Trump will be Trump and the dominos will fall.

[Septua]

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Trump is filling his cabinet with flunkies who have no clue as to what the job entails nor how to go about doing it. Trump's sociopathic stupidity has led him to actually believe he can just tell Gaetz or Gabbard or Hegseth or Homan what he wants done and they will make it happen. But it's not going to happen because it can't happen. The very idea of destructing and reconstructing the government systems without some kind of outrageously complex plan defies rational logic.

So Trump's psychosis will result in, at best, a dysfunctional government which could wreck the economy, wreck the stock markets, disrupt international relations, disrupt the global economy, weaken our defense and security, weaken our reputation globally. When the smoke clears, all those people who bet on Trump will finally see the error of their vote. And maybe, if we make it to the midterm election, they'll vote all the MAGA crowd out.

Trump is going to get the picks he's naming regardless. The Senate is the only roadblock possible and they are too chicken-sh!t to do it...

[gab13by13]

1. Just what Putin wants

[Yavin4]

9. As I said in another post, Putin isn't doing all of this so that America is stronger and more prosperous.

Like the UK, he wants us on our knees, cold and hungry.

[Klarkashton]

2. Everything trump has done has turned to shit.

This will be no different. I expect that Putin will march through Ukraine, and we will be at war with Iran.
There is no way out of this shit. He only knows failure and bankruptcy.

[Igel]

10. Warp Speed.

I think that turned out rather well, to be honest.

I'm not one of those that thought the push for an RNA-based vaccine was a waste of time or going to produce something dangerous. A lot of anti-vaxxers (and pro-vaxxers) changed their mind around 1/1/2021, to be honest. Then again, I liked reading journal articles instead of CDC press releases or what was on Politico or Breitbart or such politics-as-science sites. First methodology, then data, then conclusions. BiArxiv , Nature, and such journals ... rule.

I don't like "private-public partnerships" but seriously liked this one as a political hapax. Seemed like a solid proposal at the time and it panned out well. Hotez notwithstanding--who insisted only a traditionally-developed vaccine would work and merit approval ... And was proved horribly wrong and utterly late to the party. Boy, was he wrong. Oops. (Oh--he had a devoted following albeit not really on DU.)

Lives saved, and claims of social injustice because we didn't share the vaccine with other countries or the groups targeted even as late as summer '21 had a racial or class skew to them (but all that was after Trump was out of office--takes time to build out the infrastructure for massive production of a new kind of vaccine, even if the funding was in place, and 60 million vaccinations in a short time frame, within 8 months of announcing the start of the project--by the time the new admin took over--isn't to be sneezed at).

It had problems, but pretty much everything large-scale and novel has problems. They didn't end in late January 2021 but continued.

[Septua]

14. I don't give him as much credit for that...

..as he would like to take. Maybe pushing the FDA for "emergency use authorization". I say maybe...someone would have had to tell him to do that. And drug researchers had been studying the RNA thing before Covid erupted.

The federal government granted funding and expertise to several companies to create a COVID vaccine starting in 2020. Scientists had been studying mRNA technology for decades before the COVID pandemic, which helped them quickly develop vaccines.

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/how-covid-19-vaccine-was-made-quickly#:~:text=The%20federal%20government%20granted%20funding%20and%20expertise%20to%20several%20companies,helped%20them%20quickly%20develop%20vaccines.

But after the vaccine became available he didn't take an aggressive pro-vaccination position...

I don't give Trump any attaboys for his Covid crisis performance. He never took the epidemic serious. Didn't want to test, kept saying it "would just go away", wouldn't wear a mask, didn't push for social distancing or shutting down non-essential business...didn't want the "cure to be worse than the disease." All he was concerned about was the fu*king stock market.

His weak position on vaccinations resulted in people not taking it after Biden took office.

I remember it being April before he finally made a half-assed statement accepting the virus was bad and the pandemic was real. Not long after that, he became consumed with finding dirt on Biden and preparing for the election.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. Looking forward to watching Trump fail.

Yes, unfortunately, he’ll cause a great deal of damage and harm (some of it irreparable, such as addressing climate change) but ultimately he’ll fail as he did in his first term and leave office a failure – wildly unpopular, hated, and despised.

[Deuxcents]

4. We did that once. Seems we're still trying to survive it

[ZonkerHarris]

5. Because people will get hurt, die, have their lives ruined and maybe destroy the country. Are you cool with all that?

[Tribetime]

6. We need to control more of the media and social media

Not enough people are hearing the truth. And we need to go lower than them on attack ads on Elections. Apparently their non stop transgender ads of crazy claims was more important to people than Democracy.

[Hekate]

7. No. No. Were you awake for Trump's first term? Have you glanced at Project 2025?

[LakeArenal]

8. The dominoes never fall for him.

[yaesu]

11. its not like we can actually DO anything, like we can't actually bring democracy back from the dead. nt

[Abolishinist]

12. My thought exactly.

Mid-term elections are just around the corner.

I think the economy is going to tank. The cost of eggs is not going down. We need to target the most vulnerable 30 or so House seats, and every/most Senate one(s) coming up in 2026. Relentlessly. Let their constituents know how they've caused them financial harm.

[B.See]

16. Trump and Co. have BEEN causing them financial harm.

They'll just put the blame on "those people" and double down on stupid.

The MAGA party has perfected the art of getting their bamboozled constituency (and equally gullable so-called 'undecideds') to cut off their OWN fkng noses.....

and celebrate having done so.

Nevertheless, I do believe that negligence, selfishness, obstinacy, short sighted-ness, and willful ignorance should have consequences.

[jmowreader]

13. The issue is...

"Letting Trump be Trump and waiting for the dominoes to fall" is a little like putting a five-gallon jug of nitroglycerin in the trunk of your car when you live on a dirt road hoping it won't detonate. The guy got into office on promises to demolish the government. He could totally fuck up this country before the GOP in Congress decides it's had enough of his shit.

[Septua]

15. To everyone upset with the OP

I'm going to edit the title...

The scenario is not what I want but I didn't help vote the fool bastard back into office. I just don't think there is any way to prevent it.

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

I agree.