What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Tamas]

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Do we need a Trump fallout thread?

You mean the Biden presidency thread?

Would be hilarious if Trump was still the most common topic in Biden's thread.

He is bound to be. That's the thing with these guys. In Hungary, the only group talking more about Orban than his fans are his enemies.

[Josquius]

As others have commented before on this: It sounds like what a child thinks the president does (the description has been a default text for a long time).

Kind of puts me in mind of the generic school report text when a teacher can't remember much about a kid.

[garbon]

36 more hours till topic is unpinned.

Do we need a Trump fallout thread?

You mean the Biden presidency thread?

Would be hilarious if Trump was still the most common topic in Biden's thread.

Wouldn't that be the ideal? It would mean Biden hasn't given us an endless amount to bitch about or laugh at.

Well maybe not ideal. Maybe ideal is few posts at all about US presidency as little that needs to be said.

[DGuller]

36 more hours till topic is unpinned.

Do we need a Trump fallout thread?

Hopefully that would be the only fallout we'll need a thread for.

[Monoriu]

Is Trump going to pardon himself?

What about his business empire?  Will he suffer because of his reputation loss?

Is Melania Trump the prettiest first lady ever?

What are the comedians going to do after Trump has disappeared from the public? 

[Threviel]

Is Trump going to pardon himself?

What about his business empire?  Will he suffer because of his reputation loss?

Is Melania Trump the prettiest first lady ever?

What are the comedians going to do after Trump has disappeared from the public?

Who knows.

Yes, it will suffer.

No, she is not. She's probably somewhere between Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Cleveland.

Make fun of someone else.

[Sheilbh]

From the conservative Washington Examiner:

Wyoming GOP chairman floats secession after Cheney votes to impeach Trump
by Mike Brest, Breaking News Reporter |
| January 18, 2021 04:50 PM

A top Republican official in Wyoming floated the idea of seceding from the United States after a high-profile member of his party from the Cowboy State embraced the impeachment of President Trump.

Wyoming GOP Chairman Frank Eathorne suggested the idea to War Room Pandemic podcast host and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a weekend interview focused on the decision by Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranked Republican in the House, to vote in favor of impeaching Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection related to the deadly riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

"We need to focus on the fundamentals that's been stated in this broadcast, and that is what Wyoming is," Eathorne stated. "We are straight-talking, focused on the global scene, but we're also focused at home. Many of these Western states have the ability to be self-reliant, and we're keeping eyes on Texas too and their consideration of possible secession. Now, they have a different state constitution than we do as far as wording, but it is something that we're all paying attention to."

Bannon, in response, said he was "absolutely, 1,000% against any even discussion of secession."

Eathorne, who rebuked Cheney throughout the interview, said her office did not tell the state party ahead of her announcement that she intended to vote in favor of impeaching Trump a second time. He later told the Star Tribune that the idea of seceding was brought up "only [in] a brief conversation with the Texas GOP in earlier work with them," and added, "won't come up again unless the grass roots brings it up."

"This is the kind of nonsense that's coming to define the GOP, and it represents an existential threat to the party," a Washington, D.C.-based Republican official told the Washington Examiner. "If we're known as the side that embraces conspiracy theories, ignores the Constitution, and talks up secession, we'll never win another contested election, and we'll only have ourselves to blame because our leaders did not condemn this foolishness."

Eathorne's mention of Texas's threat to secede is a reference to Texas GOP Chairman Allen West, who made a similar threat after the Supreme Court rejected a Texas challenge to President-elect Joe Biden's wins in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

"This decision will have far reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic. Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution," the statement read in part.

The Wyoming GOP released a statement excoriating Cheney after she, along with nine other Republicans, voted to impeach the president.

"The wind in Wyoming has been horrendous today—with gusts up to 65 miles per hour. That is nothing compared to the whirlwind created by Representative Cheney's announcement that she would be voting to impeach President Trump, and her subsequent follow-through of doing just that," the party wrote in part.

"There has not been a time during our tenure when we have seen this type of an outcry from our fellow Republicans, with the anger and frustration being palpable in the comments we have received," the Wyoming GOP statement continued. "Our telephone has not stopped ringing, our email is filling up, and our website has seen more traffic than at any previous time. The consensus is clear that those who are reaching out to the Party vehemently disagree with Representative Cheney's decision and actions."

The Republican National Committee did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump, who is leaving office on Wednesday, now faces a Senate trial. A two-thirds vote, or 67 senators, is required to convict. Trump was first impeached by the Democratic-controlled House in December 2019 on two Ukraine-related charges but was acquitted by the GOP-led Senate.

[Eddie Teach]

Is Melania Trump the prettiest first lady ever

I'm leaning toward Jacqueline Kennedy.

[Grey Fox]

Melania isn't even the hottest Trump wife.

[The Larch]

Apparently large US retail chains are dropping MyPillow products now. 

[The Larch]

So the White House has dropped the 1776 Report on American history - all culture war all the time:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf



I have to be honest I did not expect one of Trump's last acts would be to launch an assault on Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, but here we are.

It's quite short - worth a read because there is nonsense on every page

Nice summary of the report that I found on Twitter.

Every member of the 1776 Commission would have been a royalist in 1776

[The Minsky Moment]

Apparently large US retail chains are dropping MyPillow products now. 

It lulls you to sleep at night but then you wake up to martial law. And you really don't want Kash Patel in your bedroom in the morning.

[The Minsky Moment]

Nice summary of the report that I found on Twitter.

Every member of the 1776 Commission would have been a royalist in 1776

Could be, there is definitely a strong whiff of travail, patrie, famille.

[Sheilbh]

Could be, there is definitely a strong whiff of travail, patrie, famille.

Reminds me of one my favourite recent controversies when Blue Labour accidentally used a Vichy slogan


They then went a little crazy about "blue tick liberals" attacking them.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Turns out that fascism was just Hitler, and so is a dead issue.  The threat now comes from the Civil Rights Movement.

Yeah, interesting how fascism is now an ultra-left wing ideology no different from communism.