Constitutional Convention to codify the Right's agenda.

Some examples coming from the conservatives. For some reasons, progressive seem to throw something against the wall and if it doesn't stick the first time, they move on to the next thing. The Right plays the long game and that's why they keep getting their agenda done. ALEC proposes things that progressives say, "Oh, that would never pass" and then it passes.

Conservatives prepare new push for constitutional convention

SAN DIEGO — Conservative lawmakers will mount a new push to call a constitutional convention aimed at creating a balanced budget amendment and establishing term limits for members of Congress in an…

thehill.com

Conservative lawmakers will mount a new push to call a constitutional convention aimed at creating a balanced budget amendment and establishing term limits for members of Congress in an effort to rein in what they see as a runaway federal government.

State legislators meeting at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s policy conference here last week hope to use Article V of the Constitution, which allows state legislatures to call a convention to propose new amendments.

Introduction to the Conservative Constitution | Constitution Center

Introduction to the Conservative Constitution by Robert P. George, Michael W. McConnell, Colleen A. Sheehan, and Ilan Wurman

constitutioncenter.org

The Structure of the Senate​

We propose a series of reforms that will seem radical from a twenty-first century perspective but return to the original conception in important ways. (1) To reduce the size of the Senate to fifty to facilitate genuine deliberation. (The original Senate had twenty-six members.) (2) To increase the length of senatorial terms to nine years, with no chance for reelection. This is designed to create the independence that the Founders hoped from the original Senate. The intended effect is to enable Senators to vote their conscientious judgment regarding the common good rather than focusing on interest groups and reelection.

(3) To reintroduce appointment by the state legislatures, as was the case until 1913. This will have two benefits: to increase the probability that senators will be selected on the basis of experience and character, and to give the states, as states, more of a voice in national legislation. (4) To require Senators to make a solemn pledge to legislate for the common good, and not for the good of any party or class. (5) To rein in, but not eliminate, the filibuster. And (6) to require that members of Congress, except for good cause shown, be physically present when their House is in session—a provision borrowed from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania—in the hope that genuine deliberation will return to the floor of Congress.

 

[smokeshadow]

Ah, poor baby. . .so afraid of an orange jumpsuit

Trump Worried He Will Lose Secret Service Protection and Have to Wear 'One of Those Jumpsuits' if He Goes to Jail: Report

While Donald Trump claimed in his recent “Meet the Press” interview he doesn’t worry about going to jail, privately he is telling confidants he is worried about losing Secret Service protection, what type of facility he could be sent to, and if he will have to wear an orange jumpsuit. “In the...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

 

[KaraBulut]

Ah, poor baby. . .so afraid of an orange jumpsuit

Trump Worried He Will Lose Secret Service Protection and Have to Wear 'One of Those Jumpsuits' if He Goes to Jail: Report

While Donald Trump claimed in his recent “Meet the Press” interview he doesn’t worry about going to jail, privately he is telling confidants he is worried about losing Secret Service protection, what type of facility he could be sent to, and if he will have to wear an orange jumpsuit. “In the...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

Someone should show him the group shower scenes in "Oz".

 

[KaraBulut]

More details about Trump's dislike for wounded veterans:

 

[rareboy]

No surprise.

Trump would only be thinking that it reflects badly on him to have people in wheelchairs around him.

 

[KaraBulut]

No surprise.

Trump would only be thinking that it reflects badly on him to have people in wheelchairs around him.

This is one that has always surprised me. Veterans, especially wounded veterans, were always the third rail of Republican politics. Republicans went out of their way to visit VFW halls and show up at veterans events in their districts.

There were multiple reports during Trump's administration that he didn't want wounded veterans at his events. He didn't want to be seen with them. He had little interest in attending Veteran's Day ceremonies. He often commented that he thought young people were stupid to serve in the military.

Yet somehow in spite of this, Republicans have lined up behind Trump. Just one more thing that makes it look like the Republican Party is more cult than political party.

 

[TX-Beau]

He thinks they're losers.

 

[gsdx]

More details about Trump's dislike for wounded veterans:

Holy crap! I almost didn't watch this, but I'm bloody glad I did. I forgot about Trump asking the military to shoot protesters in the leg.

Also (paraphrased): "He's going to throw people into jail and I'm at the top of the list."

 

[rareboy]

A toxic narcissistic sociopath/psychopath has no empathy, remember.

 

[KaraBulut]

A toxic narcissistic sociopath/psychopath has no empathy, remember.

We need an "Amen" like option.

 

[smokeshadow]

the Donald's panicked concern about prison and that orange jumpsuit tells you that he knows he's DOOMED

'Scared to Death': Trump's Prison Panic Admission Means He Knows He's Doomed Says Legal Expert

Reacting to a report that Donald Trump has been quizzing his attorneys about what type of prison he likely will be sent to, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner stated that is not only an indication that he knows he’s going to be convicted but also an admission of guilt. Speaking with MSNBC...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[rareboy]

Cassidy Hutchinson reveals that Trump chanted along with others demanding to "hang Mike Pence" as he watched the events on live TV on January 6.

“We’re talking about a man who, at the very essence of his being, almost destroyed democracy in one day, and he wants to run for president to do it again.”

"Do we want people who have already shown that they are willing and want to overthrow an election for a duly elected president, which is the pinnacle of our democracy -- do we want to put people like that back in power?"

She did a good thing by testifying at the Jan 6 Committee hearings...but she also helped enable Trump along the way....

 

[KaraBulut]

...
She did a good thing by testifying at the Jan 6 Committee hearings...but she also helped enable Trump along the way....

The way cults work is that they exploit a person's belief that they are doing something good.

In Hutchinson's case, she was a 22 year old woman out of college in her first job and she was what would be described as a "true believer". While in college, she had interned for Ted Cruz and worked with Steve Scalise. She was indoctrinated into the Trump cult.

After seeing what she saw while working in the White House and being groped and sexually harassed by a who's who of national Republicans, the cult spell has been broken.

The realization that someone is lying to you and about you is the key to deprogramming belief in a cult.

There an example of how the spell gets broken yesterday in real time. In the book, Hutchinson talks about Matt Gaetz flirting with her while she was working at the White House. Gaetz responded by saying that he doesn't remember the incidents and that Hutchinson lied about Jan 6th and she's probably lying in her book, too.

Her response is telling:
“I never dated Matt Gaetz, I have much higher standards in men, and Matt, frankly, is a very unserious politician. We see that today with the ruckus that he is causing on Capitol Hill with the spending negotiations. And I don’t really have much else to say to somebody that is more concerned about a sound bite than actually passing legislation.”

Hutchinson still calls herself a Republican but I suspect that is short-lived. She's in that place where Romney was, where she believed that the idealistic Republican Party was still the Republican Party she was serving. What I don't think she's quite processed is that she was complicit in the Trumpist destruction of that same idealized Republican Party that she thought she was part of.

 

[rareboy]

I think that until she comes clean to herself and everyone else about how she did contribute to the damage that TrumpCo. inflicted...she will always be one of those vague characters in history...someone with regrets...but always in a twilight zone...hated by the administration who feels she 'betrayed' them but never being fully trusted or embraced by those she actively worked against.

A bit like John Dean and some of the Watergate crew.