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It's easy to promise controversial things that require Congressional action and cannot pass Congress. The President -no matter who they are or what Congression
by cryptonector 6y ago
It's easy to promise controversial things that require Congressional action and cannot pass Congress. The President -no matter who they are or what Congressional action they promised- can't even push their allies in Congress to do something that can't work because of the filibuster or lack of sufficient majorities. Every candidate, and every President, promises things that they know Congress won't likely deliver -- cheap talk. But there are things they can do and so promises they can keep, so long as either they are sufficiently popular or do not require Congressional action.
- mindcrime 6y agoWhat you say is true. And all I'm saying in turn is that Trump strikes me as being unusually insincere, even for a politician, in terms of the things he talks up and then never throws any meaningful support behind. Yes, all politicians pander, but I think this particular politician has made it an art form like few others.
- cryptonector 6y agoDid you really think you were going to get carry reciprocity anytime soon? Could you not see then, and now, that that will require sizeable Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and that there was no way for Trump to move the needle on that issue all by himself, especially after the midterms? Carry reciprocity is kind of a niche issue, lacks enough popularity, and is hard to make more popular. Well, maybe now that the gun stores are empty and millions more are armed than were before March, maybe now carry reciprocity can become popular enough. Before March, the 2A was just barely popular enough to be difficult to gut. I dunno, if you really care about that one issue, you know Biden won't give it to you (he's not even promising it, and it's not something Democrats want, obviously, else it would have passed already). Trump can't give it to you unless the needle has moved a lot, which... maybe it just-now has. So if this is your one issue, I'm shocked you'd be so angry as to hold it against Trump that he's not been able to deliver it to you. There must be like, three people who care so much about just this one issue. Maybe you could use more issues to make up your mind.
- mindcrime 6y agoDid you really think you were going to get carry reciprocity anytime soon? No, and that was just an example to illustrate a point. So if this is your one issue, It's not. You're reading WAY too much into that. It was just an example, and it was the first one that jumped to mind.
- cryptonector 6y agoWhat a strange and minor issue to pick as an example. Do you have a list of promises not kept? I'm curious how they break down into ones that could not be kept because of Congress and ones that Trump reneged on.
- dementik 6y agoCheck out Trump Tracker https://trumptracker.github.io/ https://trumptracker.github.io/
- doonesbury 6y agoYes ... Yes .. But meanwhile djt confers distinction for gratuitous and wanton blabbering on about what he could do, will do, can do under the law etc.. His talk is 1000x worse that what the average DC politician gas bags on about.
- ithkuil 6y agoPresidential pardon does not require approval from Congress, does it?
- cryptonector 6y agoI was referring to GP's reference to carry reciprocity.