This is how the Republic dies.

It is not even President Trump, it is all who believe President Trump is right on policy. There is no greater policy than the fundamental structure of our system established by the Constitution. That systems means other policies you disagree with are valid.

NBC News’s Kristen Welker, reminded him that a “hallmark of our democracy is that both candidates agree to a peaceful transfer of power.”
“This is why so many Americans believe that NBC is an extension of the Democrat party at the end of the day,” Scott said at one point.

Now, believing in and expecting a peaceful transition of power is considered a Democrat view according to the Senator.


https://apple.news/As3eVMFDjTmeu_3Ct2mxLAQ

His and trump's refusal to commit to accept the result of the election tells you all you need to know about where we're headed. More baseless allegations of fraud, lawsuits, etc etc etc. Of course, what they also refuse to say is that they will accept the result gleefully just so long as they win. Sad state of affairs.

These folks have to be playing for some fringe group.

The promise doesn’t preclude them from going to court over chicanery.

All I can assume is that they have seen funding issues unless they toe the Trump line.

quote:

Originally posted by crbutler:
These folks have to be playing for some fringe group.

The promise doesn’t preclude them from going to court over chicanery.

All I can assume is that they have seen funding issues unless they toe the Trump line.

Based on the reporting I've seen, Scott is on the short list for VP. No surprise he's kissing trump's ass.

quote:

There is no greater policy than the fundamental structure of our system established by the Constitution.

Very true that^^^!!!

The problem is that you are a day late and a dollar short worrying about it. Our bureaucracy became too powerful and began being filled with anti-Constitutionalists a quarter century ago.

I began to see it in the Bush/Gore election and in the early Bush days. Then 911 reset us for 2-3 years.

But like an uncured infection going off antibiotics — it came back with a vengeance.

quote:

Originally posted by crbutler:
These folks have to be playing for some fringe group.

The promise doesn’t preclude them from going to court over chicanery.

All I can assume is that they have seen funding issues unless they toe the Trump line.

Well you taught me a word that I was not familiar with:

"chicanery"

=======================================

Anyway, that's all you can assume - funding issues, playing for some fringe group? I wouldn't call the GOP a fringe group.

Regarding funding issues:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...7d8fbc11648d00&ei=54

Trump Flaunts His Corruption

(excerpts from the article)

At a Mar-a-Lago meeting in April, oil executives complained that despite pouring hundreds of millions into lobbying the government, the Biden administration had pursued stronger environmental regulations. “Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House,” the Post reports. In exchange, Trump vowed to roll back current regulations and freeze future ones. He told them that, given the savings, a billion bucks would be a “deal” for them.

What Trump was offering is entirely legal and absolutely corrupt. (Or to borrow a phrase: very legal and very uncool.) Thanks to Trump’s bluntness, there can be no hair-splitting about what’s going on here, and that’s good for public understanding. Trump asked special interests for an eye-popping fee in exchange explicit favors. Trump and the oil companies might argue (dubiously) that their preferred regime would actually be better for consumers, but they are cutting “the people” out of the discussion entirely, subverting democracy. The deal is getting done between Trump and the suits, behind closed doors. It’s a good reminder that Trump’s claim to being an outsider is a sham.

Everyone might “know” that politicians are cutting deals for powerful interests, but they seldom know what exactly those deals are, so it’s hard for them to take it into account when voting.

Trump, however, has said he’s different. Many people took his frankness about how the system works to mean that he wouldn’t act the same way as the politicians he excoriated. What this report shows is that he’s no different. Trump was describing transactionalism, not critiquing it, and the idea that Donald Trump would ever object to transactionalism is absurd.

In fact, he’s arguably worse. An ordinary politician might have approached this situation with a touch more finesse. First, he’d listen to the executives’ concerns. Then, he’d lay out his agenda on energy. Finally, a campaign aide would hit the executives up for donations. That offers a little bit of deniability, which in turns gives a politician in office some wiggle room. It’s not like donors can call him up and say, You made an explicit promise to do this for me! That would be unseemly. If the oil suits produce $1 billion and Trump wins, however, they can do exactly that, since he’s offered an explicit quid pro quo. Not only is he just as beholden to special interests as anyone else, here he’s going out of his way to make himself beholden.

One final tawdry thing about Trump’s offer is the implicit threat it contains. If they don’t pass the hat to produce the cash, Trump might not pursue the same policies—and, as he notes, that could cost them dearly.

Trump’s offer here is not only plainly corrupt but cuts to the center of the political persona he has cultivated.

======================================

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, as well as other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.

By Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow
Updated May 9, 2024 at 1:54 p.m. EDT|Published May 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

I sometimes harbor the unworthy suspicion that Trump was unhappy that his own cheats were not enough in 2020. I'd be pissed, too...