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No, Trump Isn't Going to Save the Supreme Court
The Daily Wire ^ | August 10, 2016 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 06/24/2022 2:22:46 PM PDT by Alberta's Child

In the absence of a serious foreign policy and an economic plan not involving massive tariffs – and in the absence of a rational and decent candidate – pro-Trump advocates have fallen back on one argument and one argument only: he’ll be better for the Supreme Court.

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Hillary’s justices will cripple Constitutional interpretation on religious freedom, gun rights, and freedom of speech, among other crucial issues.

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There is only one problem: there is no shot – zero shot – that Trump will appoint a conservative.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benshapiro; maga; notnews; scotus; trump; vanity; yourealittlelate
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To: WinstonSmith1984

https://youtu.be/rGV4_MjCA64?t=169
“I was wrong...I have never been happier to be wrong.” - Ben Shapiro, 2/2/2017 (less than 2 weeks after Trump took office)


41 posted on 06/24/2022 3:16:19 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Alberta's Child

“Obama making fun of Trump at a dinner in 2011”

I can’t understand how Obama is related to that photo.


42 posted on 06/24/2022 3:19:18 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“Yes, Ben needs to do a Mia Culpa on this.”

https://youtu.be/rGV4_MjCA64?t=169

“I was wrong...I have never been happier to be wrong.” - Ben Shapiro, 2/2/2017 (less than two weeks after Trump took office)


43 posted on 06/24/2022 3:19:55 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

That aged well... :)


44 posted on 06/24/2022 3:20:18 PM PDT by WinstonSmith1984
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To: dfwgator

I didn’t.

As soon as Michael Savage endorsed him, I got on board.


45 posted on 06/24/2022 3:22:25 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Egg on Shapiro’s face? LOL - look who’s talking!

When Ben Shapiro is wrong, he immediately admits it: https://youtu.be/rGV4_MjCA64?t=169

However, you have continued to spread nonsensical propaganda for years with no end in sight. This day would never have come if you had had your way.


46 posted on 06/24/2022 3:22:36 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Alberta's Child

I had doubts about Trump very early on too. I think the reason President Trump’s conservatism was unforeseen by so many is because he doesn’t talk like a philosophical conservative - I don’t think he thought of himself as a conservative.

He is was a pragmatist, and as it turns out, conservatism IS very pragmatic. Conservatism makes sense. Donald Trump is the ultimate pragmatist. He sees a problem and looks for practical solutions. When it comes to governance, constitutional conservatism IS that solution.

Conservatism empowers individuals over the state. That creates a healthy competition and experimentation of ideas. Good ideas cause those who embrace them to win, and are then emulated by losers, who want to win as well.

Tyranny does the opposite - it promotes groupthink, kills competition and punishes experimentation. Good ideas do not evolve and flourish.

President Trump was not inspired so much by the philosophy or morality of the conservative movement, but rather by the common sense of allowing winning ideas to prevail through free competition.

When you look at everything President Trump did, there is a common theme. Deregulation, energy independence, peace through strength, getting out of bad deals, appointing constitutional SC justices, cutting taxes, border security enforcement. These are all things that make sense.


47 posted on 06/24/2022 3:23:10 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: WinstonSmith1984

Corrections in the sight of undeniable reality typically do. :-)

And he’s not above knocking himself down since he wore the hat.


48 posted on 06/24/2022 3:23:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Bet you’re thrilled your Bush Leaguers got that gun control bill on Senile Joe’s desk.


49 posted on 06/24/2022 3:25:17 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Nope.

On this item.

Right now.

Not a vague sort of but not really.

Tell the chipmunk to come out and do a real apology for being so wrong.

And tell him to switch to de-caf.

50 posted on 06/24/2022 3:35:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Alberta's Child
A lot of people agreed with that. Trump had said that his pro-abort sister would make a great justice (but was too old), Republicans have a history of Soutering us, Trump wasn't exactly known as a movement conservative and tends to pick terrible advisors. And I think this was before "the list." So there was reason to believe that.

I'm sure Shapiro is very happy he was wrong about that.

51 posted on 06/24/2022 3:37:38 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I was very suspicious of Trump early on. I figured he was another Romney, whose supposed conservative principles would just be bargaining chips. What does a New York billionaire Democrat-til-last-week care about abortion?

But by the time Cruz left the race I had started to see him in a different light.

I have an idea a lot of people were won over who initially doubted him. He kept his word on the Supreme Court, and actually fought for it, spent his political capital for it. And his current war on rinos is his favor to us all.

I wouldn’t have given a nickel for him when he first came on the scene, and he turned out to be the best president in my lifetime. I always think of Lincoln’s line about Grant: “He fights. I can’t spare him.”


52 posted on 06/24/2022 3:39:31 PM PDT by marron
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

over caffeinated chipmunk.


I listened to him once, but couldn’t stand it after 2 minutes. So I put the podcast on 2x speed, and it was hilarious!


53 posted on 06/24/2022 3:48:08 PM PDT by nicollo (the rule of law is not arbitrary)
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To: kiryandil

I remember that well and it ticked me off to no end with them Pharisee types.


54 posted on 06/24/2022 3:48:46 PM PDT by DMD13
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To: DMD13
I remember that well and it ticked me off to no end with them Pharisee types.

The good news is that Trump has once again revealed another crowd of grifting hypocritical dung-eaters.

55 posted on 06/24/2022 3:53:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Republican Wildcat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGV4_MjCA64&t=169s

Your linked video shows a smiling Ben Shapiro doing precisely what he supposedly never does: Admitting that he was wrong about Trump. Shapiro was wearing a Make America Great Again hat when he did so.

Shapiro can certainly be annoying, and he is not exactly a Trump fan, but he voted for Trump in the 2020 election and encouraged his listeners to vote for Trump. He simply is not a foaming-at-the-mouth never-Trumper.

56 posted on 06/24/2022 4:13:49 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: dfwgator; Drew68; fishtank; srmanuel; Alberta's Child; RedMonqey
From JimRob

I supported Cruz before and at the start of the primaries due to his obvious Christian constitutional conservative positions and track record of defending the Constitution. IMHO, he stood head and shoulders over Bush, Rubio, Kascich, Paul and other assorted GOPe RINOs, globalists, amnesty pushers, establishment hangers on and unknown newbies, etc. I didn't care much at all for Trump. Thought he was an untrustworthy chameleon and charlatan. Wrote him off completely.

And then I began watching his rallies and listening to him explain his positions. Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all, end sanctuary cities, end anchor babies, slap a moratorium on Muslim immigration, cut taxes, cut spending, cut regulations, cut the government, make better trade deals, bring back manufacturing and jobs, dump the EPA and global warming, bring back coal, gas & oil, rebuild the military AND (as all the other Republican hopefuls pledged: REPEAL OBAMACARE!

Ok, so I'm impressed. The guy sounds like a Reagan conservative. But I'm still a Cruz guy. As I continue watching and listening to both and then start reading Trump's plans as he fleshes them out on his website, I get even more interested. His initial tax plan even out Reagan'd Reagan. He proposed cutting all taxes, but especially cutting the corporate tax to ZERO! Now that piqued my interest way up! What a boost to the economy and jobs that would be (unfortunately, cutting the corp tax rate to zero was later in the primary modified to 15%, I suspect after GOP bean counters got involved).

So now I have two favorites in the race. Cruz was my guy but I could be happy with Trump. If either of these guys won the primary, I'd back him to the hilt. Even thought it'd be great if they partnered up on the ticket.

And as the race progressed, it was impossible not to see that Trump was not only a great campaigner, and a great communicator, but he was also a great fighter and wasn't going to rollover for the establishment or the media. He takes his message straight to the people and does not apologize or back down.

One by one he knocks off anyone who attacks him, whether they be an opponent, a pundit, the GOP, the DEMs, the establishment or the media. We can't spare this man, he fights.

So it eventually gets down to Trump vs Cruz, but Trump is way ahead. Cruz has been holding off to this point, but now he has no choice. If he wants to win, Cruz has to take Trump head-on and the nasty battle begins. Again, Trump is the more aggressive campaigner and fighter and he pulls it out.

And the most aggressive campaigner and fighter is exactly what we needed to defeat Hillary and the democrats and the media AND the entire establishment ruling class of both major political parties.

His own party stood against him! Even FOX News and most of the so-called "conservative" media!

It was a miracle that Trump won. "He had no path to 270!" No one thought he could possibly make it. Coming down to the wire I think even Trump thought he'd lost. And then as the last handful of states were coming in, the network vote counters all agreed Trump had no path to a win. Then boom. Don't remember if it was Michigan or Wisconsin, but after Trump won whichever came in first, there was a long pregnant pause as the Network vote counters tried and tried, but couldn't calculate any clear path to 270 from the remaining states... for Hillary!

Trump won the presidency and America dodged a bullet!

57 posted on 06/24/2022 4:14:55 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Alberta's Child

Hahahahaha !!!! Now THAT’S funny !!!!


58 posted on 06/24/2022 4:21:09 PM PDT by 11th_VA (I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
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To: dfwgator

“Even I had doubts about Trump in 2016.”

I did as well, I imagine many people here did.
BUT, during the primaries I changed my mind about him. He was working and working HARD for the nomination. I went all in before the convention.


59 posted on 06/24/2022 4:33:19 PM PDT by oldvirginian (The CCP is the world's largest criminal organization. )
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To: Alberta's Child

Ya know, there’s something you might try. Investigate BEFORE you make a statement. That way you won’t look so silly after.


60 posted on 06/24/2022 4:35:49 PM PDT by Valin
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