President Donald Trump's United States of America

[kEiThZ]

'Coming to realize' perhaps, but I not so sure there is a lot of 'learning' going on. Even if they are starting to realize some things, I don't see a lot of evidence that it is changing anybody's direction. Much of the Administration (Executive/Cabinet) seems to be doubling down

Politicians everywhere find it difficult to pivot. And this group is less competent than the average Western politician. Worse when the administration tries to pivot the boss night my might actually stop the pivot.

Look at their foreign policy right now. It's schizophrenic. Trump is trying to make tariffs. Rubio is trying to be a normal diplomat. But he's undermined by a failed real estate developer who is trying to cut some side deal with Russia. And in the middle of all this, you have the administration going to war with the EU for Big Tech.

Among many reasons I resent Trudeau is that having governed through the first Trump term he didn't do everything in his power to better position Canada for a second Trump term. That should have been a Sputnik moment for Canada. But he made no effort to make connections with crazy Trumpers. No effort to make fiscal room during the Biden years. No effort to fix the military which the Americans sort of respect. Instead he tried to sort of actively campaign against Trump globally. Virtue signal on everything from climate to immigration to Ukraine, in every global forum. In the process put us in Trump's crosshairs and left us far more vulnerable. And now Carney has to clean up a lot of the mess.

 

[adma]

No. The inmates fully run the asylum, and their friends on the outside are making the American public dumber by the second through social media. There will be no reckoning, after the catharsis of him dying, just more turmoil until the country eats itself alive.

My point is more the eating-itself-alive process being potentially *accelerated* by his passing--contrary to a lot of popular anti-Trump sentiment predicting dancing in the streets etc etc. That is, it's just the thing that could wind up tripwiring Civil War II or some such domestic cataclysm.

 

[picard102]

My point is more the eating-itself-alive process being potentially *accelerated* by his passing--contrary to a lot of popular anti-Trump sentiment predicting dancing in the streets etc etc. That is, it's just the thing that could wind up tripwiring Civil War II or some such domestic cataclysm.

I don't see them getting out of this without a civil war.

 

[lenaitch]

Politicians everywhere find it difficult to pivot. And this group is less competent than the average Western politician. Worse when the administration tries to pivot the boss night my might actually stop the pivot.

Look at their foreign policy right now. It's schizophrenic. Trump is trying to make tariffs. Rubio is trying to be a normal diplomat. But he's undermined by a failed real estate developer who is trying to cut some side deal with Russia. And in the middle of all this, you have the administration going to war with the EU for Big Tech.

Among many reasons I resent Trudeau is that having governed through the first Trump term he didn't do everything in his power to better position Canada for a second Trump term. That should have been a Sputnik moment for Canada. But he made no effort to make connections with crazy Trumpers. No effort to make fiscal room during the Biden years. No effort to fix the military which the Americans sort of respect. Instead he tried to sort of actively campaign against Trump globally. Virtue signal on everything from climate to immigration to Ukraine, in every global forum. In the process put us in Trump's crosshairs and left us far more vulnerable. And now Carney has to clean up a lot of the mess.

I yield to those would follow US politics more closely than I. Trump strikes me as quite delusional in his own greatness and completely unstrategic. Perhaps some of his cabinet actually have useful skills but I'm not seeing much of it. Mostly I see sycophants who either honestly believe in what they are selling or simply like the paycheque and know they would be fired in a heartbeat if they crossed him. The ones that are probably the scariest are the non-elected party and Project folks who think blowing things up is the right course for them and their wallets.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...if they're going to make changes for the better after this, the Dems (presumably) will have to take a flame thrower to everything that preceded it, then nuke it from high. Fat chance that will happen though.

 

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‘Stop Being Awful’ Jake Tapper Slams Hooligans Yelling ‘Retard’ at Tim Walz’s House

Jake Tapper admonished the "awful" people who continue to shout slurs at Gov. Tim Walz's house in a parroting of President Donald Trump's insult.

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[kEiThZ]

...if they're going to make changes for the better after this, the Dems (presumably) will have to take a flame thrower to everything that preceded it, then nuke it from high. Fat chance that will happen though.

It's a fundamentally different problem. The Dems would have to rebuild all the state capacity that was destroyed. Firing Trumpers is easy. Political appointments (there's a few thousand in the USG) expire at the end of an administration anyway.

Obvious example. Imagine trying to reconstitute USAID.

 

[adma]

I don't see them getting out of this without a civil war.

It would probably start with a brutal crackdown on those impelled to dance in the streets upon Trump's passing.

And for that matter, with the seeds in Venezuela, Nigeria, etc planted, there's an excellent likelihood of a civil war escalating into a global war.

 

[kEiThZ]

I don't see them getting out of this without a civil war.

Not sure about that. They got out of segregation without a civil war. There probably will be political violence. It's just not going to be a "civil war". That's hard these days without fixed dividing lines. There's liberal areas in Republican states and conservative areas in Democratic states.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

It's a fundamentally different problem. The Dems would have to rebuild all the state capacity that was destroyed. Firing Trumpers is easy. Political appointments (there's a few thousand in the USG) expire at the end of an administration anyway.

Obvious example. Imagine trying to reconstitute USAID.

They could also start here...

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