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5) Within 6 months of assuming office, Trump will be overwhelmed with "unintended consequences." He will be besieged with foreign problems, a faltering economy, eruptions of protests and violence (mostly reactionary to the protests), an uncontrollable Congress rife with bickering and personal agendas, and incompetent leadership in most of the administration. Moreover, he will be facing personal problems with court cases, appeals, and revelations of financial legerdemain. Talk of impeachment will start to take on real dimensions. Two millennials in my vanpool think that race wars are definitely on the horizon under a President Trump.
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Two millennials in my vanpool think that race wars are definitely on the horizon under a President Trump. So do I 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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Those all seem like reasonable predictions, considering what we know about Trump. I guess the next one concerns getting rid of Pence before Trump resigns, Spiro Agnew-style. Then we would have the new Vice President take over. Ryan maybe?
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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6) By the waning days of his first year, there will be numerous reports indicating his is the most ineffective Presidency of the modern era. In response, he will be making bold pronouncements of the opposite and proposing ridiculous programs. The only meritorious one might be a continuation of the Mars project, but he won't get cooperation from a penurious legislature that feels they can finally fill the bathtub. Unca Ponder, tell us the part about sovereign citizen militias being officially recognized as valid paramilitary organizations, massive land grabs, steamrollering of personal liberties due to the "national security emergency" and best of all, the Trump Exit Strategy from the White House and Pence's unelected ascension to the Oval Office and full theocracy being implemented in Murrikuh. I'll get the popcorn.
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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We all used to worry about what would happen if the Commies got too much of a foothold.
Meanwhile everything we feared about Communism, that we would lose our homes and saving, and toil endlessly for meager wages with no voice in the system, has come true until right wing anarcho-capitalism.
And the Russians aren't communists anymore, they're something much much worse.
And they now have the kind of direct line to the Trump White House that Bandar Bush had in the Bush White House.
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the Cabinet and other major posts will be filled with lesser-school nominees. But how long are they actually going to last in the new reality show I'm going to call "The Presidential Apprentice". Donald Trump is a narcisist and an egotist, he not only wants but needs desperately to be admired, and his most famous quote is "You're fired." I suspect that the B-list actors he's hired will garner him the worship of his staunchest supporters for a little while but... By the waning days of his first year, there will be numerous reports indicating his is the most ineffective Presidency of the modern era. And B-list heads will roll, to be replaced by establishment stalwarts recommended by Vice President Pence. The swamp he promised to drain is going to flood into his administration. Republicans seem to forget that they elected a wealthy businessman and an outsider when they elected George W. Bush. We've been through this scenario before. Another businessman they elected was Herbert Hoover, you may recall that his laissez-faire capitalism ushered in The Great Depression.
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How about, "The Apprentice President."
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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When Obama was elected, he had little international experience, but had an insatiable desire to learn, and a vision. Donald Trump has none of that. Bush didn't have experience and was manipulated by Cheney and his cohort. Trump, likewise, is easily manipulated, and even less interest in the job.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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some inside the campaign have recounted the same analysis
after the last few days i am going out on what i believe now is a very firm limb. Everything Mr Trump said during the campaign you can throw away i.e. erase the slate, tabula rasa i.e. it would do no good to speculate even to the day of any decision
this guy is so unpredictable, one could say he is like a goose waking up with a fresh view very day.
Conservatives had long accused Pres Obama of creating instability, but in comparison, I believe Mr Trump will bring instability to a new high. I also believe that is a personality defect and so we will never see a stable administration unless his staff actually run the WH.
buckle your seats and place your seat backs and table trays to their upright position ... there will be turbulence ahead
ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions
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In a nod to the late great George Carlin: My prediction is a Trump presidency will be BAD, very very very BAD. 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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