So, another reason why we might want to actually not want to burn everything down come November. Either the ruling will stand, or it'll end up in the Supreme Court (rather unlikely). This, along with the many other cases delayed due to the split court, will almost entirely be decided by who wins in November.
Now, don't get me wrong- both candidates spell disaster for foreign policy in their own, special ways. Both have domestic plans that either leave so much to be desired that there's not much point in the first place, or are an outright step backwards. I wouldn't consider this an election for the Presidency; consider it an election for the next Supreme Court justice. Considering that they serve life terms, it means a whole lot more than 4 years here.
And to Redking, do you really think there's a chance with how things are today that a President could be assassinated? Do you really think that would end well should they live? The consequences for attempting to kill a sitting President in this day and age and failing are... well, I hope I don't need to enumerate.
I'm not advocating anything, I'm merely pointing out that if we're going to cram Trump into ill-fitting historical analogies, let's remember how those analogues ended up. Trump is not Hitler, Trump is not Mussolini. Trump is Trump.
As for the question of assassination, the consequences are the same as they have always been -- life imprisonment at best, death the more likely outcome. It's not like they can kill you MORE dead now. Though I suppose Trump might bring back drawing and quartering if he survived a close call.
But I figure, if no one assassinated Obama (and his detractors included a bevy of angry gun fetishists who thought he was literally worse than Hitler) then modern-day liberal radicals sure as hell aren't going to have the balls to snipe The Donald. I suppose they could protest him to death, at least until he outlaws protests. We're a long ways removed from the likes of the Weathermen and the SLA.
throat spelunking
Just because it's legal in North Carolina now doesn't mean you need to start doing it right away.
You flatter yourself. Not even if you bought me dinner first.