{"id":29056,"date":"2018-02-21T08:08:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=29056"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:08:07","slug":"trump-gun-control-lol-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/trump-gun-control-lol-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Gun Control. LOL Republicans."},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump will advance the regulation and control of deadly weapons but not in the way you might think. He is currently contemplating, which is a big word to use for Trump so maybe I mean having some verbal diarrhea that vaguely resembles an idea, banning assault style weapons and bump stocks. Of course, he can’t do that himself, it would be Congress, but he’s talking about it.<\/p>\n

But we know that for most issues, Trump has no conviction. He’ll say one thing one day, change his mind the next day, accept a deal that totally tosses out what he promised the week before, etc. Therefore, his comments on these issues over the last several hours are meaningless.<\/p>\n

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A fictional Republican president goes all gun controlly on the Republican Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>But, Republicans in Congress have to respond to them. We have a situation where out of the blue, a Republican President is suddenly being “tough on guns” and the Republicans in Congress are now stuck between a rock and a hard place in a very large way. Trump on one side and the aggrieved populous, led mainly by suddenly-active High School Students, on the other, fueling an already well established ant-gun lobby.<\/p>\n

If Trump sticks to his guns, as it were, for several days, this is going to macerate many of those Republicans, and contribute significantly to the process of the GOP digesting itself.<\/p>\n

This is working out like the first draft of some good fiction.<\/p>\n

In the end, Trump’s actions over the current crisis will cause a number of Congressional Republicans to get kicked out. We will never know which ones, but certainly some of them.<\/p>\n

By the way, some of you know that I was asking around about popcorn poppers. I decided on the Presto 04841 Orville Redenbachers Hot Air Popcorn Popper<\/a>\"\", and I’m very happy with it. I wonder what made me think of that?????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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