Oddbean new post about login | logout Trump is President, and the Republicans won the senate and the house. There is literally ZERO excuse for Republicans to fail to deliver on every single one of their promises.
If you still trust politicians you're gonna have a bad time
During the first two years of Trump's term, Republicans had the House and the Senate. Nothing was accomplished.
Yup
Well let’s hope Don is more comfortable with his role this time and wants to create a real legacy for the country and himself
Maybe. It's going to be odd living in a fascist regime. I hope I'm wrong.
We just have been in a fascist regime.
This is different. Many of those Republicans in Congress in 2016 were swamp creatures. Many of those seats have been usurped by MAGA in the past eight years. Last time Trump negotiated with the swamp and gave them cabinet positions. They all turned on him. He's not making that mistake this time around. Trump having so many of his so called advisers turn on him, and losing the election in 2020 was probably the best thing that could happen. Now that he's getting a second chance he's going to take a sledge hammer to the political establishment.
thats because of the leadership of the RINO GOPs in place that didn't approve of him winning. They fought him behind the scenes the whole time he was president and Trump said he didn't expect to win and was naive and had to trust people he didn't know. They obviously controlled him by being able to putting forward people and issues he didn't have a grasp on. Thats now changed so anyone who compares the 1st term and thinks the 2nd term will be the same wasn't really paying attention.
Same thing happened under W, and they failed miserably. That was my wakeup call. Maybe this time it'll be yours?
haven't won the house yet
too late (they're in power now so why would they keep any of their promises?)
I hope so walker. But history proves otherwise regardless who wins ⬇️ nostr:note1g6w30c0znrx487vemg84f7jd2dc45nf39xypfx0n0nwxvjetyg4qu9tdln
This is indeed a great set up. It will serve as a good reality check. Because once 4 years go by and all remains mostly as is, more people will realize how useless voting truly is (and that it always comes down to a manipulative politician dangling the latest carrot to blackmail you into voting through fear and/or emotion). We’ll need several of these until voter turnout crashes. Sure, a couple promises might be kept, a couple of headlines for the believers so they can say “see he is working on it”… but nothing truly groundbreaking. In another 4 years, we’ll still have most people thinking that the next time will work because this time “insert excuse,” but little by little more will see that kneeling didn’t work. All along, it just meant accepting their rigged game, which keeps the machine that put Ross in jail going, and in turn, may keep punishing others in the future just like it did with him. In the wise words of someone “there is them, and there is you”
time to repeal: 1. the Patriot Act 2. the (un)Affordable Care Act