Microcosm
“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump said in a victory speech early Wednesday morning.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has a duckbill and webbed feet, we are allowed to call it a "duck"...
If it wants a dictator, despises minorities, and wants an end to human rights and the rule of law, we are NOT allowed to call it a fascist.
NT fascists are sensitive people who must be protected. So I expect tickets. 
There was a seism last week.
Now Trump's fascist regime is barreling towards us at warp speed.
Talking heads from all corners of the media are exploding, trying to make sense of it all. (They can't accept the simplicity of; "Americans voted for a fascist dictatorship, and they're going to get it.")
And yet... and yet...
Here on NewsTalkers, nothing has changed.
The libs are earnest. The fascists are in bad faith. And the many who do not actually know what they're talking about continue to expound.
Here on NewsTalkers, nothing has changed.
OK... so the speed and audacity of Trump's assault on decency is effectively stunning. Even for Trump. But still...
I'm sure that the Usual Suspects back-channel their tactics and strategy, so their apparent ignorance of all that is happening is surely concerted.
Why?
Why are the victors, when a decade of labor has finally come to fruition, so modest? Almost no gloating. Certainly no predictions for the development of the fascist plutocratic dictatorship they have so diligently prepared, all these years - and they must be daydreaming.
Why the silence?
NT is a microcosm for the nation. It is fascinating to watch.
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As far as I can see, Trump is behaving entirely predictably -- for Trump. I'm shocked that even he would nominate these people, but at the same time I'm accustomed to being shocked by much of what he does. So.
But I'm mystified by the Usual Suspects.
Have you noticed that some of them have been unfairly treated?
Gabbard put on the Terror watch list because she disagreed with Obama's Syria policy or Gaetz being investigated for something that was never relly proven.
There seems to be a common thread in the picks.
Tulsi Gabbard is an erratic individual who has taken Putin's side in Ukraine. She also defended the mass murderer in Syria . She was brought up in a religious cult and has never disavowed it. If she become Director of Intelligence our allies will withhold intelligence information from us.
Where did you come up with that concept? LOL
I can't wait to see the deflections by the usual suspects, who are going to blame China and recite their historical (and hysterical) accusations.
Oh, I'm silently gloating and am as happy as I can be at the way the events have turned out.
But to protect the delicate sensibilities of other members I chosen to not mock them publicly.
No one cares what you do or dont do.
I dont think it is quite clear yet what Trump is up to , but it doesnt look good.
I saw a suggestion this morning , made by a writer for the National Review, based on what he called "scuttlebutt" , that Trump may be planning to dismiss Congress entirely for two weeks and then during that time he would confirm all his nominees through recess appointments. This , if happens would definitely be dictator like.
Could he do it constitutionally ?, yes if both branches comply.
Let the circus begin.
sure sounds dictatory to me
Could he do it constitutionally ?, yes if both branches comply.
So long as the recess is ten days or longer
In 2012, President Barack Obama appointed Sharon Block, Richard Griffin and Terence Flynn to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) three days in between "pro forma" sessions and without Senate confirmation.
Two years later, in NLRB v. Canning , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Obama's appointments were unconstitutional. Additionally, the court held that recess appointments can only be made during a recess of 10 days or longer.
Trump recess appointments aim to bypass Senate approval (usatoday.com)
While recess appointments were widely used for years—Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each made more than 100 during their administrations, according to the Congressional Research Service—the practice was limited by the Supreme Court in 2014, when justices ruled against then-President Barack Obama’s use of recess appointments and said they were only allowed when the recess is for longer than 10 days.
Since then, lawmakers have largely avoided having recesses that are long enough to trigger recess appointments, holding “pro forma” sessions every few days in which they just gavel in and then immediately adjourn to break up the recess without actually conducting any business.
Article II, section 3 of the Constitution states that in cases where the House and Senate can’t agree on adjourning, the president can "adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
What Are Recess Appointments? How Trump Could Confirm Nominees Without Senate—Including Matt Gaetz, RFK Jr. (forbes.com)
So it's not "dictator like" if it's a constitutional power then.
You don't seem to understand leftist logic.
If Trump is doing something, it must be unConstitutional.
If the left is doing something, it is what is best for the country.
As opposed to democrats tying up some of the appointments for over a year as they did in his first term.
If you appoint cabinet members through the path of dismissing Congress so no one can object you are acting like a dictator. People who cant figure that out have a problem.
When Obama had trouble with his appointments Harry Reid changed the rules.
Was he acting as a dictator?
“I dont think it is quite clear yet what Trump is up to , but it doesnt look good.”
He’s ‘weaving’ his retribution tapestry…with every thread being either a ‘victim’ or a viceroy in his addled mind. Like all things trumpian, it’s sure to unravel.