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The Trump Presidency: Part 18

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Dr. Keith said:
I had a weird thought about the Trump presidency last night.

In fiction there are generally two types of time travel stories: fragile timelines and robust timelines. In the fragile timeline stories, like Back to the Future, any little change can have massive impacts on the future. In robust timeline stories, like Travelers, even with concerted efforts to impact the future it is difficult to make substantial changes.

The further we go along in the Trump presidency the more I feel like someone is trying to stop a disaster by preventing the election of Trump, and then exposing every criminal aspect of the Trump presidency. But the timeline is just too robust. The pending disaster will happen, even if you expose things that would have tanked any other candidate or president, the momentum is just too great.

In Travelers there was a quote about time being like a river, and their changes being like stones thrown in the river. Sure the water has to go around them, but it still end up in about the same place.
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That's an interesting way of framing it. A lot of history has the distinct feeling of inevitability. After Trump's improbable victory, many supporters insisted they "knew" he would prevail (which also meant that neither Russian meddling nor an FBI inquiry could have possibly altered the outcome).

It's possible the "Resistance" and various investigations have meaningfully altered the course of history and allowed us to avoid some major disaster. It's also unlikely. Out of all the possibly multi-verses, we're probably not an outlier.
 
NY Attorney General Tweeted

NY AG James
@NewYorkStateAG
BREAKING: We’ve secured a court order forcing President Trump to pay $2M in damages after admitting to illegally using the Trump Foundation to help him intervene in the 2016 presidential election and further his own political interests.
No one is above the law.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I had a weird thought about the Trump presidency last night.

In fiction there are generally two types of time travel stories: fragile timelines and robust timelines. In the fragile timeline stories, like Back to the Future, any little change can have massive impacts on the future. In robust timeline stories, like Travelers, even with concerted efforts to impact the future it is difficult to make substantial changes.

The further we go along in the Trump presidency the more I feel like someone is trying to stop a disaster by preventing the election of Trump, and then exposing every criminal aspect of the Trump presidency. But the timeline is just too robust. The pending disaster will happen, even if you expose things that would have tanked any other candidate or president, the momentum is just too great.

In Travelers there was a quote about time being like a river, and their changes being like stones thrown in the river. Sure the water has to go around them, but it still end up in about the same place.
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Brilliant.
 
Dear Leader is talking to Mark Burnett about "The Apprentice: White House."
According to three people with knowledge of the situation and another source close to Trump, Apprentice creator Mark Burnett and the president have sporadically kept in touch, mostly over the phone, since Trump won the election. The pair remain friends, these sources say, and have discussed reviving their creative partnership, pitching each other details on potential TV projects to be filmed after the Trump presidency.

One of the ideas kicked around by Burnett and the president was shooting a new version of the Trump-branded Apprentice, tentatively titled The Apprentice: White House, and to produce it shortly after the president leaves office. This time, however, the TV program would be explicitly politics-themed and take full advantage of Trump’s status as a former president of the United States and a newfound Republican kingmaker.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...ark-burnett-are-discussing-their-next-tv-show
 
Captain_Swoop said:
NY Attorney General Tweeted

NY AG James
@NewYorkStateAG
BREAKING: We’ve secured a court order forcing President Trump to pay $2M in damages after admitting to illegally using the Trump Foundation to help him intervene in the 2016 presidential election and further his own political interests.
No one is above the law.
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Good luck collecting that.
 
GlennB said:
At first glance this is a horrific prospect. At second glance maybe it suggests he has (to him) an attractive plan for when he's beaten in 2020 or impeached before that?

Was Baldric involved in the making of this plan?
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I for one wholly support this new plan for Trump's post-presidential career. Get enough MAGA idiots voting on this show for whoever he annoints as the next great politician, and maybe they'll forget to actually vote for them in the real election. "Why we gots ta vote fer him agin? Ain't he alreddy won? Trump said so!"
 
Captain_Swoop said:
NY Attorney General Tweeted

NY AG James
@NewYorkStateAG
BREAKING: We’ve secured a court order forcing President Trump to pay $2M in damages after admitting to illegally using the Trump Foundation to help him intervene in the 2016 presidential election and further his own political interests.
No one is above the law.
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Excellent news. May this only be the beginning...
 
Did anyone watch The View this morning with Donnie Jr. and his fiancee as guests?

Donnie did not fare well.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
Not backwards, but a few days ago it was cold enough I had my camo baseball cap perched on top of a stocking cap.

My wife said the only thing missing was some blacked-out teeth!
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Stocking cap goes over the baseball cap. Chewing tobacco can replace blacked out teeth.
 
smartcooky said:
Not to mention, of course, that Trump's complaining about due process is somewhat at odds with his actions of obstruction that process at every turn.

If Trump wants due process, he can always volunteer to testify at the hearings and be questioned by professional staffers. Of course, he won't do that, because he knows he will be easily trapped into having to lie, and then tell more lies to try to cover the previous lies .
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Au contraire When one believes that one is the cleverest man in the world all of history, then one cannot imagine a situation that he cannot talk his way out of.

One of the tell-all books reported a conversation early in the presidency in which Pres Trump adamantly and loudly insisted that he would make a great witness if he were called to testify.
 
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Stacyhs said:
The wearing of baseball caps backwards deserves even harsher punishment.
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I think the guys who wear baseball caps backwards would not enjoy hearing a common theory on what that signals. It has to do with rendering a particular activity easier.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
NY Attorney General Tweeted

NY AG James
@NewYorkStateAG
BREAKING: We’ve secured a court order forcing President Trump to pay $2M in damages after admitting to illegally using the Trump Foundation to help him intervene in the 2016 presidential election and further his own political interests.
No one is above the law.
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Watch Trump, after stalling it in court, pay this out of his campaign donation funds.
 
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