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steve  ·  2634 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump - Will it be awful? Will it be successful? What are your predictions?

I'll share with you what I've predicted since he entered the race... back when he "really didn't have a chance":

I predicted that he will be impeached inside of 90 days. Not for anything tyrannical, or over-the-top-crazy... but for something fairly minor and administrative. I mean - we initiated impeachment on President Clinton for lying about getting some extra-marital action... does anyone think Trump has lied about less?

That was my prediction. But that was back when I believed in a balance of power. That was when I thought congress might have a backbone. Now.... I believe that my prediction is still partially accurate: He will do something that could invite impeachment, but congress won't have the balls.

I believe, if given enough latitude, he would/could do terribly tyrannical things... but honestly, I have more faith in his bumbling idiocy when it comes to the little things. I think he'll violate some rule of law, some small statute, or hell - he might just start grabbing pussy. But nothing will be done about it. And like a child consistently pushing on his/her parents, the "rules" will slide a bit. He'll get away with more and more...

So yah... my greatest fear isn't actually singularly Trump. It's Trump and a brow-beaten congress, and a hand picked echo-chamber of a cabinet, with a Secretary of Offense, a Secretary of Private Education, a dude running a department that he committed to shut down, and a Supreme Court that may or may not challenge anything.

I don't think it will be catastrophic in the nationalist dictator way... but in 4 years time, we're all going to know some one personally (or be someone) who has been catastrophically affected by this administration's missteps.





mk  ·  2634 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I also worry that extremely partisan politics has gutted our legislature of statesmen and stateswomen, and has left us with spineless pond scum. I think this has happened on both sides of the aisle, but more so on the GOP side, simply because of the effects of gerrymandering that has played toward their extreme right base, and the need to say anything, no matter how ugly it might be, for more than a decade.

Boehner was hardly a moderate, and Ryan knows what he has to do to stay in power.

IMHO we are really fucked. When the stage is set like this, historically speaking, the play is pretty bleak.

Trombone  ·  2634 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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