Pre-match: Can't believe it took this long for this thread, the 2024 Presidential election thread!

Can you provide an example of what you’re talking about here?

 

The bad news is that they have no idea how the United States works. The good news is that if they get their way, they won't have to bother learning because it's going to be all different.

 

Carter: 0 Supreme Court nominations.Trump: 3 Supreme Court nominations.

 

With respect to Sotomayor, does it make sense for her to wait until we know the Election Day results and then retire if necessary before the new Senate convenes, or is that putting too much faith in Manchin and Sinema?

Manchin in particular might take the position that his Republican successor should be the one to vote on it.

 

Of course, I guess at the moment we don’t need Manchin’s vote.

 

Manchin has held up plenty of stuff, but never (or at least very rarely) Dem judicial appointments.

 

Both Carter and Trump served 4 years as President.

 

Many POC would at least sympathize with conservatism but since American conservatism is racist to its core there is no space for "conservative POCs".

 

Wait what?? Bibi will be heartbroken to have lost the support of his fellow society of evil member.

 

Carter is the only US President to have served a full 4 year term and not appoint a single Supreme Court Justice. Plus, he's still alive. I find that interesting.

 

This is confusing to me. Both the right wing and the left wing of powerful nations like promoting (or installing) government of their type in other nations. It kind of makes sense - birds of a feather and all that. For the left wing, it means having more countries that promote dialog and interoperability. But a right wing government will always be concerned about itself first, and relations will always be about using each other instead of anything deeper. It's building on a foundation of shifting sands, and history is full of cases where it doesn't work out.

Why did Trump shift his position vis-à-vis Israel? Because of a chant at a single small rally? That's how little goodwill between nations means to people like him.

 

It's going to be amusing seeing Republicans twist their notochords (they never develop backbones) from supporting Israel to being anti-Israel.

 

Yeah, but in this case the right wing nation doing the promoting I was talking about is Israel. They wanted transaction world instead of moral world. Trump's reaction to the crowd is what transaction world means. It was obvious to me that this was going to backfire, and yet it wasn't to a professional world leader.

 

She can resign and make it effective only on the confirmation of her successor.

That strategy would give the Shithead Twins an excuse to delay so I’m not positive it would be a good idea.

 

The single biggest reason why American politics is hard to understand for the ROTW is that specific connection. It’s complicated and subtle and contradictory for us; it’s got to seem like an Escher painting to foreigners.

 

They managed to go from anti-Russia to pro-Russia without breaking a sweat