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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Legbiter

Quote from: crazy canuck on March 26, 2020, 08:43:51 AM
Trump's approval rating is up.  What is your major malfunction?

This is hardly surprising to any being with baseline sentience. So nobody at the Atlantic/NYT/CNN...  Here this very odd governing coalition of center-right and lefty greens has seen a temporary boost in popularity. Where it gets choppy is a couple months from now when the economic effects have become apparent. Even if they do a great job in responding, considering the circumstances, people here will switch parties just to get fresh reconstruction brooms in, if the alternatives look even half-competent.  :hmm:

In the US context that's that other fella I'm having trouble recalling right now.
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Sheilbh

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on March 26, 2020, 11:04:52 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on March 26, 2020, 08:43:51 AM
Trump's approval rating is up.  What is your major malfunction?

President always gets a short term boost in a crisis.  Carter for example got a big bump in approval from the onset of the Iran hostage crisis.
Trump's approval bump is actually unusually low for such a situation.
Also the comparison with other leaders is instructive - Macron, Johnson, Rutte, Conte have all had big boosts in their approval rating. I imagine it's the same for others too, by comparison Trump's is very anaemic.

It is difficult to get a boost in a crisis, if you are kind of desperate to for it not to be a crisis and consistently downplay/overplay your own achievements in already addressing it.
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garbon

Quote from: viper37 on March 26, 2020, 11:03:55 AM
Quote from: garbon on March 26, 2020, 09:06:31 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on March 26, 2020, 08:43:51 AM
Trump's approval rating is up.  What is your major malfunction?

https://www.ft.com/content/296f2c82-6e86-11ea-9bca-bf503995cd6f
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Very interesting text, thank you very much! :P

Looks like they changed it as it was a free to read article when I looked at it originally.
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Malthus

Does anyone know why Trump is moving troops to the Canadian border?

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5510853

I mean, the ostensible reason makes no sense.
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grumbler

Quote from: Malthus on March 26, 2020, 05:53:06 PM
Does anyone know why Trump is moving troops to the Canadian border?

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5510853

I mean, the ostensible reason makes no sense.
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Some cockamamie story on Fox and Friends is always a good bet.

Oexmelin

Quote from: Malthus on March 26, 2020, 05:53:06 PM
Does anyone know why Trump is moving troops to the Canadian border?

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5510853

I mean, the ostensible reason makes no sense.

As I said in the other thread, Trump has a limited repertoire of moves to assert power. Insult them. Fire them. Ostentatious consumption. Claim extraordinary expertise. And use military force. That is all.
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Sheilbh

Quote from: Oexmelin on March 26, 2020, 06:13:49 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 26, 2020, 05:53:06 PM
Does anyone know why Trump is moving troops to the Canadian border?

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5510853

I mean, the ostensible reason makes no sense.

As I said in the other thread, Trump has a limited repertoire of moves to assert power. Insult them. Fire them. Ostentatious consumption. Claim extraordinary expertise. And use military force. That is all.
And tariffs :)
Let's bomb Russia!

viper37

Quote from: crazy canuck on March 26, 2020, 06:16:38 PM
The expression on the face of our Deputy PM pretty much says it all

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-border-coronavirus-1.5510853
1000 troops for 8900km, he sure is practicing social distancing...
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merithyn

Quote from: DGuller on March 26, 2020, 11:16:23 AM
Trumpism can literally turn into a death cult.

We're kind of already seeing this, aren't we? Fox is saying the pandemic isn't real. Trump is saying it's not that bad. Anyone who listens to him or his propaganda channel are far more likely to get this virus, which makes them more likely to die from it. The red states aren't even locking down, so there will be minimal flattening so a lot of people will die of the virus as well as a lot of other problems that might otherwise be treated.

I mean, this is exactly what a death cult looks like.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...