The Refried Presidency: Trump V 2.0 Pretty Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo

Okay so just off the top of my head. Most of what Trump promised will not come to fruition. He will either forget or back off or half-ass everything he plans to do. Purging the federal workforce, pulling hundreds of thousands of soldiers out of Europe, and establishing concentration camps all sound like work, and he hates work.

So the things that are easy but evil are on the agenda. My first bet is -- assuming Republicans hold a razor-thin House majority again -- they push through tax cuts and make spending cuts to Medicaid and Social Security.

 

A lot of this is going to depend on who's in his administration. If it's the same type of clown car as last time, none of the complicated stuff will get done, because they'll spend all their time in-fighting.

If they get more competent people in from the conservative think-tanks, they might be more done.

 

If the conservative think-tank world were competent then Alito's decisions wouldn't read like fanfic.

 

So, what the hell now happens in the NY sentencing hearing?!?

 

The Federalist Society is very competent when it comes to getting judges appointed to important positions. Whatever you may think of Alito, he's ideologically exactly what the conservative think tanks were looking for.

 

I don't think incompetence or laziness or infighting is going to save us this time, grasshoppers.

There aren't any adults in the room - they all endorsed Harris.

Stephen Miller is going to be in charge of purging the non-whites from the country.

Tucker Carlson will be in charge of mansplaining the legislature and removing all protections for non hetero males.

Elon Musk is going to be in charge of firing most of the government workforce, perhaps even entire agencies - starting with eliminating the Federal Highway Administration and privatizing NASA I'd assume.

RFK Jr. will run the National Institutes of Health with a deepening interest in brain worms.

Yeah, Doomed.

 

I suspect anything he can do via executive order - with a nice big show of him signing his name to it from the oval office - is on the table. His "people" have a few months to get those all drafted up nice and pretty on day one. But yeah, that legislative crap like tax cuts might take a few days. Let's see what executive orders can do.

 

He does love him some vendettas, though.

 

His last inaugural speec was rather rambling. I'm having a hard time imagining how bumbling it is going to be this time. Will hordes of his supporters come to DC for his inauguration or will he lie about crowd sizes?

 

I'll be back in a bit. Gotta go pound my head against some concrete.

 

As expected, his spokespersons are already walking back the deportation claims.

They are are now saying it's going to be a phased approach, with phase 1 only focused on illegals who have committed crimes.

Essentially, they have no plan and never did.

 

Yeah but Kamala's laugh