Politics Post your predictions for the next 4 years of Trump's 2nd tenure as President

the Trump administration is gonna try to lower the age of consent I just know it.

 

Exactly. There is such a thing as malicious prosecution but my lay person understanding is that applies when a prosecutor knows charges are bogus. The intent isn't to jail Jack Smith or Fani Willis, it's to intimidate.

 

David Sirota applied for position in department of government efficiency. He has some good suggestions for efficiency and cutting waste which I am sure will not be considered.

https://www.levernews.com/my-doge-job-application/

 

Almost like it's planned to weaken the US... It's as if Russia were writing policy for this president...

 

Former Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly says that Cabinet members will answer to Stephen Miller, age 39. I believe it. Miller will almost be Bush's Cheney, but without Cheney's experience.

 

But who will be his Harry Wittingham?

 

Kennedy saying he was a poor student until he used heroin.
Make America get measles, rotting teeth and heroin addiction again.

 

Going to plant avocado tree. Trump tariff going to send cost sky high.

 

I think it might push our neighbors toward China, not just isolate us.

 

BRICS looks tempting especially if you want to teach the US a lesson in being a good trade partner.

 

I'm actually still trying to figure out how Trump can legally break the CUSMA that he himself got instituted to replace NAFTA so as to impose the tariffs. The tariffs, as I understand that, would be a direct violation of this 4-year-old trade agreenment.

 

If hatred and meanness were a policy, Trump would be the greatest legislator/diplomat ever.

However, this is something that is best discussed, not dealt with with threats through the press.

I'm pretty sure Canada and Mexico don't want Fentynol inside their borders either, but I don't think this is really the reason for the tariff since Trump originally proposed these tariffs for other reasons entirely. One almost gets the feeling that he felt people were cooling on his tariff plan as originally stated so he though taking more of a rah-rah, jingoistic, xenophobic approach was better suited to sell it.

When our economy struggles and inflation rises, I don't think Average Joes and Josies are going to care much about tariffs-v-fentanyl, though.

This just has disasterpiece written all over it.

Want to stop fentanyl? Maybe start by working to defeat the Central American drug cartels by helping stabilize their governments and law enforcement. You know, the ones we destabilized under Reagan.

 

I’m assuming he’s just going to break the agreements unilaterally. What could the legal consequences even be? I don’t see how the US could be held to the agreement involuntarily. It’ll be really interesting to see what happens here; I’m curious to hear what you figure out.

 

Can he do it unilaterally, though? Doesn't Congress have a say on this?

And, yes, I know he'll try to do it anyway and use SCOTUS's recent rulings to push it through, but I think even conservative Congresspeople would fight him hard on this ... the conservatives might fight harder against this than the left wing.

 

I certainly hope we see some actual resistance from Democrats; my worry is that they are easily bullied (which is why I wanted Harris as president; we could have pushed her left with pressure) and Trump might cow them with threats to their states. I guess I assume Trump himself will not play by any rules so long as the SCOTUS is in his pocket; for him the chips aren’t real and he can go all in every hand.

Conservative resistance would be really nice to see, and might save us until 2026/7.