I already gave Trump a chance, and he promptly blew it by promising to defund NASA's Near-Earth department (or whatever it is called),
I don't think it's a specific department or anything, it's just one of their jobs that he intends to assign to NOAA instead.
starting a fucking major international incident before he even got to office,
As I've said: eh. I've been to Taiwan, and they're not going to bow before Beijing anytime this century, especially not with the largest US fleet sitting pretty a couple hundred miles away off the coast of South Korea. They even informally call themselves "Free China". And the PRC isn't really going to push it, either. Rhetoric is rhetoric. The PRC wants to maintain the idea that they're China, and they'll do that just fine even if the US plays more fast and loose with that definition. The Chinese aren't any more scary warmonger barbarians waiting for a singular excuse to destroy Liberty than the Soviet Union was. They're practical, and perhaps more importantly have committed hard to the plan of using their soft power to beguile Taiwan into accepting the One China, Two Systems plan.
and now promising to outright destroy USA economy with his insane tariff plan.
He also promised to completely scrap Obamacare and imprison Hillary Clinton. You can't trust the things Trump says will even be the things he says tomorrow, much less trust them to be literal and actionable like with a normal politician.
This policy of appeasement is probably why we got Trump in the first place - Comey's shitshow of an investigation was one of the major factors in him getting elected, and he's a staunch Republican who's been appointed by Obama.
No, we got Trump because of a perfect storm of bad circumstances, Clinton being a reptilian, and Trump being the hype man. This got him an election that's now looking to be the narrowest in American history. I'm not appeasing him. I'm demanding he show us what he's got, that "so amazing" Presidency he's got in store. To do it for real. For someone who's all hype, that is the worst thing. Trump wants to stay with the reputation he has because it means people won't look for substance.
It doesn't matter whenever people are sure about Republicans or not. They know that, in a normal popularity contest, they'll lose - hell they've already lost that one, judging by this election - and that's why they've long since chosen to not play that game.
That's really not true. The party not in power tends to only gain confidence, and the one in tends to only lose it. The Republicans are in the worst possible position: they have power and a very small confidence barrier. They're always going to be beholden to that.
Did you forget about gerrymandering and voter suppression? They can rig the game so they'll continue to win elections forever - and they'll probably do so, now that they're fully in power.
No they can't. For one, you can only gerrymander House elections on the federal level. Senate and Presidential elections will be eternally immune because they do not rely upon mutable districts. As for voter suppression, apathy is far worse, and I'm confident the GOP will take care of that little issue for us. Take a look at the 2008 election and remember
that was after the Republicans had full control,
during 9/11. If they weren't going to seize some manner of permanent electoral power then, they just can't do it.
They're very close to being able to pass Constitutional Amendments, they need to "convince" just one Democrat state to do so IIRC. And with that, they can fucking do whatever they want.
No, they really aren't. Passing an Amendment requires the confidence of goddamn near everybody to succeed. It's almost certainly the single easiest political element in America to defeat, and with good cause. Not that I want to validate the "civil religion" idea, but Americans are serious about this shit if nothing else. It's even stricter due to everybody being taught about Prohibition and how well that turned out.
Something less than universally agreed upon will NEVER pass this process. Hell, the Dems could deny with the Senate alone, because that requires a two-thirds vote and the GOP doesn't have that even with perfect party discipline. The number of Republican rogues you'd see in the House could also deny two-thirds. And once you've accomplished
that, there is then the arduous task of uniting all the lunatics who got themselves elected to state governments. Good fucking luck.
Meanwhile Congress wanted to start a fucking shooting war over a pair of captured USA boats, because "humiliation". They even tried to sabotage the nuclear deal negotiations by sending a letter to Iran. And I was talking about the potential "Trump-less" Republicans, in case he gets impeached for whatever reason.
Congress talks shit about diplomacy and wars specifically because they don't have to back it up with anything. It's all talk, just a way of thumbing the President.
"Unconstitutionality" is not a problem for a party that will soon have control over the Supreme Court. With power of Constitutional Amendment practically in their hands, what they can do is increase the Supreme Court's size a la what Roosevelt was planning to do, and pack the new slots with Republican-Bots that will act as stampers for the desires of Republicans - and, as I've pointed it earlier, they want to abolish Constitution and make USA into a theocratic state.
Ok, now you're just getting out of reality. First off: The Supreme Court, even if it gets a Trump nominee instead of Garland, will still be about the same as it has been under Obama, and that's weirdly moderate. Scalia was one of the more extreme conservatives, only outdone by Thomas. This is the same court that got a majority for Obamacare and same-sex marriage even if they have to shut out Trump's guy sitting in Scalia's seat. Damn near every Justice on the court is going to stay while Trump is in office unless the icy hand of death comes for them. Not only that, but Supreme Court nominees are still subject to Senate review in a Senate where the Dems still have minority influence, and if that wasn't enough SCOTUS nominees are
infamously disloyal to the Presidents that nominate them. Trump's Justice is more likely to use him to get on the court than the other way around.
And by "anti-PoC laws", I meant Jim Crow laws and all the laws that targeted minorities and prevented them from voting.
The only laws the Republicans are trying to enforce are voter ID laws, which are bad but also don't survive judicial review very well. This isn't the 60's, nobody is proposing anything near a Jim Crow law.
We've already saw the plans, they want to amend the National Voter something-thingie, we know that they want to do this, we already saw them trying to do so with all the power they've had, it's not a big extrapolation to assume that they'll continue to do it even stronger once they'll have real control.
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A "hard lesson" will kill or displace a significant portion of people on Earth, and Republicans will blame it on the wrath of God and will call for people to vote for them even harder so that they could repent.
Work with what you've got. It's easier for people to believe that someone like Obama will fix the climate for them, with Trump you can blow all the effects wide open and change minds. We're looking at a bad record, but it can still be turned around if we stop fucking up. No surrender.
And, given what this election showed us, it will fucking work and people will vote for Republicans like good God-fearing citizens they are, if no serious steps are taken to remove them from power and prevent them from spreading influence over the people in USA.
Maybe you should actually go and look at the number of people who voted for Trump, versus Clinton, versus all voters. People didn't come out for him, he even got less votes than Mittens.
I'm not fucking with you. It's just that I don't want to see the world go to ruin because of an orange monkey in a suit leading a crowd of science-hating ignorants to destroy literally everything I care about. And if preventing that requires some less-than-completely-legal things (since colour revolutions are nearly always technically illegal), so fucking what?
Because there's an easy legal process to impeach Trump early instead? He'll even be committing crimes to justify it Day One because he refuses to cut ties with his businesses. It just requires him being so hated that the Republicans in Congress are like "oh shit, I'm going to lose my job next election unless I go on record trying to impeach him".
Survival and spread of the liberal justice and Western civilization is more important than keeping adherence to the old, ancient and horribly backwards and outdated laws - that's why the West has been supporting all these colour revolutions, after all!
The West supported those revolutions because it benefited our power bloc, and for no other reason. Nobody in politics actually believes in this kind of rhetoric, which is why I've been so skeptical of your seriousness.
EDIT: The Army Corps of Engineers has apparently just suspended the Dakota Access Pipeline. I suspect this might be short-lived thanks to Trump, but it's still good news.
Well goddamn. I was wondering if they'd break.