From blowing up at Zelenskyy to fast-tracking Executive Orders, what can we learn from Trump’s recent behaviour?
Buckle up, buttercup!
What, you think he’s going to ease up?
In a month from now everybody will take their attention away.
In a year he’s a normal president.
In 10 years he will endorse Tim Waltz as candidate.
It’s entirely dependent upon the responses of federal agencies and bodies, business interests, the response of average citizens, and foreign response. All but the last’s responses have so far seemed fairly limp so, all other things being equal, I would expect it to continue or get worse.
Of course not. It’ll be so much worse.
Shit’s only just begun.
No.
It will be worse.
Exponentially. Guaranteed.
Yeah, probably. This is just getting started. He hasn’t even threatened to use the insurrection act this month.
I’m betting it’ll actually get invoked - definitely before his term’s out, but I’d honestly be surprised if we make it through the year before he goes for it. That, or in the lead up to the midterms if the polls look super sketchy for the GOP, or in response to them if it’s a not-Republican (because I’m honestly not sure the DNC will look like, or if it will even exist at that point) blowout.
Edit: or, just to be a cheeky little shitbag, he’ll invoke it on either March 14 (53 days after his inauguration - a number history nerds might remember from another democratic collapse), or on March 23 (which would be the the 92nd anniversary of the signing of the Enabling Act of 1933).
Project 2025 is just the 2025 part of a bigger plan. Even now, they are just at the start of 2025 project : https://www.project2025.observer/
It’s like watching a little bratty rich kid set fire to the drapes inside the living room … and then having a bunch of adults in the room defending the kid and stopping anyone from doing anything about the fire in the living room, even denying that there is a fire in the living room.
All the while arguing with everyone else in the house about the fire that is spreading around the living room and will soon take over the house. Everyone fighting and shouting as the fire slowly goes from the drapes, to the couch, the TV, the bookshelf and smoke is now starting to go into the hallway and flames are starting to make their way to the next room.
The neighbours are standing on the sidewalk pointing and shouting “Hey! … there’s a fire in your house!” … and everyone inside the burning house shouting back “No there isn’t! … (cough, cough, cough) … go away! leave us alone!”
The curtains were woke, and some collateral damage is to be expected.
Everyone knows it was the drapes that tried to set fire to the child first.
100% agree. Why are people like this?
Because politics are no longer about outcomes for half the country, just identity.
It’s almost one step further to be honest; by tying politics to religion they have both tapped people’s blind faith and essentially equated not being a conservative to being a sinner.
I’ve heard things like “I am voting for [candidate] because they are a good Christian” all my life growing up in the southernish US.
Yeah, those people on the other side of the road should mind their own business.
/s
This is just the start. This is him just seeing what he can get away with
Yes. The Kremlin dictates U.S. policy.
Yes.
Up to 48 times as damaging.
You sure he can keep it up for that long?
This is probably what many think and it’s pretty problematic. Old as he is, he can still fuck the country bareback until he’s dead. If you’re hoping he just tires himself out and things can go back to normal, uhh… There will be others.
It feels like this is written for someone who hasn’t actually lived through the last ten years and finds anything about this Trump administration to be surprising.
Trump is engaged in a political blitzkrieg and he is overwhelming all of the checks and balances. He is already taking control of the FEC so we can’t be guaranteed fair elections, and the military. He has removed the people in the military whose job it is to determine whether an order is legal.
Anyone who can’t read the writing on the wall is fucking willfully blind. His Presidency is poised to end our democracy. Full stop.
Even if Trump is defeated politically or in the courts or on the field of battle, even if he chokes on a hamburder tomorrow, this nation is crippled until we are able to rewrite the Constitution to prevent all of this—that being said, we voted for this. No constitution in the world can prevent an entire nation from shooting themselves in the foot.
So you can look at it one of two ways:
- Yes, the rest of his Presidency will be even more damaging to this nation than the first month as the ability to resist him at all is eroded and undermined.
- No, because he has already dealt a fatal blow to the republic. Everything after this is so much extra filling for the shit pie we have created.
Whichever way feels most correct to say, it doesn’t really matter because the end result will be the same.
Yes to what you said except we actually didn’t vote for this. Sure, way too many people voted for Trump but he only came out ahead because of voter purges and voter suppression tactics that republicans have been using for years. Also the concentrated propaganda from Fox, talk radio, and social media made sure that half of voters aren’t even aware of reality.
To be clear, this is different than the “stop the steal” lies that maga was telling in 2020. This is about systemic ways that republicans have an unfair advantage in elections.
Here’s one article about that, there are others.
https://orlandoadvocate.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
Voter suppression doesn’t absolve 90 million eligible people from not voting. Non voters suck and need called out for complicity.
Not to mention the substantial circumstantial evidence that Musk bought his position as co-president via hacking voting machines I have doubts the Republicans actually won anything at all.
Just remember, our voting machines were proven to be vulnerable to first hand attacks.
It’s a good thing no enemies of the United States had their hands all over them during a sham “audit” of the last legitimate election we will ever have…
