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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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grumbler

Quote from: Iormlund on October 02, 2025, 12:23:36 PMI loved that he felt the need to paraphrase Vegetius to fucking general officers.

I think that he single-handedly reduced the chances of the military supporting a coup by 98%
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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garbon

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5534532-poll-shutdown-trump-republicans-blame/

QuoteMore Americans blame Trump, Republicans for shutdown than Democrats: Survey

Close to half of Americans blame President Trump and Republicans for the current government shutdown, according to a new poll.

In the poll from The Washington Post, 47 percent of respondents said "Trump and Republicans in Congress" are "mainly responsible for the federal government partially shutting down," while 30 percent pinned the blame on "Democrats in Congress" for the shutdown.

In the survey, 66 percent of respondents said they are either "very" or "somewhat" concerned over the shutdown, while 34 percent said they are "not too" or "not at all" concerned.

The Post poll took place Wednesday, featuring 1,010 people and a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

The federal government formally went into a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. EDT Wednesday in the wake of congressional leaders being unable to come to a deal over a stopgap spending bill, leaving lawmakers struggling over how to move forward.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday evening he had not heard from the White House since a sit-down with Trump and other congressional leaders.

"We haven't heard from the White House since the White House meeting on Monday. The president has been behaving, you know, somewhat erratically and in [an] unconventional fashion in the context of the government shutting down," Jeffries told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead."

"Clearly, they wanted to shut the government down, unfortunately," he added. "We're ready to work together to bring it back open, but to do it in a way where we enact a spending agreement that's bipartisan, that meets the needs of the American people, while at the same time addresses the Republican health care crisis that is devastating everyday Americans all across the country."

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told The Hill, "I think there are a lot of Democrat people who are looking for a way out. They want an off-ramp here.

"There's a good amount of outreach going on and conversations being held. We'll see where it goes."
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

HVC

Quote from: Razgovory on October 02, 2025, 01:21:31 PMThey only blame 1/16th of him.

I actually misremembered, so they blame 1/8th of me.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Baron von Schtinkenbutt


Jacob

Quote from: grumbler on October 02, 2025, 12:25:47 PMI think that he single-handedly reduced the chances of the military supporting a coup by 98%

Good to hear.

I hope the senior leadership are taking notes and (considered) actions to increase the resilience of the forces against anti-democratic subversion.

Though, I'm sure elements of the MAGA leadership recognize that it is a long term project to get the military to back (or at least not move against) a potential coup.

Jacob

"The Republican health care crisis" seems on point.

HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Quote from: HVC on October 02, 2025, 02:34:32 PM:unsure:

Sorry, that was directed at Raz and his obsession, and you slipped in before it got posted. :P

HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

The Minsky Moment

The more serious concern is that in the midst of what is arguably a revolution in military affairs, with implications for US tactics, operations, strategy, force structure, etc., civilian leadership is completely asleep at the wheel, obsessing over trivialities.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson

Razgovory

Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on October 02, 2025, 02:47:05 PM
Quote from: HVC on October 02, 2025, 02:34:32 PM:unsure:

Sorry, that was directed at Raz and his obsession, and you slipped in before it got posted. :P
It's weird that being against racism is seen as wrong.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017