2016 Postmortem

zonkers

(5,865 posts) Fri Dec 30, 2016, 03:56 PM Dec 2016

Seriously how can Trump can survive the heat of his Russian connections? The asterisk attached

to the President Elect s already huge. It keeps growing. This is going to end up in a strange and horrible place. Pushed in to a corner, I suspect he will start a war to create distraction.

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Seriously how can Trump can survive the heat of his Russian connections? The asterisk attached (Original Post) zonkers Dec 2016 OP

That would not be unusual BSdetect Dec 2016 #1

I think any war, especially one on a new front Best_man23 Dec 2016 #2

Here's how: The GOP will ignore it. They need Trumpy to gut all regulations FSogol Dec 2016 #3

He's gotten away with everything so far... Yurovsky Dec 2016 #4

I give it less than a year, he's already the most unpopular president elect in polling history uponit7771 Dec 2016 #5

BSdetect

(9,047 posts)

1. That would not be unusual

Reply to zonkers (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 04:01 PM

Dec 2016

He's a draft dodger like GW and he rushed into Iraq and we know how that ended (or not).

None of his own kids are about to be directly risked in a war so why not have one?

It would distract from his many pending legal suits and whatever else he manages to create.

Military spending gets wealthy investors wealthier.

A good excuse for spending cuts to education, science or welfare and tax cuts for the rich.

Best_man23

(5,122 posts)

2. I think any war, especially one on a new front

Reply to BSdetect (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 05:28 PM

Dec 2016

Say, Iran...would be a very hard sell given the last 16 years and the fact the R's sold the US population on Iraq based on cherry-picked data,

Everyone on the left, many independents, and a small (and I think growing) percentage on the moderate right do not trust Orange Voldemort at all and would be very skeptical of any premise for war. I think the Intel communities would push back very hard against OV's administration if they attempted to cherry-pick data to fit some meme, especially after the way Useful Idiot has dissed their analysis of the Russki hacks.