| ▲ | tencentshill a day ago |
| Trump is/was the very agent of uncertainty himself. Destroyed years of corporate plans and preparations every waking hour with random tariff announcements. Literally a one-man recession. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Trump was certainly an outlier, but the observation holds. Trump (come January anyway) is a lame duck now, especially with a blue Congress. He won't get anything substantial through Congress and everyone's attention will will rapidly shift to who is running in 2028. Nobody on the R side will be seeking or hoping for his endorsement; his leverage over them has been neutralized; they will be working on new messaging to get their traditional voters back. That campaign started on Wednesday. |
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| ▲ | grey-area a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure, he's also a self-centred fool who hates being ignored and thinks he can run again in 2028. I expect him to bomb Iran in the next few days, and congress/senate to be too slow/weak to stop him. | | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker a day ago | parent [-] | | I don't think so. I would not be a bit surprised if impeachment proceedings were started on January 3 (though I think it not to be the best use of their time, they certainly aren't going to listen to me). | | |
| ▲ | Itoldmyselfso 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | He's already been impeached twice, with very little coming out of it. Many republicans would have to truly abandon him for any drastic consequences to happen. | |
| ▲ | grey-area 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I fervently hope you're right. |
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| ▲ | humanlion87 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | He has been pushing a lot of his agenda via executive orders. I doubt Congress is going to stop him since he can veto whatever he wants. | |
| ▲ | Terr_ a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Trump (come January anyway) is a lame duck now I'm concerned that this might rest too heavily on the presumption of regularity and legality. There's a lot of (additional) illegal stuff Trump could do if 33 out of ~44 Republican senators are willing to pretend it's not "enough" to remove him from office. | | |
| ▲ | ted_bunny 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | People always forget the Erdoǧan Principle. Democracy is a train. You take it to where you want to go, and then you step off. |
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| ▲ | sagarm 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is cope. Trump is still very popular among Republican primary voters. An anti-Trump candidate faces an uphill battle with the base of the party. | |
| ▲ | fullshark a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | jiggawatts a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m surprised his tariffs didn’t have a bigger impact, I fully expected them to crater the US economy. |
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| ▲ | asdff a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| He’s great if you are in his circle due to the prolific insider trading opportunities. Might be the most lucrative presidency ever for some people in this country. |
