What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Syt

#42795
March 19, 2026, 11:52:49 PM
We are born dying, but we are compelled to fancy our chances.
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Zanza

#42796
March 19, 2026, 11:58:56 PM
 :lol: Maybe he puts his face on Mount Rushmore next or replaces the Statue of Liberty with his likeness in gold.

HVC

#42797
March 20, 2026, 12:12:47 AM
They'll actually be 12k with the other 50% of the gold funnelled to trumps accounts as is the Trump tradition.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

The Minsky Moment

#42798
March 20, 2026, 12:20:53 AM
Quote from: grumbler on March 19, 2026, 06:49:23 PMYes, and the comparison is an extremely apt one.  Sneak attacks during peace negotiations enraged the Greatest Generation, but Trump is as far from Greatest as it is possible to be, so he thinks that such attacks are admirable.

It was telling that he immediately recognized the parallel and yet embraced it.

Multiple high level Japanese officials were convicted of the crime of waging an aggressive war as a result of the Pearl Harbor attacks. Tojo was executed (for that and other crimes); others received long prison sentences. Not sure Trump knows that; I doubt that he cares.

The other aspect of the comment - the sheer idiocy of gratuitously insulting the leader of a major economic power at a time when the US is desperately scrambling to fine willing participants to help clean up its Persian mess  - is sadly just par for the Trump course.
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

Syt

#42799
March 20, 2026, 02:33:07 AM
Trump thinks not using sneak attack tactics is dumb. Why would you not use any advantage that you can against your enemies, or against your friends (who are also your enemies who are just useful to you at the moment)?
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Syt

#42800
March 20, 2026, 02:36:31 AM
In the Transmetropolitan comics I always found it silly and over the top when "The Smiler" becomes president with the sole motivation that he thinks he should be, and with the goal of putting people in their place and making their lives miserable. With policies like kicking mental patients to the curb and encouraging "care in the community" instead. Or tearing down a notorious housing project of his predecessor that was built with toxic materials ... but not providing new shelters to the people. And censoring unpatriotic speech because "there ought to be limits to freedom. Doesn't seem so far fetched now.
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The Minsky Moment

#42801
March 20, 2026, 11:43:07 AM
Just saw above I wrote about how the "the US is desperately scrambling to fine willing participants to help clean up its Persian mess".

I was about to correct "fine" to "find" but then realized the original version better captures the spirit of the effort.
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

Valmy

#42802
March 20, 2026, 11:45:30 AM
I guess I fail to see what other nations could do short of forming a massive international ground force and invading. But there is little political will for that anywhere.

Trump visited the Oracle of Delphi and was told "If you attack Persia, an authoritarian theocratic state will be destroyed"
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

crazy canuck

#42803
March 20, 2026, 11:51:27 AM
 :D
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In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

Syt

#42804
March 20, 2026, 11:53:50 AM
Quote from: Valmy on March 20, 2026, 11:45:30 AMI guess I fail to see what other nations could do short of forming a massive international ground force and invading. But there is little political will for that anywhere.

I think trying to militarily occupy the US is not very realistic.
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Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

crazy canuck

#42805
March 20, 2026, 11:55:42 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 20, 2026, 11:53:50 AM
Quote from: Valmy on March 20, 2026, 11:45:30 AMI guess I fail to see what other nations could do short of forming a massive international ground force and invading. But there is little political will for that anywhere.

I think trying to militarily occupy the US is not very realistic.

I don't know the chances of the populace successfully rising up and deposing their despotic regime is probably greater than in Iran.  Isn't what all those gun enthusiasts have been training for?
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In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes Canada unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.

HisMajestyBOB

#42806
March 20, 2026, 01:07:52 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on March 20, 2026, 11:55:42 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 20, 2026, 11:53:50 AM
Quote from: Valmy on March 20, 2026, 11:45:30 AMI guess I fail to see what other nations could do short of forming a massive international ground force and invading. But there is little political will for that anywhere.

I think trying to militarily occupy the US is not very realistic.

I don't know the chances of the populace successfully rising up and deposing their despotic regime is probably greater than in Iran.  Isn't what all those gun enthusiasts have been training for?

Some of us will even greet you as liberators.
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Sophie Scholl

#42807
March 20, 2026, 07:26:56 PM
If we survive Trump, we so, so need to bring back damnatio memoriae.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

HVC

#42808
March 20, 2026, 07:35:06 PM
Quote from: Sophie Scholl on March 20, 2026, 07:26:56 PMIf we survive Trump, we so, so need to bring back damnatio memoriae.

Nah, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Just make statues of Trump with a baby dick or something :P
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Jacob

#42809
March 20, 2026, 09:06:10 PM
It's more important to proscribe his family and confiscate their wealth, IMO.
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