How will a Trump presidency affect you?

[ChapelHillSooner]

I hate to break it to you, but I predict that Vance will be POTUS within 18 months. Trump doesn't want anything but to squirm out of his legal troubles and then play golf. He will accomplish the first objective just by winning his second term. The real plan of the Christofascists is to have Vance installed as supreme leader ASAP. Trump is just excess baggage at this point.

I guarantee you Trump does not see himself as excess baggage nor does his supporters. Trump is incapable of recognizing or accepting his declines.

Trump’s goals other than staying out of jail have not changed. He wants ultimate power, praise from an obedient media and population, and to enrich himself. He wants to be viewed historically as the strongest leader in history and his narcissism makes him believe that that is what he is. (Trump’s idea of a strong leader is not what anyone would want.)

Don’t underestimate the man. Just because his goals don’t directly align with the Heritage Foundation isn’t a reason to dismiss what his diseased mind is capable of doing.

 

[mynameisbond]

My 401(K) may benefit in the short term from mutual fund gains, but that will change once tariffs tilt us back into a recession. Then it will be time to restructure my portfolio again.

 

[HeelInTheOzarks]

I guarantee you Trump does not see himself as excess baggage nor does his supporters. Trump is incapable of recognizing or accepting his declines.

Trump’s goals other than staying out of jail have not changed. He wants ultimate power, praise from an obedient media and population, and to enrich himself. He wants to be viewed historically as the strongest leader in history and his narcissism makes him believe that that is what he is. (Trump’s idea of a strong leader is not what anyone would want.)

Don’t underestimate the man. Just because his goals don’t directly align with the Heritage Foundation isn’t a reason to dismiss what his diseased mind is capable of doing.

If they try to undermine Trump and get him to resign, he will throw them under the bus to his base - who HATE the rank and file Republican party too.

Nobody is going to run him. He will only allow them in if they are subservient to him. He will probably let them do some of their pet projects on the side, so some of Project 25 will happen, but he's not going to just sit there and let the Heritage Foundation run the country and have his whole base get pissed.

 

[GoHeelsweeeehoooo]

If he gets rid of the department of education what happens with the student loan program? My daughter is in her first year

 

[HeelingAg]

If he gets rid of the department of education what happens with the student loan program? My daughter is in her first year

Toast, more than likely. It’s an explicit action item in P2025.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

And it says "Our exercises suggested that the greatest imminent threat to democracy isn’t civil war or mass detentions but age-old human weaknesses: lack of courage and imagination; difficulty overcoming collective-action problems; our desire to hope for the best instead of planning for the worst."

^ Americans are "fat and happy" enough to lack courage... Do I protest like Alexei Navalny or do I just accept some things i don't like and instead go to applebees followed by watching some hoops.

This and “it will pass, I just need to keep my head down and ride it out” thinking are concerns I have because it’s already been happening.
We’re all just frogs enjoying a nice warm soak.

 

[HeelingAg]

This and “it will pass, I just need to keep my head down and ride it out” thinking are concerns I have because it’s already been happening.
We’re all just frogs enjoying a nice warm soak.

100%. Folks think “Nazis will never happen again”, except for the entire history of humanity “Nazis” have happened over and over and over … on and on. The maga movement has demonstrated precursor after precursor consistent with some of the most brutally repressive regimes in human history.

 

[dukeman92]

Man up and grow a pair.

Grow up.

 

[ChapelHillSooner]

Toast, more than likely. It’s an explicit action item in P2025.

This would destroy our university systems as we know them. IMO, our university system has been the major contributor to our national wealth.

 

[HeelingAg]

This would destroy our university systems as we know them. IMO, our university system has been the major contributor to our national wealth.

I don't think they care about national wealth, I think they care about their wealth. The Thiels, Musks, and Heritages hate the universities because they foster critical thinking instead of compliant tradesmen. They strongly prefer Russia's system over the US.

 

[UNCatTech]

and even many Red states aren't going to follow hitler.

You sure? They may have elected him...

 

[JCTarheel82]

I don't think they care about national wealth, I think they care about their wealth. The Thiels, Musks, and Heritages hate the universities because they foster critical thinking instead of compliant tradesmen. They strongly prefer Russia's system over the US.

Agreed. This would be two birds / one stone for Pubs.

 

[HeelingAg]

Agreed. This would be two birds / one stone for Pubs.

Trouble is, eventually the degradation of rights and living standards, explicitly due to their constructed kleptocracy, will cause hundreds of millions to stir with antipathy. This is when the military, or private military forces (because Musk's Militia and Thiel's Guard are coming) gets turned on the population in unadulterated manners. However, prior to that moment, the "re-education academies" will proliferate.

 

[ChileG]

Toast, more than likely. It’s an explicit action item in P2025.

Wait, are you saying federal loan programs for college loans would be eliminated in this case?

 

[mynameisbond]

You sure? They may have elected him...

I'm pretty sure Hitler died in a bunker. Orange Jesus is still around though.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

If he gets rid of the department of education what happens with the student loan program? My daughter is in her first year

There are multiple angles here.
PSLF is almost certainly ending. In his first term he proposed ending it in 2021. Even if they don’t officially kill it, in his first term the rejected 99% of applications.

Pell grants would be in jeopardy. The program is probably safe but further increases on the amount awarded could be stopped (Biden raised it $900 this year, the largest increase in many years). He’s already proposed taking $4B of the Pell fund and using it for space exploration. The bigger issue is who would then administer the program if DoEd is axed.

SAVE and Plan B, stopped by legal challenges, will die when the new admin drops those cases. Any income-driven repayment programs will probably be rendered more trouble than they’re worth for applicants.

Hardship relief for accruing interest is as good as dead as are fraud protections for students suckered into huge loans by for-profit schools.

 

[gregh1]

You sure? They may have elected him...

Dewine, Brian Kemp and Brad R types are who i have in mind.

 

[DantesHair]

This would destroy our university systems as we know them. IMO, our university system has been the major contributor to our national wealth.

Seems like a positive for the Neanderthals on the right.

 

[DantesHair]

There are multiple angles here.
PSLF is almost certainly ending. In his first term he proposed ending it in 2021. Even if they don’t officially kill it, in his first term the rejected 99% of applications.

Pell grants would be in jeopardy. The program is probably safe but further increases on the amount awarded could be stopped (Biden raised it $900 this year, the largest increase in many years). He’s already proposed taking $4B of the Pell fund and using it for space exploration. The bigger issue is who would then administer the program if DoEd is axed.

SAVE and Plan B, stopped by legal challenges, will die when the new admin drops those cases. Any income-driven repayment programs will probably be rendered more trouble than they’re worth for applicants.

Hardship relief for accruing interest is as good as dead as are fraud protections for students suckered into huge loans by for-profit schools.

The man that got elected president used to own a FOR-PROFIT college. Of course he will side with the loan sharks preying on our youth.

 

[HeelingAg]

Wait, are you saying federal loan programs for college loans would be eliminated in this case?

As ETA in the post you quoted, I was thinking specifically about PSLF, which is toast. However, the dismantling goes beyond that program.

"To ensure a future department doesn’t forgive loans like Biden has, Project 2025 calls for rescinding regulations that made it easier for those who were defrauded by their college—or who attended an institution that closed—to discharge their loans. Similarly, it would nix the new income-driven repayment program, known as Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE.

The chapter also recommends ending the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which allows teachers and others who work in public service jobs to have their loan balances wiped out after 10 years of making payments.

The ultimate goal is to privatize all federal lending programs. If that proves impossible, the Education Department should phase out income-driven repayment programs, put colleges on the hook for unpaid student loans and eliminate PLUS loans for graduate students and parents of undergrads. The plan doesn’t call for changes to the Pell Grant program for low-income students."

How Project 2025 could radically reshape higher ed

The sweeping conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration would dismantle the Education Department, privatize student loans and end all ongoing Title IX investigations. Critics say it’s a road map to authoritarianism.

www.insidehighered.com