I feel like shorting the US dollar, but I'm not exactly sure what to short it against. No good taking my earnings in said US dollar; who knows what currency won't be tanked alongside?
Salt and matches.
I was going to say precious metals and canned food, but maybe I'm an optimist. Precious metals do have inherent value though (as long as there's industry, at least).
I doubt Republicans will impeach Trump so soon, they first need to invade Iran and have someone take the blame for the brutal warfare that would ensue.
You forget. Pence is next in line, followed by Paul Ryan. Both very good party line Republicans who'd love to have the top seat.
This is what I was thinking at first, but now I'm pretty sure they want him as a scapegoat first. Look at the Bush presidency - Republicans are clearly fine with a dunce in the big chair, as long as they get their policy through.
Are you under the impression that Republicans are controlling Trump? That's definitely against the evidence. The evidence points against Trump having any sort of republican pulling the strings behind him. Maybe Russians or something, but definitely not someone a US legislator of any sort.
To wit:
Paul Ryan invited Donald Trump’s most senior advisers to Capitol Hill a week ago to head off a quiet tug-of-war between congressional Republicans and Trump officials over tax reform. For more than two hours, the speaker laid out his alternative to Trump’s plan to slap tariffs on companies that move jobs overseas, which he believed would encourage companies to stay in the U.S.
But not even a week later, Trump dismissed Ryan’s idea, calling it “too complicated.” And now Ryan is left with a potential trillion-dollar hole in his tax plan.
I do recommend reading the article. It shows off one of, in fact I'd bet the most important issue we'll see in the next four years. In fact, I'd bet anyone $20 that the most fundamental, consequential question in how the Trump Administration is looking after the 100 days Camelot media-fest is over will be "What will happen between Trump and Congressional Republicans?" That question - and whether Trump defers to them or vice versa, or whether they end up at war, and how democrats figure into it - will be the single most important thing that will define the Trump Administration. Calling it right now. I'd say the odds of Trump taking a conciliatory approach is close to nil; meaning the ball is in the Republicans court for whether, and how much, they will tolerate his antics.
It's possible. Trump definitely wants to go against some Republican policies. I just think that they could impeach him easily, if they want, maybe even get goodwill from the voters by doing so. Scandal only made him more successful in the election, but impeachment doesn't work that way. He made the most powerful people in the country very, very upset... And gave them sufficient pretense to get rid of him, legally.
But they're powerful because they play the long game. Why impeach him, if they can use him to take the blame? It won't (look like) the Republicans who destroy health care, enrich the rich, and destroy the middle class... Trump was the president, and they are on record as being against him tooth and nail. A perfect scapegoat.
No matter that it's Congress that passes legislation. Even when people understand that, the President gets credit because he's the one big celebrity. The face of government.
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