What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Barrister]

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Good to see the mormons keeping their end up.

I was curious what was up with South Dakota.

Is it just the Indians?

[Jacob]

I am tempted to try and limit my news intake for a while, but I don't think I'll manage. And maybe with this clusterfuck it is better to stay up to date and see it coming before it hits you in the head.

Same. I avoid the newspaper but still get the highlights from Reddit and here. I've got enough stress in my life that I don't need to further stress myself over things I can do fuck-all about.

Was reading a thing that says this is the strategy - similar to how Putin entrenched himself in Russia. Overwhelm the discourse with fake news (nothing is real), bad news and chaos where ever possible (it's too much to cope with), attacks on anyone with any kind of integrity (they're all the same) to push the population into a kind of exhausted stupor that stops them from pushing back against the take over.

[Jacob]

Putting this here so we can see how it works out.

[Admiral Yi]

Was reading a thing that says this is the strategy - similar to how Putin entrenched himself in Russia. Overwhelm the discourse with fake news (nothing is real), bad news and chaos where ever possible (it's too much to cope with), attacks on anyone with any kind of integrity (they're all the same) to push the population into a kind of exhausted stupor that stops them from pushing back against the take over.

Did the author of article explain what pushing back against the take over means in practice?

[Valmy]

Federal Department of Education is being axed.

I mean that doesn't even really do anything. All the programs that the Department oversees would just be sent to other departments. They would need to cancel each program in Congress. All axing the department would do is bureaucratic reshuffle.

[viper37]

Apparently, there are protests scheduled in many state capitals tomorrow, but no media talks about it.  Kinda weird.  Seems like there has already been protests about the DOGE takeover too.

[Valmy]

Good to see the mormons keeping their end up.

I don't know man. We have a state run by a religion who have a primary social goal of getting everybody married off and having as many babies as possible and soon as possible and they even they cannot achieve a 2.1 TFR anymore.

[viper37]

Ah, in other news, Columbia has cancelled a huge petroleum contract in the US.  The contract was confirmed Monday by the Columbian state corporation, but cancelled by the President tonight under the guise of environmental protection.

A huge fracking project in Texas and New Mexico, apparently.  Was supposed to produce 90 000 barels a day.  Ecopetrol was to invest 880 000 000$ in this project.

I guess Columbia is really scared of Trump now...

[Valmy]

Ah, in other news, Columbia has cancelled a huge petroleum contract in the US.  The contract was confirmed Monday by the Columbian state corporation, but cancelled by the President tonight under the guise of environmental protection.

A huge fracking project in Texas and New Mexico, apparently.  Was supposed to produce 90 000 barels a day.  Ecopetrol was to invest 880 000 000$ in this project.

I guess Columbia is really scared of Trump now...

It is kind of funny. When Trump goes after Colombia and Mexico, Texas Governor Abbott is horrified but dares not say a word. As soon as Trump got into it with Canada, a steady stream of "YEAH! FUCK CANADA! GET THEM MY GLORIOUS MASTER" statements came from the Governor's Mansion. He was just so excited to be able to participate.

But yeah he has to be clenching his buttocks right now.