Tag: Political Curiosity

Will Trump Fail?

****Please if you are a Trump supporter read this post in its entirety before going on some worthless rant.  Yes I dislike Trump….but then I disliked Obama, Bush and Clinton….so please spare me your diatribes*****

The first 100 days……did not go as attempted…….

(above came to me on Twitter cannot remember who sent it out….so I cannot credit the originator)

Today is the big day…..I have been sitting on this draft since the inauguration….I wanted to see what if anything would come about that is good and constructive with our now president….in the brief time that he has been president nothing constructive has happened…..his promises unfulfilled and his government is a joke……one mishap after another.

Let me open by saying that I am not wanting this stuff to occur…..it is some interesting predictions by people that I wanted to share and maybe give some readers something to think about…..

What got me thinking about this was something that my good friend over at the blog “John Liming” had to say about the Trump presidency….

In fact, at some point in the game I expect him to become frustrated and to resign and give the reins over to Pence — and then we will see something far worse than Trump could ever hope to be ….. in my personal opinion.

I had to agree with him…..with that comment I started thinking about the future and the next 4 years……do others see this possibility?  The very idea of a Pence presidency should scare the pants off many….

There were several people that predicted that Trump would beat Hillary and become president……I even wrote about these predictions (few noticed but hey I am truthful if little else)…..

Source: 2016: Go Ahead Throw ‘Em A Bone – In Saner Thought

I refresh your memory because one of those that predicted his win has something else to say…..this is an interview of Eamonn Fingleton was one of those brave souls that predicted Trump’s win……now he has more to say……

Source: The Man Who Predicted Trump Now Predicts He Will Fail | Alternet

Also saying basically the same thing are a couple of other people that saw a Trump win……below is a short op-ed I wrote for my friends at Ace News Room…..

#AceNewsReport – Nov.16: This is News and Views post after #Trump election from my friend and featured writer #Chuq please read and check out his great Oped on // Ace News Room #Chuq says the…

Source: #Chuq Says Can Trump Make It For 4 Years? | Ace News Services

Now there is a “what if” scenario…..an interview of former Pres. Trump…..

Donald Trump’s meteoric rise to the White House will go down as one of the greatest triumphs of mindless indignation and reactionary overstatement over rational thought in the history of American Presidential elections. And in true American style arrogance and denial will stymie acceptance of the magnitude of the mistake until long after serious damage is inflicted upon the majority of those who actually supported him.

And when judgment day does come an unrepentant charlatan sitting in his skyscraper apartment adorned in golden splendor will boast of his con with the pride of a thief and embezzler who never payed a price for his transgressions. Project forward to that time when sober reflection is in order and I imagine an interview would go something like this.

Source: Interview of Former President Donald Trump, November 24, 2018 – LA Progressive

Please read the above as a “What If” piece….not a real interview…just a spit ball for thought.

Then there is a list of reasons why he will not make it…..

I actually don’t think Donald trump is going to last four years in office.

Not because he clearly doesn’t understand the rules or know which phone calls he can and can’t take, and not because he can’t decide if he wants Ivanka or Melania to be the first lady. Not because he nominated Ben Carson to fill a position his own spokesperson admits he knows nothing about, and not because he and Mike Pence are assembling a white supremacist dream team cabinet — yes, I consider Carson a black white supremacist — and not because he proves to be more and more incompetent every day.

I don’t think Donald Trump will last four years in office because Donald Trump is a hustler. He’s a moneymaker. He’s Mitch from “Paid in Full,” in love with the flip — the kind of guy who gets off by turning one dollar into 20. And Donald loves more than the hunt: He loves the bloody kill and the meal.

Source: 5 Reasons Why I Doubt Donald Trump Will Complete His First Term | Alternet

There is more on the “will not last 4 years front”…….

As startling and unprecedented as it may be, there’s a good chance Donald Trump won’t finish out one term as president. Yes, Richard Nixon resigned from office, so technically, there was a “precedent,” but Nixon’s case was different. Nixon resigned in disgrace to avoid being impeached—to avoid being exposed as the Machiavellian felon and borderline neurotic he was. Trump won’t face impeachment. He’ll just quit.

Here are four reasons:

Source: Four Reasons Trump Will Quit

Trump supporters will probably get their panties in a twist and come out swinging….without any thought…a typical Right wad technique.  I mean they did this very thing when Obama was elected…but that is not the same thing…(in their tiny minds)……I know it is difficult to think rationally when head is firmly place up one’s butt……give it a try(rational thought that is)….it does not hurt at all.

Of course all this is supposition…..but hey…..if it was good enough for Nostradamus….why not?

Are you a betting person?  If so then this should interest you…….

A combination of controversy, scandal and low polling numbers have prompted oddsmakers at a U.K. betting house to predict President Donald Trump would likely either be impeached or resign – or both – before the upstart politician’s first term in the White House officially comes to an end in 2020, according to a new report. The odds for an impeachment to happen were given a 4/5 chance of happening as of Friday, according to Inverse, a website that describes itself in part by asking “ What could happen next? ”

Source: Trump’s impeachment betting soars

Will Vegas follow suit?

Maybe if they keep up with the news of the day……like a story about what the sole voice in the wilderness during the election that predicted a Trump win…..he has more to say these days…..

The professor who took hell for predicting President Donald Trump has a much longer case for predicting President Mike Pence — and it’s all in his new book, out next week.

Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, reached meme-status last fall for predicting long before anyone else that Trump would win, using a formula based on the popularity of the party in control of the White House that accurately predicted the eight previous presidential elections. Now Lichtman wants everyone to pay attention to the rest of what came through his crystal ball — that Trump will now be impeached.

Source: Prediction prof: Trump will be impeached – POLITICO

Okay Trump has made the first 100 days…..but some are asking if he will make a full 4 years.

Thoughts?

Does Palin Truly Energize The Base?

Is Sarah Palin truly bringing in voters to the Repub Party or is she just an oddity that curiosity to be seen?  And the media is doing all it can to make her look as if there is more substance to her than there really is.

In the beginning there were just as bunch Repubs trying desperately to be the nominee…slowly but oh so slowly there were two…McCain and Huckabee…then there was the Repub messiah…McCain and his trusty sidekick, Lieberman.  But , aw shucks, Lieberman was not acceptable to the base as a VP pick…so McCain had to generate some enthusiasm within the party…and BAM!…enter Sarah Palin…she was cute, likable, conservative, and religious.  Almost immediately she was the darling of the RNC, she was very personable and most important she could deliver a punch line in a speech with her folksy little act.

Sad days were approaching….she was allowed to be interviewed and the MSM found that she is a really good vessel for party rhetoric but is a hollow person on substance.  That made her the perfect attack dog, with or without the lipstick.  What does she have to lose?  Absolutely nothing, she is soldifying her place in the RNC for other endeavors down the road.  She would be NOWHERE if Obama had chosen Hillary as his running mate.  The more that the people learn about her and her dealings the more the voter is pulling away from her.  Palin is doing little, as of this writing, to help McCain in the polls.

Of course all conservative talking heads talk about her draw among the people.  That she is preaching to thousands where McCain use to preach to hundreds.  The media plays into this delusion also, they need Palin to keep the drama of the election going if not the 24 hr news cycle could be boiled down to about 8 hrs of reporting.

From what I have seen, she is an oddity.  People come to see the only Repub woman to ever be considered as a VP candidate.  She turns a cute phrase with her cute little way of talking.  When she speaks she gets the usual yippies, whoas, you go girl, and the typical stuff that means nothing but if someone claps, you clap.  When she and McCain appear together at the massive rallies that she is drawing, once she finishes talking then some people begin leaving.  They were there to listen to the oddity, to the cuteness of a “Fargo” accident after that they are finished and go about the business.  I am not saying that everyone leaves…that would be a lie….but she is not energizing to many in McCain’s favor.  The loyal base would be there regarless of who was the VP, with the exception of Lieberman.

If they McCain/Palin ticket should happen to lose in November, Plain will probably be blamed and then disappear into the Alaskan landscape.  Or she will be given her own show on FOX News.

Palin is now nothing more than a political curiosity.  She is not helping the cause of McCain.  The voter sees that she is flash with little substance.