Comments on: Unconventional Thinking http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:03:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/#comment-220995 Kick Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:12:03 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26755#comment-220995 ListenWhenYouHear 5 Exactly! ________________________________ John M from Ct. 6 This! ________________________________ If the SCOTUS isn't aware that Trump and many in his administration are lawless, nothing like the illegal and unconstitutional extrajudicial killing of (allegedly) 11 persons in international waters to clue them in to the facts... not that they needed more evidence. ListenWhenYouHear
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If the SCOTUS isn't aware that Trump and many in his administration are lawless, nothing like the illegal and unconstitutional extrajudicial killing of (allegedly) 11 persons in international waters to clue them in to the facts... not that they needed more evidence.

]]> By: John M from Ct. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/#comment-220990 John M from Ct. Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:35:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26755#comment-220990 LWYH on [5] Exactly my feelings on the SC's obtuse or hypocritical rulings on presidential powers in relation to Trump's actions. They pretend that this president, like all previous ones, is an honorable public official beset by possible bad actors in Congress or law enforcement. By that reading he needs to be given the assumption of virtue and/or constitutional privilege. But they are not (I believe) idiots, and they can see that Trump is a criminal and an anti-constitutional autocrat-in-waiting - so their support of his anti-constitutional actions and lawsuits can only be explained by their ideological prejudices favoring a strong presidency and a dominant conservative party, no matter what the Founders intended, not to mention two hundred years of subsequent republican (lower case r) assumptions about the dangers of an unrestricted and unrestrictable chief executive. LWYH on [5]
Exactly my feelings on the SC's obtuse or hypocritical rulings on presidential powers in relation to Trump's actions. They pretend that this president, like all previous ones, is an honorable public official beset by possible bad actors in Congress or law enforcement. By that reading he needs to be given the assumption of virtue and/or constitutional privilege.

But they are not (I believe) idiots, and they can see that Trump is a criminal and an anti-constitutional autocrat-in-waiting - so their support of his anti-constitutional actions and lawsuits can only be explained by their ideological prejudices favoring a strong presidency and a dominant conservative party, no matter what the Founders intended, not to mention two hundred years of subsequent republican (lower case r) assumptions about the dangers of an unrestricted and unrestrictable chief executive.

]]> By: ListenWhenYouHear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/#comment-220989 ListenWhenYouHear Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:45:29 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26755#comment-220989 It seems to me that SCOTUS is only answering questions about whether there COULD EVER BE a situation where the President would need to be able to do whatever it is that Trump wants to do now. They are completely ignoring the facts surrounding WHY Trump is currently trying to do the actions in question. They should be looking at whether there are circumstances when a President should NOT be allowed to act and determine if those circumstances are in effect today. SCOTUS wants to only answer whether a competent president acting in the nation’s best interests should be allowed to act. If a president is not acting in our nation’s best interest, we already have the remedy to take care of that. They will say that any president who isn’t acting in our nation’s best interests should be impeached, but that answer ignores the reality of what is actually happening! Impeachment is a dead option! It does not work the way the Founding Fathers intended it to work and will never work that way! When it was first proposed, political parties had not matured into the massive overpowering organizations that they are today. SCOTUS must address the situation as we are actually facing it! SCOTUS is doing everything it can to avoid ruling on Trump’s motives for the questionable actions before them because they feel that they are not supposed to offer their opinions on the parties involved. SCOTUS doesn’t want to rule that a president is only barred from taking an action because their motives are based in corruption. They don’t want to rule that a President is corrupt and therefore should be removed from office. That's not the role that they are supposed to be filling, usually. But these are anything but “usual times”. It seems to me that SCOTUS is only answering questions about whether there COULD EVER BE a situation where the President would need to be able to do whatever it is that Trump wants to do now. They are completely ignoring the facts surrounding WHY Trump is currently trying to do the actions in question. They should be looking at whether there are circumstances when a President should NOT be allowed to act and determine if those circumstances are in effect today. SCOTUS wants to only answer whether a competent president acting in the nation’s best interests should be allowed to act. If a president is not acting in our nation’s best interest, we already have the remedy to take care of that. They will say that any president who isn’t acting in our nation’s best interests should be impeached, but that answer ignores the reality of what is actually happening!

Impeachment is a dead option! It does not work the way the Founding Fathers intended it to work and will never work that way! When it was first proposed, political parties had not matured into the massive overpowering organizations that they are today. SCOTUS must address the situation as we are actually facing it!

SCOTUS is doing everything it can to avoid ruling on Trump’s motives for the questionable actions before them because they feel that they are not supposed to offer their opinions on the parties involved. SCOTUS doesn’t want to rule that a president is only barred from taking an action because their motives are based in corruption. They don’t want to rule that a President is corrupt and therefore should be removed from office. That's not the role that they are supposed to be filling, usually. But these are anything but “usual times”.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/#comment-220988 nypoet22 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26755#comment-220988 @caddy, i hesitate to get into it here, because whatever i write will be inadequate and unfair to someone. there is real hardship happening to many innocent people, and no political side is innocent in its creation. as always, each side seeks to lay all the blame totally at the feet of whomever they oppose. Hamas is intentionally making the situation worse in the hopes of bringing enough international pressure to ensure its political survival. Europe and the American left are buying the Hamas narrative, which makes them double down on creating more misery. Netanyahu is refusing to compromise military objectives for humanitarian ones because the second he does, his far right allies will leave his governing coalition, his unpopular government will fall, new elections will be called, and he'll have to go back to facing corruption charges in court. thus, the situation keeps Israeli hostages where they are, and the only people in Gaza who aren't starving are Hamas themselves. JL @caddy,

i hesitate to get into it here, because whatever i write will be inadequate and unfair to someone. there is real hardship happening to many innocent people, and no political side is innocent in its creation. as always, each side seeks to lay all the blame totally at the feet of whomever they oppose. Hamas is intentionally making the situation worse in the hopes of bringing enough international pressure to ensure its political survival. Europe and the American left are buying the Hamas narrative, which makes them double down on creating more misery. Netanyahu is refusing to compromise military objectives for humanitarian ones because the second he does, his far right allies will leave his governing coalition, his unpopular government will fall, new elections will be called, and he'll have to go back to facing corruption charges in court. thus, the situation keeps Israeli hostages where they are, and the only people in Gaza who aren't starving are Hamas themselves.
JL

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/#comment-220987 MtnCaddy Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:54:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26755#comment-220987 Hey poet I’m curious what your opinion is of the Gaza situation. Hey poet I’m curious what your opinion is of the Gaza situation.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/#comment-220986 MtnCaddy Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:53:21 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26755#comment-220986 The idea result would be for only the Republicans to do this. And I <i>want</i> them to do exactly what you said they’d do. All the attention would be on how disconnected the GOP are with reality on the ground, with the added benefit of giving us a break from <i>Democrats in disarray</i> headlines. The idea result would be for only the Republicans to do this. And I want them to do exactly what you said they’d do. All the attention would be on how disconnected the GOP are with reality on the ground, with the added benefit of giving us a break from Democrats in disarray headlines.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/02/unconventional-thinking/#comment-220985 nypoet22 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:55:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26755#comment-220985 i vote against, regardless of what the Republicans do. hosting big, expensive events with celebrities instead of using those resources for more organizing on the ground is in my opinion a path to more losing. i vote against, regardless of what the Republicans do. hosting big, expensive events with celebrities instead of using those resources for more organizing on the ground is in my opinion a path to more losing.

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