“But Trump will stop me having to hear about all these wars.”

Fixed for you. I heard the same from my mom - that it was a REAL SHAME Biden wasn’t trying to force Russia and Ukraine to peace.

I see you have met my stepfather.

Bah, I don’t think there’s a chance in hell any of this doesn’t get some form of implementation. Remember, Trump didn’t actually do a lot of anything in his first admin. Most of his day-to-day, most of the actual decision making was left to the Cabinet. Which is gonna be stacked with Heritage Foundation picks and the people who actually want this shit.

As far as “government action resulting in mass violence”, one of his campaign speeches was him talking about unleashing the military and the police for “one really bad, really rough day”, which sounds an awful lot like a government action resulting in mass violence.

And that’s if you were lucky and your Mom or Dad didn’t just either give you up for adoption or leave you in the fields one night and wash their hands of you.

Basically this. They’re all neofeudalists with a thin coat of “but it’s business and not a divine mandate” on top. Thiel specifically has made no secrets of his desire to destroy federal power, and effectively just reimagine the country as a bunch of feudal city-states, loosely linked by something resembling a monarch (who isn’t Thiel because he’s actually terrified of being in the public eye for anything).

And automotive guys figuring out a good chunk of their replacement parts are European.

Except I can see Trump just sidestepping via EO. Sure, it’s unconstitutional, but “official acts”, remember?

And that’s exactly it. Putin has literally made no secret that he wants to take back, by force, every former SSR he can’t force into CSTO. The Baltics, Moldova, Poland, Finland probably. Then south to Georgia, Armenia, and who knows where it’ll stop - maybe he’ll be dumb enough (and live long enough) to try to start Afghanistan War #4.

You act like SCOTUS would need to defend it. Assuming Thomas and Alito step down in the next 4 years, Trump has two open slots to fill with other younger bucks like he did in 2016, and without a Dem lockup in Congress to actually impeach anyone over their decisions, the decisions they make could theoretically stand unchallenged for decades.

It’s not a repeat. The GOP has had four years to plan and strategize. Trump and the wider GOP didn’t expect to win in 2020. The GOP didn’t know what to make of him. Now, they know how to cajole him, how to get him to do whatever, and they’ve had time to actually put down a map of what they want to do.

Trump may not know what he’s doing, but considering he’s likely going to let his Cabinet do most of the actual work like last time, I’m very, very worried. I’m even more worried if we wind up getting JD Vance instead after a year or so, because while Trump has at least one guiding star (money), JD Vance is utterly rudderless, willing to take direction from whoever is paying him at the moment.

Bingo. Garland has the same amount of blame as Biden and Harris. Biden should’ve thrown him out and replaced him with anyone willing to actually enforce the law regardless of “conflict”. Trump doesn’t wanna return documents after being asked nicely? An FBI raid or two should fix that. Judge Cannon doesn’t wanna prosecute and keeps stalling the case? Move the case to another judge, keep moving it until you find one who isn’t going to play games.

The DNC’s perennial problem is that they’re so afraid of fighting dirty against a party that, since Nixon, has had little problem doing exactly that. I wanted a Democratic Party that was willing to go to the mat and meet the GOP where it was, rather than trying to take the high road, and for a few weeks it seems like we HAD THAT.

Worse, it would be the NEW Speaker, who is (presumed to be) Rick Scott.

I’m expecting them to go even further, and just stop doing sex education period.

And now that he’s elected, Bannon went on his podcast and literally said “yeah that was the plan all along and we lied straight to your fucking faces about it”.

Arguably he’s done that one over and over in his speeches, and with the Central Park Five, and with the other people I’m sure he’s fantasized about killing over the years.

Actually, it’s worse, because I’m pretty sure the plan is to partially dismantle the FBI as an investigative body.

Nah, that was 2016. Trump wasn’t even planning to get elected in 2016.

Now there’s actually a plan, and the GOP has probed and explored to see just how far they can push with state-level testbeds in TX and FL.

You forgot the part where the Rapture happens BEFORE the millennium, meaning that all these Christians just get to sit in Heaven and laugh at the sinners. Evangelicalism in the US is heavily premillennial.

Yup, Great Depression 2. Part of the reason stock prices are flying higher is because investors think they can sell before the crash happens.

Uhhhh, wasn’t that more due to Jeb! ordering the recount stopped? Like, I seem to recall reading that the recount WAS NOT COMPLETED, and the results that they had at that point had to be accepted, which just so happened to favor Bush.

Not saying Nader didn’t siphon votes, but I seem to remember that there was actual skulduggery and not just “3rd party go brr”.