The one we currently have where all 18 year old males have to register for selective service. You know, going to war because the government tells you to? You're saying Trump is against that?

Oh, you mean the one that isn’t a draft?

Register for Selective Service (the draft)
https://www.usa.gov/register-selective-service

So you have no problem with men having to register for selective service?

The United States has not had a draft since 1973. Congress and the president would have to authorize a draft. In the case of a national emergency, the Selective Service will follow this process to draft eligible young men.

https://www.usa.gov/register-selective-service

We don't currently have a draft. That can change, of course, which is why men have to register for selective service. You have no problem with being forced to register for a draft?

I don’t think anyone should be forced to register for anything.

Do you think Trump would refuse to sign a draft bill if a Republican Congress sent him one?

I don’t know. Do you believe in the draft?

You and I both know Trump would certainly sign a draft bill if Republicans sent it to him and the country was in dire straights. Supposing some Red Dawn type scenario, I would be in favor of a draft. Would you?

Nope.

Seems like a good choice for running mate despite the one dimensional depiction of "white" poverty in Hillbilly Elegy.

Well the Trump cult does love their delusions. — Mikie

What was that bet again? $10.00 to charity of choice? Looks like I'm about to pay up.

Justice Thomas wrote a separate bit in the recent immunity decision aimed at Special Counsels and Cannon received the lateral pass and ran with it. — Paine

Thomas did give it unofficial authority but I don't think it is a new argument. I think she is complicit in the Trump run out the clock strategy. The timing of her decision does not seem to me to be merely coincidental.

— Donarudo-san. Get up, Donarudo-san.
— ...Shinzo?

What was that bet again? $10.00 to charity of choice? Looks like I'm about to pay up. — Wayfarer

I forget the exact bet, so you’re off the hook. I thought it was about Biden being the nominee?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/15/24198953/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-shooter-discord-social-media

Strange

The discord part or the political affiliation? Discord is a pretty standard messenger for gamers.

No last year I was doubting Trump would be nominee. Doubts about Biden’s nomination only came into view this year.

It is strange that Discord would just purge the account.

@Lionino

I just read it as "we locked the account and turned the contents over to law enforcement", given that he states they're fully cooperating. Actually deleting the data would certainly not be cooperation.

Let's hope your interpretation is the correct one, though I think they left it ambiguous on purpose.

Agreed, not a new argument.

Coincidence requires the absence of a pattern. There is a pattern.

It will be interesting to hear what the appeal process will bring forward.

Doubts about Biden’s nomination only came into view this year. — Wayfarer

My doubts about Biden from spring 2023 ...
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/781755

Water cooler talk at the White House.

"So what happened to your ear?"

"Oh. I took an AR-15 round while I was talking about immigration the other day. "

:lol:

I think you're right. It seems this shooter really was a loner with no manifesto or political activity or affiliations.

Yes, I took that onboard. I'm still hoping the Newsom-Whitmer team walks out on stage at the Convention as the eventual nominees. If it's Biden, I'm very afraid.

https://www.ft.com/content/6d9e121a-b493-4305-8016-f43fb381552f

At the Home Run Derby, leaving us all like Trump. Ears bleeding.

Note to self: get wasted after work, not before.

Liz Cheney said on Tuesday that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) would help former President Trump “illegally seize power” if they were elected on the GOP ticket in November.

Cheney, pointing to previous statements from Vance, drew a stark contrast between the freshman Ohio senator and Trump’s first-term vice president, Mike Pence — whose refusal to abide Trump’s request to reject certified electoral votes from certain states that voted for President Biden turned him into a pariah in many GOP circles.

“JD Vance has pledged he would do what Mike Pence wouldn’t – overturn an election and illegally seize power,” Cheney said on the social platform X. “He says the president can ignore the rulings of our courts. He would capitulate to Russia and sacrifice the freedom of our allies in Ukraine.”

“The Trump GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln, Reagan or the Constitution,” she added. — The Hill