In all my deep thoughts about how climate and Trump would come together and we’d have a bonfire of the quangos … I just assumed that when Trump got elected – he’d be president the next day.
For us in Britain, three months is it? … well it seems an incredibly long time in which you’ve voted for a government and the last lot are sitting there smashing up the furniture so to speak.
On the positive side – at least Trump gets time to make an action plan so that he can “hit the floor running”.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
But what really matters to us sceptics, is not what he says he’s going to do, or even what he says he has done, but what he actually does. If we assume some pretty large changes in climate, it will take time to work these out, so we may not even hear about them until ~1year into his presidency. Then action may take another year – the effects start the next year and almost before we’ve had time to celebrate, it will be into the next presidential election — and he’s not even president yet.
So, we’re going to have to be patient!
Grrrrrrr….
Most people in UK are unfamiliar with the concept of a written Constitution. Have a read of it sometime, e.g. Article XX, to find out how things are supposed to, and usually, work in USA. Clinton, as a surrogate Obama in pants suit, lost a lot of votes because Obama did a lot of things which were considered by many to be unconstitutional.
The sad thing is that I have read a lot of the US constitution.
It’s a bit like when they released the Hobbit in three parts – each delayed by months and months. Why couldn’t they just do it all at once?
The constitution was written, then amended over years. How could that be all at once? The constitution is a living document with prescribed methods for change.