Well, the world is still here

[loganberrybunny]

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I suppose that's an advantage on where we could have been, in that Trump hasn't done the "What happens if I do this?" bit with the nuclear button. Unsurprisingly, coverage of his inauguration has been, shall we say, less than adoring on this side of the Atlantic. It's not a case of his being popular with chunks of the working-class

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[pyesetz]

Hopefully in a few months the Hillary brainwashing will start to wear off.  Other than the tiff about the size of his inaugural crowd, Trump seems to be mostly a standard-issue Republican so far.  There seems to be no actual reason to believe that Trump wants to nuke anyone - that is just projection from Team Hillary, who were the actual war-mongers.

People seem to be getting their panties in a knot over Trump's "Day of National Devotion", which is basically just "the inauguration" dressed up with rhetorical puffery and a bow on top.  And aren't puffery and bows traditional for such an occasion?  Get a grip, people!  Why is Donald's "Day of National Devotion" so much worse than Barack's "National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation"?  Inaugural presidential proclamations don't suddenly become Satanic omens just because the president's initials are DJT.  Although I am concerned about the line "no peace where the people do not pray for it".  Does Donald believe that people who do not pray are obstacles to peace?

Pence is the real baddie here, with the global abortion ban and the muzzling of the EPA and all that standard-Republican shit.

[loganberrybunny]

Inaugural presidential proclamations don't suddenly become Satanic omens just because the president's initials are DJT.

What am I missing here? I don't remember seeing anything about his initials being significant.

[pyesetz]

It's not the specific three letters, but the fact that it's Donald J. Trump doing something which makes that thing seem evil.  As with Obama, where anytime he did a thing that a Republican had previously approved of, it became the worst thing imaginable after a Black Democrat did it.

Though I will admit, this doesn't quite fit into the "standard Republican" mould.  But it is traditional for Republicans to threaten to rain fire and brimstone upon San Francisco (which is a sanctuary city), and then not actually go through with their threats because S.F. generates a lot of tax revenue.  So I guess we'll have to see how short-sighted Trump really is.