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@jabbermocky4520 Why would Peter bring him in? Yale Law school, where Vance first met Peter? Vance heard the speech Peter gave at the Law School, sought him out, and a mentorship began. Vance also received financial support from Marc Andreessen, a Democrat supporter of the Clintons. Rachel didn't mention that.
Vance enlisted and was never an officer, made rank of corporal, GI Bill to Ohio State, very smart, earned Yale Law entrance. Didn't really want to practice law, didn't want to be venture capitalist, came back to the rust belt to invest there. I first learned that in one of his Ted Talks before he became Senator. He's too immature to be VP, he needs seasoning, but he will wipe the floor with Kamala.
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@smilingfox8978 I read the books in 1972, own the trilogy, recently watch a documentary on Tolkien narrated by his son who confirmed the notes about the ring. The documentary also speaks to Tolkien's allegiance to old English, anglo/saxon myths and the the Beewolf poem/saga, not to mention the language alignments with Finish. The Doc is on utube, worth checking out.
"Tolkien did indeed express concerns about what would happen if Gandalf possessed the One Ring. In his letters and notes, Tolkien discussed the implications of giving the Ring to powerful characters like Gandalf or Galadriel. He feared that characters with good intentions, like Gandalf, might become corrupted by the Ring's power and turn into tyrants seeking to impose their will upon others. This concern reflects Tolkien's deeper themes about power, corruption, and the nature of good and evil in his works." - ChatGBT
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@sbvish2000 Robert Caro wrote a multi-volume work on LBJ. Johnson was ill, too, but it was his policies that conflicted with high ranking members of his party, not his health. Nixon was campaigning on ending the war, Dems with Johnson couldn't do that, but wanted to, like Eugene McCarthy and RFK Jr.
While we can make analogies and comparisons to the past, on so many levels this cycle is quite unique.
If the DNC is able to get Biden to step aside, leaving Harris as the candidate, they can have an energetic convention with the choice of a new VP. This would also put Harris out of danger of debating Vance, something she would most likely lose, and pits her directly against Trump, which she has a chance of winning. I don't think the race is over at all. Who would you pick as a running mate for Harris? That's what I'm thinking about.
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Trump/Vance 2024. It always pops up since "tube" skews left. "Fascist"? Trump has a Jewish daughter and grandkids, his other daughter, Tiffany, married an Arab, and his VP has a multi-Racial family. Read Mussolini's "Doctrine of Fascism 1932" for primary source history, where he derides individual freedom, saying the individual is the state, and the state is the individual. Dems are projecting, they are the ones promoting Fascist statism, not Trump. Mussolini hated classic-liberalism, it's in his manifesto.
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@dominikvonlavante6113 Nixon had two cases of Executive immunity, one was civil, and cited a number of times in the SCOTUS opinion, Fitzgerald v Nixon (1982)
""In exercising the functions of his office, the head of an Executive Department, keeping within the limits of his authority, should not be under an apprehension that the motives that control his official conduct may, at any time, become the subject of inquiry in a civil suit for damages. It would seriously cripple the proper and effective administration of public affairs as entrusted to the executive branch of the government, if he were subjected to any such restraint."
It is this concept of "prior restraint" that Fitzgerald v Nixon spoke to and the court just cited in its concept of "presumptive immunity". The Executive Branch has been protected in this way a number of times, all the way back to Aaron Burr, also cited in Trump v United States.
Nothing was changed, only affirmed based on prior cases. The rest was sent back down to the lower court for clarity. SCOTUS said in the opinion it is NOT the "first view" but the "final review". This is not over.
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@allangibson8494 We agree, the States can, however, SCOTUS can weigh in on each decision to determine if the law was properly applied. In Colorado the Chief Justice dissented, stating the Colorado qualification law did not provide enough time for due process.
The lawsuit was first heard in Denver District Court, where Judge Sarah Wallace ruled Nov. 17 that while Trump incited an insurrection on Jan. 6, he can still appear on Colorado’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot because he is not an “officer of the United States.”
In an 11-page dissent, Boatright, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, wrote that Colorado’s election code was “not enacted to decide whether a candidate engaged in insurrection.” Instead, the state code lays out qualifications based on “objective, discernible facts,” such as a candidate’s age, time previously served as president and place of birth.
Those all “pale in comparison with the complexity of an action to disqualify a candidate for engaging in insurrection,” Boatright wrote .
Boatright said the Colorado law requires that any challenges to a candidate’s eligibility be heard at a “breakneck pace,” giving the defendant little time to prepare a defense and making the statute ill-suited for a claim of such gravity. “This speed comes with consequences, namely, the absence of procedures that courts, litigants, and the public would expect for complex constitutional litigation,” he wrote.
Samour, building off of Boatright’s dissent, wrote in his 43-page dissent that he worries about due process given the speed of the case.
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@DennisM12 In 2015 I never gave Trump notice, thought his run for president was "the joke". I was ignorant of who he was. As it appeared he'd be the GOP candidate, I listened to a two-Hour interview with Trump and started telling my friends and co-Workers, watch out, he's the real deal. I still didn't think he could win, but he did.
I then watched the TDS become ugly and dangerous. Even before he sat at the resolute desk, Dems were calling for impeachment and FBI Director Comey was looking for ways to entrap him due to his inexperience. I'm not making that up, Comey bragged about it at a 92y interview. When Pelosi tore up the state of the union address, that was it for me. Dems don't deserve political power at this time. Trump is a liar and a clown, but lesser of the two evils, sad but true. Trump 2024. Hope he brings in Elise Stefanik as VP, she can then run with the next GOP Prez, too.
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