Trump presidency predictions

[spdrun]

Miller appears to be fit the “self-hating Jew” stereotype, similarly to Roy Cohn. (Coincidentally, Cohn was Trump’s mentor — he died of AIDS in the 80s, still believing that he had liver cancer.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=spdrun]Miller appears to be fit the “self-hating Jew” stereotype, similarly to Roy Cohn. (Coincidentally, Cohn was Trump’s mentor — he died of AIDS in the 80s, still believing that he had liver cancer.[/quote]

I don’t know about Cohn. Very interesting.

The self-hating concept is interesting. I know a few non-white Trump supporters and I call them honorary rednecks. The concepts of identity and assimilation, and nationalism are so interesting to me. I find that so odd and anti-reason because we are all humans.

I know a senior German American immigrant who is a Trump supporter. He grew up in Germany across from Alsace, France. They were forbidden to learn or speak French (such a waste because bilingual people have better brain health). That area was traded between France and Germany over centuries. For all we know, his DNA could be more French than German. Or he could a descendant of a Spanish soldier in the service of the local Bishop who impregnated a local peasant woman.

[FlyerInHi]

ZK, don’t you think that after no drama Obama, we’re living interesting times? All self induced.

It’s like Trump’s own life. He could have wisely invested his inheritance and become wealthier not doing much. He created all the drama for no tangible return but an eventful life, i suppose.

[zk]

[quote=FlyerInHi]ZK, don’t you think that after no drama Obama, we’re living interesting times? All self induced.

It’s like Trump’s own life. He could have wisely invested his inheritance and become wealthier not doing much. He created all the drama for no tangible return but an eventful life, i suppose.[/quote]

I think he wanted his name in big, gold letters on top of a tall building, and he didn’t care who he had to cheat, lie to, or steal from to get it. Then that wasn’t enough, so he wanted his name on the most important door in the world, and he didn’t care who he had to cheat, lie to, or steal from to get it. Unfortunately for him, it’s harder to cheat, lie, and steal when the whole world is watching.

Gotta say, though, he’s giving it a run. The whole world is watching, and still he lies. Not politician-type lies. Mental illness (narcissist-in-denial and pathological liar)-type lies. So far, he’s kind of getting away with it. I mean, really, what consequences has he suffered as a result of his lies? He dismisses any news reports of his lies as fake news, and he dismisses any entertainer who mocks him as “overrated.” At least half the citizens know he’s constantly lying, but he doesn’t care about citizens. And congressional republicans, who have real power to create consequences for him, are a bunch of craven losers.

So far, the republicans are pretty much in lock step with trump, being the pathetic, cowardly fools that they are. I’m sure there’s discontented grumbling in republican back rooms right now. Probably a whole lot of it. I think that, unless trump changes his act soon, that discontent will increase. And I think there’s a decent possibility that, at some point, that discontent will reach a critical mass. That critical mass won’t be reached when the country is in danger. None of them give a damn about the country. This critical mass will be reached when (if) republicans calculate that, unless they get rid of trump, they’ll lose any shot at reelection. Then, en masse, they’ll turn on trump. They’ll have no trouble finding something to impeach him on, and that’s what they’ll do (if that critical mass is reached).

Be careful what you wish for, though, unless you’re uber-conservative. Mike Pence is on deck.

[FlyerInHi]

i don’t think Republicans would impeach Trump. That would tarnish their brand.

If the democrats retake congress next year, they’ll just conduct investigations until the end of the term. And that would paralyze the presidency.

Trump is about to become a failed president, which is bad for our country.

[zk]

[quote=FlyerInHi]i don’t think Republicans would impeach Trump. That would tarnish their brand.

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I think they’ll impeach him if keeping him tarnishes their brand more than impeaching him. That’s all they care about, is their brand.

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Flynn is out, and now it looks like Puzder is, too.

You know why their replacements will be better than them? It’s certainly not because trump is coming to his senses, or anything like that. It’s because trump’s first picks (for these positions, the same as almost all of his appointees) were absolutely the worst possible picks. So anything else has to be better.

[La Jolla Renter]

[quote=zk]https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/health/with-fda-vacancy-trump-sees-chance-to-speed-drugs-to-the-market.html?referer=https://www.google.com/

And another winner looks to join the trump administration. Let’s take the FDA and stop it from protecting consumers. Jesus.[/quote]

Are you implying that the FDA has been doing a great job protecting consumers or just pissing on anything related to our elected president?

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[quote=La Jolla Renter][quote=zk]https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/health/with-fda-vacancy-trump-sees-chance-to-speed-drugs-to-the-market.html?referer=https://www.google.com/

And another winner looks to join the trump administration. Let’s take the FDA and stop it from protecting consumers. Jesus.[/quote]

Are you implying that the FDA has been doing a great job protecting consumers or just pissing on anything related to our elected president?[/quote]

Great? No. Good? Probably not. Mediocre? Maybe. Poor? Possibly. But if it’s doing a poor job of protecting consumers, then reducing the amount of protection the FDA will give consumers (which is what O’Neill seems to want to do) certainly won’t help. What the FDA is doing right now to protect consumers might not be great, but it’s orders of magnitude better than the job it will be doing if Jim O’Neill gets his way.

I only piss on things that I think deserve pissing on. Everything that I’ve pissed on relating to trump’s presidency deserves pissing on, in my opinion. I’d be happy to debate you if you think anything I’ve pissed on doesn’t deserve pissing on.

[FlyerInHi]

So far, one thing that’s pretty certain is that Trump is not great at picking winners.

He’s all alone… so much infighting and palace intrigue. But I don’t feel sorry for the guy.

[FlyerInHi]

ZK, do you watch Fox News? Sometimes I watch just to see what the other side is thinking.

Fox & Co are spinning a new conspiracy: the “powerful permanent government” is undermining Trump to prevent him from draining the swamps. “They” won’t stop at anything to take our liberties away.

[zk]

[quote=FlyerInHi]ZK, do you watch Fox News? Sometimes I watch just to see what the other side is thinking.

Fox & Co are spinning a new conspiracy: the “powerful permanent government” is undermining Trump to prevent him from draining the swamps. “They” won’t stop at anything to take our liberties away.[/quote]

I do watch sometimes. It’s getting harder, though. It’s so disappointing to know that so many people are so gullible.

I’m not sure whether the people who fall for this stuff don’t know trump is constantly lying or they know but they don’t care. The former is outrageously gullible, and the latter is extremely dangerous.

I don’t know whether they actually like his appointees/executive orders/mental illness or they just like that those things piss off basically everybody who isn’t falling for the bullshit. The former is more gullibility, the latter is extremely dangerous.

In any case, it’s going to be a tough battle. Unless his narcissistic rage at being called out on his bullshit finally gets to him to a degree that he does something so stupid that even republicans decide he has to go.

[FlyerInHi]

I feel that the Trump presidency will be a disaster.

Hundreds of well qualified Republicans won’t serve Trump, and hundreds more have been blacklisted for criticizing Trump before. Without capable people, Trump can’t run the government. So much for being a good executive. Running a family business like a mafia boss is not the same as running the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/16/trumps-pick-to-replace-michael-flynn-as-national-security-adviser-turns-down-offer-people-familiar-with-decision-say-2/?utm_term=.b5ba408126e8

[svelte]

[quote=FlyerInHi]I feel that the Trump presidency will be a disaster.

Hundreds of well qualified Republicans won’t serve Trump, and hundreds more have been blacklisted for criticizing Trump before. Without capable people, Trump can’t run the government. So much for being a good executive. Running a family business like a mafia boss is not the same as running the country. [/quote]

One thing for sure the first month hasn’t gone too great.

I’m going to watch this rewrite of the immigration order carefully. If he can get a much better version this time, it will help convince me that he listens and learns. If it is just as effed up as the first, well I’ll stick with my original opinion that this can’t end well.

[svelte]

[quote=zk]

I do watch sometimes. It’s getting harder, though. It’s so disappointing to know that so many people are so gullible.

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I hear ya.

My long-term theory that education fixes everything ignores that the neurons don’t connect in some folks no matter how many classes they take.

It’s quite sad that becoming prez has come down to a game of The Biggest Liar.

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