(Disclaimer: I voted against Trump and anyone who supported him in my state.)

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Realistically… what do you expect to be radically different this time in comparison to the four years Trump has already been president?

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          2 months ago

          He had pretty much that his first two years. Maybe not the judicial branch, totally. But, he had both chambers of congress. They could have done a lot but didn’t because of incompetence, a little dissent and fear of electoral reprisals.

          Now, they’re more organized and possibly more unified behind the rat-fucking that’s planned.

          If they move too fast they’ll lose the House in two years. If they slow boil, we’ll all be cooked before we know it.

  • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    100% fucked, the USA is now going to join WW3 on the side of the bad guys and get rid of vaccines and the EPA and ACA and so many other things

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      2 months ago

      the USA is now going to join WW3 on the side of the bad guys

      What do you mean “join”?

      The evil empire that militarily supports dictators across the global south to prevent economic development and keep cheap labor and resources flowing out are the bad guys, this hasn’t and will not change short of a revolution or the empire’s control collapsing.

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        2 months ago

        I mean send American troops to help out Russia in Ukraine, and send troops to help out China in Taiwan, and obviously send troops to help out Israel in Palestine

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          2 months ago

          We’ve already sent troops to help Israel in Palestine, remember that aid pier that Israel used to do warcrimes, and now there’s troops operating aircraft and a missile defense system to prevent anyone from interfering with Israel’s genocide.

          help out Russia in Ukraine

          Just not sending weapons and money should be enough to get Ukraine back to the peace table and stop the bloodshed.

          help out China in Taiwan

          Ironically if we didn’t try to use Taiwan for geopolitical goals, China would have no reason to invade, since a peaceful reintegration over time is far more advantageous than the destruction and insurgency that comes with a military option.

          • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            2 months ago

            Why would Putin’s American President ever help Ukraine, are you delusional?

            China would have wanted Taiwan regardless, authoritarian regimes love to conquer and expand

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              2 months ago

              Ukraine

              You’re not understanding, the arms and money we send Ukraine enables them to continue the war. Last year, Russia offered a peace deal, giving up a portion of the territory they occupied at the time. Ukraine declined and says they won’t settle for less than all their territory, including Crimea. Without the weapons, they’d be forced to agree to a deal. Given that Russia probably knows they can’t deal with the insurgency outside of Russian-speaking Ukraine, they’ll probably agree to borders similar to what exists now.

              China would have wanted Taiwan regardless

              I mean the Republic of China is a part of China, it’s eventual reunification is inevitable, but they obviously see that reunification by invasion would be very expensive, both in cost of the invasion, cost of the insurgency, and resulting sanctions from their third-biggest trading partner. The only case where they’d waste billions of dollars and hundreds of thousand of lives is if the US made that option better than the alternative.

              The same calculation happened with Russia; after the maidan coup, the civil war on their border caused them to strategic infrastructure and terrorist attacks. They erroneously calculated the cost of having a hostile, NATO-backed state on the border would be greater than a quick invasion and replacing the US puppet with another Russian one.

              You need to look closer to understand what pressures cause countries to do things, these places aren’t cartoons who just decide to self-destruct their economies and send an entire generation into a meat grinder because aUTHoriTariaNism.

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    2 months ago

    Extremely, tarrifs will erase the middle class. All regulations will be repealed allowing even more corporate power and influence. We’re about to experience the Gilded Age on crack mixed with the burning hells of our mother Earth scorned.

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      2 months ago

      Time to stock up on the automatic rifles they want us all to have so much, and learn carpentry to build some guillotines.

      Maybe the French will help us again, they’ve got some experience with this.

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        2 months ago

        Why do you need to learn carpentry? Isn’t it a slot with a big metal blade? Add a rope so you can pull it up, and let it go to make it work…

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    2 months ago

    Someone joke bet $500 Michigan will be blue with a +4% lead so I think I’ll joke bet $500 it will just be a repeat of 2016-2020 except 1.5x worse and then by next election maybe the DNC will learn to run a normal primary again and promote a popular candidate who actually promises to meet constituents’ demands instead of ignoring them.

    Also someone on this community asked what everyone would do if Trump won and I said I’d probably make a collage of a years worth of my comments telling people ignoring genocide would cost Democrats the election.

    So I guess I might go do that now and say “I told you so” to everyone who told me I was wrong.

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      2 months ago

      I wrote that Biden dropping out of the race would be a big mistake. My “I told you so” is worth about as much as yours.

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        2 months ago

        The ONLY thing I know for certain after this clusterfuck is that Biden would have lost by even more.

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    2 months ago

    Before, his power was checked by legislature…but now GOP has full control over the gov, and the supreme Court has 5 members nominated by Trump, soon to be 7.

    Hand maidens tale seems possible. Destruction of the middle class through tariffs, union busting, tear down of heath coverage, teardown public schools, force colleges to abandon certain studies or no federal money…

    Add in non stop fossil fuel promotion with drill baby drill attitudes, tear down NOAA and the nhc because strong hurricane news reinforces climate change.

    I guarantee in 4 years Trump will try to name a successor instead of holding an election.

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    2 months ago

    We’re going to have a great 4 years. The first 2 will be amazing if we actually get a super majority.

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      2 months ago

      The first year will be him living off Bidens reduction of inflation. EVERY policy Trump has discussed increases prices. So we will have hyper inflation.

      Name One policy he has discussed that will cut costs in his 4 years please.

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        2 months ago

        Well he’s going to try to lower energy prices and cut taxes on paychecks as much as possible plus cut taxes on social security. So that’s multiple things in one little sentence lol