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Hang on a minute... - robkelk - 08-17-2022
If Trump is correct and he won the 2020 election, why is he planning to run in 2024? There's a Constitutional limit to two terms for any given President, isn't there?
RE: Hang on a minute... - Bob Schroeck - 08-17-2022
Are you seriously suggesting that anyone who supports Trump and believes in his divine right to rule cares at all about anything as irrelevant as laws? Laws are for Democrats and poor people.
RE: Hang on a minute... - Mamorien - 08-17-2022
In a 2018 comment at Crooked Timber, composer Frank Wilhoit Wrote:Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes (sic) but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
RE: Hang on a minute... - Jinx999 - 08-18-2022
There are such things as conservative principles.
Belief in the rule of law, the importance of truth, having a code of honor, believing that a rising tide lifts all boats.
The Trumpist party has no right to call themselves conservative. And people that believe in the divine right of kings have to right to call themselves republican.
Or to touch the American flag for that matter.
RE: Hang on a minute... - Bob Schroeck - 08-18-2022
Quote:believing that a rising tide lifts all boats.
... and in allocating anchor cable in proportion to one's economic status.
RE: Hang on a minute... - hazard - 08-18-2022
Actually, the conservatives do not believe that a rising tide lifts all boats. No conservative party sincerely believes that, nor, as far as I know, has even sincerely believed that.
Because to them, the point isn't that growing the economy makes it better for everyone, the point is that the economy must be made better for them.
RE: Hang on a minute... - robkelk - 08-18-2022
Oh, I'd say that they believe a rising tide lifts all boats. They own the boats.
RE: Hang on a minute... - Spoilsport - 08-18-2022
I seem to recall a conservative saint, what was his name?
Ron Jeremy? No.
Ron McDonald? No.
Ronald Reagan! He turned the Republican party to his new-fangled faith: "voodoo economics", where "you'll get yours" was borrowed from "laying up treasures in heaven" and turned into the idea that "you'll get some money, we promise! (it isn't like we can keep it ALL!)"
They say some voters are still waiting for theirs....
Well, all of them, really.