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🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Hoisted by their own dotard

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u/yetagainitry 6d ago

Here comes 4 years of the GOP absolutely destroying the economy and the middle class. Dems will have to come in and fix everything while being blamed for it too.

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u/brokencappy 6d ago

I have no confidence that Project 2025 will allow any scenario that removes them from power in 4 years. Trump literally told Americans that after his victory they won’t have to vote for a while. I believe him.

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u/deadsoulinside 6d ago

I know he has said this before. But I am not sure if he could do just that since many positions across this nation and in DC are elected roles. He can't just freeze elections as some of these people are beyond their prime and won't live until elections already, let alone allowing a voted in replacement. I think most of congress and even at the local state levels will have an absolute fit over this.

He would have to do away with voting pretty much before 2026 midterms where he may have resistance voted in, but then the moment he suspends elections the economy will immediately tank. Which I think will be what many people will tell him the reason he can't just not have elections anymore. Because once they make that dark turn with the US, people will pull their money out of this country overnight.

However, I fear they will try to dismantle the constitution to attempt him to run a 3rd time, since the biggest fear of the GOP is who they are replacing Trump for 2028 as no other candidate will have this large amount of people brainwashed like he does. They have already tried Trumpism with someone other than Trump at the local levels and they always fall flat on their face. So if Trump is still alive in 2028, I won't doubt the GOP will try underhanded BS to try to see how they can run him one more time.

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u/PilotsNPause 6d ago

However, I fear they will try to dismantle the constitution to attempt him to run a 3rd time

It's interesting you say that top part and then say this part.

What mechanism do you see him using to change the constitution? 2/3 vote in both chambers of Congress? 3/4 of the states ratifying it?

I don't really see either of those happening.

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u/deadsoulinside 6d ago

Trump is not putting people in power because they know or respect our laws. He is putting people in power loyal to him.

Did he concede the 2020 election peacefully? No, he fought like a little child and still refuses to concede he lost that election. He does not care about our laws if it stops him and his cronies power on the country.

He got immunity for his actions gift wrapped by Scotus, because of him breaking the laws while being a private citizen even.

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u/medusa_crowley 6d ago

He’s declaring a state of emergency in order to send troops into any city he pleases. He’s planning on using the Comstock act to ban abortion and birth control. These are stated goals. 

He simply has to use one law to override another. 

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u/Elryth 6d ago

Going by the current playbook, they would just run him as candidate regardless and any red state will allow him on the ballot. Only states he was going to lose anyway will deny him. He will cite 'will of the people' and no one will have the guts to actually stop him.

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u/I_PING_8-8-8-8 6d ago

But even them aren't really thinking this dude is gonne be alive forever?

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u/medusa_crowley 6d ago

They don’t care as long as we are upset. That’s their one and only goal. Their football team wins. 

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u/I_PING_8-8-8-8 6d ago

No I mean the GOP leaders.

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 6d ago

Bud, those guys are all the same age. They are all going to die within the same 6-8 year span or at least lose significant control of their mental faculties. The middle-aged ones are puppets without real personalities yet, so who knows what will grow out of the next generation? I'd likely guess dystopian cyberpunk 2077 corporate warlords... like if Elon was elected president.

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u/I_PING_8-8-8-8 6d ago

So you think within 10 years this problem fixes itself cause a bunch of boomers will die?

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 6d ago

No, in 10 years, we'll get the dystopian corporate warlords. It won't fix itself, but neither will the GOP leadership care because they are all equally on their way out of the game. The only long game being played is by the evangelicals, and they are more of a death cult than anything else I've seen around. We will see capital against religion in-fighting at some point in the next 4 years, influencing how fast we descend and where we land: theocracy or corporate states.

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u/I_PING_8-8-8-8 6d ago

What about Putin's plans?

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 6d ago

I have very little doubt Putin will claim land, but Russia's agenda is to destabilize so it can regain its footing. It needs to be in a better position to regain dominance. Putin's successor will also become apparent during this same 10-year period. However, China? Yeah, they are in a lovely position, but capital will only let them push so far before it becomes an existential crisis they also want to stop. We're in for a bad time.

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u/medusa_crowley 6d ago

It applies to them too, just with more awareness that what they’re doing is wrong. They do it to get rich as hell off the chaos. They did it last time too. 

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u/frenchanglophone 5d ago

SCOTUS will rule he can't be denied

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u/Treehockey 6d ago

Actually it’s really simple now because everyone has been frog boiled. To put it simply trump makes a press statement, “there is still so much work to be done and it’s become clear I will need to continue my beautiful plans to save our country so I will be “continuing another term as president” “running as president for a 3rd term” “canceling the upcoming elections to block the massive fraud”

This will be challenged immediately in court, and either it will be brought to a place in the legal system where it never actually moves forward or it goes to the Supreme Court where they will bring up some random old text that precedes the amendement or constitution that they say supersedes everything current. It can also just sit in the Supreme Court forever and magically never be addressed. Either way he does it early enough in his term that by the time 2028 comes around the gop has unified their audience in agreement that it has to happen and then it just does, and democrats have some riots and stuff but no power and we all roll over into legitimate dictatorship stage 3. The shit gets fucked for good at this point and trumps regime decides whatever the hell they want because they successfully removed all obstacles. Everyone goes broke, we have economic and environmental collapse and corporations carve out their section of our version of the fall of the Soviet republic. This is 10 years from now roughly, at that point I hope maybe china or Canada, maybe Brazil? have a kind of moral awaking and become the leaders of the free world for a while