Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US?

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Tagger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re organised this time

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Control of the house, senate, presidency and Judiciary.

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    • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Last time, I don’t think Trump was expecting to win. He ended up needing to scrape together a cabinet, and a bunch of those officials were old-school Republicans who chafed at all the crazy stuff he wanted to do.

  This time, the Heritage Foundation is preparing him, and the new Senate will rubber-stamp all his appointments. He will pick people who intend to “dismantle the administrative state”. Grover Norquist famously wanted to make Government so small he could drown it in fhe bathtub. He might get his wish.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    100% his plan the first time was to lose, talk a lot of shit and complain. Sell a bunch of merchandise and try it again over and over, grifting millions from idiots.

    You can see it immediately when he wins. Both his and Melania’s expressions when they get the news show that winning wasn’t the plan. It’s also why he immediately started talking about fraud. He didn’t have any prepared talking points for winning, they were all based on losing and using that to power his next scams.

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• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re organized, have begun implementing the government takeover that they’ve worked towards since Reagan, and he’s officially been given immunity for anything he wants to do by the Supreme Court before entering office.

  All of these plans have nothing to do with Trump, they’ve been being laid since Reagan and Nixon. Trump just stumbled on them, openly exposing them to the world because he’s such an extreme narcissist he MUST brag about anything he even thinks gives him power. We stopped it the first time, and had a chance to correct, but enough of the population has been drinking the Republican propaganda Kool-aid through Fix News since it’s inception. Fox News was started explicitly as a response to Nixon’s impeachment to provide an open partisan propaganda network for the Republican party. Nixon was going to be just fine until the media started educating the electorate, who demanded something be done. Congress was completely fine with Watergate until that point.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Since Nixon. He designed and started the plan that Reagan followed.

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    • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Since immediately after FDRs New Deal.

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• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We never recovered from the first time

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Project 2025. Complete control of all branches of government. A Supreme Court that says he can do whatever he wants. I’m sorry to be pessimistic, but we’re absolutely fucked.

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• EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not as doomer as everyone else for the short term. It’s the long term I’m worried about. He might get 2 more scotus members, and he’s going to do everything in his power to undercut any attempt to tackle climate change. And that includes his scotus picks who will almost certainly declare any needed attention to address climate change as unconstitutional.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Trump doesn’t actually think he’d be president and never planned for it. They’ve had since then to prepare this time.

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• aturtlesdream@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are less adults/competent/people with any morals in the room now. Swap John Kelly and some of the slightly more upstanding members of his inner circle for RFK Jr and some of the worst of the worst

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• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Project 2025. They exposed their plan and now thry will implement it, and nithing can stop them.

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