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Cankerpuss's avatar

Magdalene, you have an optimism that I just don't have. Wish I did. As the executive the President can only do so much within the confines of the Article 2 of the US Constitution. Article 1 gives much, if not most of the authority to the Congress and we all know how inept and broken the US Congress truly is. Without a willing Congress most of what Mr. Trump can do is very limited.

Don't get me wrong. The man is brilliant and I am a personal admirer of him but he is also very unpredictable.

I hope you are right.

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Magdalene's avatar

Believe me, it is weird being the sunny optimist after a lifetime of being Cassandra screaming into the void about the massive child trafficking (a system that I myself survived; being dismissed as "conspiracy theorist" was a deeply personal insult for me), the Long March through the Institutions, etc, & how the Constitution is just a piece of paper if the people don't enforce it, on & on & on! I can hardly believe it myself. But I can only continue to trust God, just as my Cassandra self once trusted that my dire warnings would one day be taken seriously. And here we are! I do find it funny- now that everyone else is getting so black-pilled, I've moved on to the white pill somehow. Hopefully I'm still just ahead of the curve!😁

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Yirgach's avatar

Given his upbringing, Trump has a very good understanding of chaos.

When it comes to negotiations he really understands what being unpredictable means.

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