OT: Schadenfreude redefined
gammanu95
My casual drinking is your alcohol poisoning.
1. Watching liberal meltdowns over Trump's election victory
2. Watching liberals froth and foam every time Trump fulfills a campaign promise
2. Watching liberals froth and foam every time Trump fulfills a campaign promise
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Who is this Trump dude? Never heard of him...
1. Nominate someone from his list of justices to replace Antonin Scalia
The Promise:
“I am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia. I'm looking for judges — and I've actually picked 20 of them so that people would see.”
Update January 31st, 2017: Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to fill empty Supreme Court seat left by Scalia
2. Slash federal regulations
The Promise:
"A requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existingregulations must be eliminated."
Update January 31st, 2017: Trump signs executive order directing that for every new regulation, two be repealed
3. Place lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign government
The Promise:
"I'm going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government and I'm going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered for in lobbyists from raising money in American elections and politics.”
Update January 30th, 2017: Trump signs order placing lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign government
4. Stop TPP
The Promise:
"I'm going to issue our notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership."
Update January 23rd, 2017: Trump orders TPP withdrawal
Top 5 Promises
1. Guarantee 6-week paid leave (Result: Not Yet)
2. Repeal Obamacare (Result: In The Works)
3. Build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it (Result: In The Works)
4. Suspend immigration from terror-prone places (Result: In The Works)
5. Stop TPP (Result: Kept)
Trump makes a lot of noise, but he's finding out what Obama found out: the only way to get anything done is by executive order. I remember conservatives wanting to string up Obama for using that power and calling it an unconstitutional over-reach if they didn't like the order. Where are those guys today? Oh yes, applauding. Apparently xenophobia is more popular than government funded birth control.
Like under Obama, the courts are the arbiter of what the President can and cannot do by executive order and like Obama, Trump will lose some of his actions in court, as we have already seen.
Merriam-Webster › dictionary › schaden...
Definition of schadenfreude for English Language Learners. : a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people.
They will be crying soon enough don't worry time wounds all heels.
LOL! Talk about clueless!
The melt down on the left has been quite hilarious. While I agree with a lot of their general points, it's not nearly as bad as they are making it seem. This isn't the start of a "new holocaust" as one liberal whacko tried to tell me.
On the other side I see some of my conservative friends using ludicrous logic and saying things they never would have said 12 months ago to justify some of what Trump has done. I also see a lot of others tugging at their collars as Trump does a lot of the things they were sure he wouldn't actually do.
I happily sit in the middle neither thrilled nor terrified, mostly just amused.
President Trump had better last longer than that. President Pence sounds even less appealing.
Granted I will give the dude some credit. Sure he signed the ridiculous religion freedom law in Indiana but after the backlash (especially from corporations, pulling out of Indiana events) -- the law was a mean spirited attempt to legal discrimination against gays -- he did make right and signed updated legislature to neuter that stupid law. So I give him credit for that. He'll make practical religious freedom compromises. but still I prefer President Trump to a President Pence, YMMV.
You out of your mind if you think the world is in worse shape now than it was 30 years ago or whatever parrot the party line non-sense you are talking about. World has never been better. (Now, of course, you'll try to refute by finding one or two minor things that are worse and ignoring the 100s that are better. I know the way people on your side operate!)
If they want to grow the economy and create jobs, then they should hire Hillary Clinton. 2% upper income extra tax, making college debt free. These are things which grow the economy.
SJG