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Alucard Nacirema
Apr 22, 2008

by exmarx
It would probably end up looking pretty good and leave a bunch of republicans and democrats completely shitfaced.

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Alucard Nacirema posted:

It would probably end up looking pretty good and leave a bunch of republicans and democrats completely shitfaced.

yeah id definitely start drinking a lot more

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

trump would be way worse than either of the democratic candidates but probably better than at least half of the repubs

i know and that's terrible. poo poo.

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

it would probably be like the tail end of the Bush presidency where most of the rest of the world looks at us in disbelief and we just kinda shrug and go on with our lives

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





Scrub-Niggurath posted:

it would probably be like the tail end of the Bush presidency where most of the rest of the world looks at us in disbelief and we just kinda shrug and go on with our lives

that seems to be your modus operandi no matter what president

Totalizator
Nov 9, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AzEeIGznU

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

ScrubLeague posted:

Ted Cruz would be the last President of the United States, because it wouldn't be a sovereign nation for much longer after he carpet-bombs the entire Middle East.

Well, not the entire Mideast.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

My Imaginary GF posted:

1. Trumpwall
2. Trumpcare
3. Justice Trump
4. Re-institution of protectionist economic policy through import tarriffs
5. An end to the cold war which Obama has so desperately attempted to re-start
6. A renegotiation of the Iran deal to reassure our Sunni allies and Israel that America stands firm against the regime which chants 'death to America' each week
7. An end to NAFTA

Russia was the one that decided to restart the cold war, bud, Obama's only hand in it is hiding like a bitch every time Russia says "boo"

Alpha Mayo
Jan 15, 2007
hi how are you?
there was this racist piece of shit in your av so I fixed it
you're welcome
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Alternate Biff Tannen timeline

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
We're already in that one.

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

our only hope now is to go so far down the alternate universe timeline until we become the evil mirror universe, find a way to invade the good "real" timeline and steal their poo poo

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

-Troika- posted:

Russia was the one that decided to restart the cold war, bud, Obama's only hand in it is hiding like a bitch every time Russia says "boo"

If there is one thing which Trump has shown he won't do, its hide like a little Jeb! bitch. "Vlad, baby, your little green men in Ukraine? Yeah, they stay there and we're gonna bomb Iran. I don't want to bomb Iran, Vlad! Let's make a deal."

The key is, if you fail to make a deal, you go through with bombing Iran. You don't take the threat that underpins the legitimacy of your negotiating position off the table, like Obama did. You gotta make them want your deal more than you wanna make a deal.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

I don't think being able to talk poo poo on Twitter necessarily translates into being good at political negotiations

Jared Kush
Mar 4, 2015

by zen death robot
Good point, better go with the guy who had his mic snatched out of his hand at his own event.

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine

T r a v i s posted:

Good point, better go with the guy who had his mic snatched out of his hand at his own event.

Adar
Jul 27, 2001
It would probably unironically be better than a Cruz presidency and maybe a Bernie presidency as well depending on how important foreign policy is between now and 2020 but at that point we're talking about historians discussing when exactly the former economic hegemony of America first began making GBS threads the bed anyway.

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Pick posted:

i know and that's terrible. poo poo.

it's basically why i have no remorse or compunction about laughing at the republican shitshow circus. if they were respectable candidates being upstaged by an ultra-populist buffoon i'd be a bit dismayed and concerned, but they're all such turbo-assholes that it just feels right that their hopes and dreams are being derailed and poo poo on by a guy whose punchline wore out in the eighties

Shark Sandwich
Sep 6, 2010

by R. Guyovich
Presidential elections will be replaced with quadrennial plebiscites on whether or not to maintain the Trumpenreich. "No" voters will be taken to Trump Death Camp and Casino (formerly known as Iowa) for the crime of low-energy.

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:

Presidential elections will be replaced with quadrennial plebiscites on whether or not to maintain the Trumpenreich. "No" voters will be taken to Trump Death Camp and Casino (formerly known as Iowa) for the crime of low-energy.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
On April 7th, 2017, the 80-foot tall Mecha Trump will destroy the final defences around Tehran.

Top Bunk Wanker
Jan 31, 2005

Top Trump Anger

Irony Be My Shield posted:

I don't think being able to talk poo poo on Twitter necessarily translates into being good at political negotiations

Donald Trump stared down the Pope in the last week.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
jeb being forced to live in a doghouse on the front yard

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

Seth Myers: exiled to the moon

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Serious post it looks a lot better than a Cruz presidency

Microwaves Mom
Nov 8, 2015

by zen death robot

Finally America won't have to apologize.

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:

Presidential elections will be replaced with quadrennial plebiscites on whether or not to maintain the Trumpenreich. "No" voters will be taken to Trump Death Camp and Casino (formerly known as Iowa) for the crime of low-energy.

Give me Socialism or Give me Death

ass cobra
May 28, 2004

by Azathoth
Serious post it will probably be hilarious

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Will a Trump presidency force the Democratic Party to do some critical introspection?





No probably not lmao

Microwaves Mom
Nov 8, 2015

by zen death robot

what movie is this?

Microwaves Mom
Nov 8, 2015

by zen death robot

Mr. Pumroy posted:

our only hope now is to go so far down the alternate universe timeline until we become the evil mirror universe, find a way to invade the good "real" timeline and steal their poo poo

I legitimately laughed out loud at this. I love it.

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006

zen death robot posted:

It will be a brief yet exciting time to be alive

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Mr. Pumroy posted:

our only hope now is to go so far down the alternate universe timeline until we become the evil mirror universe, find a way to invade the good "real" timeline and steal their poo poo

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
Trump has said three things I can't forgive, that make me really want to avoid having him as president.

1. Pig's blood
2. He likes vets who weren't captured
3. (Ominously) The families know what they're doing

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Positive aspect of a Trump Presidency: the Zodiac Killer is finally caught (its Ted Cruz)

Alternately, this.

Seriously, it's difficult to say because 1) Trump has literally no experience in elected office, and 2) I'm not sure if he has any real policy ideas. This is made more complected still because the dude has his picture in the DSM-IV for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. That's a whole fuckton of wild cards.

To try and maybe say something useful, thanks to this thread, I now realize people like Trump have been elected President before - sort of. Andrew Jackson was a straight populist who only cared about white people and their interests. It's not just me saying it, either. There's also John Tyler. He was William Henry Harrison's VP - untill Harrison died a month after becoming president. The weird thing about Tyler is that once he became president, he gave no fucks about what anybody thought, and ended up vetoing bills from his own party. (He had some very specific views on the division of power in America.) He left office after one term and didn't seek re-election (for the first time, Congress considered trying to impeach a president), but he was a president who essentially didn't give a poo poo about politics.

As for presidents who were probably not suited to the office, you have guys like Franklin Pierce and Warren G. Harding. Both were well meaning, but poo poo got away from them in a serious way. Pierce was a compromise candidate, but once he got to Washington, well, it was the runup to civil war and fires were breaking out everywhere. He had a few modest successes but this was overshadowed by Bleeding Kansas (not as fun as it sounds) and a series of comical foerign policy failures (Pierce had for patronage reasons had to appoint some might dim bulbs in the state department, and they managed to take Spain wanting to sell America Cuba and spoil it by publishing a militaristic manifesto about annexing Cuba.) Pierce also drank. A lot. (At some point in his Presidency he was arrested and let go for being a drunken sot on a horse.) Harding looked presidential too, and was probably lucky to die in office. When he died he was genuinely popular - and then the comical corruption of his administration became known, including the infamous Teapot Dome scandal, where friends of Harding had arranged to sell the oil reserve of the US Navy to unscrupulous oilmen.

So yeah, the various flavors of Trump had been experienced before (including crazy - Johnson [the Johnson after Lincoln] had a total nervous breakdown while in office and focused on winning the trust of the mice living in the white house) but, er, not all at the same time.

Donald Trump
Jan 31, 2016

by exmarx
I will be the best President God ever created. We will make America great again, greater than ever before.

Subvisual Haze
Nov 22, 2003

The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault.
It will be the most amazing time of all our lives. Think of insanity and entertainment we've had in the last 8 months of the Republican primary and then project that onto a global stage for a 4 year presidency.

Dead Cosmonaut
Nov 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
He'd paint the white house gold and redecorate the interior

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Forget what Trump's Presidency would look like, focus on what his eventual VP's Presidency would look like because Trump will be impeached within the first year.

limp dick calvin
Sep 1, 2006

Strepitoso. Vedete? Una meraviglia.
The DSM-5 has been out forever, effort poster.

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Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Consummate Professional posted:

The DSM-5 has been out forever, effort poster.

Ha, I actually knew that but it's bullshit. DSM-4 forever

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