Oh, I don’t think it’s going to be coherent at all, but I think you are underestimating the level of crazy. I fully expect him to try to fire Bill Barr and put it Rudy as acting AG and to try to fire Chris Wray and install Ric Grennell, for the stated purpose of making arrests.
I guess where my opinion splits from everyone else is I believe Trump truly and deeply believes there was a vast conspiracy to steal the election. And I believe that Rudy truly believes it. I think the Christian Coalition toxic masculinity prayer circle crowd, like Pence and Meadows, will delude themselves into enabling him for longer than you’d think possible because of that “God’s Plan for a Christian Nation” stuff.
But a lot of this is wishful thinking, because I want Republicans to be forced to confront the monster he created.
Maybe they should call him a short-fingered loser. He’ll forget to be upset at being called a loser, the way he didn’t bother objecting to “vulgarian.”
I feel like I’m fighting a losing battle on this one, but he can’t. Somehow people got the impression that a President can just install anyone he wants in a Cabinet position and avoid Senate confirmation as long as its as an “Acting” secretary. Trump can’t, and he hasn’t. “Acting” officials have to be appointed in line with the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and all of Trump’s “acting” officials have been. There’s been controversy about some staying in office longer than allowed under that act, but all were initially eligible to serve as “acting” officials under the statute.
Yes, that’s why I used the word try. If I thought he’d succeed, I’d be scared.
I keep coming back to the replace Barr and Wray so they can make arrests thing because it’s been floated all over alt-right media but it might be something different but completely crazy.
I think if Trump were going to be capable of accepting this, everyone around him, plus the Fox people, etc. would have to have been preparing him for a long time before this. I’m not sure it would have worked,even then, but no way is it going to work after he’s lost. No way he can accept that blow to his ego.
Maybe, maybe, telling him for months before the election that, on the off chance that the public made a terrible error and didn’t appreciate him enough, he should give them what they deserve for that by leaving, and depriving the US of his perfect presidentness. Maaaaaybe then.
Heck, even the conservative judges have been shooting down the moronic GOP lawsuits lately.
I’m worried about scumbag legislators in red states screwing with the electoral college in the coming weeks.
Actually, they’ll turn away from him pretty quickly and onto the next flavor of the month. He’s no longer relevant.
But the thing is, Trump almost NEVER fights. I know that’s the narrative about him, but it is demonstrably not true. When people say he “fights” what they are referring to are his insult and tantrums and riling up his base. He’s very good at screaming and saying mean things, but that is not “fighting” in any sense that matters.
How many tough legislative battle did he win? Think about LBJ passing civil rights, Obama pushing through ACA, Nixon getting the EPA done, stuff like that. That’s FIGHTING. Think of Kennedy standing up to Khruschev. Trump never, ever stands up; he yells and insults but when faced with a fight he usually runs away, kowtows, or just refuses to engage at all. He’ll settle a lawsuit or try to wait it out. He promises to do something and never does.
Trump will absolutely yell, and threaten, and scream, and deny, and insult, and come up with mean names. He will not actually fight. He’s not man enough.
Well, you certainly can’t ignore the pernicious effects of the toxic radiation he oozes. But I will say I have successfully gone the four years since he was elected without listening to his voice for more than a couple of seconds at a time (and yes, that means I avoided listening to the most recent set of presidential debates). The fact that his blustering makes me want to stab a screwdriver into my ear may or may not have something to do with this.
Exactly right. As stated upthread (I think it was this thread), there were only two meaningful pieces of legislation passed under his watch, the tax cut and the repeal of the ACA mandate. When he was confronted in person (for example, by Pelosi), he wilted and refused to engage face-to-face.
Ditto (which I’ve often stated here). (pretty sure ThelmaLou has been another active non-listener).
Not sure if I’ve ever given President Four Seasons the chance to string more than ten words together.
I think it’s more than that. I remember an analysis by a neuropsychologist or some such professional, shared on this board shortly into the Trump administration, that examined Trump’s emotional range as manifested by his facial expressions. The conclusion was that his set was uncommonly limited, as if there are many subtle emotions he doesn’t even experience.
That’s how I feel about the rise and fall of his voice (also subject to empirical analysis, though I don’t have the training to do it). His tonal quality seems to have two settings: insincere piety and anger. If you were just to listen to the pitch of his voice, with the words “blurred out,” you would find no warmth, humor, concern, inspiration, excitement, disbelief, sorrow, or many of the other normal human emotive states you would expect to hear, especially from a leader speaking to “his” people.