11-19-2016, 04:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2016, 05:13 AM by Eric the Green.)
Things we will likely have to resist include, but are not limited to these:
The Trumpie has appointed as CIA chief a man who advocates torture, and who is rabidly anti-Iran. Trump has promised to pull out of the Iran deal. We don't know how long this will take, or whether the Iranians really meant what they said that they don't want to build nuclear weapons. But they were coming close to doing it anyway, it was reported. So what if they start developing nuclear weapons again, when Trump destroys the deal? Do his guys convince him to start another middle east preventive war? Before another "mushroom cloud" comes to Manhattan and engulfs Trump Tower? Protests break out as they did in 2003, all over Europe and even in the USA? What does Trump do about them? Can we stop the war? How many war crimes are committed, and how much secret repression in the USA?
The Trumpster has appointed as his transition leader for the EPA a leading, rabid climate science denier. Does the USA pull out of the Paris Agreement? Does he just ignore it? Does the agreement collapse, then? Does Trump shut down the EPA? When he takes off the mileage requirements and null the clean power plan, how fast does global warming proceed? Can CA require electric cars on its own, and will Trump sue CA? Does the pollution of our water return as it had been under Bush, or worse? How many pipelines rupture, at what cost to water and land? Does the climate breakdown proceed, this time toward catastrophe, and irreversible this time? How will the coal miners who voted for him feel after they discover their jobs are lost anyway? What will they say or do? How dangerous will fracking get? How do we resist the new war now being declared on the environment?
Does he limit deportation to criminal illegals, as he promised on 60 Minutes? Are there as many criminal aliens as he says, and if not, is he lying to deport them? How quickly does he deport DACA recipients, after removing the program? How far does he go with deportation, at what cost? How many peoples' lives and families does he ruin? How can the Latinos and others fight back? How much money can he get to build a wall? What size will this boondoggle be? Can sanctuary cities replace funds cut off?
Does his newly-designated racist attorney general reverse civil rights laws enforcement? How far will he go? How quickly will he curtail enforcement of the voting rights act? How quickly can Trump get the Courts to go along with his racist attorney general? Will there be a new civil rights movement? How violent will it get? How far will the militarization of police and racial profiling go under the racist attorney general? How many unarmed young black men will be shot down? How many riots will there be, and how will they be repressed? At what cost in lives? At what cost to burned out cities? What advice will Mr. Breitbart News give to Mr. Trump? Just how far will race hatred go as a result of his advice?
We can certainly assume many more will die in mass shootings than before under the new pro-gun regime. No need to ask THAT question. How long will the new right-wing Supreme Court be able to squash any new progressive legislation in the future? How much more will the fact that money rules politics, ruin it?
Will Trump be able to renegotiate NAFTA, and punish China for currency violations? Will this result in trade wars? Can he make any money for America with his tariffs? Will this really bring back any jobs? Will automation proceed apace and cost Americans their jobs anyway?
Will there be a crash after Dodd-Frank is repealed? How dizzy will the speculation and leveraging be? How big will the banks too big to fail get? How fast will a depression come, and how deep will it be, since the Fed and the Congress now have no tools to stimulate a recovery?
What will people do after their benefits they paid for are cut? What will replace Obamacare, and Medicare, and how are people going to pay for it? Will Trump get Mexico to pay for it? How many families and businesses will go bankrupt from health care costs? How many people will die because insurance companies don't or won't cover them? Where will all the new homeless people go? How much will Trump cut from research, from national parks, from welfare? Can he really find any "waste, fraud and abuse?" How unsafe will our jobs and consumer products be when he gets rid of most of the regulations? How much of our public lands will be sold off or exploited for profit? At what cost to our forests and wildlife?
How much will our national debt rise, and how fast? How much interest will this cost the taxpayers? Will congress approve money for his military boondoggles and his infrastructure building projects? Will Trump put his name on them? Will they be privatized and paid for with user tolls? What would this do to commerce? Will the US just go bankrupt or default because Trump invests the USA's money in the wrong projects, as he did in his business? Just what does our new CEO-president have in mind; what gigantic, expensive and crazy schemes? Can the Tea Party just shut the government down with impunity now, if the debt limit isn't raised? Will the USA default, and how soon? How much more inequality will result from all the new tax breaks for the rich? How much will our aristocratic oligarchy grow, and how permanently, from the repeal of the estate tax? Just how far will his corruption and nepotism go?
Are we even safe from nuclear war, with Trump's little hands on the nuclear codes? Have we become a vassal state of Russia, with what result for our allies? Will Putin be tempted to attack Estonia? Will Trump cry betrayal at Putin, and start WWIII? Is anything on Earth safe from the orange demon?
The Trumpie has appointed as CIA chief a man who advocates torture, and who is rabidly anti-Iran. Trump has promised to pull out of the Iran deal. We don't know how long this will take, or whether the Iranians really meant what they said that they don't want to build nuclear weapons. But they were coming close to doing it anyway, it was reported. So what if they start developing nuclear weapons again, when Trump destroys the deal? Do his guys convince him to start another middle east preventive war? Before another "mushroom cloud" comes to Manhattan and engulfs Trump Tower? Protests break out as they did in 2003, all over Europe and even in the USA? What does Trump do about them? Can we stop the war? How many war crimes are committed, and how much secret repression in the USA?
The Trumpster has appointed as his transition leader for the EPA a leading, rabid climate science denier. Does the USA pull out of the Paris Agreement? Does he just ignore it? Does the agreement collapse, then? Does Trump shut down the EPA? When he takes off the mileage requirements and null the clean power plan, how fast does global warming proceed? Can CA require electric cars on its own, and will Trump sue CA? Does the pollution of our water return as it had been under Bush, or worse? How many pipelines rupture, at what cost to water and land? Does the climate breakdown proceed, this time toward catastrophe, and irreversible this time? How will the coal miners who voted for him feel after they discover their jobs are lost anyway? What will they say or do? How dangerous will fracking get? How do we resist the new war now being declared on the environment?
Does he limit deportation to criminal illegals, as he promised on 60 Minutes? Are there as many criminal aliens as he says, and if not, is he lying to deport them? How quickly does he deport DACA recipients, after removing the program? How far does he go with deportation, at what cost? How many peoples' lives and families does he ruin? How can the Latinos and others fight back? How much money can he get to build a wall? What size will this boondoggle be? Can sanctuary cities replace funds cut off?
Does his newly-designated racist attorney general reverse civil rights laws enforcement? How far will he go? How quickly will he curtail enforcement of the voting rights act? How quickly can Trump get the Courts to go along with his racist attorney general? Will there be a new civil rights movement? How violent will it get? How far will the militarization of police and racial profiling go under the racist attorney general? How many unarmed young black men will be shot down? How many riots will there be, and how will they be repressed? At what cost in lives? At what cost to burned out cities? What advice will Mr. Breitbart News give to Mr. Trump? Just how far will race hatred go as a result of his advice?
We can certainly assume many more will die in mass shootings than before under the new pro-gun regime. No need to ask THAT question. How long will the new right-wing Supreme Court be able to squash any new progressive legislation in the future? How much more will the fact that money rules politics, ruin it?
Will Trump be able to renegotiate NAFTA, and punish China for currency violations? Will this result in trade wars? Can he make any money for America with his tariffs? Will this really bring back any jobs? Will automation proceed apace and cost Americans their jobs anyway?
Will there be a crash after Dodd-Frank is repealed? How dizzy will the speculation and leveraging be? How big will the banks too big to fail get? How fast will a depression come, and how deep will it be, since the Fed and the Congress now have no tools to stimulate a recovery?
What will people do after their benefits they paid for are cut? What will replace Obamacare, and Medicare, and how are people going to pay for it? Will Trump get Mexico to pay for it? How many families and businesses will go bankrupt from health care costs? How many people will die because insurance companies don't or won't cover them? Where will all the new homeless people go? How much will Trump cut from research, from national parks, from welfare? Can he really find any "waste, fraud and abuse?" How unsafe will our jobs and consumer products be when he gets rid of most of the regulations? How much of our public lands will be sold off or exploited for profit? At what cost to our forests and wildlife?
How much will our national debt rise, and how fast? How much interest will this cost the taxpayers? Will congress approve money for his military boondoggles and his infrastructure building projects? Will Trump put his name on them? Will they be privatized and paid for with user tolls? What would this do to commerce? Will the US just go bankrupt or default because Trump invests the USA's money in the wrong projects, as he did in his business? Just what does our new CEO-president have in mind; what gigantic, expensive and crazy schemes? Can the Tea Party just shut the government down with impunity now, if the debt limit isn't raised? Will the USA default, and how soon? How much more inequality will result from all the new tax breaks for the rich? How much will our aristocratic oligarchy grow, and how permanently, from the repeal of the estate tax? Just how far will his corruption and nepotism go?
Are we even safe from nuclear war, with Trump's little hands on the nuclear codes? Have we become a vassal state of Russia, with what result for our allies? Will Putin be tempted to attack Estonia? Will Trump cry betrayal at Putin, and start WWIII? Is anything on Earth safe from the orange demon?