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The next President should expunge trump from all associations with the presidency. All of his appointments should be recalled and everything he's done should be rolled back. That includes the SCOTUS (especially the SCOTUS) and all thier subsequent "decisions." A line must be drawn to inform the next demigouge that their fuckery will NOT be tolerated.
Wipe out the last 40 years of heritage foundation rot, or we may as well kiss this shitty country good bye
Oh no not the shitty country that attacks me and my people daily!
Whoa, hey now, watch your tone when you talk about the country that elected an ancient felonious pedophile to its highest office not once, but two times, because he didn't get enough crimes done the first time.
I have ideas about what to do with Heritage Foundation HQ. Like providing a fine display of whimsical pyrotechnics, while all of their top reps and billionaire friends are inside having a wonderful “charity gala.” My, they’ll never taste such fine caviar again!
Something like this?
Part of the tragedy of the MAGA era is that much of what he's done cannot be undone, including America's place in the world order. America will never be the same and will either rise to a fascist dictatorship or fall from its place as the world last superpower.
This is part of their strategy, because if a Democrat did win, the expectation is that they would, at best, follow typical procedure and it would take years and they would have people delay and maybe even turn it into a wedge in a subsequent election.
trump will not leave office without knowing what it is like to press the red button though. Doesn't seem like there will be a next attempt at anything.
This is absolutely true. But it's also probably a permanent degradation of our government.
It's like Mexico. When corruption becomes endemic in the government, because (like Trump) you've fired the neutral government career folks and replaced them with political loyalists who don't care about actually administering the law, then the next election they get replaced, but because they're now "in play," they never again survive administration changes.
So there's a purge every change of administration. And because at least one side is corrupt, don't be surprised if during the lead-up to the next administration changeover (assuming we can get that far), Trump's lackeys destroy records across every institution they control, alongside blanket pardons, just to destroy any chance that the incoming administration can function and transition seamlessly.
The result is no more administrative continuity, chaos and a downward spiral of eroding trust in government.
The US federal government is a lost cause at this point. States that believe in logical, functional societies will need to replace it with state and local governance, or with interstate compacts.
You sound like Trump talking about Biden or Obama.
No, Trump got rid of NAFTA. Let's keep that. I'm sure there's some other broken clock things too
As someone who works in international freight, USMCA is far worse than NAFTA.
Ah, fuck. I didn't realize he replaced it.
NAFTA was terrible for Mexican workers. How's USMCA?
More red tape, more paperwork, limits on sourcing of materials, increased documentation of sourcing for each piece of a product, and unlike NAFTA the USMCA isn't permanent and has to be renegotiated from time to time so that introduces tons of uncertainty into the whole industry.
The only good thing that the USMCA did was mandate wage levels for workers in companies exporting to other member countries. But that could have just been added to NAFTA after some negotiations rather than tearing up the agreement and creating this terrible replacement.
Everything you said sounds good. Regulations are important.
What sucks about free trade agreements is IMF style requirements that prevent trade unions or law suits or sovereignty for the country to establish regulations