The Trump wannabes are hoiking up their posturing pants whilst we wonder if Biden can achieve an FDR-style presidency (Biden-Trump Thread #127)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

We're still here.

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@TheNorthWestPawsage

Trump’s Power Won’t Peak for Another 20 Years. By the early 2040s, Trump-appointed chief judges will simultaneously sit atop nearly every appeals court in the country. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/trump-circuit-court-judges/618533/

The Trump presidency may be over, but the Trump era has only just begun—at least when it comes to influence over the nation’s courts. Measured solely by the number of judges he appointed, Donald Trump’s impact is staggering: 234 judges, including 54 powerful appellate judges, almost one out of every three. By comparison, President Barack Obama appointed 172 judges (30 of them appellate) in his first term, while George W. Bush managed 204 (35 appellate). But Trump will have an even greater influence than this measurement suggests. That is because his judges won’t reach the apogee of their power until the early 2040s, when Trump-appointed chief judges are on track to simultaneously sit atop nearly every appeals court in the country.

This portends a potential disaster for progressive gains in many areas of law, including voting rights and health care. The limelight typically falls on the Supreme Court for these developments, but the lower courts are where much of the action happens. In its most recent term, which ended in July, the Supreme Court issued 63 signed opinions. The Circuit Courts of Appeals, by contrast, decided or issued orders on 48,300 cases in 2020. Although the Supreme Court has the final say, and Trump’s three new justices will shape the law for decades, the large majority of appeals—more than 97 percent—will be decided by the 12 geographic circuit courts, and the 167 appellate judges who sit on them. And the individuals who wield the most influence in shaping those outcomes are the chief judges of each circuit.

As much as I am not truly in favour of expanding the court, this article shows a very good reason to do it. To be able to hopefully balance the Doofus judges at the appellate level with a more liberal SCOTUS to make the final rulings on appeals.

Of course, who knows what's going to happen in the next 20 or so years.

Not unrelated.

www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways?t=1618127792109

'Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain.'

www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-09/plan-may-give-manhattan-beach-black-descendants-land-back

'The descendants of a Black family that once owned a thriving oceanfront resort in Manhattan Beach could get the property back under state legislation announced Friday.

Backers of the proposal, which will be introduced by state Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) on Monday, say it is the first step toward correcting a historic injustice when the city seized the resort of Charles and Willa Bruce and forced Black beachgoers out of town 100 years ago.'

So glad he is not on twitter anymore

www.politico.com/news/2021/04/11/trump-mcconnell-dumb-son-of-a-bitch-rnc-480748
www.rawstory.com/amp/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-2652492887-2652492887

Not missed.

[quote DuncinToffee]So glad he is not on twitter anymore

www.politico.com/news/2021/04/11/trump-mcconnell-dumb-son-of-a-bitch-rnc-480748
www.rawstory.com/amp/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-2652492887-2652492887[/quote]
He really is vile, isn't he? And his words are so unhinged that it's confirmation to me that he is absolutely deluded and believes his own lies and so his base believes him, too. He has definitely entered 'Rev Jim Jones territory'.

I'm also reminded of the old films of Hitler's speeches and the way he looked so insane during them; screaming, posturing, staring wild eyes and overdone gesticulations.

Thank god he's not on Twitter anymore. What ranting. And how dare he talk of Fauci like that.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/12/asian-americans-find-their-voice-amid-rise-in-hate

Brian Klaas @brianklaas

This is hilarious. An actual Senator in the US Senate is suggesting that Biden isn't "really in charge" because he tweets normal stuff and doesn't constantly call into cable TV to give interviews. Maybe it's because he's busy being president and doesn't try to govern by tweet? t.co/PhqM6NWOsV

Busy listening to experts and giving orders/guidelines to those who can actually implement them?

I was fairly horrified by a friend the other day saying she couldn't stand to hear Biden maundering on like a boring old man who can hardly speak. She misses the former guy because his speeches were such fun. I said but they didn't make any sense. She said true, but they had a lot of style. Yeah um... style, right. Whatever.

unimaginably conventional

Hahahahaha

@Anniegetyourgun

I know someone who said 'I like Boris because he is such a laugh, and says stupid things'.

Errrrrr rightio....

🤣

Which is fine at a party, but not when leading a Party.

I've got another friend who says something similar to yours about Boris... yes, I do pick 'em... salt of the earth, both, but their politics could do with brushing up. as could Boris's hair

Another school shooting being reported in Knoxville,Tenn.
www.wfxg.com/story/43656541/multiple-agencies-on-scene-of-school-shooting-in-knoxville

Oh no, not another one

Knoxville, isn't that where the sweet but terminally dim insurrectionist Elizabeth hails from?

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-name_n_60752deee4b08f435f23dfa3?ri18n=true

Too many shootings the last few months. Must be all those videogames. Or... a degree of unrest in certain circles. You might even call it indirect incitement, perhaps, it seems to me.

As for the "previous guy", whatever you call it, never say it three times in a row.

[quote TheNorthWestPawsage] Another school shooting being reported in Knoxville,Tenn.
www.wfxg.com/story/43656541/multiple-agencies-on-scene-of-school-shooting-in-knoxville[/quote]
Thank Ghu, only one death, the gunchild. Plus one injured policeman, but nobody else.

Officials said: "Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 3:15 p.m., the Knoxville Police Department received a report of an individual possibly armed with a gun at Austin-East Magnet High School.

"Upon arrival, officers located the individual inside a school restroom. They ordered him out, but he refused to comply.

"As officers entered the restroom, the subject reportedly fired shots, striking an officer. One officer returned fire.

"The subject was pronounced dead at the scene and has since been identified as a student. The officer who was shot was transported to a local hospital for treatment."

It's the fifth pupil of that school shot and killed this year so far, though not while they were at the school; three of them were in three weeks during February. So what has the state done about it? "Last week Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed off on legislation to allow most adults over 21 to carry handguns, openly or concealed, without first clearing a background check and training." Yup, that'll help cut down deaths among adolescents.

The video in this tweet

The Recount @therecount
Local news anchor confuses live shots because they are currently covering two shootings in Tennessee. t.co/hCKUv9GkDV

The President has had a conversation with Putin today

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/13/readout-of-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-call-with-president-vladimir-putin-of-russia-4-13/

So grown-up!
As Doofus used to speak to Putin with no one present and say god knows what... this is very refreshing.

edition.cnn.com/2021/04/13/politics/democrats-immigration-shelter-system/index.html

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/biden-united-arab-emirates-sale-trump_n_60761e0fe4b01654bb7754bb?ri18n=true

What I'm enjoying most is the endlessly trivial things that the GOP are reduced to using to slate Biden - his wife's outfits, the fact that he doesn't constantly tweet bullshit. They really have nothing of substance to say because hey, the grown ups are back in charge.