What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[citizen k]

He seems to be having a grand old time, so maybe it's premature to worry for him.

Yeah, I would be more worried for the Democrats. Still reeling from their loss and wildly lashing out at anyone or anything to obfuscate the reasons for their defeat.

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah, I would be more worried for the Democrats. Still reeling from their loss and wildly lashing out at anyone or anything to obfuscate the reasons for their defeat.

WTF are you talking about?

[citizen k]

WTF are you talking about?

The Democrats coming to terms with their loss.

[Admiral Yi]

The Democrats coming to terms with their loss.

Right, so we skip the chance to elaborate and go straight to the part of the show where you're consigned to the nutcase folder.

[citizen k]

The Democrats coming to terms with their loss.

Right, so we skip the chance to elaborate and go straight to the part of the show where you're consigned to the nutcase folder.

I lived in the nutcase folder my whole life. 

[LaCroix]

I think he means dems blaming berniebots

[DGuller]

The Democrats coming to terms with their loss.

Right, so we skip the chance to elaborate and go straight to the part of the show where you're consigned to the nutcase folder.

I wish we could get at least one Trump supporter who has the balls to be open about his sympathies, so we would at least have a shot at having a meaningful political debate.  This pretend trolling shit is getting really old really fast.

[mongers]

The Democrats coming to terms with their loss.

Right, so we skip the chance to elaborate and go straight to the part of the show where you're consigned to the nutcase folder.

I wish we could get at least one Trump supporter who has the balls to be open about his sympathies, so we would at least have a shot at having a meaningful political debate.  This pretend trolling shit is getting really old really fast.

Well there was one, Marty. 

[LaCroix]

I don't think citizen k is a trump supporter. doesn't jibe with his conspiracy theories

[citizen k]

Civil War Two Is Underway - What's Left In The CIA's Bag Of Tricks?
Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

I dunno about you, but I rather enjoy watching the praetorian Deep State go batshit crazy as the day of Trump's apotheosis approacheth. I imagine a lot of men and women running down the halls of Langley and the Pentagon and a hundred other secret operational redoubts with their hair on fire, wondering how on earth they can neutralize the fucker in the four days remaining.

What's left in their trick-bag? Bake a poison cheesecake for the inaugural lunch? CIA Chief John Brennan has been reduced to blowing raspberries at the incoming president. Maybe some code cowboys In the Utah NSA fortress can find a way to crash all the markets on Friday as an inauguration present. What does it take? A few strategic HFT spoofs? There will be lots of police sharpshooters on the DC rooftops that day. What might go wrong?

Civil War Two is underway, with an interesting echo of Civil War One: Trump dissed Civil Rights sacred icon Georgia congressman John Lewis, descendant of slaves, after said icon castigated Trump as "not a legitimate president." That now prompts a congressional walk-out of the swearing-in ceremony. The New York Times is acting like a Manhattan socialite in a divorce proceeding, with fresh hysterics every day, reminding readers in a front-page story on Monday that "[Martin Luther] King's birthday falls within days of the birthdays of two Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson." Jeez! Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters?

There's not much Trump can do until Friday noon except tweet out his tweets, but one can't help but wonder what the Deep State can do after that magic moment passes. I've maintained for nearly a year that, if elected, Trump would be removed by a coup d'état within sixty days of assuming office, and I still think that's a pretty good call — though I hope it doesn't come to that, of course. My view of this was only confirmed by Trump's performance at last week's press conference, which seemed, shall we say, a little light on presidential decorum.

Perhaps it befits this particular Deep State to go down in the manner of an opéra bouffe. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, old Karl Marx observed. What does the Union stand for this time? The rights of former SEC employees to sell their services to CitiBank? The rights of competing pharma companies to jack the price of insulin up from $20 to $250 a vial? The rights of DIA subcontractors to sell Semtex plastic explosives to the "moderate" jihadis of the Middle East?

So the theme of the moment is that Donald Trump is a bigger crook than the servants and vassals of the Deep State. He ran for president so he could sell more steaks and whiskey under the Trump brand. He's in violation of the emoluments clause in the constitution. Well, I'm not aware that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or Andrew Jackson put their slaves in a blind trust after they became president. Anyway, at this point in our history, nobody can beat the Deep State for financial turpitude, certainly not a single real estate and hotel magnate.

I guess the big question is whether the Deep State — and, yes, Virginia, the Deep State does exist, unlike Santa Claus — will tear the country apart in the attempt to defend all its ill-gotten perquisites and privileges. The public at large is restive, eager to get on with the job of deconstructing the matrix of racketeering that adds up to the immiserating culture we live in, a society where health insurance company presidents make $40 million a year while ordinary people lose their homes because a $5,000-deductible health insurance policy doesn't cover the cost of treating a routine tonsillectomy.

I didn't vote for the Cheeto-head sonofabitch, but it will be interesting to see what he does between noon and six p.m. Friday, if he survives the festivities.

[CountDeMoney]

Well, at least, he's not Hillary.

I love the "I want to teach the world to sing" vibe coming from some of the Trumposphere in Congress, trying to play the high road with the Democrats when it comes with working with Trump, like Joe Manchin's "Yes, the Republicans made a specific and conscientious effort to not work with President Obama on anything and that was really really wrong, but really now, do two wrongs make a right?" bullshit. Seriously?

[Zanza]

  The Deep State?

[citizen k]

The Deep State?

[Zanza]

One of the pics does not load and I don't know what the greenish thing on the other one is.

[citizen k]

One of the pics does not load and I don't know what the greenish thing on the other one is.

That is Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was a joke.

"The deep state" is shorthand for a force within Washington that is  able to guide the US' ship of state over periods of time longer than  presidential terms, and at times despite the stated intentions of  elected officials.