The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

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Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #300 – 2024-11-06, 21:09:14

Harris conceded, as required by tradition, political decorum, law and order. Those are things Trump knows nothing about, and that's why he got elected.

Trump is the oldest man ever elected to be president of USA. He did not want to give Biden that honour. Also, Republicans got the Congress. And with the actual popular vote, nothing will keep Trump in check this time. We will see it very soon.

When a government functions well, people get bored and unappreciative, apparently. In terms of policies and governance, Biden was the best president this century. This is boring, so voters brought back the disruptor-in-chief. American constitution will be remade, the spirit of it brought back to the era of slavery. KKK and the likes can now do their own pride parades.

In America it is common to blame oneself for failures, like Democrats do now, even though it's a larger event that does not depend only on Democrats. I blame wokeness. Things like same-sex marriage, which always ever was and remains a mockery of marriage, and normalising gays and trans and whoever which were just porn genres, never "identities" and protectable minorities in any sense, were irrational. When you let irrationality out of the box into the mainstream, the opposition can legitimately do it too, and worse. And now we will see their worst.

Exactly the same happened a century ago between the world wars. Back then a former failed coup conspiracist was pardoned early and got a second chance. Leftist insurrectionists in 1920s had been executed for similar deeds, demonstrating a two-tier justice system where the justices deemed the leftists the real threat, and rightists a legitimate opposition to the threat.

This time in America, a common crook whose crimes in his conduct of business and in his first term in office are very well known (not the least because he brags about them openly) is being rewarded with the second presidency. Democrats actually represent what Republicans claim to represent — constitutional order, peaceful transition of power, stable and functional government — while Republicans are the insurrectionists, lawless troublemakers, and post-truth mass psychopaths, who are partly enabled by the inadequate judicial system and partly encouraged by the little well-earned enforcement they end up facing.

Armed with prior inside knowledge of the mechanics of the federal apparatus, protected by the fresh unconstitutional invention of absolute presidential immunity, and enabled by the Congress in addition to the Supreme Court, Trump's fascism has no obstacles this time. This time it will not be just love letters with Kim Jong-un. It will be jubilations with Putin, who will be sure to take his. We will see it within the first hundred days.

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #301 – 2024-11-07, 03:02:29

Glad to see you've maintained your derangement!

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #302 – 2024-11-07, 07:34:03

Trump derangement is now a solid part of America's profile. Trump's supporters (elsewhere online) have proposed the following reasoning: Harris gathered only as many votes as Obama, while Biden's vote count was bigger by 14m. Where did this 14m come from? Mail-in ballots, obviously! The slight puzzle is why the Democrat election theft with mail-in ballots failed to materialise this time. And none of them questions where Trump's votes came from. This is absolute derangement of Trumpites.

Here's my answer where Trump's votes came from. According to close observers of elections, American voters value "authenticity" and "the feeling that they are not being lied to". How to reconcile this with the obvious fact that Trump is the fakest clown ever who lies his head off every time he speaks? Well, Trump's number 1 motive for running for president was to keep himself out of jail. From the point of view of racing against justice, his campaign was perfectly authentic and genuine. This also explains his campaign rhetoric, the vilest deluded talking points that were thoroughly negative, to ban mainstream journalism as "fake news", to lock up Democrats and anybody who criticises or opposes him, to deport immigrants as "illegal aliens" (because "they eat cats and dogs" and "speak in languages nobody has ever heard of"), to institute tariffs and tax breaks for the rich as the economic policy, and to reform state institutions along the lines of obedience to the president. It's dictatorship, outspoken fascist tyranny. All of this creates more problems and solves nothing for anyone. But the authenticity comes from the fact that this is what Americans genuinely are: Xenophobes who desperately want to hurt their fellow people, and so non-thinking that it doesn't occur to them that by instituting this as the general rule they are hurting themselves.

This is how the vote count for Trump makes sense. And it's not just whites, elite whites or white trash. It's blacks who are all-in for apocalyptic "retribution". It's latinos who are all-in for traditional Catholic family values. It's muslims who never accept a woman for president.

Will America get thoroughly fed up with Trump's antics after another four years in office and turn decent? I don't think this is the right question. Trump did not leave office peacefully last time. He will be even less peaceful about it this time. America (and the rest of the world) is stuck with him until he dies.

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #303 – 2024-11-07, 10:31:53

Are you off your meds? (Or have you gone undiagnosed for so long as an meek Soviet that you've not had reasonable psychiatric care?

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Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #304 – 2024-11-07, 10:35:39

Quote from: ersi on 2024-11-06, 13:09:14

When a government functions well, people get bored and unappreciative, apparently. In terms of policies and governance, Biden was the best president this century.

For enemies and antagonists of the U.S. — he certainly was!

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #305 – 2024-11-07, 11:25:48

Americans supposedly look at the economy when picking their president. Biden's economy fixed most of what had gone wrong under Trump and surpassed the metrics that you care about, namely the stock market, inflation, gas prices, and unemployment rate. That's who Biden was good for: Americans themselves, the absolute majority of them.

So, we can conclude that Americans don't make their pick according to the economy. Americans look at what is good for them and then make the opposite choice directly against their own self-interest. That's who Americans are.

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #306 – 2024-11-08, 03:44:23

Quote from: ersi on 2024-11-07, 03:25:48

Biden's economy fixed most of what had gone wrong under Trump and surpassed the metrics that you care about, namely the stock market, inflation, gas prices, and unemployment rate.

The stock market has some import, but is always a rollercoaster; under Biden inflation and gas prices soared and unemployment (except for government workers) ticked up...
Even California is crawling towards sanity!

An interesting factoid: The Harris/Walz campaign raised over a billion dollars (in 107 days), and ended $20 M in debt... That's the Democratic Party way!

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¹No wonder they screwed up the economy.↵

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #307 – 2024-11-08, 20:26:50

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2024-11-08, 03:44:23

The stock market has some import, but is always a rollercoaster;

Trump promised that the stock markets would crash under Biden. In reality, stock markets during Biden overperformed Trump's era all the time. Trump lied to you. And you love the feeling, so you voted for him.

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2024-11-08, 03:44:23

under Biden inflation and gas prices soared and unemployment (except for government workers) ticked up...

Inflation, with gas prices and energy as major input, had to go up after a good decade of deflation. Covid finally did it. Covid started under Trump. Not that you know or care to know.

But Biden got the inflation quickly under control promptly during his first term in office, and brought it back to where the Fed wants it. Compared to literally the entire rest of the world, United States under Biden handled inflation the best, which is quite saying something.

Saying that economy under Biden is bad, or that there is anything at all wrong with it right now, is a lie that you believe. You go by beliefs, not facts.

You are always wrong about everything and you whine like a liberal for no reason. You vote against your own self-interest for the dude who keeps breaking every principle you claim to hold. It cannot get any more ridiculous than this.

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2024-11-08, 03:44:23

An interesting factoid: The Harris/Walz campaign raised over a billion dollars (in 107 days), and ended $20 M in debt... That's the Democratic Party way!

As opposed to:
Trump is almost 2 billion in debt and the amount is growing and he's gonna steal from the federal budget to pay for it in the most kleptocratic conflict-of-interest manner like he did last time. This is the choice you made.

I shouldn't laugh, but it is hysterical. I really hoped that Russia would go down before America. Oh well, not up to me.

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #308 – 2024-11-09, 02:54:29

As always, we shall see...

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #309 – 2024-11-09, 13:57:41

National Review says Biden should pardon Trump https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-should-pardon-trump/

What do you think, is it a good idea?

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #310 – 2024-11-10, 03:12:39

It's a terrible idea! And unnecessary. (And naive...especially as regards New York state cases.) The regular appeals process will work, if the prosecutors persist...