Originally published at: Trump Is Breaking Things First And Trusting That Congress, Courts Will Get On Board Later
For recent presidents armed with congressional trifectas, the beginning of a term was an urgent, sometimes heady, time. Barack Obama used his to pass an economic stimulus package and the Affordable Care Act. Donald Trump pushed through a trillion-dollar tax cut. Joe Biden passed sweeping COVID-19 relief, along with significant chunks of his Build Back…
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James Carville predicted that President Donald Trump’s White House team will “collapse” in less than a month.
The famed Democratic Party strategist claimed that the downfall will hit as the president’s approval numbers continue to crater. Trump has implemented a multitude of executive orders and fired thousands of government officials all within his first month in office—moves that risk sending the economy into a tailspin.
He advised Democrats to simply sit back and watch it happen.
Since we’re in the car as it plunges into the canyon, I dub this the “Thelma and Luigi” strategy.
ETA:
Have a cat(enary)…
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“Ready! Fire! Aim!” or “Ready! Fire! …”
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I stopped listening to Carville years ago.
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Donald Trump wants the judicial and legislative branches to be irrelevant because he has a transgressive personality.
The Republican judicial appointees and legislative office holders have accommodated him by allowing themselves to become irrelevant, and often time sycophants.
So, of course, he expects them to fall inline.
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Utterly OT
From the bbc…
"Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks after he admitted punching a man to the ground in his Cheshire constituency.
Amesbury, 55, who represents Runcorn and Helsby as an independent MP, pleaded guilty to assaulting 45-year-old Paul Fellows after video footage emerged showing the confrontation."
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Carville is a fucking imbecile. He’s a perfect example of someone who was right once and cannot stop reminding people of it. How many times has this asshat been laughably, stupidly wrong?
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Some people just like breaking things because they can. They confuse ability with stupidity…
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Great advice. We’ve been told that Trump is overreaching and will be brought down to Earth since the beginning of his first term.
Our supposed saviors:
- The Mueller Report
- “Grown ups” in the Trump Term 1 Cabinet
- The Constitution’s checks and balances
- The 25th Amendment
- Impeachment #1
- Negative public approval ratings
- Impeachment #2
- The legal system
- Jack Smith and the two federal cases where Trump was dead-to-rights guilty
- Congress asserting its Power of the Purse
- The Judicial Branch
We’re supposed to believe that a bit of discomfort from the general public unease is going to snap the Republican Party into opposing Trump? He never has to face the voters again in what’s left of his lifetime.
Now that he has unlimited power, does anyone actually think he gives a shit if he alienates voters?
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Gift article—NO paywall.
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the purposeful immiseration of thousands of civil servants.
But, but… weren’t these the people committing waste that’s the source of all our nation’s problems? Now that they’re fired, won’t America be great now?
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I like that Carville is saying it but suspect it is still wishful thinking.
Klugman is saying it too btw:
I DO like the Theranos analogy because whatsername played and humiliated the “smart money” folks which is what DOGE will do (eventually, one way or another).
Finally from today’s electoral-vote.com: a graph based on (taken from?) a recent WaPo/Ipsos assessing Trump’s base-only governance style:
As long as Republicans support Trump, most Republicans in Congress will follow him and ignore everyone else. However, in swing districts, where House members need votes of Democrats and independents to win general elections, having Trump being so unpopular with non-Republicans could be a real problem.
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So far he has been 100% right on all of the above
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I think it will get worse before it gets better, but I don’t think Trump will get everything he wants. I don’t think the Supreme Court wants to be “reigned in”. After all, they are part of the judiciary and I think there is a chance they might consider what a Democratic President and Congress might do if the same rules applied to someone like say, Governor Newsom or Shapiro.
The truth is Trump’s behavior has been so bizarre and Elon’s purges so unpopular that I am not sure he gets everything he wants. He is not FDR. He is a scary old man who is turning the country upside down. And the scary people that surround him are not helping his cause.
The Heritage Foundation might have formed a lot of those justices, but it is not the Heritage Foundation who will bear the responsibility for turning us into a monarchy. John Roberts will, and I am not sure that will happen. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
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@BlisterPearl Jan 30
Someday soon, he’ll get his parade. We’ll ALL watch it. The whole world will remember where they were. The cheering and applause will be insane. We’ll have tears in our eyes, and there will be commemorative merchandise.
It will be the best funeral ever.
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He doesn’t but the Republican legislators have to face to the voters in the general election. Trump can continue to threaten trouble in the primaries but he hadn’t always succeeded in getting his crazies through the primaries. It remains to be seen what influence Musk’s money will have.
The legislators have the power to kick Trump out of office if they choose to use it.
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Not entirely. In New York state there were conservative prosecutors quitting their jobs because Trump went too far. That is a big deal. And the courts have gone both ways so far. He has not won every decision by any means.
As for the Supreme Court, it could go either way. I do think that birthright citizenship will probably stand and given decisions made by some of those conservatives in the past, I think Congress will be seen as the party of the purse. Not Trump. But who knows?
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