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Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#168052: Jan 20th 2017 at 10:34:06 PM

He could try what many presidents have before him, which is start a war with someone too weak to defend themselves, someplace with some strategic value, and an authoritarian regime for cover, in a region where we would like to have more influence. The Philippines would be perfect.
Nah, I call bull on that. Unless the Philippines have entered some kind of unprecedented alliance with China that I wasn't aware of. And even then...

I imagine that Duterte is the kind of guy Trump will get along with swimmingly, and I doubt that Trump is the type to be concerned about the Philippines' drug war. He may even approve it, if not be jealous of it. Not to mention that much of the country, including his own supporters, are (supposedly) not in the mood for more liberal interventions.

His administration may think differently, but I don't see them bucking the trend to move into the Philippines. Iran, on the other hand, is a different story.

edited 20th Jan '17 10:35:58 PM by Eschaton

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#168053: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:04:28 PM

Is anyone else pondering the fact that one of the first things Trump did as POTUS was to reverse a mortgage interest rate cut?

I mean that, right there, is an Establishing Character Moment for how Trump will act as POTUS. Any deluded pipe dreams that he was a secret liberal or something died that instant.

Steve Mnunchin must be salivating.

edited 20th Jan '17 11:05:59 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#168054: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:07:50 PM

Shouldn't really be surprised by that. It is real estate, after all. That must benefit him somehow.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#168055: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:10:14 PM

I mean, that move, it was so...Trump. Right before going off on vacation, he decides to undo legislation that could really help out a lot of struggling home owners because it might cut into his wealth or the wealth of his cronies. Trump's real slogan should have been "Trump First, Trump Second, Trump Third...America a distant Fourth"

edited 20th Jan '17 11:10:56 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#168056: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:17:47 PM

Personally I took planning to go on vacation literally the day after he was sworn in to be a firm Establishing Character Moment by itself.

edited 20th Jan '17 11:18:22 PM by sgamer82

HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#168057: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:21:33 PM

@ kkhohoho

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Civil War II isn't just a possibility, it's practically a near certainty. Especially now.

Coup d'etat first that succeeds in a few states, then the civil war. Sound familiar?

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#168058: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:22:42 PM

[up][up] That's a good indicator of his laziness and lack of respect for the position, true. But the mortgage interest rate cut reversal right before his vacation demonstrates his priorities.

edited 20th Jan '17 11:22:50 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#168059: Jan 20th 2017 at 11:54:28 PM

Trump's real slogan should have been "Trump First, Trump Second, Trump Third...America a distant Fourth Reich"
Fixed that for you tongue

But seriously, did anyone sane expect anything other than massive graft and the weakening of civil liberties from Donald Trump and his crew of fascists and plutocrats?

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#168060: Jan 21st 2017 at 12:04:53 AM

Ladies, gentleman, and nonbinary folks, the prologue's over, and the true battle starts now.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
#168061: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:01:32 AM

A battle to be fought with mean words and comparing the other guys to Nazis, which is always a successful strategy when one sets out to change the world.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#168062: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:34:13 AM

Trump re-decorated the inside of the White House already and apparently it's all gold now

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/21/trump-just-redecorated-entire-oval-office-gold-everything/

Gold curtains, gold drapes, gold curtains, golden couches, gold showers and tacky-looking gold furniture

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#168063: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:37:26 AM

[up] Clearly the man has his priorities in order.

I guess if he can't live in his Trump Tower suite for most of the next four years, he's gonna do everything he can to make the WH into Trump Tower.

Disgusted, but not surprised
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#168064: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:37:43 AM

[up][up][up] Well if the shoe fits, I will, and frankly, it does.

[up][up] So Trump wants his own Trump Tower away from Trump Tower. (Funny how I was thinking about how my grandmother described Trump Tower as looking like a "gilded French whorehouse" back when I was a kid, but that seems like an insult to both the French and sex workers.)

EDIT: [nja]'d

edited 21st Jan '17 1:38:15 AM by rmctagg09

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#168065: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:39:11 AM

[up] Pretty sure a gilded French whorehouse has more tasteful decor than Trump Tower.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#168066: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:42:43 AM

[up][up][up][up] Well, whoever gets the White House after him could probably sell that for a load of cashola or keep it for themselves, assuming the Secret Service doesn't steal some of it for themselves.

edited 21st Jan '17 1:46:46 AM by Bat178

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#168067: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:44:42 AM

[up] I'm pretty sure that when Trump leaves office he'll be taking as much of it with him as possible. Maybe there are rules against that, but since when has Trump ever given a shit about rules and traditions and such? When they don't benefit him, that is.

edited 21st Jan '17 1:45:03 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#168068: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:54:22 AM

He spams gold.

Gold gold gold wonderful gold, beautiful gold gold gold gold

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#168069: Jan 21st 2017 at 1:56:39 AM

[up] It reminds me of this:

edited 21st Jan '17 2:06:49 AM by Bat178

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#168070: Jan 21st 2017 at 2:14:20 AM

So Trump wants his own Trump Tower away from Trump Tower. (Funny how I was thinking about how my grandmother described Trump Tower as looking like a "gilded French whorehouse" back when I was a kid, but that seems like an insult to both the French and sex workers.)

Trump Tower = Baradur

White House = Dol Guldur

Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#168072: Jan 21st 2017 at 2:40:57 AM

at least in my corner of the internet most of the inauguration day has been spent discussing the ethics and merits of nazi punching.

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#168073: Jan 21st 2017 at 2:46:45 AM

Have you reached any conclusions on that?

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Lanceleoghauni Cyborg Helmsman from Z or R Twice Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In my bunk
#168074: Jan 21st 2017 at 3:01:10 AM

General consensus appears to be "If you can't punch a nazi, who CAN you punch?"

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#168075: Jan 21st 2017 at 3:14:59 AM

The Very Punchable Man, of course.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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