What awful thing will happen tomorrow?

[OscarQ]

I did a quick lookup of DT's campaign promises and found this article:

www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/15/donald-trumps-top-10-campaign-promises/

1. ‘Build a wall’ — and make Mexico pay for it   Status: In Progress
2. Temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States  Status: In Progress
3. ‘Bring manufacturing (jobs) back’ [withdrawal from TPP]  Status: Partial dup with #5
4. Impose tariffs on goods made in China and Mexico  Status: Pending (to my knowledge)
5. Renegotiate or withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership  Status: In Progress
6. ‘Full repeal of Obamacare’ and replace it with a market-based alternative  Status: In Progress/Pending
7. Renegotiate the Iran deal  Status: Pending
8. Leave Social Security as is  Status: Let's see how Mr. Ryan feels about this one.
9. Cut taxes Status: Up Next?
10. ‘Bomb’ and/or ‘take the oil’ from ISIS  Status: Holy F'ing Shit I forgot about this one


So, aside from #10, what is the next shoe to drop?  SCOTUS nominee maybe tomorrow. Abandoning the rule of law is in progress (with a nice scrub of that branch from the WH list of branches of govt).

[wise_rita]

My vote is to cut taxes. Even though he only hears what he wants to hear, he must know he's being eviscerated right now. He needs to put out some "good news".

I also predict I'm going to keel over dead when the Supreme Court nominee comes out this week.

It was nice knowing y'all. Bye!

[krystee]

I'm going to predict he lifts sanctions on Russia to distract from the ban and the Bannon.

[winecat]

#9 might take a little while?

Silly me thought "Oh, Cheeto can't do shit with taxes. It would be against the Constitution."

And then I remember he gives zero fucks about the Constitution or any other rule of law he's supposed to follow.

[sonrisa]

I think he'll double down on his andrew jackson style disregard for the judiciary. He is already labeling judicial orders by which political party appointed the judge in question


Next Supreme Court Justice will be Kushner or Bannon.

[winecat]

Jan 30, 2017 0:29:24 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

My vote is to cut taxes. Even though he only hears what he wants to hear, he must know he's being eviscerated right now. He needs to put out some "good news".

I also predict I'm going to keel over dead when the Supreme Court nominee comes out this week.

It was nice knowing y'all. Bye!

#45 is looking really rough.  Maybe he'll keel over first.

[Pom]

It must be exhausting you know, for that POS and his regime of assholes, to put in the vast overtime it takes to think up new and exciting ways to completely violate both the U.S. constitution and all human decency.

[thecatinthehat]

Jan 30, 2017 0:32:53 GMT -5 winecat said:

Jan 30, 2017 0:29:24 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

My vote is to cut taxes. Even though he only hears what he wants to hear, he must know he's being eviscerated right now. He needs to put out some "good news".

I also predict I'm going to keel over dead when the Supreme Court nominee comes out this week.

It was nice knowing y'all. Bye!

#45 is looking really rough.  Maybe he'll keel over first.

I think we need to continually piss him off. He's got to be so so many medication! It's just a matter of time - I hope!

[Dig Ophelia]

I predict there will be at least one unintelligible, ominously threatening and/or childishly petty Cheeto Tweet.

I also predict that there will be at least one R making news for doing something heinous and bigoted.

Oh, and I also predict that I will still loathe that safety-cone-orange son of a bitch.

[Cicero]

Jan 30, 2017 0:31:39 GMT -5 winecat said:

#9 might take a little while?

Silly me thought "Oh, Cheeto can't do shit with taxes. It would be against the Constitution."

And then I remember he gives zero fucks about the Constitution or any other rule of law he's supposed to follow.

I'm pretty sure Paul Ryan has had tax legislation drafted for the better part of a decade.  

[jeaniebueller]

Defund the VAWA, PBS and NPR?

[bowies]

I'm going to guess he guts environmental regulations.

[WOT?*]

Jan 30, 2017 0:32:53 GMT -5 winecat said:

Jan 30, 2017 0:29:24 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

My vote is to cut taxes. Even though he only hears what he wants to hear, he must know he's being eviscerated right now. He needs to put out some "good news".

I also predict I'm going to keel over dead when the Supreme Court nominee comes out this week.

It was nice knowing y'all. Bye!

#45 is looking really rough.  Maybe he'll keel over first.

As much as I hate to say it, this would not be a bad thing. Pence is awful but he's not a kleptocrat bent on his own gain who surrounded himself with people looking to unite the country as an authoritarian regime. He's a nut bag but he's a patriotic nutbag who genuinely believes in Democracy, I think. He just believes in his evangelical Christian version of democracy and United States.

[WOT?*]

Jan 30, 2017 5:57:59 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Defund the VAWA, PBS and NPR?

In progress.

[One Girl In All The World]

Jan 30, 2017 2:09:23 GMT -5 Dig Ophelia said:

I predict there will be at least one unintelligible, ominously threatening and/or childishly petty Cheeto Tweet.

I also predict that there will be at least one R making news for doing something heinous and bigoted.

Oh, and I also predict that I will still loathe that safety-cone-orange son of a bitch.

I read this as Cheeto Tweet-o, and now I can't stop giggling.

[jeaniebueller]

Jan 30, 2017 8:00:09 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

Jan 30, 2017 5:57:59 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Defund the VAWA, PBS and NPR?

In progress.

Has congress started doing these things or is there an EO that addresses it?

[biscoffcookies]

Jan 30, 2017 7:59:30 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

Jan 30, 2017 0:32:53 GMT -5 winecat said:

#45 is looking really rough.  Maybe he'll keel over first.

As much as I hate to say it, this would not be a bad thing. Pence is awful but he's not a kleptocrat bent on his own gain who surrounded himself with people looking to unite the country as an authoritarian regime. He's a nut bag but he's a patriotic nutbag who genuinely believes in Democracy, I think. He just believes in his evangelical Christian version of democracy and United States.

I want to know how Pence feels about Bannon. Like, if Pence becomes President, does he gleefully show him the door? Because Bannon is the one I am scared of now. I fully believe that at this point Trump is essentially a puppet for Bannon with a few of his own independent ideas thrown in there that Bannon is willing to give him leash on. Assuming Pence is not a Bannon crony and would get him out of the White House then Pence is better than Trump/Bannon. I don't think Pence is going to try to turn this into an authoritarian dictatorship.

[WOT?*]

Jan 30, 2017 8:13:55 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Jan 30, 2017 8:00:09 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

In progress.

Has congress started doing these things or is there an EO that addresses it?

No. I read it as In Progess as part of his proposed budget plans and meetings as reported last week. Still "could be" but we've already had reporting and a heads-up. It won't be shocking to me to see it happen. But I guess shocking and awful are two separate things.

[WOT?*]

Jan 30, 2017 8:42:14 GMT -5 biscoffcookies said:

Jan 30, 2017 7:59:30 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

As much as I hate to say it, this would not be a bad thing. Pence is awful but he's not a kleptocrat bent on his own gain who surrounded himself with people looking to unite the country as an authoritarian regime. He's a nut bag but he's a patriotic nutbag who genuinely believes in Democracy, I think. He just believes in his evangelical Christian version of democracy and United States.

I want to know how Pence feels about Bannon. Like, if Pence becomes President, does he gleefully show him the door? Because Bannon is the one I am scared of now. I fully believe that at this point Trump is essentially a puppet for Bannon with a few of his own independent ideas thrown in there that Bannon is willing to give him leash on. Assuming Pence is not a Bannon crony and would get him out of the White House then Pence is better than Trump/Bannon. I don't think Pence is going to try to turn this into an authoritarian dictatorship.

I think Pence and Bannon have two different agendas. Bannon wants chaos and an authoritarian regime a la Hitler with Trump as the puppet figurehead, Pence wants a Christian democracy with him as the White Savior of our nation. I really think whether he keeps him or boots him depends on where we are in the timeline. In the near future, with Pence having several years in the Oval Office, and Bannon is gone and Pence sets up his own team; too far out and there is only a short time, and Bannon is already settled in, Pence will keep him simply as a matter of course, at least long enough for appearances or because it's too close to re-election to clean house. But there will be a lot of conflict between the two of them as they both struggle for power. Pence to take it and Bannon to keep it.

My dream scenario is for Trump to keel over about a year to a year and a half in, when Bannon isn't secure and Pence has reason to scrub him and the team for his own people, but not so long that it makes him appealing at re-election in 2020 (and if he does get re-elected he can't get another term because he's already had more than half of Trump's term in office. He'll only have one bite at the apple. ETA: I sure as hell don't want to see Jared Kushner anywhere near the White House. He's working to make himself eminently electable, and Ivanka has an eye that direction as well.)