Because you now did it to yourself.

  • Fontasia
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    19216 days ago

    So, place your bets! What’s going to be that one announcement that suddenly makes your neighbours go all quiet?

    • Repeal of the 19th amendment
    • Mandatory military service
    • Military sent to Ukraine
    • Military sent to Gaza
    • Additional protections to police
    • The pardon of all January 6th rioters
    • The relaxation of maximum presidential terms
    • Repeal of Affordable Care Act
    • Repeal of Social Security
    • Increase in taxes of lowest and middle incomes
    • Reduction in the minimum wage
    • Shutdown of major news outlets of “reporting lies”
    • Ban of reporting “bad news”
    • New ability to farmers to hire for no wage
    • New protections to reject hiring/customers/schooling based on colour
    • Collapse of NOAA
    • Atheists targeted as terrorists
    • Democrats imprisoned for Socialist ties
    • Mysterious disappearances of democrats
    • Random deportation of American citizens for being first/second generation
    • Removal of all laws related to carbon output

    Yes, some of these are fearmongering but he’s made all sorts of promises and debts are due! The sky is the limit!

    • @[email protected]
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      8916 days ago

      If you think any or all of these is going to finally get a Trump supporter to lose faith, then you failed to learn the lesson that 2016 should’ve taught you, and yesterday should’ve reminded you of - they will never lose faith. He could tell them to literally kill their own kids and they’d just say “Oh, like what God told Abraham! I’ll get right on it, my Lord!”

      • @[email protected]
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        2216 days ago

        Doesn’t matter if they lose faith or not.

        As each of these things comes to pass, as I ride this flaming dirigible into the hard earth rushing up at us, at the very least I’m going to spend that time telling the magas in my life that this is their fucking fault at every available opportunity.

    • @[email protected]
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      4516 days ago

      The deportation is gonna come first. Military aid is America’s bread an butter. Shutting down of news outlets will be “official acts”. Democrats imprisoned will be an “official act”

      That’ll be the first year

      • Flying Squid
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        2016 days ago

        And between now and January, Biden will never decide to make imprisoning Trump and his people an “official act” so the snowball has started rolling.

        • @[email protected]
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          1116 days ago

          He’s caught in a catch-22 with that idea; if he uses his expanded powers he may well spark another civil war, but if he doesn’t, we face possible (perhaps even likely) conversion to a fascist dictatorship. I’d honestly prefer breaking up the country to the alternative.

          • @[email protected]
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            816 days ago

            I’d honestly prefer breaking up the country to the alternative.

            One of the problems with that is that there isn’t a geographical divide like the last time (north vs. south). Unfortunately, I live in a red area of California. Are we going to build a wall around our county? The major city in our county is a bit more liberal. How would that work?

            • @[email protected]
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              316 days ago

              Agreed, there’s no easy geographical divide, making this all the more messy. I’d guess that such a partition would result in three countries (Northeast, South&Central, and West), but it would likely take a very bloody war first. I wish I knew how we could do it sanely. It’s a pipe dream, I know, but one that I’d like to believe is possible.

              • @[email protected]
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                The Republic of New England, the Pacific States of America, and Sherman’s Regret.

    • @[email protected]
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      3316 days ago

      Remember, our only duty now is to NEVER LET THEM LIVE THIS DOWN.

      If any Nazi I know suddenly feels remorse I will straight up tell them to shut the fuck up and that i never want to hear remorse from them.

        • Carighan Maconar
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          1215 days ago

          Yeah I would say active shunning is an understandable way to go about this. We tried educating people to not guzzle the kool-aid, they clearly personally desired to do it anyways.

    • @[email protected]
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      2616 days ago

      Don’t forget what RFK might do in charge of public health. A federal vaccine ban is a nonzero possibility.

      • LiveLM
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        715 days ago

        They’re gonna start injecting the kids with whale juice instead

    • @[email protected]
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      2416 days ago

      None of these things will change the minds of the people who support Trump. Humans, sadly, have an aversion to anything that threatens their beliefs. We have a law that says a convicted felon can’t vote in an election, and yet, no law to prevent that same felon from running for, and winning political office. The founding fathers, likely, never imagined a convicted felon would run for office, and even moreso that the people of this county would vote for him.

    • @[email protected]
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      My bets are…

      Police protections

      Tax Burden shift

      Media control/persecution

      New protection for discrimination on 1st amendment grounds for hiring/business

      NOAA collapse (more like privatization)

      Deportations

      Democrat imprisonments

      Removal of carbon output caps.

      Also missing, he is going to dismiss all the court cases against himself, and use the military to lock up anyone who filed or testified against him.

      Oh and Joe Biden is going to sit on his thumbs for the next 2 months instead of taking the wrapper off those new tyrant powers and drone-striking his ass.

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      My neighbors are all republicans. Nothing will make them go quiet. Leadership could bus them and their children into a giant municipal sausage grinder and they would be babbling happily about winning right up until they died.

      • @[email protected]
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        716 days ago

        Fake news. No right wing community would have a municipal sausage grinder. That’s socialism, yo.

    • @[email protected]
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      915 days ago

      The most important and serious one not on the list is that democracy no longer exists in the US. I would be very surprised if people are allowed to vote in 2026.

      He will be a dictator day one (actual quote), and dictators don’t typically stop dictating once they feel the power.

      I honestly think he’s going to be worse than Hitler. A lot can change over the next 10 years.

    • @[email protected]
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      616 days ago

      Military has already been send to lebanon. America isn’t planning a ground invasion, its planning a genocide ans carpet bombing does the job.

    • @[email protected]
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      416 days ago

      I was going to actually pick one but I honestly don’t think any of these are beyond the pale for his followers. And while he is an idiot, he has plenty of not stupid people around him that will ensure these don’t happen all at once or at some critical moment - we are going to be frogs boiling. People are going to have to worry about getting food on the table and won’t be able to fight back.

    • @[email protected]
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      315 days ago

      Reduction in the minimum wage

      How optimistic that you think it’ll exist at all. Why pay little wage when no wage do trick?

    • @[email protected]
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      315 days ago

      Repeal of the 19th amendment

      The majority of white women voted for Trump. It’s the POCs that tilted against him

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      Military sent to Ukraine

      You really think Trump is going to do that? I like your optimism.

    • @[email protected]
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      115 days ago

      they won’t ever see any of it even if it directly affects them. Nothing penetrates their bubble without getting warped to fit their world view. All they can latch onto is fear and hate.

    • @[email protected]
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      014 days ago

      Nope, they’re going to ignore all of that and pay attention to the propaganda for what spin makes their hearts sing, instead. Cognitive dissonance just makes these chucklefucks double-down, not wake up.

      Meanwhile, they’re going to point at all the total lack of Dem paraphernalia on car bumpers, and everyone now suddenly blending in, as an indication that “we won” and we’re all friends now. I’m already seeing this nonsense on FB - trump voters literally not understanding why people are so upset - and it’s fucking infuriating.