Well, the world is still here

[loganberrybunny]

Public

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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[huskyteer]

I honestly woke up on Saturday morning and thought 'well, he hasn't pressed the button yet'.

Though last night I caught a bit of the news with the sound off and he was looking reasonably thoughtful and dignified. Even his hair seemed a less extreme colour.

[loganberrybunny]

Aha, we have the answer. Keep the sound off for four years!

[huskyteer]

Ha! If only.

[xolo]

He's no longer orange either, which is a bit disappointing.

[jhall1]

The only explanation I've been able to come up with for Trump's presidency is that someone must have time-travelled into the Jurassic period and accidentally stepped on a bug, as the ending of Ray Bradbury's famous short story "A Sound of Thunder" seems eerily prescient right now. (If you haven't read it, I'm sure it must be available somewhere online.)

[moxie_man]

I wish it was something like that. Sadly, the Electoral College is broken. 48 of the 50 states dictate that whoever wins the majority of the popular vote in their state gets ALL their Electoral College votes. There was an interesting news article prior to the election that showed you could win the presidency with just 23% of all popular votes cast by targeting the smaller population states and winning just 50% plus 1 vote in each. So, Trump, Hillary, Stiles, and Johnson each worked too hard in this past election.

[loganberrybunny]

I have indeed read it; it's a very good story. Your explanation seems as plausible as most of the others, though!

[moxie_man]

It's going to be a LONG 4 years on this side of "the pond". 'nuf said.

[sabotlours]

I have it a little worse than many people here on LJ. At least they won't have his portrait hanging in their office for the next 4 years. I just checked. It hasn't arrived yet.

[loganberrybunny]

It's at times like this I'm glad for the monarchy...

[xolo]

I need to post about Trump and the inauguration, but so far I'm in love! This is the first time in my life that the man I voted for seems to intend to do exactly what he said he would. Μost of the bureaucrats seem to be in shock :D

[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

[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.