Trump planning flurry of executive orders for first day, top aide says

Leaving the World Health Organization is terrifying

Goddammit we were all warned about this MULTIPLE fucking times.

"I'll be a dictator on day one."

They appear to be flying the Ferengi flag, sir.

Pakled
Looks like a bunch of KKK hoods to me
- Or a metal band logo
Is that supposed to say Donald Trump..? Serious question because it definitely doesn’t say that at all no matter how bad your writing is..
- DonaldDump
- I think it says DonaldJHamberders
- I can see it, coming from being around boomer executive types. It’s a testosterone piss mark like the crushing handshake.
  
  And not to be a downer, but I was taught that way too. Not the aggressive ink and strokes from Trump (lol, mic drop), but the obfuscation. Back when cheques were big anyway.
  
  I was actually taught first, getting my first account as a kid, that you could sign as Superman or X as long as you just kept doing it. Kinda shaped me.

Meh, most of it will be challenged in court.

That's one of the first things I noticed with his previous try; For all of Obamas flaws, it at least seemed that everything was thought through with lawyers in the loop to make sure the execitive orders had a reasonable chance of surviving a legal challenge.

And then this clown comes along and gives the impression that he handed someone a post-it that said "no moar muzleems!!!111one"

how is it that everyone seems to have forgotten about this: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

trump owns the judicial branch and they put him above the law.
Challenged in court? The bloody dude was announced above the law BY THE SUPREME COURT. As long as he OFFICIALLY kills all opposition, he's got a full green light on everything. The only thing stopping him will be military officers refusing orders that are too fucking outlandish. Tho I doubt the police will care too much.
- Immunizing Trump as an individual from prosecution related to acts performed as President, while deeply problematic, will not prevent legal challengs his EO's. Striking down a president's EO is completely different than convicting a president with a crime.
That's why he's been stacking the courts for the last eight years.
- How about this new thing that came out today - he's establishing the board to purge generals.
  
  Is he readying complete takeover?
- Considering how much time it took Obamas orders to even get to the Supreme Court, it can be as biased as he wants it: There's no way they'll get through all of it in a timely manner. Plus, there are still state courts.
Oh sure the courts will sure stop him guys! He won't totally just, do whatever the fuck he wants
- yeah, they'll put him in jail, you'll see! With all the things he did that won't be long! Very soon! Right?
That's the thing about the massive lumbering behemoth that is "government".

Despite anyone's best efforts, actually changing shit is a slow, arduous, sometimes impossible process.

Not saying he won't try, but he'll be about as successful as making America fit his vision as Biden, Obama, Bushel, Clinton, .... Etc were.

The other good news, is that historically, 100% of the time (except for NK), When the strong man dies, the party dies with it.

My optimistic prediction is that Trump keeps all of our blood pressure high for 4 years, and then we witness the actual death of the GOP, and that in average, most things will stay more or less the same.
- I'm going to let myself believe this but for the same reason I might have weed.

I read that as “flurry of executions”, and though “sounds plausible”

Because he already did that.

I'll never understand why anyone thought the guy to clean up after Trump's first term was an over 80 year old moderate who's views on presidential powers boils down to:

I believe the president should be powerless, which apparently means as president I can't limit the next presidents power

We need someone to fight fascism and we got a geriatric pacifist who spent his whole campaign lying about what he was prepared to do...

And then when he dropped out last minute we ran his VP who kept saying she agreed with him 100% and wouldnt have changed anything over the last four years, despite most of what he "tried" never making it I to the planning stages or getting struck down before implementation.

Biden failed and Kamala told voters she was fine with that and then acted shocked when that's not what voters wanted.

Voters want someone who will fight for them, not "aww shucks, vote for me again and we'll try the same shit".

Amazing. You read an article about how shitty trump is and you immediately blame Democrats.
- This is the new narrative. "I don't share in the blame if people didn't vote for Harris. All I did was constantly tell people not to vote for Harris."
- It's his whole schtick. Apparently trying and failing to hold Trump accountable is more immoral than supporting him and shielding him from him the consequences of his crimes. 🤷
- The democratic party is absolutely to blame for this damning historic loss. The last time the Republican won the popular vote was over 20 years ago and the fact the candidate that just pulled that off is the ultra divisive Donald Trump says more about the failure of the left than it does about the right. The majority of Americans don't believe the Democrats can or will fight for them anymore and that's a major issue. Joe Biden wasn't able to effectively articulate his policies and the gaslighting us about his obvious mental acuity did nothing to build trust. I'm tired of hearing the Dems should pick a centrist candidate when it's obvious they need to dump big money interests and fight for working people again. They need to run a left wing candidate that has the ability to clearly speak to and defend their well thought out policies. They need someone who we can trust to take action on office and not just give lip service our issues. Until then get ready to fail.
- Amazing. You read a comment about how Trump is a genuine threat that needs real opposition rather than a Democratic party that looks to compromise with that threat and you immediately decide to kiss the asses of the party that repeatedly fails to protect us.
  
  Edit: The Democratic Party has learned nothing from 2016, they learned the wrong lessons from 2020, and I worry they'll learn nothing from this election. People critiquing the Democratic Party's approach is not an endorsement of Trump. We want better opposition that actually fights for us. If all you want is to root for you team and ignore their flaws then we're fucked.
  
  You should be pushing the party to improve not shutting down any discussion of improving the parties platform or strategy. Trump got elected due to Democratic failures, not because people are discussing those failures.
Bernie would have been that person. I'm still upset about that.

I can't think of anyone aggressive enough for the future. AOC maybe?
- AOC is the best bet.
  
  But whoever it is, the focus needs to be on increasing turnout from the left and not attempting to steal Republican voters by moving the whole party right.
  
  Republican voters will always say if Dems agree with them they'll vote D, but it's always a lie and they'll always vote R.
  
  Just this way they still get what they want if they lose and they know it'll help the Republican win.
  
  Either the people running the DNC are so stupid they still haven't noticed, or they're in on the grift. Considering the same billionaires/corps donate to both parties, I'm not really it out.
  
  But regardless of why they're so bad at their job, we can't afford to keep letting them run the literal only other option to fascism.
  
  As John Oliver just said (paraphrased, but around 10:30 of latest episode):
  
  If you wanted a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot law and order and reaches out to Republicans...
  
  ....
  
  That candidate existed, and she just lost.
  
  She can't have gone any further "center" and she performed horribly. Anyone saying we went to far left isn't paying attention to reality, they'll listening to billionaire's talking heads on the TV.
A populist. That's what the people crave.
- And they always should.
  
  We are meant to be a democracy, a populist is literally a person who puts citizens issues ahead of others.
  
  Bernie is a populist, populists are great.
- That and electrolytes
- Always have and always will.
  
  It's common sense that voters want someone who they think can and will help them.
  
  Republicans lie about it and win elections. Dem politicians try to convince us populism is bad because it's not what their donors want.
  
  A little bit of me dies everytime a "moderate" conflates populism with evil.
  
  Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the common people and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite group.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
  
  They hate populism because they're the political elite. They're the ones already not helping the common American and instead helping the other wealthy people.
  
  If the Dem party pivots to populism, it means replacing both the elected and non elected leaders of the Dem party. And they're not going to do what's best for the country but worst for them personally voluntarily, or they'd be populists already.
  
  We need to either force them out or start a new party, and four years isn't as much time as it seems.
I wouldn't exactly call Biden a pacifist...
- I would, he's an extreme pacifist to the point where figuratively if he saw a grown man beating a six year old to death in an alley he wouldn't lift a finger to stop it.
  
  He'd admonish it, tell them to stop, maybe even call them corncob.
  
  But he wouldn't use violence to save that childs life.
  
  And obviously in this analogy Gaza is the child that can't defend itself.