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pbmus

(12,439 posts)
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 05:50 PM Dec 2016

Predictions...

PREDICTIONS:

> Trump will remain UNCONCERNED about conflicts-of-interest, accountability, or even the Constitution. In fact, he will USE his presidential leverage to further enrich himself.
> Trump's children will continue to be involved in both his business and government decisions.
> Trump properties around the world will be routinely attacked by terrorists, and Trump will continue to blame ALL Muslims for it.
> Trump will mishandle our military, and there will be considerable unnecessary suffering and loss of life.
> Hate groups will be emboldened.
> Women's reproductive rights will come under attack, with the ultimate goal of repealing Roe v. Wade
> LGBT's will lose ground.
> The environment will suffer.
> Sanctions against Russia will be lifted, and Putin will get his half-TRILLION dollar deal with Exxon.
> There will be a serious increase in the national debt.
> Trump will mishandle the economy, and there will be another crisis.
> There will be lots more tax cuts, perks, and benefits for corporations and wealthy individuals.
> Trump will continue to lie often, and his supporters will foolishly continue to believe him.

> Also, there will be efforts to:

* Privatize Medicare
* Privatize Social Security
* Privatize VA
* Take away healthcare from 20 million people and offer no replacement
* Undo Wall Street reforms and repeal Dodd-Frank
* Begin dismantling of Planned Parenthood and Consumer Protection Bureau
* Reverse net neutrality rules to favor ISP's, NOT users

Recurring themes for this administration will be:

1. More for 1%, less for everyone else.
2. Government intrusion in to people's lives.
3. Dangerous incompetence of Trump and his advisors.

In sum, Trump's presidency will be an ongoing DISASTER. Don't just take my word for it ...

Leading REPUBLICAN opinions of Trump (during campaign):

> “Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He's playing the American public for suckers" -- Mitt Romney

> "He's said terrible things about women, terrible things about the military. I don't understand why people are for him, for that reason." -- Barbara Bush (Entire Bush family has similar sentiments)

> "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." -- Senator Lindsey Graham

> "You could be living on a diet of lead paint, cheap vodka and Real Housewives and still know more than Trump does about, well, everything." -- Rick Wilson, GOP strategist

> "Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he’s uninterested in finding out. He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa." -- David Brooks, New York Times conservative columnist

>>> Trump is a dangerous, egotistical CON MAN offering empty promises, inflammatory rhetoric, insults, anger, and racism. He's a man who has NO understanding of the common people, cares for no one but himself, and has no idea what he's talking about. He's by far the WORST excuse for a President I've ever seen.

I close with one other quote from Senator Lindsey Graham:

"My party has gone batshit crazy."

(If anyone would like to copy/paste my comment, please feel free. You don't have to give me credit. Art)

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StevieM

(10,540 posts)
3. How different would it have been if Scott Walker had been elected instead?
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 06:02 PM
Dec 2016

My guess is that Walker would have done most of the same things, whether elected in 2016 or 2020.

pbmus

(12,439 posts)
4. Walker is trying his hardest to fuck up Wisconsin
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 06:28 PM
Dec 2016

He has already screwed up public education and infrastructure and on and on...

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