Two years of a lame duck presidency would be a breath of fresh air after the last two.
It would be very funny to see the 2027 Congress pushing the bipartian āInfinity Money for Israel Actā which Trump vetos out of spite.
But like so much else with The Don, itās gonna be TACO Tuesday every time he suffers a marginal amount of pressure.
Pig Boy has been talking about cutting funding for Israel. Itās not clear to me why, but it might be that he expects Netanyahuās coalition to lose power and he wants to punish the infinitesimally less genocidal opposition. Or he blames Netanyahu for the Iran war debacle and the US election wipeout. Of course, nothing can ever be Trumpās fault.
The was a Key and Peele skit long ago.
Heās not gonna stop shitting himself
Okay maybe not a breath of fresh air for the people in his immediate vicinityā¦
āObama has shit in my Depends again! Natalie, itās changing time!ā
Iām pretty sure thereās gonna be a party when he stops shitting himself.
A party?
I mean, I suppose an entire planet erupting in celebration could be considered one singular party, but Iād say itād be more like thousands or millions of smaller parties all occurring at once.
āThe
witchshitstain is dead! Thewitchshitstain is dead!āāDing dong, the stupid shit is deeeeeeaaaaad.ā
Why canāt he share the fruit of his ass with the American people?
He does that many times a day.
Good, that was my favourite part.
He will still steal and deal and executive order.
Maybe the tantrums at not getting what he wants would give him a heart attack. I was hoping the all the rallies would do that.
I still want my dog to live longer than Trump.
i also want your dog to live longer than trump.
Thanks, sadly itās not looking good š
Iām really sorry thatās happening. Itās the hardest thing to lose your best friend. I hope your dog had a life full of love, treats and fun.
When ours suddenly got cancer and died, I was gutted for months. It was really shocking how hard it hit me. I still miss her.
He has, weāve had him for over 14 years so him declining isnāt a surprise.
please give him all the treats for me
I hope your Dog lives longer than trump
Thanks, I really like your user name!
Thanks :3
The problem is that he will still throw executive orders left and right.
Theyāre just chaff. Courts reject the vast majority of them, and many of the remainder are just rants that have no practical effect.
And you know how much Trump cares about courts not doing what he wants?
posting here for visibility: can someone start a megathread to discuss the midterm count out?
Sore loser who cares more about his ego than the american people.
Exactly.
Shit will stay bad, undeniably bad.
And Iām 2 years Dems get to campaign on hypotheticals for how much progressive policy would have helped if we had a progressive president.
The were looking at 2/3s majoritie to get a lot done, and insulation from remaining neoliberals who wonāt vote with the party
Itās honestly the best path to super majorities, because we donāt have to try and get some stuff accomplished the next two years, thereās zero expectation that trump will let anything pass. So even if nothing gets fixed, it will still just help Dems.
Youāll always be Mr. Pedo to me.
Heāll always be Mr. Pedo to me
Believe it or not, thatās the ideal outcome short of impeachment.
The economy is fucked, and we have proof his government has been lying about the numbers. An obstructionist Trump lets Dems continue to rightly blame him for it, and Republicans with any luck take it on the chin again in 2028.
Agree 100%. Itās better for the world if Trump and congress are at a stalemate than if Trump is allowed to continue to run rampant
Youāre right, we should do absolutely nothing about all the idiotic bills this Congress has passed, including slashing ACA subsidies for everyone. Letās just let the moron do what he wants.
Somehow I donāt think a slight majority Congress is going to lead the revolution, chief.
This is the system. What is supposed to happen is that Republicans put country and ethics over personal benefit and agree to vote in favor of impeachment from top to bottom, but thatās not happening so itās a two year stalemate or a civil war.
Weāll see what happens next.
If it makes you feel better thereās a lot of things Congress can do in terms of investigation and daily business he canāt veto, it just means new bills wonāt be passed.
Would you care to reevaluate?
Of course, his voters will see it as dems being at fault for only passing bills that werenāt any good (Trump didnāt approve of them after all) and thus if dems get the majority in 2026, theyāll be at fault for everything that happened in 2025-2026 in addition to already being at fault for everything negative that happened from 2017-2025.
And they will reelect him in 2028.
Yeah but those morons will support him no matter what happens, so why bother trying to placate them?
18 U.S. Code Ā§ 594 - Intimidation of voters
Heās above the law, lol. You think thisāll be the thing that gets him in trouble? Iām sure he commits a crime like this every single day. The legal system just doesnāt apply to 99% of rich people.
Itās still good to point it out.
The only time it does is when the crime they commit is against other rich people.
I see your 2% battery
I hope he instead becomes āMr. Kill Myselfā
He will become an even worse person.
Bring on the government shutdowns
Yep! Letās play the āno budget will be passed until ICE is completely disbandedā game. Sounds fun.
Honestly it might be worth it just to get the supreme court to rule that the government canāt shut down because it refuses to authorize funding to itself
Nah, theyāll rule that only āessentialā government services canāt be shut down.
Food stamps for poor people who might suffer malnutrition otherwise ā not essential.
Medical care for veterans, some of whom will die without it ā not essential.
Homeland security, including ICE ā absolutely essential due to ānational securityā.
Or, better yet, theyāll rule that āessentialā government services canāt be shut down, then leave it to the executive branch to decide which services are essential and which arenāt.
The one where the Democrats still bitch out after gaining nothing in return?
Exactly. So dumb.
Republicans: āWe want loads of money to waste and do awful thingsā Democrats: āOh gee that sounds like a dastardly plan. I guess we just have to approve because reasonsā
When is this, after a bunch of states mysteriously show a grand red paint job? ;-)
This is literally just threatening to do the thing that everyone already knew he was going to do.
Also, frankly, what a lot of presidents pretty much do.
I guess the biggest problem is that usually stops short of the budget/debt ceiling bills, so if he sticks to his guns of āveto no matter whatā, hard to see how budget bills can work anymore.
Vetos can be overridden.
If you have 2/3rds of Senate, sure.
But short of getting a bunch of people willing to visibly undermine Trump from his own party, thatās not going to happen. Keep in mind these were the same people who didnāt like the optics of removing Trump even after he lost and was on his way out and actively incited a violent insurrection. If they wonāt even vote to remove what was presumed to be a dead-end politician on his way out of politics anyway, then they sure as hell wonāt go against him on a veto.
If Trump goes full tantrum and decides to try to shutdown the government for two years, Iād bet they get just enough to pull off an override.
Itād be pretty cool if the Democratic Party had fewer Republicans in it. I suspect this Haley Stevens revelation today is but a visible pimple with a several-pound, teeth-and hair-laden conjoined twin lurking underneath. If true, expect more of the same from the orange scrotum.
Iād rather good laws be vetoed than bad laws be enacted
Best Republicans can do, veto good laws, letting only bad ones be enacted.
Beats the ever-loving fuck out of whatever the fuck heās doing now.
[Bidenās term] mcconnell: āWeāre going to block any meaningful legislation just to make him look badā
[orange pedoās 2nd term]the orange pedo: āif I donāt get my way Iāll veto everything the Dems try to passā
And which one claims to be the party for Americans again?
Veto away, Krasnov. By all means, please make Republicans look like incompetent fools for the next 2 years so we can sweep in 2028 too. After that, maybe finally we can get some shit done and prosecute the fascists (if the corporate masters are willing to indulge us, of course).
Letās just check in on if the 2020 sweep into power let the democrats get some shit done and prosecute the fascistsā¦ aw shucks.
Iāll still vote for the Dems since fptp makes it the best option, but until we get a leftist yea party insurgency I expect them to dance for the corporate masters.
They did pass some bills, but not enough but didnāt have enough majority and had to use a way to not need 2/3 to pass in senate, so we need enough majority to pass w/o tricks and not blame them for not enough majority and not able to pass what the majority of people want on several issues.
The majority was so narrow that Sinema and Manchin were able to take turns sabotaging it. Now itāll require more backstabbers to frustrate the will of the people.
My entire life I have heard this.
Republicans come in with the slimmest majority and use every avenue to get their agenda passed.
Democrats come in with similar or better majorities and, shucks would you look at that, theres always a just enough turncoats to keep them from doing anything. Or maybe they could technically achieve their agenda through a reconciliation bill but tradition and custom are more important.
The sergeant at arms could actually enforce the subpoena by arresting people, but the congress hasnāt done that in over a century and certainly wonāt do it now.
Seating that judge, well the senate has a long standing gentlemanās agreement that both senators from the state with the courthouse get a pocket veto and one of the republicans is using it.
Republicans come in and squeeze every iota of advantage past reason. Democrats play to the rules, then if they could still get something done play to an even stricter set of rules, then compromise for no reward.
And then Iām supposed to hear how they really really wanted to do good stuff but gee golly, once they got power they just couldnāt figure out how.
Just imagine if he did nothing the last two years, but just coasted along, letting Bidenās work continue.
Things would have been fine.
There is no end goal for this people but more money and more power. They are the embodiment of capitalism, there is no victory condition, there is no āenoughā. Itās more more more more more forever, at any and all cost.
Like, a serial killer wonāt ever be like āok Iām gonna kill ten people and Iām currently at eight, so just two more murders and Iām done! Gonna be so nice when itās over, I can just relax, pick up gardeningā¦ā
Right, but that wasnāt the 2025 plan, they told everyone what they were going to do and too much of the damage has been done. It takes longer and harder to rebuild it if Dems win president and enough majority in 28, but not counting on it unfortunately. Iād love to be wrong and they do make real progress if they win, but Iām way ahead and coming back to present moment, peace.
