Immediately shutting down all EPA and USDA research (academic researchers who had already been awarded grants from these agencies are now likely to not receive another cent), and censoring communications from any government agency except for the Ministry of Truth are both surprising and terrifying. We are one step away from considerable amounts of government-maintained information being equivalent to Kim Jong-Il's golf scores. I guess I had feared the complete shuttering of these agencies eventually, but I didn't realize the data would be gone so quickly. I figured next Friday's (at least next Friday's) jobs numbers would be the same, but Trump would take credit for already creating 150k jobs and getting unemployment down to 5%. Now, we may be dependent on leaks for even National Weather Service data.

I would die a happy man if I could slap Kayleigh Mcenany. Her and Jeffrey Lord consistently say the dumbest **** on TV.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/no-...s-voter-fraud/

I don't want to come off like a jerk, but do you really believe this? This ought to be the base case. War with Taiwan over the status of Taiwan or the Spratlys is worse. A global economic downturn precipitated by the unraveling of cross-border supply chains would be bad. Moving beyond bluster into actual persecution of media and political opponents would be extremely bad. Some degree of voter suppression is baked into the cake, but that could get extremely ugly. There's plenty of room at the bottom.

Again, I don't want to jump on you for an off-hand comment, but it bothers me to see people not appreciating how bad things are and how much worse they could be. We've known since November that an immigration crackdown was coming, that TPP was dead, that Obamacare was on thin ice. That's all bad, but it's reality and is not going to be stopped. (Even a Trump impeachment would not change any of those things.) It's great to hit Trump for doing bad things, but people acting surprised or disappointed by any of it seems off to me.

yes, the majority of the fraudulent votes found by the investigation will have been for the Democratic candidate.

Aww yes the "you can't disprove a negative." Pretty soon we'll be moving to the ontological argument of voter fraud.

First, I'm not defending it, but I think the common wisdom in November was something along the lines of "Trump is so full of **** that it's too soon to panic about his worst policy proposals." This made some amount of sense, and seemed to be the right angle when he pretty quickly took a step back from certain line items.

Second, keep in mind that Trump talked about using nukes, starting wars (both trade and actual), martial law, etc. fairly flippantly during the campaign. It's not necessarily that "Trump doing what he said" is worst case scenario, but you're acting as if his only campaign statements were about Obamacare and deportation forces.

Trump video in that page has a lot of this gesture:

this message forum is hilarious. Bunch of neck beards agreeing with each other about how Trump sucks lol. He's fulfilling all of his campaign promises quickly. He's much better than a politician in that regard, especially a lifelong corrupt one that the Ds trotted out.

MAGA

shall we check back in a year?

I figure they'll use whatever they find as proof of voter fraud (whether it is or isn't is irrelevant since they and probably the media will report it is) and force a reregister of voting database, which is probably time consuming and will add more hoops for those who don't vote republican than do and as soon as black people are in it, they'll reset and make them do it again. and again when needed.

This is jim crow level ****.

You're assuming that the things he's doing are unpopular in the specific areas that would need to flip from red to blue. News flash: they aren't.

There's a good possibility they end up with +60 in the Senate and majority in house in two years. The map is not favorable for dems.

Who is your Internet provider?

How's it going to feel when your prices for that far outweigh the money you are being promised you'll be saved with Trumpcare?

how bout we just federalize the federal elections, everybody gets an id card with your name, address, photo, thumbprint and polling location.



just like they do in Mexico.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...id=full-rss-di

Sounds awesome. I'm totally on board. Are we going to cut the military budget a bit to cover the cost? Cards will be mailed to every person of voting age, right?

But that's not where voter suppression is needed. Bumblefvck County, AL is voting red no matter what happens. I'm talking in swing state areas. That's where the voter suppression is needed to keep those areas red.

they were with you until you said mexico

Taxpayer money for ids for poors? That will go over well with that same crowd.

Contractors and prison work details, ldo.

In Mexico they have IFE offices you go there and get it made much like the dmv.

http://ubicatumodulo.appspot.com/

if they are under the assumption that the Democrats are picking up millions of fraudulent votes every presidential election I think they will go for it.

jeff sessions supported sheriffs using chain gangs when he was AG of alabama.

1. lock up illegal immigrants
2. put em to work building the wall
3. invade some defenseless country and steal their concrete and other necessary wall materials