slickgoat

Paul never even met Jesus. He had a vision that Jesus wanted him to be a disciple.

Try having a vision that you are a billionaire CEO of some big Wall Street company and see how far that will take you?

So glad that I'm not a US citizen.

That is corporate speak for Microsoft is going to spend millions on a PR campaign.

That's the old Apple standby.

Or leaving it up.

You can't make money from Europe if Europe has locked you out. It has already started...

To what degree do the GOP understand that they have caused potential problems for the US for a couple of generations?

The EU shunning America will not end with Trump's passing. The US has demonstrated that it doesn't value either trust nor consistency.

But appointments can work if the system is respected by all. Elections just mean pure unadulterated politics.

My country (Australia) our Supreme Court is called the High Court. The national judicial body shortlists a selection of suitably qualified and respected candidates when there is a vacancy. The candidates owe no political affiliation to any party. The government selects a candidate, usually the recommended judge. There is rarely any controversy in the selection as the politicians, the judges, and the people respect the system.

Australia sometimes gets an upset challenge to a government decision, but everyone tends to blame a government for overreach rather than corruption on the part of the High Court.

This is all appointment with no elections involved. In the US you have elections for positions that we never have, and you introduce politics and dirty money where it's not needed. If the system is fucked no amount of empty democracy is going to save it. We even have a appointed commission to draw independent electoral boundaries in this country. Gerrymandering isn't a thing anymore, anywhere in the country. Politicians and parties get to make a submission on what the boundaries might look like, but anything dodgy gets thrown out. The people have confidence in the commission and no controversy.

I think that the recent case put to them that Trump has the power to sack formally independent institutional heads may be an answer. It certainly put Federal judges on notice. Not addressed directly, but once Trump sacks a Federal judge under that rulling the legal consequences for SCOTUS may be startling. He, or the next president may dump any or all of the Supremes that they don't like?

Caveat: not a lawyer, or even close to being one. Just a long-time interested observer.

Difficult to argue against but impossible to actually change.

She endorsed him in her pants.

It is funny, the guy was talking about 2nd amendment issues at the moment he was wacked in the neck. That's hilarious.