Dictator Trump

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ChapelHillSooner said:
They are not all that way. I wouldn’t even say the majority are.

Most are just people who started watching Fox News twenty years ago because it spoke to their political beliefs. Fox began influencing them more and more and when Trump rose to power they were completely brainwashed into the cult.

They’re not all horrible people just as those who followed Jim Jones are not all horrible people.
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Yes, I fully agree. But very easily manipulated, and nearly impossible to reverse course.

I think we are all fucked, for this very reason.
 
Ramrouser said:
You really need to get outside this weekend and enjoy your life and your family. This isn’t - to the barricades - 1789 or 1848. It’s just a normal course correction from the last four years.
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The truth is well between these two extremes. We don’t have a dictator yet (the courts are still standing in the way, even if Congress isn’t) but what is happening now isn’t “normal” in any sense of the word.
 
rodoheel said:
The truth is well between these two extremes. We don’t have a dictator yet (the courts are still standing in the way, even if Congress isn’t) but what is happening now isn’t “normal” in any sense of the word.
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The courts have the appearance of standing in the way. Trump will be ignoring court orders quite substantially over the next year. Watch
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
They are not all that way. I wouldn’t even say the majority are.

Most are just people who started watching Fox News twenty years ago because it spoke to their political beliefs. Fox began influencing them more and more and when Trump rose to power they were completely brainwashed into the cult.

They’re not all horrible people just as those who followed Jim Jones are not all horrible people.
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“…those who followed Jim Jones are not all horrible people.”
No, they’re just dead.
 
Shenanigans said:
The courts have the appearance of standing in the way. Trump will be ignoring court orders quite substantially over the next year. Watch
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There is a difference between predicting where we will be in the future and observing where we are today.

Personally I think extreme predictions like those set out in the OP are one of the reasons why the Trump “resistance” failed the first time. Too many genuine, but overwrought, predictions about immediate dictatorship that made it seem, when Trump didn’t literally name himself emperor like things really weren’t all that bad.

Trump is doing a lot of bad and crazy stuff that we can talk about on its merits. We don’t need to spend as much time hyperventilating about what’s coming next. Focus on the bad stuff happening now and how to stop it, not dire predictions.
 
rodoheel said:
There is a difference between predicting where we will be in the future and observing where we are today.

Personally I think extreme predictions like those set out in the OP are one of the reasons why the Trump “resistance” failed the first time. Too many genuine, but overwrought, predictions about immediate dictatorship that made it seem, when Trump didn’t literally name himself emperor like things really weren’t all that bad.

Trump is doing a lot of bad and crazy stuff that we can talk about on its merits. We don’t need to spend as much time hyperventilating about what’s coming next. Focus on the bad stuff happening now and how to stop it, not dire predictions.
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Fair. How do we stop the bad stuff happening right now? I am watching where we are currently, and I don't see anyone actually stopping anything. That leads me to doomsday thoughts. Fingers crossed someone does something.
 
superrific said:
FYI I'm confident that Shenanigans = Silence Dogood (on one of these threads, Shenanigans replied to himself in Silence's voice, among other evidence). They might both be Scientific Mapp.
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I'm neither. I'm my own overconfident asshole. You're smart, but not an internet sleuth. I forgive, carry on
 
superrific said:
FYI I'm confident that Shenanigans = Silence Dogood (on one of these threads, Shenanigans replied to himself in Silence's voice, among other evidence). They might both be Scientific Mapp.
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What does that mean, replied in Silence Dogood's voice. I can assure you I hate Silence and Scientific. If they were on fire, I would not piss on them. No need to sleuth further, you just need to be the long-winded smartypants we all know and love
 
BillOfRights said:
It's always a good time to minimize fraud and wasteful spending. That isn't what's happening.

Firing every FBI agent who worked on the attempted overthrow of the government sure isn't eliminating fraud and wasteful spending. Giving elmo's incels all Treasury Department data isn't eliminating fraud and wasteful spending. Hitting our allies and largest trading partners with inflationary and recessionary tariffs isn't eliminating fraud and wasteful spending.

He isn't trying to eliminate fraud and wasteful spending. It's retaliation and corruption.
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All of this. Conservatives need to read this over and over again until they comprehend it.
 
wmheel1287 said:
There will not be a Presidential Election in 2028 in any real sense. The only elections we will see for the next decades will be of the variety conducted in Hungary and Russia.

We have all seen the end of any semblance of voters having a say at the polls in this land...for a very long time.
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I agree, 99% sure this is the case. Pubs have no idea the recklessness they have unleashed. Even though they were told over and over and over again.
 
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