What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[derspiess]

Later today America's nightmare begins.  I predict a civil war within a couple of years.



G.

You also predicted Dubya and Ashcroft would turn the US into a theocracy.

[Eddie Teach]

If we have a civil war, we should make sure to pull Canada in it with us.

[garbon]

Yeah, but you are always so morose.

Keep on dreaming you can escape it.



G.

fucker has been an expat for years now.

And I here during the first days? Yes, I am.

[Syt]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/nigel-farage-trump-inauguration-far-right

Nigel Farage plans inauguration party as Europe's far-right leaders visit US

Leading Brexit figure has reportedly invited hundreds of people to Washington event while Austrian politician says he is coming to city for meetings

Nigel Farage, the Brexit leader, will be hosting an inauguration party on Thursday night in Washington, just a few hundred yards from the White House.

It will be an extravagant event reportedly taking up the entire top floor of one of the city's most prestigious and expensive hotels. Organisers say at least 500 of the US political and media elite have been invited and predict that Donald Trump, on the eve of his presidency, will drop by.

Trump has been unstinting in his praise for Farage, seeing Brexit as a forerunner for his own mould-breaking victory, and even recommended that the former Ukip leader should take over as UK ambassador to Washington. Farage, who will be a guest of the Mississippi governor, Phil Bryant, at the formal inauguration ceremony, has said he is moving to the US and has offered his services as a Middle East negotiator for the incoming president.

But Farage will not be the only foreign rightist leader in Washington for Friday's inauguration ceremonies, seeking to network with US counterparts in hopes of benefiting from some of the reflected glamour and authority of the US presidency.

The head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Heinz-Christian Strache, has said he was coming to Washington for meetings, but he did not say who he was hoping to see. The anti-immigrant FPO has said its officials have already met Trump's designated national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and other members of the president-elect's team. Strache said he would be going to Washington this week as part of an FPO delegation.

"There is a series of invitations to talks with interesting political representatives of the United States on the sidelines of the US president's inauguration on our packed schedule," Strache said.

Trump's dismissive attitude to the European Union, and his praise for Brexit, has made him a beacon for nationalist, anti-immigrant parties from Europe hoping to receive the same warm reception as Farage. The leader of France's Front National, Marine Le Pen, was spotted drinking coffee in the basement of Trump Tower in New York last week, taking an unannounced break from the presidential campaign in which she is a leading contender. She described her stay in New York as a private visit and Front National party officials refused to say whether she was meeting Trump or anyone on his team. Asked if anyone from the Front National was going to Washington for the inauguration, an official in Le Pen's office said "not that we're aware of".

Most European far-right leaders, such as Le Pen and Frauke Petry of Alternative for Germany, who see themselves as Trump's European counterparts will be attending a conference in Koblenz on Saturday.

The Australian nationalist party, One Nation, is sending a representative to the inauguration, Brian Burston, who intends to go in place of its leader, Pauline Hanson. However, there is controversy over how the invitation came to be issued. The Republican congressman who made the tickets available, Adam Kinzinger, said he did not intend to offer them to One Nation, but had been asked if he had any spare tickets by the Australian embassy, according to Buzzfeed.

The Australian foreign ministry said it had received "multiple requests" from the party for tickets and so had asked a number of congressional offices if they still had any spare, adding: "The tickets are not yet available for collection."

At least one disruptive figure in European politics who had planned to attend has been barred from coming by the current US administration. Milorad Dodik, the Moscow-backed separatist Bosnian Serb leader, was refused a diplomatic visa. Dodik claimed to have received an official invitation but Bosnian media reported he had in fact bought a ticket for the accompanying balls.

[Syt]

Thank you very much. Thank you very much everybody, and thank you Tom. I'd like to congratulate our incredible entertainers tonight. Toby, and Lee Greenwood and all of the great talent. It was really very special. I also have to thank our incredible military right here. Thank you. Stand up, please. You guys were really great. Thank you. So this journey began 18 months ago. I had something to do with it, but you had much more to do with it than I did. I'm the messenger. I'm just the messenger. And we were tired. And I love you. Believe me, I love you. We all got tired of seeing what was happening. And we wanted change, but we wanted real change. And I look so forward to tomorrow. We're going to see something that is going to be so amazing. So many people have poured into Washington, D.C.

This started out tonight being a small little concert, and then we had the idea maybe we'll do it in front of the Lincoln Memorial. I don't know if it's ever been done before. But if it has, very seldom. And the people came by the thousands and thousands, and here we are tonight, all the way back. All the way back. So it's a movement that began, it's a movement that started, and it's a movement like we've never seen anywhere in the world, they say. There's never been a movement like this and it's something very, very special. And we're going to unify our country, and our phrase – you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat – "Make America Great Again." But we're going to make America great for all of our people, everybody. Everybody throughout our country. That includes the inner cities, that includes everybody.

And we're going to do a special job, and I can only tell you that 18 months ago, we never knew, a lot of people didn't know, some people had a feeling. A lot of people didn't give us much of a chance, but we understood what was happening. And that last month of the campaign, when I traveled around to every place that you can imagine. State after state after state, speech after speech. And we had ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand people. There was never an empty seat, just like tonight. We didn't know if anybody would even come tonight. This hasn't been done before. And you look. It was the same way. And we all knew that last month of the campaign. I think a lot of us knew the first week of the campaign, but that last month of the campaign we knew that something special was happening.

And I can only tell you this: The polls started going up, up, up, but they didn't want to give us credit. Because they forgot about a lot of us. On the campaign I called it "the forgotten man" and "the forgotten woman." Well, you're not forgotten anymore. That I can tell you. Not forgotten anymore.

So I want to thank my great family, my incredible wife Melania. They've been so supportive, and it wasn't easy for them. But they have been so supportive. I want to thank you, most importantly. And I promise you that I will work so hard. We're going to get it turned around. We're going to get our jobs back. We're not going to let other countries take our jobs any longer. We're going to build up our great military. We're going to build it up. We're going to strengthen our borders. We're going to do things that haven't been done for our country for many, many decades. It's going to change. I promise you it's going to change.

So I'll see you tomorrow. And I don't care frankly if it's going to be beautiful or if it's going to rain like crazy. Makes no difference to me. I have a feeling it's going to be beautiful. But I will see you tomorrow, and I'm going to be cheering you on. You're going to cheer me on, but I'm going to be cheering you on. Because what we've done is so special. All over the world they're talking about it. All over the world. And I love you folks, and we're going to work together. And we are going to – make America great again. And I'll add: Greater than ever before! Thank you very much and enjoy the fireworks. Thank you everybody. Thank you.

[FunkMonk]

I might take a half day tomorrow so I can spend some more time here.

[grumbler]

Is that language necessary?

  Of course it is.

[Grey Fox]

In any case, it sounds like the TRUMP presidency will involve more Red Square/ Pyong Yang style parades of military hardware. Apparently the Trump team would have like that for the inauguration but had to settle for a 20 plane flyover.

Part of being a great president is showing off America's military strength, according to President-elect Donald Trump.

The military "may come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue," Trump told the Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday. "That military may be flying over New York City and Washington, D.C., for parades. I mean, we're going to be showing our military."

Trump spoke about his vision of military parades in vague terms, suggesting it was something he might oversee in the future. But according to several sources involved in his inaugural preparations, Trump has endeavored to ensure that his first day as commander-in-chief is marked by an unusual display of heavy military equipment.

During the preparation for Friday's transfer-of-power, a member of Trump's transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the inaugural parade, a source involved in inaugural planning told The Huffington Post. "They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade," the source said, referring to massive military parades in Moscow and Pyongyang, typically seen as an aggressive display of muscle-flexing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-military-equipment-inauguration_us_58811f4ae4b096b4a23091f7

That's unfair, Military parades are a French thing.

[CountDeMoney]

Rainy, dreary, just plain awful today.  And the weather's pretty bad, too.

I think I'll go to the movies today.  La La Land looks sweet, but I haven't seen Rogue One yet and it's still playing at the Senator.

[derspiess]

Don't worry, guys.  There's hope in our young generation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kid-fire-donald-trump-protest_us_5881fa1fe4b070d8cad1e7d1

[CountDeMoney]

   If all you know that works is the Tea Party, the Party of No, Grab That Pussy and Drain the Swamp, then you go with what works.

[mongers]

Rainy, dreary, just plain awful today.  And the weather's pretty bad, too.

I think I'll go to the movies today.  La La Land looks sweet, but I haven't seen Rogue One yet and it's still playing at the Senator.

Sounds like a good plan, rather than giving him the oxygen of publicity.

[jimmy olsen]

Lol, Trump's vehemently antigay supreme court pic may have posed in a gay porn mag as young man

Snopes has not been able to prove or disprove it so far.
http://www.snopes.com/william-pryor-nude/

[CountDeMoney]

Sounds like a good plan, rather than giving him the oxygen of publicity.

I asked Mom if she was going to watch the Inauguration.

"I'm not watching that asshole and his porn wife.  Fucking asshole."

OK then, Mom.

[mongers]

Sounds like a good plan, rather than giving him the oxygen of publicity.

I asked Mom if she was going to watch the Inauguration.

"I'm not watching that asshole and his porn wife.  Fucking asshole."

OK then, Mom.

You can see where you get if from.