White House, Senate, Congress: It's a Tea Party!

[The Atheist]

Which right will Americans lose first?

I'm going abortion.

Two new judges in the first two years - kaboom! It'll be back to 1930 and coat hangers in back alleys.

Is there a pissing contest between muslins and christians to see which one can turn the clock back furthest?

 

[Venom]

We'll lose millions of what should be a right--health coverage--possibly in record time.

Other than that I see $650+ billion annual military spending.....AGAIN

Refusal to act on climate change......AGAIN

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Freedom of the press - prepare to be sued, everyone who ever wrote anything less than nice about Trump.

 

[The Don]

Yes an immediate repeal of the ACA with millions once again without healthcare. Insurance premiums will continue to rise however and even after the repeal of ACA, the continuing rises will still be blamed on Obamacare. Millions of Trump voters will suddenly be confused about why they no longer have health insurance.

We can look forward to a slew of measures to appease the religious right, the abolition of the right to abortion, allowing creationism and/or intelligent design to be taught, allowing discrimination against minorities as long as it's a deeply held (Christian !) religious belief.

The deficit will soar as taxes are slashed but expenditure is largely untouched. The promised growth of 5, 6, 7 % will prove to be a complete lie and instead the US economy will sputter along as the effects of Trump's trade wars come home to roost.

 

[Porpoise of Life]

And the greatest thing of all: none of the effects of these political decisions will be Trump's fault.
It's all those Mexicans/muslims/blacks/jews/liberals/gays dragging America down by demanding free health care so no True Americans can get it anymore, and angering up Baby Jesus' blood with their 'civil rights' making God crash the economy.

 

[uke2se]

Gay rights will definitely take a huge leap backwards. Not necessarily because of Trump, but because of Congress and SCOTUS.

 

[Stacko]

Gay Minority rights will definitely take a huge leap backwards. Not necessarily because of Trump, but because of Congress and SCOTUS.

FTFY. We've already seen the damage the scaling back of the voting rights act did.

 

[marplots]

It's kind of cute. Almost as soon as one prediction, an almost certain belief that Trump would lose, as soon as that fails, a new round of predictions comes to the floor. Erase the blackboard and write the next round in bright chalk.

It's like we have a certain mental container to hold beliefs about the future and by God, it can't abide a vacuum. Take one belief out and you have to replace it with another.

 

[uke2se]

It's kind of cute. Almost as soon as one prediction, an almost certain belief that Trump would lose, as soon as that fails, a new round of predictions comes to the floor. Erase the blackboard and write the next round in bright chalk.

It's like we have a certain mental container to hold beliefs about the future and by God, it can't abide a vacuum. Take one belief out and you have to replace it with another.

Are you arguing that it's impossible to make educated guesses as to what a President Trump and a completely GOP Congress will do based on what they have tried to do in the past?

 

[Stacko]

Are you arguing that it's impossible to make educated guesses as to what a President Trump and a completely GOP Congress will do based on what they have tried to do in the past?

It's not like the party platform is a guarded secret in its regressiveness.

 

[Bram Kaandorp]

It's kind of cute. Almost as soon as one prediction, an almost certain belief that Trump would lose, as soon as that fails, a new round of predictions comes to the floor. Erase the blackboard and write the next round in bright chalk.

It's like we have a certain mental container to hold beliefs about the future and by God, it can't abide a vacuum. Take one belief out and you have to replace it with another.

People have been predicting for a long time what might happen if Trump would become president.

Now they just moved from "if Trump would become president" to "now that Trump is president".

 

[Abooga]

It's kind of cute. Almost as soon as one prediction, an almost certain belief that Trump would lose, as soon as that fails, a new round of predictions comes to the floor. Erase the blackboard and write the next round in bright chalk.

It's like we have a certain mental container to hold beliefs about the future and by God, it can't abide a vacuum. Take one belief out and you have to replace it with another.

Seeing how earlier predictions have fared, one has hope that these visions of doom are also completely wrong, and Trump´s mandate will be one of great libertly and prosperity....

 

[Aepervius]

Which right will Americans lose first?

I'm going abortion.

Two new judges in the first two years - kaboom! It'll be back to 1930 and coat hangers in back alleys.

Is there a pissing contest between muslins and christians to see which one can turn the clock back furthest?

ACA first. Then heritage tax, then some more corporation tax, then reduced medicaid/medicare and finally abortion.

 

[Aepervius]

It's kind of cute. Almost as soon as one prediction, an almost certain belief that Trump would lose, as soon as that fails, a new round of predictions comes to the floor. Erase the blackboard and write the next round in bright chalk.

It's like we have a certain mental container to hold beliefs about the future and by God, it can't abide a vacuum. Take one belief out and you have to replace it with another.

It is a forum. We do that for past time and fun. Half of us isn't even American. There is no analyzes just guesstimate. You are barking at the wrong tree.

 

[Belz...]

Which right will Americans lose first?

I'm going abortion.

Two new judges in the first two years - kaboom! It'll be back to 1930 and coat hangers in back alleys.

Is there a pissing contest between muslins and christians to see which one can turn the clock back furthest?

Obamacare is probably going. And African Americans can forget about going forward towards equality. Or staying in equality, depending where they are.

Zaganga's right about freedom of the press, probably. And millions kicked out or prevented from entering the country.

 

[Belz...]

FTFY. We've already seen the damage the scaling back of the voting rights act did.

This.

 

[marplots]

Are you arguing that it's impossible to make educated guesses as to what a President Trump and a completely GOP Congress will do based on what they have tried to do in the past?

Yes. I think "educated" in that is misleading, because we don't know what the future holds, what will arise to foil some plans and inspire new ones.

 

[marplots]

People have been predicting for a long time what might happen if Trump would become president.

Now they just moved from "if Trump would become president" to "now that Trump is president".

Let's see... two that I recall: nuclear war and US apocalypse.

 

[seayakin]

Yes an immediate repeal of the ACA with millions once again without healthcare. Insurance premiums will continue to rise however and even after the repeal of ACA, the continuing rises will still be blamed on Obamacare. Millions of Trump voters will suddenly be confused about why they no longer have health insurance.

We can look forward to a slew of measures to appease the religious right, the abolition of the right to abortion, allowing creationism and/or intelligent design to be taught, allowing discrimination against minorities as long as it's a deeply held (Christian !) religious belief.

The deficit will soar as taxes are slashed but expenditure is largely untouched. The promised growth of 5, 6, 7 % will prove to be a complete lie and instead the US economy will sputter along as the effects of Trump's trade wars come home to roost.

Yes, ditto

 

[Minoosh]

It's kind of cute. Almost as soon as one prediction, an almost certain belief that Trump would lose, as soon as that fails, a new round of predictions comes to the floor. Erase the blackboard and write the next round in bright chalk.

It's like we have a certain mental container to hold beliefs about the future and by God, it can't abide a vacuum. Take one belief out and you have to replace it with another.

No, I think his voters will wait and see, his detractors will wait and see. There will be plenty of verbiage either way. I hope very much that this is not going to be the disaster many have predicted. Trump will not command the unwavering support of Congress - that's a prediction, one I think is realistic, because many in his own party will see him as vulnerable.

ETA: See him as vulnerable because his problems will continue with regards to tax returns, bankruptcies, flip-flops and failure to fully implement an agenda some key supporters of his will want.