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[–] Nutkase ago
Trump doing it will make them be able to easily do it with very little opposition. You think the media will fight it? Every argument will be “well trump did it”. I agree it needs to happen but that idea is a double edge sword.
[–] llegendary ago (edited ago)
You don't get it. The media is only against it when they don't want to get what they say "want". You are ignoring the false left/right paradigm. They have one of their Dem heroes say something like, "I want to make sure all the children have clean water" while they have one of their Republican patsies do what they really want to do, all the while the "News" is saying what a good person their Dem Hero is that they want to do the right thing, but they can't because of the evil Republican (patsy).
[–] PapaSmurf7 ago
You think the media would fight it anyway? Maybe Fox will make a scene and a few youtube videos, but otherwise they'll just say it's necessary to save the world and overcome the science-denier obstruction
[–] Nutkase ago (edited ago)
I see what your saying but if a past president has done it before we would literally have no leg to stand on to fight it, especially if it’s upheld in court when it will obviously be challenged. Democrats bit themselves in the ass by raising trump up because they thought he was a sure loss, then twice because they got rid of the senate 60 vote rule so we got two Supreme Court picks, and maybe a third soon too. I don’t want to see us make the same mistakes.