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How bad would it actually be if Trump was POTUS?
I have been nursing this thought like a rotten tooth for the last week.
Yes, Trump is an authoritarian, narcissistic evil asshole who would be challenged to turn around a failing ice cream truck route.
But is he really the worst thing in a POTUS?
(Bernie Sanders is the POTUS solution we need, but for the rest of this let's assume HRC caulk blocks him.)
What could Trump actually do?
He is not humble enough or open minded enough to truly be curious what the rest of the federal government is actually doing. He will appoint cabinent members, and they will in turn do all of the heavy lifting. Whoever really compliments him, wins. This is just lobbying. So no real change there.
He is not going to build any walls.
He is not going to have muslims IDed.
But what about WW2? What about Hitler? I don't have a magic guarantee, but Obama cannot even close a military base that he promised to close for the last 7 years. Obstructionism rules our land.
Trump cannot get Seal Team 6 to do an illegal black-op - they watch the movies too, and know that Trump will throw them under the bus when the shit hits the fan.
So what can he do? He could perhaps with Mitch-The-Turtle's permission sit a SC justice. <<< That is pretty bad. (I think Obama should just seat a SC justice and claim that the Senate waived its advice and consent, and then sue himself with a friendly SC who votes 5-4 to keep the new justice.)
He could also stoke fear and hate and cause more people to be killed via lynching. That is real, and terrible.
But mostly, I think he would cause the GOP to finish its death cycle.
He would find out that there are people *way* more powerful than him that actually rule the world. He would find out that Putin and GS consider him a flea. He would find out that the DoD is virtually a separate government only lightly attached to authority of the democracy known as usa.
In short I think he would make a colossal belly-flop of red-neck, white-power murica. Sounds fine to me.
Oh, P.S. The GOP elites are freaking the fuck out finally. McCain, Romney, even freak Ben Stein! Frankly, I am curious what is making them so scared. They must be worried about their own ass. So I kinda want to open the mystery box.
And finally, like Jerry Springer says below Trump *has* the same policies as Cruz and Rubio - he just is simply open about it.
http://www.jerryspringer.com/jerry-springer-were-missing-the-point-with-donald-trump/
Originally posted on Facebook on March 06, 2016.
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Published: March 7, 2016 4:48 AM
Last updated: March 6, 2026 10:07 PM
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