Joe Biden as President was in the background….
Donald Trump, the performer, Felon, never met a camera he didn’t like …
True to his self….
Trump 2.0 starts off with a Strong media flex….
Trump IS Optics….
Psychological Warfare….
A LOT of this stuff rolled out simply are NOT gonna work for him….
Actual getting done….
Cost….
Judges….
Courts….
Pushback in the media…
Congress…
But folks?
Project 2025 IS cooking with gas Right now…..
Trump and those guys GOT the votes….
WAIT….
It won’t last….
Remember….Carville….’It’s the Economy Stupid’…..
But his pen strokes also kicked off a round of objections from opponents, scholars and other groups that said he’d exceeded the limits of his presidential power. They included some critics who filed lawsuits before his signatures were dry, all but guaranteeing that his approval would not be the last word on Monday’s executive actions.
Trump’s wielding of the presidential pen spanned a wide gamut of American life and U.S. policy, each order aimed at showing that he had begun to make good on his campaign promises. He declared an immigration emergency and will soon surge troops to the southern border, he said. He began to dismantle government diversity and inclusion programs and limited the number of genders the government can recognize to two….
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The executive orders include some things that scholars and legal experts say may be out of the reach of the president’s pen and could be tied up in courts or legislatures for years, including ending birthright citizenship, a right embedded in the Constitution and bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States. Trump also wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. For some of the diciest efforts, the administration laid out little of its legal framework for what are certain to be battles sparked by Trump’s actions.
“It’s kind of an executive-order shock-and-awe campaign,” said Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University. “The shock and awe is to send a message to his critics and most importantly to his voters, his supporters, that he’s back, and that he is going to try to deliver on his campaign promises, and he’s going to do it aggressively.”….
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It is also unclear whether Trump’s efforts to undo birthright citizenship can weather legal challenges, along with other immigration-related efforts. In a call with reporters before Trump was inaugurated, aides didn’t provide details about how the president’s new policies would fit into the web of existing laws and international treaties, or with ongoing litigation.
All modern presidents have used a flurry of executive orders to show proof of forward progress in the earliest moments of their tenure — and those efforts have not always been met with unmitigated success….
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There will undoubtedly be pushback, but by that point Trump will have already claimed victory.
“The quip that he had about ‘I’ll be a dictator maybe on day one’ — he wants to deliver on that in that he wants to show that he is the supreme leader, that he is the most powerful person in the country, in the world,” Dallek said. “ … It’s creating the appearance of forward motion for him.”…
image…CNBC
New Open Thread IS HERE.……
And Good Morning….
The Show HAS Begun……
Just wait til some of these yahoos start committing crimes. Hopefully they’ll just blow each other up in a meth lab explosion but some will undoubtedly hurt others.
Here in Missouri one girl who stormed the Capotol with her shithead uncle got drunk, drove on the wrong side of the interstate and killed someone….
Scott….
Oh, the stories WILL be flying fast a furious ….
Governing as an Authoritarian
Jonathan Bernstein: “Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promise was to govern as a lawless authoritarian, and on his first day of office he showed everyone that he intends to keep that promise.”
“We don’t know yet – we won’t know for a while – the extent to which he will succeed. When it comes to specific policies, I want to echo what I’ve heard a bunch of other people say: Just because Trump and his people say that something is happening through executive action doesn’t mean it’s really going to happen. Some of it will happen, but some will be challenged inside and outside of the administration, and some of it will turn out to be little more than hand-waving to begin with. Lots of steps exist between saying that there will be an action and eventually enacting new policy.”
“Trump’s pardons of insurrectionists, however, are unfortunately as close to self-enforcing as anything a president ever does. And it’s really the hallmark decision he made on Day One, putting him solidly on the side of treason to the Constitution that he had just sworn an oath to uphold. But it’s not just the pardons; many of his executive actions are simply lawless, from citizenship to TikTok and more.”
I plan to highlight every crime committed by a Jan 6er and place the blood directly on Trump and the Republicans hands.
Fuck em!
And I’ll post it!