What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Norgy]

Well. Some CBD shop in Greece is going to get a huge order soon. I can't handle this without some pillow of soft, comforting cannabis.

Matt effing Gaetz. And people voted for this moron? And the other orange moron?

Well. Sleep well and good luck. The mushroom clouds are ever closer. It'd be nice with a Languish meet where we could just spell ARMAGEDDON with henna tattoos.
I'd suggest in Switzerland so we can deposit some gold, in the slight hope we survive this.

[HVC]

Well. Some CBD shop in Greece is going to get a huge order soon. I can't handle this without some pillow of soft, comforting cannabis.

Matt effing Gaetz. And people voted for this moron? And the other orange moron?

Well. Sleep well and good luck. The mushroom clouds are ever closer. It'd be nice with a Languish meet where we could just spell ARMAGEDDON with henna tattoos.
I'd suggest in Switzerland so we can deposit some gold, in the slight hope we survive this.

Nah, Trumps America would roll over to Russia and beg for a nice belly rub long before there was a chance of nuclear war.

[Norgy]

I can say with confidence that Russian belly rubs are not something you want.

[PJL]

I think I'd prefer nuclear war over Russian belly rubs.

[HVC]

You just haven't met he right Russian girls


Stay away from Serbians though.

[Norgy]

Every Serbian I have met, no matter the sex, has looked very ready to give me a Glasgow kiss. Or, Belgrade kiss, Pristina kiss. A headbutt.

[grumbler]

But I am also referring to a pattern in these kinds of government reforms. How many government efficiency departments and so forth already exist? Tons.

They should create a redundancy department

The Department of Redundancy Department.

[HVC]

But I am also referring to a pattern in these kinds of government reforms. How many government efficiency departments and so forth already exist? Tons.

They should create a redundancy department

The Department of Redundancy Department.

My joke walked so that yours could run

[Norgy]

One might be tempted to suggest Elon Musk to lead a taskforce of redundacy.

[crazy canuck]

Why, what did you expect? Just image the clown troupe at the end of his term when he has burned through his current picks and replaced them with even worse sycophants.

I expected something like his picks during his first term.

What did Trump say in the last four years that gave you any such false hope?

[Solmyr]

Given that we are in insane clown land now, I predict Marjorie Taylor-Greene as Secretary of Education.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Given that we are in insane clown land now, I predict Marjorie Taylor-Greene as Secretary of Education.

That would Re-education since she's a traitor

[Syt]

So, how much of the checks & balances, and the guardrails of the constitution and its institutions remain at this point?


Also, I was looking for an old thread yesterday and stumbled over this one from November 2012: https://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,8701.msg498965.html#msg498965

The thread is from 2012, but is a horror vision from 2008 what an Obama presidency might be. Especially striking this bit which seems tragically farcical in hindsight:

On January 20, 2009, President Obama's inauguration went smoothly, and he spoke eloquently of reaching out to Republicans who would work with him. Even in the next month, when Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens announced they would step down from the Supreme Court, nobody was very surprised – Ginsburg was already 75 years-old and in ill health, and Stevens was 88. President Obama nominated two far-Left, American Civil Liberties Union-oriented judges, and the Democratic Senate confirmed them quickly. They are brilliant, articulate and in their early 40s, so they can expect to stay on the court for 30 or 40 years. But things seemed the same because the court retained its 4-4 split between liberals and conservatives, with Justice Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote.

The decisive changes on the Supreme Court started in June, when Justice Kennedy resigned – he was 72 and had grown weary of the unrelenting responsibility. His replacement – another young liberal Obama appointment – gave a 5-4 majority to justices who were eager to create laws from the bench. The four conservative justices who remained — John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — were suddenly in the minority.

Then in August 2009, two months after Kennedy resigned, Justice Scalia unexpectedly announced his resignation due to health reasons and by October 2009 another Obama appointment took his oath and joined the court.

The three remaining conservatives (known as "originalists" because they hold that the meaning of the Constitution is its "original public meaning") kept objecting that the role of the Supreme Court should not be to create laws but only to interpret the Constitution and the laws that had been passed by Congress and the state legislatures. But the six liberal justices paid no attention. They decided cases in light of their understanding of the needs of society, and they took more and more precedents not from the U. S. Constitution but from international laws.

From the end of 2009, Justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito have been constantly outvoted 6-3, and they are essentially powerless. It might be 20 or 30 years before enough new appointments could be made to change the far-Left dominance of the Supreme Court.

Finally the far-Left had the highest prize: complete control of the Supreme Court. And they set about quickly to expedite cases by which they would enact the entire agenda of the far Left in American politics – everything they had hoped for and more took just a few key decisions.

[Norgy]

Tulsi Gabbard. 
Jesus Christ.

I am definitely going to build some basement shelter now.

[Admiral Yi]

Guardrails.  2/3 in the Senate impeachment.  Still there.  The Attorney General needs to sign a special counsel order.  That's gone.  I think two codes for a nuclear launch.  I dunno about Walz.

Anything else?