Speculative Predictions on how the Trump presidency ends

[Koyaanisqatsi]

(a) hold the previous administration accountable for its crimes,

The problem was that the Bush cabal was very careful about not committing any crimes in the literal, legal sense. Or, rather, making sure that what crimes they did commit were not technically criminal. So Obama had few options, other than to simply stop the technicalities they employed.

(b) aggressively pursue policies that reverse the damage it caused?

He did, repeatedly, and was overruled every time by Congress in regard to the biggies, like the Authorization for Use of Military Force and closing Gitmo. He also radically changed American foreign policy from one of massive "shock and awe" invasion overkill tactics to primarily surgical strike limited drone tactics, reducing civilian casualties from the millions to the hundreds almost literally overnight and resulting in a very successful actual fulfillment of the mandate behind the AUMF (to get the terrorists behind 9/11) and for that he was excoriated by his own party, after GOP whisper campaigns took the drones out of that bigger context.

In short, he was damned when he did and damned when he didn't by both sides of the aisle.

What would give someone that responsibility, if not being elected in a landslide on the mandate of change along with a supermajority in his party, Keith?

*sigh*

Debunking the Myth: Obama’s Two-Year Supermajority

 

[PyramidHead]

It's heartwarming when an issue brings together the right and the left like this.

I am neither right nor left.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Ding ding. Almost as if Obama never really undid what was bad about Bush, and was another link in the chain leading us to Trump.

Obama isn't the issue. It is the people that voted for Trump that are. They were very angry at the GOP in 2012 and did everything they could to stop a Romney nomination. They won in 2016, and the remaining Republicans said 'what is the worst that can happen' and also voted for Trump.

Did those voters materialize from thin air, or emerge from the soil like cicadas? No. They were a product of the conditions in society at the time...

You mean the idiots protesting the Obama Presidency in June 2009?

 

[Derec]

Keep laughing, Canuck. When Trump wins (or loses) the next election, and installs himself as Emperor of the Americas, guess which country to the north will be the first he invades.

 

[jonatha]

Keep laughing, Canuck. When Trump wins (or loses) the next election, and installs himself as Emperor of the Americas, guess which country to the north will be the first he invades.

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So you've got three arrows coming out of Montana (one for each soldier, I assume, and you've got twice as many of them going into Saskatchewan as into Alberta, which seems backwards), and a bunch of arrows coming out of blue states.

If it weren't for Montana and Grand Forks I'd guess this was a prediction for routes for asylum seekers...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So we are invading most of Ontario via WIsconsin instead of a state that actually shares a border with Ontario... and taking over Halifax via Boston instead of Portland or something a bit closer.

Of course, the one killer flaw is that the Canadians would just cross the border and occupy the US.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Keep laughing, Canuck. When Trump wins (or loses) the next election, and installs himself as Emperor of the Americas, guess which country to the north will be the first he invades.

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So you've got three arrows coming out of Montana (one for each soldier, I assume, and you've got twice as many of them going into Saskatchewan as into Alberta, which seems backwards), and a bunch of arrows coming out of blue states.

If it weren't for Montana and Grand Forks I'd guess this was a prediction for routes for asylum seekers...

Biker gangs. They move North in the spring and set up marijuana grow operations. The bring the goods South by snow mobile when the first good snows fall.

 

[Worldtraveller]

One can dream:

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[PyramidHead]

One can dream:

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sO mUcH fOr ThE tOLeRaNt LeFt

 

[Elixir]

One can dream:

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sO mUcH fOr ThE tOLeRaNt LeFt

Hey, tolerance is where you find it. As a general principle I'd sooner tolerate the mechanized death of an individual than the mechanized death of countless civilians.