Off Topic ArchDemon Discussion

:-k Sounds like a plan. Just don’t think this particular one will work.

This actually sounds like a Trump construction project! Certainly the facts about its safety and usability are on par with Trumps claims. I’d want a lot more concrete, and I’d bury it really deep in the backyard, not just under a house with a wood floor.

The best thing to do, however, is move to one of the few locations on Earth where fallout will not actually come down, short of direct strike.

I actually used to live in one such place, Socorro NM. Because of the landscape, weather patterns were such that fallout from Albuquerque or elsewhere in the state would not fall there.

Which is interesting because they had a very large explosives program there that used White Sands missile range, nearby, to test explosives.

I remember getting rocked when they were simulating A-bomb explosions using TNT and other conventional explosives. They were studying physical blast effects.

Yes, Nevada and Massachusett’s also did, Maine is too close to call, I believe, Arizona rejected it.

I was really hoping Arizona would have passed it.

That would have create a big swath of the border with Mexico and a big region of legal pot. That would basically eliminate most of the illegal drug trade in that region creating a major setback for the cartels.

Oh well. This is still a big tipping point. Where goes CA, so goes most of the US. My hope is that with nothing left to lose, Obama will strike pot from the controlled substance list and free all remaining federal prisoners arrested for simple possession, and perhaps commute time for those with lesser dealing offenses.

I am really hoping that with nothing left to lose, he does a lot. At this point, with no more repercussions to fear he can do a lot of things that would be very difficult for the next president to redo.

Yeah that about sums it up.

The US gov’t will mostly be running on autopilot for much of next year. He’s not going to have prepared or vetted the 1400 senatorial approved appointees that he’s going to need to make to head departments/embassies/divisions.

And then I suspect most will be incompetent. My guess is that “the machine of government” will eat him up. He has no clue how to drive it, or how it works, and he’s going to find it very frustrating.

The funny thing is, it takes a new president, of a different party, nearly 4 years to fully harness the power of the executive branch. 3 if they have a lot of experience or can hold over people from the previous administration. And you need competent people to delegate to. He’s not going to have that, he’ll get mad and fire people.

Pence will probably end up doing most of the real work, he’s a governor (a hated governor, and a crummy one) but he’s got experience at running an executive branch.

It’s going to be very interesting to watch.

I am moving discussion of the US Presidency to this off topic topic.

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