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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Extremely, tarrifs will erase the middle class. All regulations will be repealed allowing even more corporate power and influence. We're about to experience the Gilded Age on crack mixed with the burning hells of our mother Earth scorned.

They're done with the middle class here. They don't want to raise the poverty level worldwide, they want to bring us down to match the rest of the world. It's strip-mining time, we're too expensive for the international rich's tastes.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Time to stock up on the automatic rifles they want us all to have so much, and learn carpentry to build some guillotines.

Maybe the French will help us again, they've got some experience with this.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Well, they want to dismantle a lot of the stuff that protects the middle and working classes. The country will be fine. The people will suffer. Democracy? Judgement is reserved. If he follows through on his idea of a third term without a legitimate amendment to the Constitution then it's very very dead. But we won't know that for years.

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[–] pelley@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (21 children)

We’ll be fine. Yes shit will be fucked up but democracy will not die. We’ll try again in 2028 and thankfully Trump is capped out after this. Maybe midterms will show some shift

[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Hahaha you still think there will be elections. Cute!

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[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago

I hope you're right.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I took this attitude the first time Trump was elected, and boy was I wrong. Not this time. Now, I'm seriously considering what his options might be for eliminating the election in 2028. He needs to clean the military brass of people disloyal to him, which he can easily do as Commander in Chief. Once he's got a loyal military, there's virtually nothing he can't do; and this SCOTUS will let him do anything he wants, so long as it aligns with the view of Evangelical Christians, who have been wanting a theocracy for decades. He can conjure the specter of "Democrat corruption" to justify eliminating any opposition politicians as an official act, completely re-stock the FBI with loyalists to wage any legal battles he needs to make his actions seem legitimate and "official," and arrest any problematic judges under the same "corruption" myth so that he can then replace them with loyalists.

Honestly, we've seen this playbook before in countries that are now dictatorships and Trump has already made it quite clear he wants to be a dictator. There is absolutely no reason to be convinced this will not happen. It might not happen, but there's no reason to think definitely will not.

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[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 day ago (5 children)

100% fucked, the USA is now going to join WW3 on the side of the bad guys and get rid of vaccines and the EPA and ACA and so many other things

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[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I can't leave.

I have a child with an abusive, vindictive ex-spouse. Regardless of me having sole custody, I would still need to get both the court's permission and his permission just to move out of state, so god knows I will not be able to get out of the country.

I'm at a loss. I will not leave without my kid.

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