Today was one hell of a political chess game

[LadyFunkenstein]

Our international overlords showed Trump that they can put millions of boots on the ground rather quickly, along with a taste of violence that could easily be expanded if need be.

Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 ‘partners’ of the Women’s March on Washington

Trump responded by calling a Saturday meeting with the CIA, our international security force. It coincided with the march as a fuck you to our overlords. He attacked the media too to disrupt the new narrative. Link not needed.

What will happen next?

I believe Trump has a large ego and won't do as he is told. I predict he will not live through his 4 years. Maybe he will learn to get on board with the pre-planned agenda. But I doubt it.

What do you think?

 

[Bert Notorius]

i think the country
will get pretty
fucking
tired
of watching
unhappy liberals
pissing on their
country.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I believe Trump has a large ego and won't do as he is told. I predict he will not live through his 4 years.

Last POTUS to step out of line was JFK.

 

[SaraBaras]

I believe Trump has a large ego and won't do as he is told. I predict he will not live through his 4 years. Maybe he will learn to get on board with the pre-planned agenda. But I doubt it.

What do you think?

I don't think he'll be assassinated, but I think he has a steep learning curve. I think it remains to be seen if he can ascend it or not. I do hope he can, for all of our sakes.

And yes - massive ego. Totally accurate statement.

Good question. And I love your screen name.

 

[Super-Surprise]

What do you think?

I think you have a great ass!

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Our international overlords showed Trump that they can put millions of boots on the ground rather quickly, along with a taste of violence that could easily be expanded if need be.

Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 ‘partners’ of the Women’s March on Washington

Trump responded by calling a Saturday meeting with the CIA, our international security force. It coincided with the march as a fuck you to our overlords. He attacked the media too to disrupt the new narrative. Link not needed.

What will happen next?

I believe Trump has a large ego and won't do as he is told. I predict he will not live through his 4 years. Maybe he will learn to get on board with the pre-planned agenda. But I doubt it.

What do you think?

It's funny listening to idiots cry about Putin when they do not get their whole party is a puppet for someone arguably more powerful/dangerous who happens to have actually worked for the Nazis.....

Someone who actually did interfere in the election....

 

[SaraBaras]

Last POTUS to step out of line was JFK.

Last POTUS to step out of line and not duck, actually. Ford and Reagan also had attempted assassinations...Reagan's was damn near successful.

But yeah - politically speaking you're very much right.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

I don't think he'll be assassinated, but I think he has a steep learning curve. I think it remains to be seen if he can ascend it or not. I do hope he can, for all of our sakes.

And yes - massive ego. Totally accurate statement.

Good question. And I love your screen name.

There is no learning curve. He knows what he has to do to appease those in power. The question is, will he do it?

 

[Noor]

Our international overlords showed Trump that they can put millions of boots on the ground rather quickly, along with a taste of violence that could easily be expanded if need be.

Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 ‘partners’ of the Women’s March on Washington

Trump responded by calling a Saturday meeting with the CIA, our international security force. It coincided with the march as a fuck you to our overlords. He attacked the media too to disrupt the new narrative. Link not needed.

What will happen next?

I believe Trump has a large ego and won't do as he is told. I predict he will not live through his 4 years. Maybe he will learn to get on board with the pre-planned agenda. But I doubt it.

What do you think?

Interesting link. I didn't go to any marches, and I wouldn't have been able to even if I had wanted to.
It all felt too organized and/or staged. There wasn't a clear objective except being anti-trump and look at how many there are of us. I have protested a lot of things in my life, but nothing so nebulous.

Other things that felt weird was usually when there is a big protest in DC, a bunch of my activist friends find themselves on the "no fly" list and that didn't happen this time. It was also way too easy to do from my POV.

I agree that Trump will not do as he is told, unless he can be convinced it is his idea or meets his objectives.
I suppose Congress could end the presidential powers act, and other things to try to clip his wings, but they will still have a loose cannon on their hands.
It's possible that Trump will lose interest, being president may be more work than he bargained for and his control of his businesses will have to put on hold while he is in office.

I am curious what you see as the pre-planned agenda, and whose agenda that would be exactly? It is not something I have given much thought to at this point.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

It's funny listening to idiots cry about Putin when they do not get their whole party is a puppet for someone arguably more powerful/dangerous who happens to have actually worked for the Nazis.....

Someone who actually did interfere in the election....

They cry about Putin because they have been told to do so by the media. A few years ago Romney was talking about Putin and Obama said, "The 80s called they want their foreign policy back." Trump on the other hand fights back now as he co opted WaPo's "fake news" push that backfired.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

I think you have a great ass!

I think you are a genius.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Last POTUS to step out of line and not duck, actually. Ford and Reagan also had attempted assassinations...Reagan's was damn near successful.

But yeah - politically speaking you're very much right.

True.

IDK maybe the attempts were just as politically motivated, but it didn't seem that way and there is a whole lot less shady bullshit surrounding those attempts than the Kennedy incident.


We'll see...but this level of temper tantrum? I'm shocked someone hasn't already taken a shot at him.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

Interesting link. I didn't go to any marches, and I wouldn't have been able to even if I had wanted to.
It all felt too organized and/or staged. There wasn't a clear objective except being anti-trump and look at how many there are of us. I have protested a lot of things in my life, but nothing so nebulous.

Other things that felt weird was usually when there is a big protest in DC, a bunch of my activist friends find themselves on the "no fly" list and that didn't happen this time. It was also way too easy to do from my POV.

I agree that Trump will not do as he is told, unless he can be convinced it is his idea or meets his objectives.
I suppose Congress could end the presidential powers act, and other things to try to clip his wings, but they will still have a loose cannon on their hands.
It's possible that Trump will lose interest, being president may be more work than he bargained for and his control of his businesses will have to put on hold while he is in office.

I am curious what you see as the pre-planned agenda, and whose agenda that would be exactly? It is not something I have given much thought to at this point.

Trump isn't going to lose interest. He's not that type.

The marches were organixed and staged. In NYC, there was a schedule that called for people to march based on last name and when they registered.

The marches were to tell Trump that civil unrest featuring millions of people worldwide can easily be arranged. We just got a kiss of violence. But it could go much worse if Trump doesn't do as he is told...

 

[BotanyBoy]

But it could go much worse if Trump doesn't do as he is told...

Oh that would just be AWESOME!!

Get BLM in there too.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Trump has a massive ego and will, in many cases, resist doing what he is told. But the sheer size of the federal government means it has an inertia all its own, which means it is both extremely difficult to move from a stationary position AND once moving in a certain direction extremely difficult to slow down, change direction and almost impossible to stop entirely.

IF he wants to get anything through Congress, he is going to have to do a LOT of things he might not want to do.

Almost anything he does internationally or domestically is going to have repercussions he might wish were not present. He can, as he already has, dispute that reality and be drawn kicking and whining into it, but in the final instance the hard reality always wins out.

Beyond vetoing legislation, making Executive Branch personnel appointments and issuing Executive Orders (always subject to contravening legislation passed by Congress), there is not a whole lot he has direct control over.

I think that lack of control may drive him crazy, if not cause him to have a heart attack over the stress. I think there is a good chance he will hate the job and the bubble he is confined within and, if he lives through it, I would not be surprised to see him walk away from it after four years.

 

[Noor]

Trump isn't going to lose interest. He's not that type.

The marches were organixed and staged. In NYC, there was a schedule that called for people to march based on last name and when they registered.

The marches were to tell Trump that civil unrest featuring millions of people worldwide can easily be arranged. We just got a kiss of violence. But it could go much worse if Trump doesn't do as he is told...

In the summer of 2014 and a few years before that we had a Pentagon staged urban training mission, conducted with low-flying Blackhawk helicopters through the downtowns among other things.
It was quite disruptive and scary to see.
It felt like the military was saying we can do whatever we want and control the city.

I understand that this is happening in Chicago and other cities as well.

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

In the summer of 2014 and a few years before that we had a Pentagon staged urban training mission, conducted with low-flying Blackhawk helicopters through the downtowns among other things.
It was quite disruptive and scary to see.
It felt like the military was saying we can do whatever we want and control the city.

I understand that this is happening in Chicago and other cities as well.

This is what you saw today on a global scale. They are talking about the the world.

 

[yukonnights]

Last POTUS to step out of line was JFK.

I think actually Richard Nixon holds that prize...and I expect this is the prize our new leader is likely to win. (Bill C made a run at it, but fell short

 

[BotanyBoy]

I think actually Richard Nixon holds that prize...and I expect this is the prize our new leader is likely to win. (Bill C made a run at it, but fell short

I meant politically, not legally.

The oligarchs loved Nixon and Clinton both.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

i think the country
will get pretty
fucking
tired
of watching
unhappy liberals
pissing on their
country.

What will happen then?

 

[BotanyBoy]

What will happen then?

(D)'s will go from a minority party to a fringe minority party in all but several cities and a few states.

I'm hoping your lot kills some more white guys just for being white guys between now and 2018.

 

[hashtag46]

Great thread, LadyF. It just completes the question that Botany Boy asked earlier:

In 1961 there was a stated goal.
The racist laws were identified and there was s push to change that and it changed.

What are women protesting today? Their feelings?
Unless you're ready to get specific with the social justice finally and tell us exactly what is being protested today and why.

I'm betting you can't get specific though just like with all the other 'social justice' shit this is outrage for the sake of outrage.

The 'orchestrated from above'theory looks like the most suitable at one point.

Because in my mind, that's not how I would see unorchestrated social movements coming to a head.
I would see them starting with smaller groups of women coming together in smaller locations, at different points in time: one in a smaller district from Brooklyn, one in a small town inJersey and so on. Then these disparate groups and movements converge into a greater one. Plus they would have taken a lot longer to come as one. They simply don't have the logistics and money to organize themselves so quickly, at such a larger scale.
Here they all errupted at once, in greater nombers and only two months after Trump's election.

Btw: looks like Soros has a tendency to interfere whenever there's a ppsplit between two social groups and to try to magnify the split: blacks versus white cops, muslims versus native europeans, women versus white male Trump voters.

 

[CleverCowardice]

I think it's been far too long since we've had a president die in office, but if we couldn't get some racist redneck asshole to even take a shot at Obama...well, I really don't have much hope for Trump breaking our dry spell.

 

[Bookishleigh]

I think it's been far too long since we've had a president die in office, but if we couldn't get some racist redneck asshole to even take a shot at Obama...well, I really don't have much hope for Trump breaking our dry spell.

It will take something pretty fucking awesome to trump (haha) this post. This is the post of the day.

I thought for sure someone would try to take out Obama. Trump is likely safe - not that we're in any better hands with Satan, er, Pence.

 

[SaraBaras]

I thought for sure someone would try to take out Obama.

I was always surprised that never happened as well.