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And of course the Supreme Court has ruled – unanimously, albeit for different reasons – that the 14th Amendment doesn’t disqualify renowned insurrectionist Donald Trump. I can’t even be bothered to link to a source, because everything is so shit. Open season on women; the worst human on the planet still alive and still hell bent on breaking everything.
I need a picture of fluffy lambs or something.
Yes that will do.
I was already having a shitty day; at least this didn’t come on a day when it could drop my mood from a good one to a bad one.
So next move – 25th Amendment. Or just pray to the (nonexistant) god. If he wants to prove he is benevolent, he will call the Donald home before he gets the nomination sewed up.
iknlast, I don’t want to rain on your already shitty day (which I identify utterly with), but the 25th won’t save you. if Trump wins he’s going to appoint a cabinet of lickspittles and ideologues loyal to him and his dystopian vision. No way they’ll replace him unless it’s to put someone even worse in power.
On the plus side those lickspittles and ideologues will still be bad at implementing their dystopian vision, which isn’t much of one as they won’t be doing anything particularly useful either. The world’s bad guys will get free reign even if the agenda stalls domestically.
I’m not at all sure about that BKiSA. The Heritage foundation amongst others has published extensive blueprints detailing exactly how to bend the Federal Government to the will and objectives of a future trump (or similar) presidency – right down to draft laws. The Heritage Foundations blueprint plan runs to around 900 pages I’m told. Trump stumbled into the presidency last time and was totally unprepared. In some respects that chaos, and a few people who eventually reached the point they couldn’t stomach it anymore, blunted the worst of the damage. He (or at least his primary aides) won’t be that unprepared if he gets a second chance.
I’m not confident, but TracingWoodgrains didn’t a decent article titled something like “Republicans are Doomed” where he outlines the issues with our self-inflicted caste system. What it boils down to is the Republicans have produced too many chiefs and not enough Indians to implement their policies.
Have to side with Rob on this. The velociraptors have learned how to open the doors. A second Trump administration will be staffed from day one with people ready, able, and willing to implement an extreme agenda. Oh, there will be a few clowns, too, but the important thing is that there won’t be any “old guard institutionalists” appointed who try to slow-walk or oppose. There might be some career civil servants who do that, but they’ll be replaced quickly.
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The best advice I’ve heard has been from a former republican. No one is going to save us. Not the Courts, the donors, the ‘grown-up’ senators or congressman. Not the system or the States. We have to defeat Trump.
Sadly I can’t vote, so all I can do is send my positive thoughts on the aether. For all our sakes please…
The point is not that there will be institutionalists to save us but there won’t be anywhere near enough new bureaucrats to replace them because Republican demographics do not produce very many of them. If a policy only requires making government institutions not work, sure they can do that (so goodbye EPA doing *anything* useful) but positive policy that requires working infrastructure is a lot harder with fewer people on the ground. Look at the Border Patrol, an extremely right wing part of government; they don’t have the manpower to do a necessary task.
Not to say government breaking completely is much of a silver lining, but compared to the probable war in Europe and possibly the Far East it’s kinda small potatoes in terms of damage done