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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#166876: Jan 15th 2017 at 11:44:32 AM

I'll believe that Trump and co are "going down" when they are led away from the WH in cuffs, and not a moment sooner.

At this point, I think Trump could be filmed burying puppies alive and lighting the pit on fire, and he might get away with it.

edited 15th Jan '17 11:44:47 AM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#166877: Jan 15th 2017 at 11:46:18 AM

[up][up]I will believe in surcease when I see them all in cuffs. "In for a penny, in for a pound of flesh." I will repeat that as often as I can to drive that point home-the GOP is functionally a cult, and every one of them that did not refuse to endorse Trump like Collins or make a decisive stand like Mccain and Graham is going with him wherever, be that standing on top of the rubble or standing at the far end of a firing squad.

edited 15th Jan '17 11:46:36 AM by ViperMagnum357

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#166878: Jan 15th 2017 at 12:03:02 PM

I have reached the point where the idea of a Ryan presidency honestly doesn't seem that bad. Relatively speaking.

Disgusted, but not surprised
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#166879: Jan 15th 2017 at 12:06:48 PM

He's gonna start a shit ton of wars, but at least I'll sleep safely at night knowing I won't be destroyed under nuclear fire.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#166880: Jan 15th 2017 at 12:18:39 PM

Ryan might start shit with Iran, but I can't see him starting fights with China and Russia.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#166881: Jan 15th 2017 at 12:21:43 PM

I'll believe that Trump and co are "going down" when they are led away from the WH in cuffs, and not a moment sooner.

Agreed. I wouldn't get too caught up in imagining what Ryan would be like until/if Trump is sunk.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#166882: Jan 15th 2017 at 12:36:11 PM

This stuff about Obamacare/ACA is nothing new, really. I'm reminded of a political cartoon from way back during Obama's first term...

Democratic Donkey: "We have heard the American people, and they want..."

American People: "Jobs! Jobs! We want jobs!"

Democratic Donkey: "...healthcare!"

Cut to Obama's second term, where the GOP controlled Congress...

Republican Elephant: "We have heard the American people, and they want..."

American People: "Jobs! Jobs! We want jobs!"

Republican Elephant: "...to repeal healthcare!"

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
EruditeEsotericist Since: May, 2015
#166883: Jan 15th 2017 at 1:07:24 PM

The Scottish Sunday Herald's sarcastic description of the inauguration in its TV listings has gone viral.

Here is the text:

After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories – among the most common is the “What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War” setting – but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present. The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today’s feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#166884: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:19:24 PM

Fifty-two percent say Trump does not care about average Americans, and 62% say that he is not level-headed. As for his nominees, 40% of Americans disapprove of them, while 28% say they haven't heard enough yet. However, there were some positive responses for the President-elect. More than two-thirds -- 68% -- consider Trump intelligent and 71% say that he is a strong person.

Umm..cognitive dissidence and the recent humbling of poll data aside, how do we define strength and intelligence these days?

When it comes to Donald Trump's America, Ivanka and Jared will be ruling it. Also, the dark horse won the betting pool. Won't be Pence or Ryan. Apparently, the states got its first female president after all (if you don't count Mrs. Wilson).

[up]So that's it! I've been in the Twilight Zone this whole time...Well my parents did warn me not to polish the trombone before playing by the microwave. \\\

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#166885: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:19:49 PM

The Scots seem to hate Trump with a fiery passion. Bless them. [awesome]

[up]Regarding the negative polls: No Shit Sherlock.

edited 15th Jan '17 2:24:51 PM by BearyScary

Do not obey in advance.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#166886: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:26:41 PM

I mean, Ivanka is the white sheep of the clan. And her husband is mostly a greedy plutocrat. Could be worse...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#166887: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:32:40 PM

The Scottish National Party used to be big fans of him, they gave him an honourary position and everything. Salmons in particular was buddy buddy with him I believe.

The Scots themselves would happily burn his stupid golf course to the ground.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#166888: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:44:29 PM

Also he got it into his head that Scotland as a nation, one of the most staunchly pro-Remain parts of the UK, voted in favour of leaving the EU.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#166889: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:53:35 PM

Trump just doubled down in an interview with German newspaper. Called the EU and NATO "obsolete."

Same interview called for a 35% tax on all cars not manufactured in the USA.

More details here

edited 15th Jan '17 2:55:45 PM by TacticalFox88

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3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#166890: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:55:54 PM

.....I'd say my opinion on that but I doubt any of you want a long paragraph of German obscenities.

"You can reply to this Message!"
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#166891: Jan 15th 2017 at 2:57:36 PM

Might be time to withdraw from NORAD, lest we end up as Trump's reluctant evil sidekick....

Also, I'm pretty sure those kinds of tariffs get your ass kicked out of the WTO.

edited 15th Jan '17 3:04:39 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#166892: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:06:19 PM

How much can he destroy the US' economy and international standing?

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
EruditeEsotericist Since: May, 2015
#166893: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:12:52 PM

It's worth noting that Nicola Sturgeon has not been so overtly pro-Trump as Salmond was, and recently seems to have been much more openly opposed. She stripped him of his honorary ambassador status and made clear that she'll be playing Zero Tolerance with his bigotry and the like. Though this is unlikely to stop the SNP exploiting business opportunities, and there will be plenty more of those to come.

It's also relevant that the Scottish Herald is easily one of the most sane British Newspapers, and represents the centre-left without being pure propaganda (The National) or part of the Murdoch empire. So it's actually trustworthy, and they are definitely not keen on Trump.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#166894: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:26:47 PM

[up][up] Who even knows. On one hand Trump's foreign policy appointments are seemingly the most competent and least crazy of the bunch (they're still wolves in a pack of jackals though), on the other hand there's no guarantee Trump will actually listen to their advice, and even then every possibility these appointees will cause a great deal of long term damage by pursuing a ruthless realist foreign policy agenda ala Nixon and Kissinger.

As far as the economy goes, in the short term it's unlikely very much will happen in the short term. The long term damage will be catastrophic.

edited 15th Jan '17 3:31:05 PM by CaptainCapsase

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#166895: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:28:01 PM

Trump meets physicist who insists global warming good for planet

And he compared CO 2 deominzation to the Holocaust

Continuing to surround himself with like-minded climate deniers and skeptics, President-elect Donald Trump met Friday with none other than William Happer, the Princeton physics professor who believes global warming is “good for mankind.”

Happer, who served as director of energy research at the Department of Energy in the early 1990s under President George H.W. Bush, has championed the notion that we humans should increase rather than curb carbon dioxide emissions.

As The Washington Post reported Friday, Happer testified before the Senate in 2015 that the “benefits that more CO 2 brings from increased agricultural yields and modest warming far outweigh any harm.”

Happer has also argued that today’s warming “seems to be due mostly to natural causes, not to increasing levels of carbon dioxide,” that children are being “force-fed propaganda masquerading as science” and has compared the “demonization of carbon dioxide” to the suffering Jewish people endured during the Holocaust.

“Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews,” he told Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in 2014.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#166896: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:29:38 PM

I think the residents of a few Pacific islands would like to have some words with him...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#166897: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:36:49 PM

[up][up] That's literally a Captain Planet level of cartoon villainy.

New Survey coming this weekend!
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#166898: Jan 15th 2017 at 3:52:33 PM

They don't need a word with him, they need a lot of Kompromat on him. And on the vermin in Congress.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#166899: Jan 15th 2017 at 4:17:39 PM

I, for one, look forward to seeing the US dealing with millions of Bangladeshi refugees once most of that country starts flooding.

Oh wait.

They said there wouldn't be any more foreigners.

Good luck with that.

edited 15th Jan '17 4:17:56 PM by math792d

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#166900: Jan 15th 2017 at 4:22:23 PM

[up] Technically, it'll be India, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar that have to deal with the Bangladeshi Refugees immediately. I don't know how many Bangladeshi Refugees will eventually resettle in the United States, but it won't be anywhere near the scale of Refuguees India would have to take in...


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