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So after 4 years of President Trump, just how bad a state do you believe the USA will be in?

Will it be a post-apocalyptic radioactive wasteland?

Will slavery be back in force?

Will the USA be at war with China and Russia?

Do you think Trump will be a much worse president than G. W. Bush?

Just what is the worst case scenario in your mind, and what is your realistic expectation if Trump becomes president?
 
Higher interest rates, millions of lost jobs and at least one or two major financial crises are a definite. Race relations and the number of cops killing black people and the number of black people killing cops will skyrocket. He'll start a war against somebody somewhere - it's impossible to predict who or why because his reasons will be random and stupid but one can be sure he'll do it.

All of the above will be the fault of the Democrats and the establishment and not him, of course.
 
We will be unable to form coalitions with any country on earth. Our cowboy stance: even more strident and delusional, partly because of claim #1. World population of terrorists: growing. Racial division in USA: berserk. Standard of public discourse: vile, abusive, nonrational. Assuming we are committing war crimes, i.e., torture, killing terrorists' relatives, grabbing natural resources of countries we occupy, Trump will be unable to travel out of the country, because there will be warrants out for him. Tea Party: alive and kickin' and havin' a monster kegger nonstop.
 
I don't expect much changing. Presidents do not have the kind of power people like to pretend they do.

At most we will see some changes to immigration policies and more relaxed regulations on industries.

In terms of presidents, a President Trump wouldn't really be that outrageous - we've gotten through worse.
 
JonA said:
I don't expect much changing. Presidents do not have the kind of power people like to pretend they do.

At most we will see some changes to immigration policies and more relaxed regulations on industries.

In terms of presidents, a President Trump wouldn't really be that outrageous - we've gotten through worse.
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Name three! The key point is that a nutty President has at least the power desperately to weaken your quislings abroad: Everyone's laughter at him will get transferred to them.
 
Jolly_Penguin said:
So after 4 years of President Trump, just how bad a state do you believe the USA will be in?

Will it be a post-apocalyptic radioactive wasteland?

Will slavery be back in force?

Will the USA be at war with China and Russia?

Do you think Trump will be a much worse president than G. W. Bush?

Just what is the worst case scenario in your mind, and what is your realistic expectation if Trump becomes president?
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Why do you figure only 4 years?

And his dictatorship will end in nuclear fire.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
Jolly_Penguin said:
So after 4 years of President Trump, just how bad a state do you believe the USA will be in?

Will it be a post-apocalyptic radioactive wasteland?

Will slavery be back in force?

Will the USA be at war with China and Russia?

Do you think Trump will be a much worse president than G. W. Bush?

Just what is the worst case scenario in your mind, and what is your realistic expectation if Trump becomes president?
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Why do you figure only 4 years?

And his dictatorship will end in nuclear fire.
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4 years of President Trump.

Then a lifetime of Emperor Donald I.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
All of the above will be the fault of the Democrats and the establishment and not him, of course.
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Yup. Just like Iraq and 9/11/01 were Obama and Hillary's fault. They will be SO to blame, that the Donald will be forced (against his will of course) to suspend further elections, declare martial law and start rounding up those who don't like him.
 
JonA said:
I don't expect much changing. Presidents do not have the kind of power people like to pretend they do.

At most we will see some changes to immigration policies and more relaxed regulations on industries.

In terms of presidents, a President Trump wouldn't really be that outrageous - we've gotten through worse.
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I agree fully. When George W. Bush was elected the US had just seen record peace time economic growth, projected $5.6 trillion / 10 year surplus, and an overall cheery picture.

When George W. Bush left office, the US military was deployed in large numbers in two countries, socked with trillions of tax cut related debt, and the global economy had crashed thanks to the criminally under-regulated American banking system.

Therefore Trump probably won't be that bad because, hey, what could possibly go wrong?!
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
JonA said:
I don't expect much changing. Presidents do not have the kind of power people like to pretend they do.

At most we will see some changes to immigration policies and more relaxed regulations on industries.

In terms of presidents, a President Trump wouldn't really be that outrageous - we've gotten through worse.
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I agree fully. When George W. Bush was elected the US had just seen record peace time economic growth, projected $5.6 trillion / 10 year surplus, and an overall cheery picture.

When George W. Bush left office, the US military was deployed in large numbers in two countries, socked with trillions of tax cut related debt, and the global economy had crashed thanks to the criminally under-regulated American banking system.

Therefore Trump probably won't be that bad because, hey, what could possibly go wrong?!
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OK, but Hillary Clinton was in the Senate at the time, so this was all her fault. You can't blame Bush for any of this.
 
Oh my, probably the worst part of his Presidency will be him speaking solemnly at the site of a natural disaster. The fake solemnness will probably make tens of thousands of Americas choke on their own vomit.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Oh my, probably the worst part of his Presidency will be him speaking solemnly at the site of a natural disaster. The fake solemnness will probably make tens of thousands of Americas choke on their own vomit.
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Hey, he warned them that there'd be natural disasters. If they can't take a little bit of time away from digging their family members out of the rubble to congratulate him on his foresight, then those ungrateful bastards deserve to choke.
 
There won't be any major changes in the USA if Trump takes over except stricter measures against illegal immigrants and some economic measures which like most bills will be watered down by committees.I can't see him banning all Muslims even if such legislation could get through both houses.

Hopefully he won't put US boots on the ground against ISIS and will push the Arab Nations such as Saudi to take action with its 700 idle war planes.
 
while normally i'll sort of agree that a given president doesn't have the power to radically alter things from governmental operations standpoint, presidents DEFINITELY influence culture in a wide variety of areas.
a trump presidency would result in in the following:
nonstop wall-to-wall news coverage of every single thing he says or does, with zero scrutiny about whether what he's saying and doing is truthful or reasonable, leading to a cultural zeitgeist of acceptable that his antics are legitimate.
due to the above, sweeping reductions in government systems and services such as regulation, monitoring, and social assistance will be further diminished or gutted entirely.
supreme court nominations will be idiots, sycophants, or both, and the news media consistently legitimizing extremist conservative ideology in the US will result in a lack of scrutiny which will end up with unqualified hard-right douchebags on the SC.
economic policy will be more of the same from the GOP, trump is simply an ambulatory marionette of conservative economics come to life so it'll just be bush 3.0.
democrats will continue to cower before the conservative masses and convince themselves (as an establishment political party) that placating the rabid conservative forces that hate them and will never vote for them is the correct thing to do, while simultaneously distancing themselves from the sort of liberal minded people who actually would have voted for them in the first place, continuing this country's 40-year-running decline into a rightist government.

after that... well, just like the bush presidency got the left riled up enough to vote in obama, after trump the left would be riled up enough to vote in some other moderately and inconsistently liberalish soft-right democrat who will make a lot of promises about acting like a progressive, almost none of which will be pursued, some of which will kind of half-assedly get implemented in a totally compromised way, and then we'll have enough 4-8 years of the right shitting its pants over how that democrat destroyed the country, while they totally ignore the fact that the democrat is repairing the damage the republican did.
because this has been the cycle of US presidential politics since the late 60s and i don't see it changing any time soon.
 
Anyone remember when Obama won that Nobel Peace Prize? The awarding oddly came after being elected President of the US. Talk about not being respected by the International Community! He literally just replaced the last guy and was given the Employee of the Month award for replacing the last guy.
 
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