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Re: Trump Fires Fed Governor Lisa Cook

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Post by Forgeties79 » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 4:17 PM UTC

andrewinardeer wrote: post #5

Trump has what, 3 and a bit years as POTUS? All this power grabbing is setting himself up for what? In 3.5 years he is out the door and an election will be held with presumably Vance as the POTUS nom. If you play the tape out and, as expected, the GOP is massacred at mid-terms, and Dems get in their pick in at the next election I would expect all this to be undone. What is the point? And I reject any argument that Tr…

At this point they are probably banking on the Supreme Court reining in all this executive power right before his term ends to hobble a possible Democrat successor.

Re: Trump Fires Fed Governor Lisa Cook

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Post by dragonwriter » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 4:36 PM UTC

andrewinardeer wrote: post #5

Trump has what, 3 and a bit years as POTUS? All this power grabbing is setting himself up for what? In 3.5 years he is out the door and an election will be held with presumably Vance as the POTUS nom. If you play the tape out and, as expected, the GOP is massacred at mid-terms, and Dems get in their pick in at the next election I would expect all this to be undone. What is the point? And I reject any argument that Tr…

> In 3.5 years he is out the door and an election will be held with presumably Vance as the POTUS nom.

I wouldn't presume that very strongly; the last two sitting VPs to be nominated to succeed the President they served under were Nixon and George H. W. Bush.

> If you play the tape out and, as expected, the GOP is massacred at mid-terms, and Dems get in their pick in at the next election I would expect all this to be undone.

I think you haven't thought through the manners in which a military occupation targeted on a partisan basis can, alone or in coordination with other chicanery, selectively impact the operation if elections, and how any uncertainty produced is resolved by the fact that the existing House is the ultimate judge of elections to the next House.

IOW, your mistake is asssumign business as usual despite all the flashing red lights and klaxons going off about how the business of government is not operating as usual.

Re: Trump Fires Fed Governor Lisa Cook

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Post by twoodfin » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #22

andrewinardeer wrote: post #5

Trump has what, 3 and a bit years as POTUS? All this power grabbing is setting himself up for what? In 3.5 years he is out the door and an election will be held with presumably Vance as the POTUS nom. If you play the tape out and, as expected, the GOP is massacred at mid-terms, and Dems get in their pick in at the next election I would expect all this to be undone. What is the point? And I reject any argument that Tr…

> In 3.5 years he is out the door and an election will be held with presumably Vance as the POTUS nom. I wouldn't presume that very strongly; the last two sitting VPs to be nominated to succeed the President they served under were Nixon and George H. W. Bush. > If you play the tape out and, as expected, the GOP is massacred at mid-terms, and Dems get in their pick in at the next election I would expect all this to be…

You forgot about Al Gore.