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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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Syt

#34665
January 15, 2025, 05:08:29 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on January 15, 2025, 05:02:32 AMHegseth needs to look up ASEAN though, it just might be relevant to his future job  :huh:

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The Minsky Moment

#34666
January 15, 2025, 12:04:44 PM
I assume when Charlie Kirk refers to "stellar" he means a spectacular event of self-destruction, followed by a collapse into a black hole where no meaningful information can exit.
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Barrister

#34667
January 15, 2025, 12:47:58 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 15, 2025, 02:16:24 AMReminds me of a (crappy) novel I skimmed a while back. Essentially, Muslim terrorists fire dirty bombs in Europe. EU sees violent anti-Muslim pogroms. USA, appalled, takes in refugees. Muslims cause devastating attacks in USA. Iran and Israel have nuclear exchange. Radioactive Holy Land gets occupied by Muslims. USA votes in ultra-conservative evangelical president who calls for a crusade. His elite ideologically pure crusader units get the latest modern equipment that gets knocked out by EMP bursts (I guess it'd be hackers these days :P ), so the old guard in their 80s/90s equipment go in to save the day. The book ends with the US victorious and ruled by a Taliban-style Christian regime.

Are you sure that wasn't the Turner Diaries?
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Syt

#34668
January 15, 2025, 01:07:48 PM
No, definitely not. :D It was not "aspirational" but rather meant as a warning. :P
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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Tamas

#34669
January 15, 2025, 05:56:35 PM
Is it true that Orban hasn't received an invitation to the inauguration?  :lol:

mongers

#34670
January 15, 2025, 06:03:22 PM
Quote from: Tamas on January 15, 2025, 05:56:35 PMIs it true that Orban hasn't received an invitation to the inauguration?  :lol:

OK, have to admit I'm struggling this, thought they'd be an easy joke, but I fail, I started with this and just gave up:

Trump saw "Hungry Orban" on the invite list and struck it through...  :Embarrass:

I'm sure JR et al couldn't furnish a good riff or pun on the topic.
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The Minsky Moment

#34671
January 15, 2025, 06:31:45 PM
Orban?  Na bro.
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--Joan Robinson

Barrister

#34672
January 15, 2025, 06:37:41 PM
Quote from: Tamas on January 15, 2025, 05:56:35 PMIs it true that Orban hasn't received an invitation to the inauguration?  :lol:

I'm reading he was invited, but declined to attend.

By the way - countries like Canada, UK or Mexico?  Not invited.

But Milei from Argentina was invited. :lol:
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Tamas

#34673
January 15, 2025, 07:09:32 PM
I am struggling to believe he wouldn't go. His great alliance with Trump is the golden bullet that's been advertised to solve all problems in Hungary this year. His people out more faith in Trump than that insane blond Trumpist woman with the 3 names and I am not even kidding.

EDIT: maybe he didn't want to be sat in the back rows.

crazy canuck

#34674
January 15, 2025, 09:40:35 PM
Seeing Rubio at his confirmation hearing, and I can't now unsee it.  He's Romulan

Razgovory

#34675
January 15, 2025, 10:28:19 PM
Quote from: Zanza on January 12, 2025, 04:14:50 PMIs Bannon still relevant?
Honestly, I don't know.  It is amusing that he thought that Trump would stick with him over the rich and powerful.
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

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Sheilbh

#34676
Today at 02:43:38 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 15, 2025, 06:37:41 PMI'm reading he was invited, but declined to attend.

By the way - countries like Canada, UK or Mexico?  Not invited.

But Milei from Argentina was invited. :lol:
I don't think it's an event where foreign leaders are normally invited - I could be wrong but I don't think a British PM has ever been invited (it would perhaps feel a bit too outlying satrapies attending the new emperor to do that every four years).

For example I don't think there was any UK political leader (or royal) at Obama's inauguration. I think it's a job for the diplomatic corps.
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