The Trump presidency
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like any good reality show it switches from farce to tragedy in an eyeblink and loses key players before their character has properly developed or crumbled. It's obviously missing Davina for the excrutiating exit interview, but what it really needs is love interest and the occasional wildcard... hey look, here comes Netanyahu
CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
On War Is Boring Trump’s Foreign Policy Puts America Third
By handing wins to China and Russia if not always intentionally.
By handing wins to China and Russia if not always intentionally.
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Starry Wisdom
yeh. let's hope you retain this sense of fun for the remainder of this nefandous administration
ruffneck23
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yeah it would be funny if it wasnt so worrying
SpookyFrank
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Conspiracy theories and hatred = bad.
But Alex Jones is a top geezer.
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Can't help thinking it would have been easier for Obama to launch his Bolshevik revolution during the eight years when he was the actual president.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
i think this is what the term gallows humour was invented for...
Trump is very obviously not suited to the role, you wouldn't expect him to be able to carry out simple instructions like 'take this bag of chips across the road, give them to that man in the red coat, and come back' without fucking up at least two of them - so being responsible for 10,000 nukes is just way out of his league - but our almost certain, and not far off fiery death brought on by a fit of thin-skinned piqué should not stop us finding this chaos deeply amusing.
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remember being worried when bush was talking about a crusade? that turned out alright didn't it? oh!
mauvais
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What would it actually take for the US to reboot the election cycle and run a new one?
I know there is no mechanism for this - this is after all the plot of now-obsolete drama Designated Survivor - but what would it take for a change?
How many iterations of incompetence would they need? How many times would they have to hand the presidency further down the chain to an unelected (Pence aside) meatsack until the whole thing, just, well, broke?
I know there is no mechanism for this - this is after all the plot of now-obsolete drama Designated Survivor - but what would it take for a change?
How many iterations of incompetence would they need? How many times would they have to hand the presidency further down the chain to an unelected (Pence aside) meatsack until the whole thing, just, well, broke?
Yuwipi Woman
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meanwhile..
We couldn't get that lucky!
(just joking. Having a left-wing coup would be just as bad as a right-ring one.)
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Starry Wisdom
i am confident it will descent to the 208,314th in line, which is me.
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why aside Pence? that's like asiding LBJ.
Yuwipi Woman
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The line of succession is pretty deep. Its so deep that they likely wouldn't run out of people, because as new people came in, more would be being appointed. None of these would be elected, but we've had (and survived) an unelected President before.
I'm afraid that Trump will get impeached. He's actually the lessor evil to some of the others in the chain. Pence would be quite happy to turn Trump's strongman takeover, into a theocratic coup.
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The line of succession:
U.S. Presidential line of succession - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mauvais
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Because the electorate votes for a ticket pair, president and VP, knowing the VP is someone who can take over if necessary.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
knowing little of American politics...
i know Pence has opinions that don't find a great deal of favour in these parts, but is he in terms of his character made from the same stuff as Trump - thin-skinned, conspiraloon etc.. or is he a bit more traditional Republican who merely sees Trump as a vehicle, and possible a vehicle he might be able to steer under a bus, for Pences own policies?
i know Pence has opinions that don't find a great deal of favour in these parts, but is he in terms of his character made from the same stuff as Trump - thin-skinned, conspiraloon etc.. or is he a bit more traditional Republican who merely sees Trump as a vehicle, and possible a vehicle he might be able to steer under a bus, for Pences own policies?
Yuwipi Woman
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He's more of a traditional Republican, except he's even more of a fundamentalist Christian than most of Republicans. And, I think he was convinced to join the Trump ticket because he knew that Trump would probably get himself impeached. Being Vice-President to Trump is the golden ticket to a seat at the Resolute desk.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Damn, he's even craftier than I thought. The joy when Trump is impeached will be short lived and replaced by The Rapture
Yuwipi Woman
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Damn, he's even craftier than I thought. The joy when Trump is impeached will be short lived and replaced by The Rapture
.... and the Christian re-education camps.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
if pence gets in he wants rid of roe vs wade iirc.
mauvais
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Is there any evidence that he's sufficiently more competent than Trump? Yeah, I know it's not hard, but basically: would he himself get impeached in short order? The incompetence in this team doesn't exactly stop with Trump. So I wonder for all of this 'Pence would be scarier' talk, might he just end up with the same fate? Links back in to my previous question I suppose.
Yuwipi Woman
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No, he's a much better politician. He'll be more effective in the long run in getting what he wants than Trump.
CrabbedOne
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He was too busy being a Kenyan stealth Muslim destroying America.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Pointless trivia, Gerard Ford is the only President of America who was never elected. He was the house minority leader and was selected as VP after Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973 over bribery and corruption scandals.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Craft Democrats sneaking back in when you least expect them/Lazy Government bureaucrats can't even organise a coup in 8 years.
Anyway,
Does this really look like a man who's about to start a violent revolution? Fucker looks like the only soul in the world enjoying 2017.
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Yuwipi Woman
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I noticed this bit of news this morning:
Religious freedom could top Sessions civil rights priorities
When they use "religious freedom", think "religious oppression." The surreal bit in that article was this line:
Religious freedom is in the First Amendment.
Religious freedom could top Sessions civil rights priorities
When they use "religious freedom", think "religious oppression." The surreal bit in that article was this line:
Religious freedom is in the First Amendment.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
back with his beloved waterports. Trump of course enjoys another sort of watersports
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Anybody read the tweets from Trump's loyal supporters? Some truly horrific stuff. Even when the guy is impeached, that hatred isn't just going to dissipate. 
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