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Trump is the President, not a King. This doc has been convicted and was sentenced based on the laws in place when he commuted the crimes. https://en.wikipedia.
by onetimemanytime 9y ago
Trump is the President, not a King.
This doc has been convicted and was sentenced based on the laws in place when he commuted the crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law and all. Also Trump cannot force the US Congress and Senate to pass the laws. Or the courts to judge that this is compatible with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment
- mikeash 9y agoThe question is whether he would support it, not whether he would enact it by decree.
- enraged_camel 9y agoYes, exactly. And I think we already know that the answer is no, he wouldn't support it. Trump has a very childish perception of the world, and a doctor undoubtedly does not fit his mental image of the drug dealer stereotype.
- UrukParthian 9y agoIt's almost like politicians manage their perception and image in strategic ways where they lull their enemies into being emotionally caught up with minor character flaws rather than the tactics and orientation of their actions. The smugness of people against Trump is even more worse than the smugness people had against George W. They're not idiots. They're sharks who have a very clear aptitude at manipulating people and public perception. It's very bad strategy, and very human, to ascribe to your opponents victories as "luck" and to ascribe their mentality as "dumb".
- mikeash 9y agoI agree with you when it comes to most politicians, but I’m pretty sure Trump is actually dumb. He’s the only person I’ve ever seen contradict himself three times in a single sentence. When he speaks, he almost never displays any indication that there’s any understanding of the subject at hand. W had a superficial dumbness that was largely cultivated. Beneath that he had at least a basic understanding of the issues.
- UrukParthian 9y agoDo you think he cares about you the coherence of his statements when they provoke a strong emotional reaction from a dumb population addicted to emotionally reacting and addicted to signaling alliegence to some vague social grouping? You're taking his bait superbly by thinking that the truth wins you the game of democracy. To call him "dumb" is to severely underestimate the strategies potential president have used in their rise to power. Or in other words, did calling him an idiot get your side any concessions, any retaken ground? Instead of taking Trump's bait, I'd highly recommend reading Robert Caro's books on Lyndon B. Johnson. You'll never look at politics the same way again.
- mikeash 9y agoAre you under the impression that I’m calling him “dumb” as some sort of political strategy? I’m just describing the facts as I see them. Pointing out that it works for him is not any sort of argument against what I’m saying. Of course his dumbness has appeal. That’s why he won. That doesn’t mean he’s not an idiot.
- UrukParthian 9y agoYour facts is what he says to the public. That's not a "fact", that's taking politics at face value. I told you, such men are sharks. Not merely the men you back on your own political aisle. I told you to read Robert Caro's series on Lyndon B.Johnson because it opens your eyes to the political process. Do you think Johnson campaigned as a Roosevelt man because he liked Roosevelt? Hell no, he was an opportunist.
- mikeash 9y agoI still don’t get what about this is supposed to contradict what I’ve said. And there’s plenty of evidence for Trump’s idiocy from stuff that wasn’t supposed to be public.
- alkonaut 9y ago> Trump is the President, not a King Who will tell him though?
- _emacsomancer_ 9y ago> Trump is the President, not a King. He'd make a bloody awful King, by any measure. It's bad enough that he's a President.
- astura 9y agoWhether or not he supports something is completely irrelevant to if he can force something to happen or if it's Constitutional. Trump has supported unconstitutional positions in the past, it's not out of character.
- sitkack 9y agoIf I were Trump, I would make a penal colony on one of our pacific atolls and then drone strike him, that would align with existing executive power. Didn't we declare a "War on Drugs", so that would make drug dealers enemy combatants and subject to tribunals and gitmo. I should have been Alito.