Although I fully expect to spend the next four years of the Trump Era rolling my eyes (or maybe eight years, given the complete lack of understanding by the establishment of their role in making Trump happen), I must admit I am looking forward to hearing the sound of a great many heads exploding during the Entrumpment tomorrow 😀
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The left has had it turned up to 11 for months now. It’s hard to see how they will sustain that. I have a NY Times-reading friend, very bright, who seriously thinks she is in danger of being sent to a camp. Her thinking is: Trump is a demagogue, demagogues often target Jews, so she is in danger of being dragged from her home and tossed into a cattle car. 🙄
When it comes to apocalyptic conspiracy theorizing, here’s mine. There are a number of leftist billionaires who hate Trump: Soros, Tom Steyer, others. Given what Soros did to the British pound in 1992, I would not put it past them to intentionally create a financial crisis that could be blamed on Trump. (Of course, any crisis will be: just watch.)
There’s a wonderful youtube video that needs wide sharing to help the exploding of heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9Xsmj942E
Good fun!
21 gun salutes are common, so you won’t hear the heads exploding, or you’ll misinterpret it. Still, it will make for great telly! ‘Scanners’ for real!
Rumor has it the town is going to be so locked-down for anti-terrorism purposes that the relatively unschooled, unsophisticated protesters are going to walk into the chutes at the entrance and quickly stumble out again, shocked and dismayed by how easily and completely they’ve been made impotent.
The last time I was optimistic at an inauguration was in 1981. I do not know why I thought Ronald Reagan would reduce the size and scope of government – there was no real evidence that he would, but I can not deny I was optimistic.
Of course I was (generally) wrong to be optimistic.
As for this time.
Well there may be a cut in taxation – although not in government spending (very 1981).
And there may be a bit of deregulation also (there was a bit of that under Reagan as well).
There is massive scope for deregulation – for example the EPA (President Nixon’s Environment Protection Agency) now treats a puddle as a “wetland” making private ownership of land a nullity, and CO2 as a pollutant – and as C02 is emitted by just about everything (including people) thus giving totalitarian power to government.
Barack Obama is NOT (as some people claim) “like Jimmy Carter” – Carter did not regulate everything in sight (he actually deregulated some things – for example natural gas and airlines), Mr Obama is a Fabian type – socialism by a thousand steps.
I have no joy in seeing the arrival of Mr Trump – especially as the Credit Bubble going to blow at some point (yes it will, yes it will, yes it will), but I do have joy in seeing Mr Obama out of office – even if he is only going round the corner to a house nearby (to organise “the resistance” in Community Organiser style).
I despise Barack Obama more than any other President in my life time. Good riddance to him.
With or without Obama, the United States is a horribly regulated place.
Even a decent flushing toilet or a shower that works properly is illegal in the United States.
Is this “regulate interstate commerce”?
Donald Trump was mocked when he pointed out the above examples – examples that hit his hotels.
What is it about “liberals” (read fanatical statists).
Do they not wash?
Do they not even go to the toilet?
What are they? Robots or Demons?
The peasants have stormed the castle.
???
Profit
On the other hand, Trump picked some pretty good people. especially “Mad Dog.” It’s possible that there may be a few pleasant surprises in store, but I’m not expecting too many.
We can always depend on the Left’s complete lack of self-awareness (and lack of humor) to undermine whatever it is they’re trying to do. They are their own undoing, and I for one, enjoy watching them self-undo.
I don’t know if Trump’s figured out their Achilles Heel, or stumbled upon it because of his vast ego, but left to their own devices, they are fairly effective in creating a narrative that’s laughably thin, but still good enough for most of society (which are asleep), like “the russians hacked the election”, and “only a non-patriot would question the claims of the CIA”, (are you fucking kidding me?) However, if you put pressure on them and hit back hard, they drop the facade and show their naked evil to anyone willing to see, (again, a minority who are awake). For example, the appropriate way of dealing with the likes of Maxine Waters and John Lewis is to call them what they are, and point out their paper-thin machinations and lies. John Lewis is a democrat hack, a stupid one at that, and a liar. Ex: when the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party members were accused of screaming “NIG&*R” and spitting on Lewis as he ascended the steps of the capital, it was proved a lie by breitbart reporters who obtained cell phone video recordings of the non-actual non-event. Trump’s response to accusations from Lewis is that he’s a liar. (cue fake outrage), but the alternative is to let them run with their false narratives (i.e. lies, and reality revisionism). The issue is either dropped or changed, because the next step would be to ask Trump WHY he’s calling Lewis a liar, and that’s the last thing Lewis or anyone on the left wants.
The ONLY real antidote to these warlock’s spells (lies, propaganda) is THE LIGHT OF THE TRUTH, backed by real courage.
Within a few seconds of the sun setting on Hugh Town in the Scilly Isles, in under 10 hours, the Obama presidency will end. His successor has, afaics, no principled commitment to the State, and no objection to dismissing unneeded bureaucrats, and may well do what appears to be expedient to him to make the American economy work better and the American citizen freer.
Mr Trump has great potential, albeit that he may be more like George Bush Senior in practice than it is pleasant to contemplate, but look at his enemies, and you know that he is truly feared by them, not because he is a threat to them, but to their ideas.
I shall open a bottle of this Moldovan wine tonight as a gesture.
Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers
Dreams are good, let’s hope. His targets ought to be 30/50, then we might get 10/20.
What are the odds on twelve years?
I know it’s a long shot, but I imagine it could be as much (as little?) as one in twelve. Trump has shattered the standard prognostications, and many pundits could profitably be replaced with astrologers.
If you’re going to be rolling your eyes, you, yourself, are the problem.
Nah, he’s a furiner. He can roll his eyes.
Can I, myself, also be the problem? Also, which of them? Quite a lot of problems with Trump.
Yeah I have a problem with anyone who is ok with Kelo and the drastic weakening of private property rights in the USA. I have a problem with anyone who is ok with protectionism. I have a lot of problems with Trump. “At least he is not Hilary Clinton” is great but that only lasts until he actually takes office. He may well (hopefully) do some stuff I like, but I am pretty sure he is also going to do some stuff I will think is idiotic.
It seems to me that you habitually forget to factor in the part about “and he won’t do many of the things that Hillary would have done.”
The people who are on his supposed shortlist for USSC don’t appear to be the type that will extend, or even particularly honor, Kelo; I think private property is safe for now. Trump’s “protectionism” is most likely going to result in the greatest trade experience GB could hope to have as it exits the EU.
It’s what he won’t do that Hillary would have done that is significant, and I think you consistently leave that factor out. “Dodging a bullet” doesn’t necessarily leave you better off than you were before, but it does prevent a sudden worsening of your condition.
I think the sound is “squish”.
But we shall see…
Not really. Asset forfeiture without charge (let alone trial) + local government’s ability to just ‘condemn’ property and give it to a developer for no better reason that it will (supposedly) generate more tax means… no, private property has probably never been less safe in the USA.
He may well (hopefully) do some stuff I like, but I am pretty sure he is also going to do some stuff I will think is idiotic.
Undoubtedly. And yet… The unreserved joy I feel in seeing Hillary Clinton’s ambitions finally put to rest may be tempered a bit by the fact that Donald Trump is far from perfect, but it is nonetheless a cause for celebration. Pace Mr Ed, my preferences run more toward French wine (being French I’m hidebound that way) so it will be a nice Chateau tonight. Maybe a Cheval Blanc…
In related news, I see that the Clinton Foundation is closing due to lack of donors, which is odd considering that Mrs. Clinton is now no longer vying for public employ and therefore there are no potential conflicts of interest in the offing. Almost makes you think that foreign governments weren’t contributing to the foundation based on their disinterested assessment of its benevolent impact on the world.
The movement against asset forfeiture gains support all the time. The coordination between federal and state efforts is being limited in several states, the procedural safeguards are being rebuilt, and there is certainly no countervailing public movement seeking to expand it. I think this is one of those things the bureaucracy slid in underneath public view that is now in public view and thus weakening.
We’ve always had eminent domain, and always will. If you want to build roads or pipelines or lay cable in a built-up area, you have to have it. But the expansion represented by Kelo – that “public purpose” could be drawn so loosely as to allow cases where the public would somehow profit from the taking, as in gaining tax revenue from a new shopping mall – has been losing favor from the day the opinion was issued. Appellate court decisions since Kelo have, if anything, limited its reach and application. I take Trump’s pronouncements on the issue as mostly ignorance of the issue, and I don’t expect to see him pursue it at all.
Now, had Hillary won, her appointments to the SC would undoubtedly have supported an expansion of Kelo.
So he’s made it, and every Islamic terrorist is on notice of his first avowed intent.
Btw, like Queen Elizabeth II, President Trump is married to an immigrant and has a Scottish mother.
Your faith is touching. I hope you are right.
Actually, this is an excuse for some music, Handel’s ‘The Trump-et’s Loud Clangour’ (excites us to arms) from some fine Australian musicians.
A small happening, but one which gladdens my heart today:
At exactly noon, as the administrations officially switched, the entire federal-government web-site section dealing with our need to combat deadly catastrophic climate change . . . disappeared.
They erased it. They didn’t replace it with a page promising to work a little less hard at it, they didn’t weenie-word it by adding verbiage about “needing more study”, they didn’t alter it in any way.
They erased it.
😎
Ohio is the latest State to fight back on asset theft Perry – a small step but a welcome one.
And no one has yet answered my question.
Why are leftists not concerned about showers and toilets not working properly – due to demented government regulations.
Do leftists neither wash or go to the toilet?
Are they robots or demons?
Bobby, they also erased a bunch of other pages, including those (gasp) dealing with LGBT rights, and are now blaming it on Trump.
Who are you, and what have you done to Paul Marks?
Fun Fact: Trump will be the first USA President who has been in favor of gay marriage during his entire term.
Tell me good sir, is there a single instances in The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit of an Orc criticising Sauron?
Mr Ed, don’t be silly. Orcs are the like the legendary dopplegängers, except that they have no CPUs (and only the most inferior I/O ports). For this reason they believe that Real Humans (var. non-Lefteriensis) have no brains.
They wouldn’t dream of criticizing Sauron! If anything happened to Sauron, what would they do for amusement? They wouldn’t know to bash in heads without somebody to tell them.
Besides, I got the impression that they don’t concern themselves unduly about issues of la toilette.
Tell me good sir, is there a single instances in The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit of an Orc criticising Sauron?
Gorbag and Shagrat, the officers from Minas Morgul, talk shit about the boss, and plan to desert. No idea if this is what you were looking for 😛
“including those (gasp) dealing with LGBT rights,”
God forbid Lady Justice have her blindfold on so she can’t see Sally’s Adam’s Apple and large feet. As if everyone having the same rights is a horrible thing.
“Oh no, what will happen to the Earth’s climate and the gays if they don’t have pages on the White House website??”
Well, he’s at least partially pro-protectionism, which is economic policy I’m critical of. (It’ll probably lessen the total economic surplus). But hopefully he’ll destroy the communist monster known as the EPA and replace with an actual environmental protection agency that does only what it’s supposed to do. And also hopefully he understands how government reactions to “climate change” is a globalist POLITICAL scam and actually anti-scientific despite the pseudo-scientific trappings.
It does appear that he’s going to do what I suspected re: “The Wall”. They’ll estimate how much money they can raise via tariffs using TODAY’S rate of imports (pre-tariffs), and use the equivalent amount of money from American tax revenue in order to get the project started and let the tariffs “pay it back”. The problem of course is that tariffs will lessen imports, as one might expect. (Higher prices = less sales). This is an old scam, BUT the wall will be built.
Pro-protectionism, high emphasis on national boarders, blaming other nations for economic policies we have been doing ourselves (like manipulating exchange rates to manipulate foreign trade)…all these positions are Paleo-Conservatism, Pat Buchanan style. I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone else point this out yet.