Hiku said:
Ljink96 said:
Holy fucking shit.  I'm just trying to be optimisic though. It does sound like a comic book story though. What was this from though was it Batman? I'm not good with films these days XD.
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Yeah, it's from the third Batman. Dark Knight Rises.
And yeah, no point in being pessimistic now, but gotta be realistic. He has appointed some bad people like the CEO of Exxon Mobil (Oil company), Goldman Sachs ("Worst bank in America who robbed the middle class" according to Trump himself), etc, who gave him lots of money.
Perhaps his corruption ends there and he starts opposing legislation that's bad for the country.
But some of his decisions make it seem like earning money is still his biggest priority. For example, he appointed Ben Carson, who supported his campaign (seen in one of the clips above) as head of US housing. This after Carson previously declined a position in Trump's admministration because "Dr. Carson feels he has no government experience, he's never run a federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency."
Now he accepted the position of head of housing. As Elizabeth Warren pointed out in the clip, Trump has large interests in that sector, as he sells buildings for a living. She asked if Ben Carson could guarantee that he wouldn't have the money from his department benefit Trump's company, as that is a conflict of interest that a President should not have, and he could not confirm that he wont pour money into Trump's pocket.
So if money is still Trump's main motivation, unlike Bernie Sanders who has never accepted a coorporate check in his entire carreer, always refused, then it's hard to be optimistic. But we'll of course have to see and hope for the best. Trump does occasionally say some good things, like that pharmaceutical companies are "getting away with murder".
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Don't get me wrong, I TOTALLY agree with your points. Trump is appointing people to his cabinet that have NO business to be in the positions that they're in. The entire Republican party was and is still a mess at this point. Betrayals followed by quick befriending, it's just odd. People that were mocking, disowning trump, are now praising and endorsing him. That's just a recipe for disaster, unless they're genuinely interested in pushing a central agenda. I'd love Bernie to be president right now but sadly that's not how it turned out. Between DNC cheating and Hillary staying at home while Trump campaigned his ass off, the democratic party just handed the presidency to Trump due to arrogance.
Some ideas that Trump has are very appealing, others of course are not. But above all, the proposals seem to be borderline impossible in the time frame he's pushing. I understand that we have to be realistic, his cabinet sucks ass. He has people in charge of education that didn't finish college. Yeah she's rich, but it was mostly inhereted. His cabinet needs to be reformed but that's not going to happen. We've been dealt a raw deal, we just have to get through it.... or impeach him.
