Actually it’s this that’s factually wrong. We can change almost anything about our government by passing an amendment. The enshrined inequality of representation is the one thing that we can’t.
Huh? What limits do you understand there to be on the amendment process, and where do those limits stem from? Please be specific.
Maybe that’s a reference to Article 5: “… and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.”
But that too can be amended.
He is still holding campaign rallies so how can you assume he won’t want to run. He seems to enjoy campaigning and he certainly likes all the money he is making from being president.
This trade war seems likely to cost him dearly among workers and farmers who lose out.
Nah. He and they will blame Obama and the Democrats.
Well, one might get angry at the person, but that won’t stop one from hitting the animal with a broom until it is driven out of one’s house.
I suppose the question isn’t really what will stupid capricious Trump do, but what will stupid capricious America do?
Outside of his base, who would like to make him president-for-life, I an dubious how popular Trump still is among those who held their nose and voted for him, or sat out the election all together. I have noticed something, though.
Being too lazy to install Outlook, I pick up my emails on Cox’s web email site. On the page where you log in, there are always a couple banner ads, most of them dealing with refinancing a mortgage or auto-insurance. Within a few months after he took office in 2009, rightly or wrongly the ads were touting Obama,
See how much Obama’s new financing plan can save you on a 15-year mortgage!
Pres. Obama is letting you pay less for auto insurance!
It’s been eighteen months now, and the ads are still there, but they do not mention Trump at all.
I’m one of those that held my nose and voted for him (or at least that’s how I view myself), and assuming things continue on roughly the same path as they have thus far there’s a good chance I’ll vote for him again in 2020. I don’t want him (or anyone else) to be president-for-life.
That doesn’t matter, though. This is a cult. ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that Trump does is purely publicity and theatrics–dog-and-pony shows–to dupe his cult followers, and it works. That’s why he does it, and that’s how he squeaked by an electoral win. Tarriffs and trade wars are beyond the comprehension or concern of cult followers. So of course he’s just going to continuing doing it, and of course he’s going to seek re-election. Cult leaders never abdicate their position.
This will only end like any other cult ends, after lots of collateral damage.
Just curious, have you ever voted for a Democratic presidential candidate?
Not in the general. I have in the primary.
That is the awesomest scenario I’ve ever heard! Yes!
I live in Northern California in a VERY very liberal area, and I saw a car the other day that had all these funny anti-Trump bumper stickers like “Republicans for Voldemort” and stuff like that. My favorite though was this one:
“Once I gave up hope, I felt much better.”
It’s funny cause it’s kinda true? It’s like frostbite, just give into it and you can feel warm and sleepy. And hope that someone finds you and saves you/someone else wins in 2020 before we all die 
I used to be an optimist, believe it or not. But this is like the fall of Rome, if Rome had Twitter and was able to disseminate fake news snd propaganda so well and so rapidly, And if the common people knew how to read. I don’t know if the USA can ever come back from this, especially this most recent horrifying thing of ICE separating 12,000 kids from their parents and putting them in basically jails. It’s the worst thing, I think, that America has done to people on our own soil since the Japanese internment camps. And even then they let the families stay together.
If Oprah is the only true contender (if there’s another, I don’t know who it is, anyone else have ideas? Colbert for real this time maybe? He could do his “character” and trick some clueless republican voters:p)… I think we have to accept that we have entered reality TV politics. But if that is the case, I’d rather have Oprah than Trolldemort!
For Bernie? I think a lot of Trump voters would have voted for Bernie. He talked about class issues and the economy and the poor and that was what needed to be talked about.
Unless someone told them that he was actually a Jew, something he very careful never mentioned, in fact, I think he said in effect that he was an atheist? Or is something like how helping people through political action was connected to his spirituality or something. Which is cool I feel the same way. I think a lot of people didn’t know he was ethnically Jewish because he wasn’t really vetted, and also he had an illegitimate love child in the 60s, though that probably wouldn’t have mattered as much as the Jew part. But we’ll never know, will we?! 
I truly believe this is because he did what Kennedy did with TV in the 60s, he mastered the social media of the time (in Trump’s case, social media, esp Twitter). The Kennedy versus Nixon debates were the first televised presidential debates ever. People who watched it saw Kennedy looking handsome and tan and confident, smiling, and Nixon looking disheveled and underweight, and was frowning a lot, apparently didn’t allow them to put make up on him and he was all sweaty. The people watching the debates on TV thought Kennedy won. The people who listened to it on the radio actually thought Nixon won. It’s all about mastering the social media of the moment. And another president (maybe Hoover? I dunno) did the same thing with the radio.
He destroyed 16 candidates basically using Twitter. Pretty damn talented use of social media! It may be his only talent, but no one can deny he has mastered this one.
If Oprah runs, it’ll be a joke. There are plenty of real contenders out there, like Colorado governor John Hickenlooper.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I just read that article and it made me actually nauseous. Thanks! 
Oh, and remember that funny thing trump did on the Indiana primary election day, going on faux news to say that this blurry picture of a guy standing with Lee Harvey Oswald right before JFK was assassinated was Ted Cruz’s dad? And then his campaign staff sent out emails or Robocalls or something pointing to this photo and fake story on the afternoon of Election Day? “Well I didn’t make it up” he said, “I was just repeating what I read in a newspaper.”
It was in the National Inquirer.
I would not exactly call the that a reliable newspaper, or a newspaper at all.
And of course this made Ted Cruz so angry that he held a press conference a few hours later saying it wasn’t true and he was visibly angry, which is exactly what Trump wanted, or maybe his campaign managers wanted, because I don’t think he can think ahead that far.
Then trump was able to call Cruz “unhinged” and not having “the temperament to be president”. As usual, unintentionally ironically, his attack sounded like he was talking about himself. And then, he said Cruz and his father “shouldn’t be allowed” to say bad things about him when they blasted him in response. It’s always so “very very unfair”, he says, when people say bad things about him. Has he not noticed that people always say bad things about the president? Bush, Obama, Clinton, Reagan, etc etc. He can dish it out but he can’t take it. Plus um 1st amendment.
And, he seemed totally oblivious that if that were the case, he shouldn’t be “allowed” to say that Cruz’s dad was with fucking Lee Harvey Oswald. But he managed to flip the narrative This is a perfect example of how he does it.
And then on Thursday (2 days after the primary) he revived the rumor, for some bizarre reason, even after Cruz losing Indiana made him drop out of the race and gave Trump the nomination. And even after he said it wasn’t true on Wednesday, just the day before.
Now I don’t like Ted Cruz, but I don’t believe his father was involved in killing JFK. Brilliant move though, Trolldemort won IN by a landslide!
Best quote from that article, Which explains exactly the psychological moves trump was making and how he manages to keep the stories constantly changing and gaslight everybody who attacks him:
The day after the election, on Wednesday.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Trump if he actually thinks that Cruz’s father had a hand in Kennedy’s assassination.
“Of course I don’t believe that,” Trump responded, and then falsely accused Hillary Clinton of starting the Obama birther movement.
Oh, what a silly trick. Harmless, really. It just clinched him the GOP nomination.
I know. Sigh.
Or the very bright light, if the bromance between him and Kim Jong Un go bad on Twitter, and he starts daring him to nuke us again, and say N Korea actually does have the ability to reach the mainland…as we live 30 miles from Silicon Valley which would probably be the first target. Yay! Remember kids, what you do when you see the flash? Duck and cover!
Who? (honestly, I’ve never heard of them).
No, we’ve obviously passed the days of real government! We need a celebrity! How about George Clooney? he was Batman, that could be cool…