The Trump Presidency Prediction Time Capsule Thread

[eyeteach]

Look we're three weeks into his presidency, when is the nuclear war gonna start that the left predicted, no PROMISED, he would start within two weeks time?

I feel jipped.

 

[dilligaf0]

Look we're three weeks into his presidency, when is the nuclear war gonna start that the left predicted, no PROMISED, he would start within two weeks time?

I feel jipped.

He's too busy golfing every weekend.

 

[lightbulbee]

I’m pretty sure Trump will continue to serve as an endless source of inspiration for things like this:



This is really a thing right now in Europe. The Netherlands started it and there’s a lot more of those videos on http://everysecondcounts.eu/

 

[AudriTwo]

 

[Osmia]

We may see history made.
The first President removed from the White House in a straightjacket.

I wish I was joking.

I would give a month's salary to see him frog-marched in a blinding-white straightjacket across the vast expanse of the South Lawn to Marine One, which would take him directly to Bellevue (or whatever the publicly-funded DC equivalent is). Ideally, this would occur before he starts a global nuclear war.

And then wait 3...2...1... for Kellyanne Conway to label it fake news and assert that Trump is still in the Oval Office, but he won't be making any public appearances for the mean ol' MSM for the foreseeable future. Which would prompt Dorothy Gale and Toto to invade the White House and pull back the curtain, which reveals Steve Bannon at the President's desk. Which would prompt a whole new round of SNL skits.

And that's week five.

 

[AudriTwo]

Trump isn't going to fuck with porn they say.. But fucking Jeff Sessions will.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...te_porn_trump_appeared_in_multiple_porns.html

 

[Osmia]

Trump isn't going to fuck with porn they say.. But fucking Jeff Sessions will.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...te_porn_trump_appeared_in_multiple_porns.html

This reminds me. . . Most of y'all are too young to remember this, at least not directly. President Reagan's AG, Edwin Meese, famously released a huge report on pornography with the bare-breasted "Spirit of Justice" statue right behind him. The statue, and a companion male statue, are located in the Great Hall of the DOJ building. The aluminum Art-Deco-style statues were installed in the 1930s.

The Great Hall is an ornate, two-story room that the department uses for ceremonies and special speeches.

In the past, snagging a photo of the attorney general in front of the statues has been something of a sport for photographers.

When former Attorney General Edwin Meese released a report on pornography in the 1980s, photographers dived to the floor to capture the image of him raising the report in the air, with the partially nude female statue behind him.

--- http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/29/statues.htm

Seems kind of quaint now. Ronald Reagan...the good old days.



"Attorney General Edwin Meese holding report from the Commission on Pornography. January 01, 1985"

 

[Lili_xo]

I think President Trump is wonderful man and we are so lucky to have him and I only wish for more ppl like this artist above who supports him and makes great music too!

 

[justjoinedtopost]

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I think President Trump is wonderful man and we are so lucky to have him and I only wish for more ppl like this artist above who supports him and makes great music too!

 

[mynameisbob84]

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I think President Trump is wonderful man and we are so lucky to have him and I only wish for more ppl like this artist above who supports him and makes great music too!

What has been your favourite Trump presidential moment so far?

• The humanity he showed when tearing families apart trying to unlawfully ban them from the country they've known as home for decades?
• The selflessness he showed when omitting certain Muslim countries from his ban list that he has business ties to?
• The flexibility he has shown by publicly stating one thing whilst simultaneously and retroactively doing the total opposite (he likes to do this one a lot)?
• The generosity with which he used his presidential platform to advertise his daughter's clothing line and condemn the big meanies who dropped her line over something as small as it not selling?
• The great wisdom in which he conducted a national security meeting in public in front of guests and even civilians before rightly complaining about the leaks coming from Washington?
• The attention he brought to the previously unheard of and entirely fictitious Bowling Green Massacre?
• The humble nature with which he has kowtowed to Russia, even at the expense of the national security of his own country?
• The spotlight he has so helpfully shone on "alternative facts", important pieces of information that we should all accept as true but previously would have unfairly dismissed simply because they are, by definition and for all practical purposes, malicious lies?
• The revolutionary nature in which he has undermined the Establishment by recruiting figureheads of big business and large campaign donors to his administration?
• The show of magnetism and unquestioned leadership with which he has united America, and the world?

Or maybe you have your own favourite moment that I've over-looked?

 

[AudriTwo]

What has been your favourite Trump presidential moment so far?

• The humanity he showed when tearing families apart trying to unlawfully ban them from the country they've known as home for decades?
• The selflessness he showed when omitting certain Muslim countries from his ban list that he has business ties to?
• The flexibility he has shown by publicly stating one thing whilst simultaneously and retroactively doing the total opposite (he likes to do this one a lot)?
• The generosity with which he used his presidential platform to advertise his daughter's clothing line and condemn the big meanies who dropped her line over something as small as it not selling?
• The great wisdom in which he conducted a national security meeting in public in front of guests and even civilians before rightly complaining about the leaks coming from Washington?
• The attention he brought to the previously unheard of and entirely fictitious Bowling Green Massacre?
• The humble nature with which he has kowtowed to Russia, even at the expense of the national security of his own country?
• The spotlight he has so helpfully shone on "alternative facts", important pieces of information that we should all accept as true but previously would have unfairly dismissed simply because they are, by definition and for all practical purposes, malicious lies?
• The revolutionary nature in which he has undermined the Establishment by recruiting figureheads of big business and large campaign donors to his administration?
• The show of magnetism and unquestioned leadership with which he has united America, and the world?

Or maybe you have your own favourite moment that I've over-looked?

My favorite moment is when House Science Chairman Lamar Smith said "The national liberal media won't print that, or air it or post it. Better to get your news directly from the President. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth."

When in reality Trump has been pushing debunked falsehoods and conspiracy theories. Yes, I'm going to get my source of fact from someone who listens to Infowars because they are totally turning the frogs gay people!

So no more news. North Korean gets all their news from their government, why can't we?

https://thinkprogress.org/the-infowars-president-a01eb1203281#.1ke87s2h7

 

[Osmia]

A few days ago, I read something to the effect that Trump hasn't yet submitted any legislation to Congress. That could be because:
(1) He doesn't see the need to work with Congress, and plans to govern by EO or as a dictator; or
(2) His White House is too caught up in infighting and is too disorganized to prepare actual legislation.

Then, I read this, comparing Trump's accomplishments to Obama's during their respective first months.

I'm jumping the gun a little here, but I'd like to remind everyone that during his first month in office, Barack Obama:

• Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
• Banned torture.
• Signed a $787 billion stimulus bill.
• Sent 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.
• Ended the month with a net job approval rating of +27 percent.

Donald Trump still has a few days to go, but so far he has:

• Signed no legislation.
• Mostly signed executive orders that are either routine (pay freezes, a halt to new regulation, reversing the Mexico City rule) or little more than PR messages to his base (cracking down on drug cartels, financial regulatory reviews, rebuilding the military, etc.).
• Signed one executive order that was important, but rolled it out so incompetently that it caused massive chaos and was promptly overturned by the courts.
• Sat idly by at dinner while aides discussed a North Korean missile launch and then failed to respond in any way at all.
• Has presided over a White House so epically leak-prone and amateurish that people are already taking bets about which senior officials will get fired within the next few weeks.
• Ended the month with a net job approval rating of about -8 percent.

 

[AudriTwo]

THE PRESIDENT IS CORRECT 100%!
THE PRESIDENT IS CORRECT 100%!
THE PRESIDENT IS CORRECT 100%!
THE PRESIDENT IS CORRECT 100%!
THE PRESIDENT IS CORRECT 100%!


The reaction is perfect. Could you imagine one of Obama's aid saying that? I would think they would be equally brain washed like Stephen Miller

 

[AudriTwo]

Also Flynn finally got canned. Let's watch Kellyanne try to defuse the problem. Because that is always something.



also this is an interesting piece on her worth watching

 

[zippypinhead]

I keep waiting for this to be revealed as the "4D chess" situation that Trump's army of shitposting memesters keep shouting about, or the liberal fear fantasy where a group of evil masterminds have taken over the government and truly turned it into a fascist dystopia run remotely from Moscow. More and more, though, this is looking like simple gross incompetence.

 

[JoleneBrody]

It's kind of funny that I have more faith in the Trump administration when I only listen to liberal podcasts discuss and interpret things the administration says, than when I watch or listen to the actual administration reps says the things. That's kind of amazing...
They are so abhorrent that not even ultra lefty podcasters can make them look worse than they are, they are doing it so well themselves that just about any reciting of the incident in any other persons voice somehow sounds less awful than the original comment even if intended to demonize. Weird.

 

[THE MOLLIE MARIE]

I keep waiting for this to be revealed as the "4D chess" situation that Trump's army of shitposting memesters keep shouting about, or the liberal fear fantasy where a group of evil masterminds have taken over the government and truly turned it into a fascist dystopia run remotely from Moscow. More and more, though, this is looking like simple gross incompetence.

This would make great fiction, ya know? But I pref my reality to be a little less spicy. This just seems... Wrong.

 

[Osmia]

It's kind of funny that I have more faith in the Trump administration when I only listen to liberal podcasts discuss and interpret things the administration says, than when I watch or listen to the actual administration reps says the things. That's kind of amazing...
They are so abhorrent that not even ultra lefty podcasters can make them look worse than they are, they are doing it so well themselves that just about any reciting of the incident in any other persons voice somehow sounds less awful than the original comment even if intended to demonize. Weird.

Good observation. I hadn't thought of it in those terms. I think one explanation is that Trump and his minions are, as always, talking only to their core base supporters, not to the larger "reality based community." The liberal podcasters, reporters, etc., are doing their best to translate the Trumpsters' utterances into rational thought so that we can understand it. The danger is that by doing so, they may inadvertently help Trump et al seem more rational and "normal" than they are.

 

[Osmia]

None of this could have been predicted before the election! If only Trump had left us some helpful clues back then by behaving badly, by being obviously in the tank for the Russians, by knowing nothing about the details of the major issues or the art of governance, etc., etc. Who could have known?! I'm shocked!

 

[AerynShade]

Good observation. I hadn't thought of it in those terms. I think one explanation is that Trump and his minions are, as always, talking only to their core base supporters, not to the larger "reality based community." The liberal podcasters, reporters, etc., are doing their best to translate the Trumpsters' utterances into rational thought so that we can understand it. The danger is that by doing so, they may inadvertently help Trump et al seem more rational and "normal" than they are.

I read a story that said translators are having a hard time with Trump's speeches and quotes. Since he doesn't usually speak in sentences, and they often have a lot of just... sounds they have to completely change what he said and it ends up making him seem much more well-spoken and intelligent.

 

[Gen]

I found this article really interesting: Why Nobody Cares the President is Lying

Summed up in a couple of paragraphs:

For years, as a conservative radio talk show host, I played a role in that conditioning by hammering the mainstream media for its bias and double standards. But the price turned out to be far higher than I imagined. The cumulative effect of the attacks was to delegitimize those outlets and essentially destroy much of the right’s immunity to false information. We thought we were creating a savvier, more skeptical audience. Instead, we opened the door for President Trump, who found an audience that could be easily misled.

The news media’s spectacular failure to get the election right has made it only easier for many conservatives to ignore anything that happens outside the right’s bubble and for the Trump White House to fabricate facts with little fear of alienating its base.

Unfortunately, that also means that the more the fact-based media tries to debunk the president’s falsehoods, the further it will entrench the battle lines.

It is worth a full read but I definitely found it compelling as one of the most baffling aspects of all of this is how happily and uncritically many of his supporters have been to accept straight up lies. And how frequent they've been.

 

[Osmia]

I found this article really interesting: Why Nobody Cares the President is Lying

Summed up in a couple of paragraphs:



It is worth a full read but I definitely found it compelling as one of the most baffling aspects of all of this is how happily and uncritically many of his supporters have been to accept straight up lies. And how frequent they've been.

I think his core supporters generally don't care if he's lying. It's basic political tribalism, and believing the "party line" is a marker of identity and belonging. The rest of us (the majority) do care. Obama reportedly counseled Trump during the transition that "Reality has a way of biting back." Trump is a 70-year old man who has for decades been master of his domain (apologies to Seinfeld). He could always afford to make and inhabit his own reality, to get his way, to cultivate the image he wanted to project. He can't do that as president. Sooner or later, Trump will get bitten back, hard, and it's an open question how he will react.

 

[AudriTwo]

This made me lol.

 

[Osmia]

A couple of recent New Yorker cartoons. . .

 

[SexySteph]

Well this is cool...

 

[THE MOLLIE MARIE]

Well this is cool...

Have you seen this yet? https://gop.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/

I enjoyed those unlimited character text boxes.

 

[SexySteph]

Have you seen this yet? https://gop.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/

I enjoyed those unlimited character text boxes.

Wow, they did quite a lot of "Let's word this question as confusingly as possible to get people to support our answer" on that one!

 

[Osmia]

Well this is cool...

Interestingly, he edited that tweet. What you posted is the original version.

 

[ExcellaExe]

Interestingly, he edited that tweet. What you posted is the original version.

Maybe someone is finally telling him that just putting an emotion at the end of a tweet does nothing but make you sound like you're five. Hopefully. Maybe.

Also, can I just say how weird it is to see a president basically lambasting the media in general? I've never seen anything like it, at least not in person. I've read about this happening in past generations but it's interesting to see it happening with my own eyes.

 

[JoleneBrody]

Maybe someone is finally telling him that just putting an emotion at the end of a tweet does nothing but make you sound like you're five. Hopefully. Maybe.

Also, can I just say how weird it is to see a president basically lambasting the media in general? I've never seen anything like it, at least not in person. I've read about this happening in past generations but it's interesting to see it happening with my own eyes.

It's funny how he takes factual phrases used against him (fake news for example being used to describe ACTUAL fake news not just biased reporting) and turns them around to use himself as an attack, despite it not making sense, like a 5 year old. "YOU'RE THE PUPPET!"
His fans just eat it up, where as the majority of well thought humans (republicans included) are cringing with embarrassment, like watching a drunk person when you're sober. It's just fucking hard to watch.