Stoßtruppen

[John Galt]

do dems have the backbone to last?

it's day 12, and i think not. continued shock troop assaults will break cohesiveness among the dem lines. countering with massive formations against what in the end requires small effort on the part of the trump administration will lose resources and more importantly morale when yet again more Stoßtruppen appear with diversions

THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Proclamation 9570 (Trump Proc. #1): Trump's Inauguration is a "National Day of Patriotic Devotion" (Dem outrage level: amused)
EO 13765 (Trump EO #1): Vague language about limiting ACA (Dem outrage level: annoyed)
Memo: Reglatory Freeze (Dem outrage: unchanged)
Memo: Withdrawl of US from TPP (Dem outrage level: i mean, i don't like this guy, but this is amazing)
Memo: Mexico City Policy reversal (again) (Dem outrage: GET YOUR SIGNS READY)
Memo: Hiring Freeze (dem outrage level: CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER OUR PROTESTING OF THE LAST THING)
Memo: Keystone XL (Dems: UGGG)
Memo: Dakota Access (Dems: UGGG)
Memo: "American Pipelines" (Dems: UGGG)
Memo: Sec of Commerce will come back in 60 days with a review of reducing manufacturing regs (Dems: not aware this happened)
Proclimation 9571 (T.P. #2): Week of Jan 22 is National School Choice Week (Dems: unaware, like everyone)
EO 13767 (T EO #2): THE WALL (dem outrage: muy furiouso)
EO 13768 (T EO #3): Cut federal funding for santuary cities (dems: THE WALLERMGERRRDDD"
EO 13769 (T EO #4): Travel ban (dems: ACKBAR ALLAH! WHAT THE f**k IS GOING ON ANYMORE IS THIS EVEN REAL LIFE??)
Nat Sec Memo 1: 30day review of military readiness, bolster military (dems: clueless)
EO: Ban on lobbying by executive branch employees after leaving the executive branch (dems: THAT ONE BROWN GUY WHO WAS ON HOUSE AND WHO SMOKES WEED IN THAT WHITE CASTLE MOVIE HAD SOMEONE SAY SOMETHING MEAN TO HIM AND THIS IS TRUMPS FAULT RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE)
Nat Sec Memo 2: Reorg of National Security Council, including Steven Bannon (dems: at this point they are split. some are recognizing the steve bannon thing, but many are still held up on travel ban)
Nat Sec Memo 3: Somebody needs to make a plan to defeat ISIS (dems are not listening)
EO: For every regulation enacted, 2 must be cut (dems: smh... BUT WHAT THE f**k IS THIS TRAVEL BAN)
PrimeTime Announcement: Gorsuch (dems: can't. even. talk. about. it. right. now.)


The orders are impactful and successive (as were obama, who issued more, mind you) but they are most importantly highly varied. three are on oil pipes, but those are tame compared to the others. muslims, mexicans, medicine. okay all m words i guess that's not that varied. together with some showmanship in primetime, trump keeps em guessing, and it will cause the dems to falter and give up.

[Spider]

Realistically, the Dems aren't going anywhere. It wasn't long ago that we were talking about the Doom of the GOP. And here we are. There's a Starbucks at ground zero in Hiroshima. Eh.

[spacemonkey]

Its ok to help, but first you must help yourself. The Dem's will be fine if they infuse a little common sense and logic into their plans. You just can't throw open the door forever in a country that's not infinite. Well, I suppose you could, but it will lead to your own demise eventually.

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

[spacemonkey]

[Kane]

Eh? While Trump and Bannon surely wouldn't mind upending the entire establishment their focus seems to be primarily aimed at the GOP. It's Bannon's strategy. You do so much at once that you disorient your given opponent so that they don't see what they're really up to. Trump is enacting EO's that severely undermine GOP appeal among independents. He's constantly challenging the more moderate ring of the GOP with these orders. And later? He's going to challenge the more conservative wing with lots of spending and leaving SS, Medicare, and Medicaid alone. At the end of his term Dems won't have to do much - the GOP name will be so tarnished - especially if Paul Ryan gets his budget through. That will turn entire demographics against the GOP - I'm talking the GOPs bread and butter - retirees.

Dems probably won't be able to keep up but oh well. They really won't need to. And if we get mired in another war? It's game over.

[John Galt]

[Kane]

[NAB]