Official Trump second term prediction thread

[eelw]

Good to see Moscow Mitch giving Trump the finger along with Murkowski and Collins. So close to not having an unqualified person heading up defense.

So who is the next Senator with a chance of defying the MAGAs? I guess this is good that Fetterman voted against Hegseth, so we haven't lost him completely yet.

Haven’t kept up with fetterman. Besides saying that he’s support Rubio nomination immediately when his name announced. And him meeting with the orange monkey, what has he done for people to say he’s turning MAGAtard?

 

[RalphTheCow]

Haven’t kept up with fetterman. Besides saying that he’s support Rubio nomination immediately when his name announced. And him meeting with the orange monkey, what has he done for people to say he’s turning MAGAtard?

Just those two things. Hopefully I exaggerated. He is just saying to give bipartisanship a chance, but that feels a little like conciliation. IOW, they started it!

Just looking around, he was one of 10 or so Democratic senators to vote for the Laken Riley act. Looks like they are mostly ones vulnerable to Trump voters for re-election, and he certainly fits that bill, although his election is a ways off.

 

[you2]

They are now attempting to fire all people of colour from the govt under the pretext that they must be DEI hires.

 

[you2]

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work...

news.yahoo.com

Maybe this thread should be renamed "The stupid shit Trump has done during his second term..."

 

[brycejones]

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work...

news.yahoo.com

Maybe this thread should be renamed "The stupid shit Trump has done during his second term..."

We have a results thread already.

 

[HomerJS]

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work...

news.yahoo.com

Maybe this thread should be renamed "The stupid shit Trump has done during his second term..."

Just in time for the confirmation of bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm in California

Who are the bigger idiots, this jackass or the people who voted for him?

 

[HomerJS]

Here's another one I nailed. When in doubt blame Biden

White House reacts to rising egg prices and shortages

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shifted the blame for goods inflation to the Biden administration.

www.newsweek.com

Too busy signing EOs to fight culture wars and nothing related to inflation.

PS Here is a quote from Trump's new press secretary

"As far as the egg shortage," she explained. "What is also contributing to that is the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens, which has led to a lack of chicken supply in this country, and therefore a lack of egg supply, which is leading to the shortage."

I did a quick AI search asking "Did Biden order the mass killing of 100 million chickens?"

No, President Biden did not personally order the mass killing of 100 million chickens. However, during his administration, the United States experienced a significant outbreak of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. To control the spread of this highly contagious virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) implemented standard protocols, which included culling infected poultry populations. Since February 2022, approximately 95 million poultry have been culled to contain the outbreak.

I saw this was the first presser and already started with a lie. I hit another one.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I mean it'll be pretty okay for me for the most part, I'm a straight white guy.

I bet white men in Germany thought similar in 1933 tbh

 

[nakedfrog]

Here's another one I nailed. When in doubt blame Biden

White House reacts to rising egg prices and shortages

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shifted the blame for goods inflation to the Biden administration.

www.newsweek.com

Too busy signing EOs to fight culture wars and nothing related to inflation.

PS Here is a quote from Trump's new press secretary


I did a quick AI search asking "Did Biden order the mass killing of 100 million chickens?"


I saw this was the first presser and already started with a lie. I hit another one.

You don't get any points for this one, we all knew "blame Biden" was going to be the go-to answer

 

[QueBert]

Just watched a clip between a reporter and Trump about the recent plane crash.

"I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion that diversity had something to do with the plane crash?" - Reporter to Trump
"Because I have common sense" - Diaper Don

I had no idea Trump had decided to blame the crash on DEI, that's wild shit. Also for him to say he has common sense with a straight face and probably believe it kills me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised he's blaming minorities yet again. And Vance backed him up with the "we should higher the best candidates" So long as they're not a minority right? LOL.

 

[hal2kilo]

Haven’t kept up with fetterman. Besides saying that he’s support Rubio nomination immediately when his name announced. And him meeting with the orange monkey, what has he done for people to say he’s turning MAGAtard?

I'm not defending Fetterman, but you have to choose you battles. Rubio is actually sort of a sane MAGA if that's possible.

 

[Brainonska511]

I'm not defending Fetterman, but you have to choose you battles. Rubio is actually sort of a sane MAGA if that's possible.

I have very mixed feelings on the pick your battles thing.

On some level, I understand that by not blocking every pick, you might in theory be able to convince Republicans to side with you to block the absolute worst ones. But that requires Republicans to actually be open to persuasion, and I don't think that is actually the case.

 

[K1052]

I have very mixed feelings on the pick your battles thing.

On some level, I understand that by not blocking every pick, you might in theory be able to convince Republicans to side with you to block the absolute worst ones. But that requires Republicans to actually be open to persuasion, and I don't think that is actually the case.

RFK Jr is the kind of nominee where you don't agree to unanimous consent and do everything humanly possible to obstruct all Senate business until he is withdrawn. Ditto for Gabbard and Patel.

 

[VashHT]

Just watched a clip between a reporter and Trump about the recent plane crash.

"I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion that diversity had something to do with the plane crash?" - Reporter to Trump
"Because I have common sense" - Diaper Don

I had no idea Trump had decided to blame the crash on DEI, that's wild shit. Also for him to say he has common sense with a straight face and probably believe it kills me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised he's blaming minorities yet again. And Vance backed him up with the "we should higher the best candidates" So long as they're not a minority right? LOL.

Common sense is what idiots call their feelings when they have nothing to back up how they think. Not surprisingly, conservatives seem to claim their views are "common sense" a lot more often than liberals.

 

[Brainonska511]

Just watched a clip between a reporter and Trump about the recent plane crash.

I'm so glad reporters who were in the White House got their wish for a president that spoke more with the press directly and off the cuff. What a win for the American people. /s

 

[K1052]

I'm so glad reporters who were in the White House got their wish for a president that spoke more with the press directly and off the cuff. What a win for the American people. /s

It is my fondest wish that the whole WH only beat be eliminated and reporters from other areas of the business rotate in and out on a regular basis. Like an Econ reporter might actually ask something intelligent at one of these things. Or a transportation reporter...

 

[Brainonska511]

It is my fondest wish that the whole WH only beat be eliminated and reporters from other areas of the business rotate in and out on a regular basis. Like an Econ reporter might actually ask something intelligent at one of these things. Or a transportation reporter...

You should see the fun CNN bullshit about how recent orders closely mirror Project 2025, and all their prior fact checks calling out Democrats for claiming that's what Republicans were trying to push.

I think entire editorial boards (along with their owners) need to be launched directly into the sun.

 

[Brainonska511]

It is my fondest wish that the whole WH only beat be eliminated and reporters from other areas of the business rotate in and out on a regular basis. Like an Econ reporter might actually ask something intelligent at one of these things. Or a transportation reporter...

WH reporters might be more appropriately termed as stenographers. They got so pissy when they were no longer spoon fed stuff and actually had to cultivate sources and whatnot to get scoops and news.

 

[ivwshane]

Just watched a clip between a reporter and Trump about the recent plane crash.

"I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion that diversity had something to do with the plane crash?" - Reporter to Trump
"Because I have common sense" - Diaper Don

I had no idea Trump had decided to blame the crash on DEI, that's wild shit. Also for him to say he has common sense with a straight face and probably believe it kills me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised he's blaming minorities yet again. And Vance backed him up with the "we should higher the best candidates" So long as they're not a minority right? LOL.

If I was that reporter I would have laughed out loud and then went, “oh were you being serious?”.

 

[Pens1566]

WH reporters might be more appropriately termed as stenographers. They got so pissy when they were no longer spoon fed stuff and actually had to cultivate sources and whatnot to get scoops and news.

Somewhere, Maggie Haberman was just notified of this post and she will be acting all high and mighty on twitter imminently.

 

[you2]

RFK Jr is the kind of nominee where you don't agree to unanimous consent and do everything humanly possible to obstruct all Senate business until he is withdrawn. Ditto for Gabbard and Patel.

Patel is more dangerous - though RFK jr has and will make a lot of idiots die. Patel will actually 'kill' the non-idiots (kill here means take out of action).

 

[pmv]

Just watched a clip between a reporter and Trump about the recent plane crash.

"I'm trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion that diversity had something to do with the plane crash?" - Reporter to Trump
"Because I have common sense" - Diaper Don

I had no idea Trump had decided to blame the crash on DEI, that's wild shit. Also for him to say he has common sense with a straight face and probably believe it kills me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised he's blaming minorities yet again. And Vance backed him up with the "we should higher the best candidates" So long as they're not a minority right? LOL.

It's far too premature to speculate about this particular tragedy, but as Trump has already tastelessly started down that route, and as, since the pandemic lockdown, I've been weirdly obsessed with aviation disaster stories on YouTube (that, and WW2 tanks) I have some pre-existing thoughts about the topic in general...

In most of them it seems it turns out to be due to a chain-of-mistakes-or-oversights-by-lots-of-different-people, that just happened to line up, through sheer tragic awful luck, in a way that led to disaster (the "Swiss Cheese model").

Seems as if in 90% of these things that's how they happen, sometimes as a result of the constant changes in technology causing unforeseen potential risks - then they have to create a new regulation to close those holes.

However, it seems to me there are a very small minority of cases where identifiable individuals screwed up unusually badly. Relevantly, it seems in most of those cases it's a senior, older, male, usually from the more-privileged classes, and their errors were driven by the fatal over-confidence that goes with that background, together with a failure to listen to anyone they consider inferior to them.

(I don't include "white" in those descriptors, because sometimes it's an elite male working in an airline or military in a country where none of the population are white...but it does seem that it's most often someone from the relatively-privileged demographic in the country in question, i.e. usually male and from the upper-classes).

Essentially, in those rare cases where it's down to an individual it seems likely to be due to the actions of someone with the background and mindset of a Trump or a Musk.

Hands up who wants someone piloting their plane the way Musk runs Twitter/X, or the way Trump is running the US?

 

[fskimospy]

It's far too premature to speculate about this particular tragedy, but as Trump has already tastelessly started down that route, and as, since the pandemic lockdown, I've been weirdly obsessed with aviation disaster stories on YouTube (that, and WW2 tanks) I have some pre-existing thoughts about the topic in general...

In most of them it seems it turns out to be due to a chain-of-mistakes-or-oversights-by-lots-of-different-people, that just happened to line up, through sheer tragic awful luck, in a way that led to disaster (the "Swiss Cheese model").

Seems as if in 90% of these things that's how they happen, sometimes as a result of the constant changes in technology causing unforeseen potential risks - then they have to create a new regulation to close those holes.

However, it seems to me there are a very small minority of cases where identifiable individuals screwed up unusually badly. Relevantly, it seems in most of those cases it's a senior, older, male, usually from the more-privileged classes, and their errors were driven by the fatal over-confidence that goes with that background, together with a failure to listen to anyone they consider inferior to them.

(I don't include "white" in those descriptors, because sometimes it's an elite male working in an airline or military in a country where none of the population are white...but it does seem that it's most often someone from the relatively-privileged demographic in the country in question, i.e. usually male and from the upper-classes).

Essentially, in those rare cases where it's down to an individual it seems likely to be due to the actions of someone with the background and mindset of a Trump or a Musk.

Hands up who wants someone piloting their plane the way Musk runs Twitter/X, or the way Trump is running the US?

If memory serves a Russian airliner crashed once because the pilot let his kid fly the plane.

 

[pmv]

If memory serves a Russian airliner crashed once because the pilot let his kid fly the plane.

Yup, that was one of the cases I was thinking of. Another was the PIA pilot who decided to invent his own airport approach route and flew into a mountain.

The rare occasions when it's not a long chain of sheer bad luck, it seems to be senior, older male pilots, and it's usually down to acquired arrogance and a lack of egalitarianism in the culture (i.e. not listening to your 'inferiors' or their being afraid to challenge their social superiors). Or it's hot-shot unnecessary risk-taking, the techbro, mentality - 'move fast and break the plane'.

Just strikes me that when there's a problem it's usually the very opposite of DEI.

 

[you2]

DEI is neither good nor bad; i've seen it implemented wrong where people are hired regardless of qualifications and i've seen it implemented correctly where it opens up the selection process to qualify people who were no longer available.

However - Trump is always wrong - stupid asshole.