2025 American Political (ob-?)Scene

[JRT]

The election is forcing much change, and it seems none too early to start the prologue for what is coming next year.

[DOR]

David Perdue, Trump’s nominee for Ambassador to China, is a curious choice. He was a senior VP at Reebok, which is not known as a “buy American, shun China” kind of business. He was CEO of Dollar General, the low-price, overwhelmingly imported general merchandise retail chain. He also has a single term of office in the US Senate, something few before him have managed to achieve (incumbent reelection is the norm).

He has two attributes that make him highly qualified for high office in this administration. First, he believes in election irregularities even where courts have found none. And second, he has a quasi-criminal stain on his record for insider trading while serving in the Senate.

[DOR]

Here's one for all you fiscal conservatives out there!

Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling
NBC, Dec 19, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid of the debt ceiling, a day after he came out against a deal reached by congressional lawmakers to fund the government before a shutdown occurs.

You can’t make this stuff up, so keep drinking the Kool-Aid!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...ing-rcna184820

[rj1]

Here's one for all you fiscal conservatives out there!

Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling

Well yeah. Donald Trump is economically speaking a Democrat on everything except taxes. I've said it a few times.

As far as 2025, the state of the House of Representatives being so narrowly held is going to make it a completely worthless body as comes to legislation, which means legislatively everything with any sense of partisanship would be coming out of the Senate ex-spending bills because the Senate can't start those. I expect the Executive Branch to therefore be superpowered as comes to getting the actual sh*t that needs done done, which suits Trump fine. I also expect people like Thomas Massie to get vilified by the GOP by the time we get to 2026.

First potential Trump coalition family argument coming as relates to H1-B visas. Trump came out in favor of them and backing Elon Musk who is hard pro-H1-B visas. Some tea leaves on Musk's potential power in the new administration even against some of previously Trump's staunchest allies and supporters like Steve Bannon.