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Trump administration 2024-2028

I saw Trump’s speech he made at West Point the other day. He seemed even more irrational and disconnected than ever before. He hardly smiled. I wouldn’t be surprised if he suffers a significant mental collapse before long. If that happens I wonder how long the White House can keep it a secret before word leaks out. Kind of like how Biden’s staff kept certain members of Congress from finding out about his occasions of cognitive impairment during the election…in addition to the one that occurred during the debates.
 
JLB50 said:
I saw Trump’s speech he made at West Point the other day. He seemed even more irrational and disconnected than ever before. He hardly smiled. I wouldn’t be surprised if he suffers a significant mental collapse before long. If that happens I wonder how long the White House can keep it a secret before word leaks out. Kind of like how Biden’s staff kept certain members of Congress from finding out about his occasions of cognitive impairment during the election…in addition to the one that occurred during the debates.
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Not sure he did the math on telling the 2025 graduating class at West Point that nobody was joining the armed forces under Biden…
 
brihard said:
Not sure he did the math on telling the 2025 graduating class at West Point that nobody was joining the armed forces under Biden…
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He'd be right on commissioning, but other than that yeah...

In other news POTUS is upset again at VVP - and sanctions have been suggested amongst other things. If Trump has realized (finally) that Putin is playing him for a chump, he may be very reactive as he has in the past.
 
PrairieFella said:
You're misunderstanding. They don't get to say no. It's not an option.
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I do understand that they are not supposed to. I also understand when they do it does not give others the right to assault them. it's like anything else, you voice your opinion, they refuse, leave and file your complaint to have it resolved. As a supposed leader I expect them to deal with it properly instead of resorting to violence. I have a right to get to my worksite but sometimes strikers refuse to let us through until the police get involved. I don't resort to violence.
 
CountDC said:
I do understand that they are not supposed to. I also understand when they do it does not give others the right to assault them. it's like anything else, you voice your opinion, they refuse, leave and file your complaint to have it resolved.
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Except that isn't how it works.
It isn't assault to attempt to move into a building you are legally permitted to enter. They have the full force of the law on their side, as would LEO's serving a warrant etc.
CountDC said:
As a supposed leader I expect them to deal with it properly instead of resorting to violence. I have a right to get to my worksite but sometimes strikers refuse to let us through until the police get involved. I don't resort to violence.
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You are looking at it through the wrong lens.
 
JLB50 said:
I saw Trump’s speech he made at West Point the other day. He seemed even more irrational and disconnected than ever before. He hardly smiled. I wouldn’t be surprised if he suffers a significant mental collapse before long. If that happens I wonder how long the White House can keep it a secret before word leaks out. Kind of like how Biden’s staff kept certain members of Congress from finding out about his occasions of cognitive impairment during the election…in addition to the one that occurred during the debates.
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Well in this case the press is going to be looking hard for any tidbit on his health, as opposed to many of them seemingly turning a blind eye to the issue during Biden's term.
 
Each administration is going to have a different approach to aspects of foreign policy.
 
KevinB said:
While not wrong, very few Administrations have ever taken such a different direction on so many fronts, not just foreign policy.
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The situation hasn't been changing therefore different approaches might need to be tried.
 
Colin Parkinson said:
Well in this case the press is going to be looking hard for any tidbit on his health, as opposed to many of them seemingly turning a blind eye to the issue during Biden's term.
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There was reportedly a "death pool roster" for Joe.
www.fox2detroit.com

Harris team crafted federal judge 'death-pool roster' to swear her in should Biden die as president, book says

Harris' aide worried that 'Trump people' would go 'apes---' if she became president, according to the book.
www.fox2detroit.com www.fox2detroit.com

Celebrity Death Pool has The Donald checking out after Dick Cheney, and before Alan Alda.
 
PrairieFella said:
The vein of nihilism that runs through the modern far-right runs real deep.
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As an example, PF, absent 47's bluster and subsequent actions the EU and Canada would not be shifting their defence efforts in any meaningful way.
 
KevinB said:
That sounds more like justification for anarchy rather than an administration...
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That hasn't happened. What has happened is that some self-described conservatives have adopted progressive political tactics.

Many people struggle to characterize "MAGA" (other than "I know it when it see it"). A major factor which sets "MAGA" apart from, say, "Reagan conservative" and "neo-con" (which are also different from each other) is what sets the latter two apart from "American liberalism".

Traditionally (the past few decades) US conservatives have set process (means) above outcomes (ends), and US progressives vice-versa. What antagonizes some conservatives about Trump's administration is that ends are being put ahead of means, the latter being ignored or perverted. What antagonizes progressives about Trump's administration is not that they disagree with putting ends ahead of means (which they do themselves whenever they hold power), but that they disagree with the ends. They complain about breaches of order because speaking the language of the other conservatives might help to form a temporary alliance. But they will go right back to pushing down or at least pressing very hard against every inconvenient fence when they regain power.
 
KevinB said:
Interesting
www.theatlantic.com

The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun

In an effort to attract more right-leaning faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Replacing your favoured people with our favoured people.

Reminds me of my dad says that back in the day in Ontario, whenever the government changed, a lot of the civil service did as well, right down to the worker-bee level at local highway yards, etc. Long before public service unions.
 
lenaitch said:
Replacing your favoured people with our favoured people.
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Active measures might not be necessary. Simply not blacklisting conservatives or people who report perceived right-wing views on applications and during interviews ("litmus test") will shift the percentages.

There's some self-selection ("people interested in academics tend to be progressive" is a common survey finding) which is where - go figure - defenders of status quo like to point, but in the US there are also outright thumb-on-the-scale barriers.
 
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