Quote (SkySwallower @ Nov 16 2024 04:45pm)

First of all, a Disclaimer: I am a left leaning european, so the the politician I mostly align with in the US is probably Bernie Sanders - we have very left leaning fiscal politics compared to the US, while our policies towards migration more align with dems or even more conservative.

What do you expect from the Trump presidency (either for your personal life or on a more country/global wide scale) and can it be measured? Republicans have all the control they could ever ask for, so I think we all can agree everything that follows is exactly what you voted for. I am both interested in views of people who voted for Trump and people who dislike them, it's mostly to come back in 12-24 months and see what really happened. I will start:

0. I'm sadly too late for that one, but I guess we all expected a ton of unqualified people for his cabinet so that was free anyways
1. Trump and his cabinet (especially Elon Musk) will do everything they can to enrich themselves (and stay in power, probably by some legal shenanigans)
2. Some well accepted laws will be overturned or ignored - most likely candidates: protections for gay/trans/people of color
3. The economy will go up for some time while your deficit increases a ton bc of tax cuts for mostly rich people / businesses
4. NATO and climate agreements will take a huge hit (probably by the US just leaving) making the world a worse place for future generations
5. Something stupid with Russia, not sure what though
6. Deportations will happen, but they will be super inefficient, cost a ton of money and people will wonder where the cheap workers they depended on went
Edit:
7. Nationwide abortion ban
8. Even more support for Israel to completely destroy Gaza
9. It will become clear that project 2025 was the plan all along and Trump just lied when he said it wasn't because people hated it
10. 1-2 SC justices will retire and be replaced by the dumbest, most unqualified idiots imaginable

Quote (WiziLiCe @ Feb 5 2025 09:11am)

Exactly in what way is 9 confirmed?

Quote (SkySwallower @ Feb 5 2025 03:46am)

5 minutes of lazy scrolling:

- Department of education elemination (Page 312),
- Trade deficit with esp china (765 onward, tariffs as first option 789)
- Scale down USAID (254)
- FBI "reform" (285)

You will probably find most of the EOs of the first four weeks in their 912 page manifesto if you bother to look it up - it might be that Trump himself never read it (would honestly surprised if he did tbh), the people "consulting" him surely did.

Quote (SkySwallower @ Nov 16 2024 04:45pm)

First of all, a Disclaimer: I am a left leaning european, so the the politician I mostly align with in the US is probably Bernie Sanders - we have very left leaning fiscal politics compared to the US, while our policies towards migration more align with dems or even more conservative.

What do you expect from the Trump presidency (either for your personal life or on a more country/global wide scale) and can it be measured? Republicans have all the control they could ever ask for, so I think we all can agree everything that follows is exactly what you voted for. I am both interested in views of people who voted for Trump and people who dislike them, it's mostly to come back in 12-24 months and see what really happened. I will start:

0. I'm sadly too late for that one, but I guess we all expected a ton of unqualified people for his cabinet so that was free anyways
1. Trump and his cabinet (especially Elon Musk) will do everything they can to enrich themselves (and stay in power, probably by some legal shenanigans)
2. Some well accepted laws will be overturned or ignored - most likely candidates: protections for gay/trans/people of color
3. The economy will go up for some time while your deficit increases a ton bc of tax cuts for mostly rich people / businesses
4. NATO and climate agreements will take a huge hit (probably by the US just leaving) making the world a worse place for future generations
5. Something stupid with Russia, not sure what though
6. Deportations will happen, but they will be super inefficient, cost a ton of money and people will wonder where the cheap workers they depended on went
Edit:
7. Nationwide abortion ban
8. Even more support for Israel to completely destroy Gaza
9. It will become clear that project 2025 was the plan all along and Trump just lied when he said it wasn't because people hated it
10. 1-2 SC justices will retire and be replaced by the dumbest, most unqualified idiots imaginable

Quote (El1te @ Nov 16 2024 11:16am)

It must be exhausting to be a leftist European, so many fake things to worry about