• QueenMidna@lemmy.ca
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    I don’t know why more people aren’t talking about the fact that he’s building a data center under the Whitehouse

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      Because the Democrats were involved with all of the camps they’re building as well. They seem to be planning for something and the Democrats don’t seem to be against it.

      America is probably setting itself up for a civil uprising, after AI decimates the country…

      It’s all super weird govt behaviour.

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        Personally think you’re over complicating the behavior. It’s just a bunch of greedy stupid people doing for self, with no consideration for the consequences of their actions. There is no plan here. They are like kids in one of those money tubes spinning around trying to grab all the dollars flying around.

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    Anything that Trump has done via executive order can be undone just as easily, but the weakening of U.S. soft power is likely permanent. Nobody can trust the United States to act as a consistent and reliable cohort in any capacity, because we have proven to be unreliable and our foreign policy has been wildly inconsistent, shifting with the whims of the ignorant American electorate every 4-8 years.

    I also don’t think it’s going to be that easy to purge the MAGA corruption from government agencies. They will put their masks back on and pretend to be good little worker bees, but everything that they do will be in service to Trump, not to the nation or the constitution. It will take ten times longer to root them out and oust them than it did for Trump and his cronies to install them.

    If we have an unbroken string of left wing progressive presidents for the next 30 years, we might recover. If even one Republican snake manages to slither into office, the work will be undone in the span of a single term.

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      You’re wrong, though. Executive orders can be undone, but it’s what happened after the order was issued that cannot. People quit. People died. People got tortured. Institutions collapsed. You can’t undo that by reversing the order.

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      Roughly 1/3 of America voted against what we have now. That means 2/3 are still wanting (or at least complicit) with what we have now as well.

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    The Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico. No country other than the USA calls it anything else.

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    • The US will bomb another several countries for no reason

    • We will remain subservient to Israel

    • We will get another Republican in four years who will repeat every mistake they’ve ever made and then some

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      The US will bomb another several countries for no reason

      Yes, but the bombs will be manufactured by a diverse team of forward-thinkers and dropped by the first-ever gay genocidaire.

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      Actually, if Vance 25th amendments his ass after January 20, 2027, he’ll get Trump’s last 2 years, and he’ll still be eligible for two full terms.

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      Oh come on, that is so ridiculous and mean.

      • America will bomb the usual, all of the, countries, but it will not be done under a madman. A very beautiful and good, specifically pro semitic, reason that doesn’t change every day will be provided.

      • Israel will have the usual pure admiration and respect for the great American democracy, and as itself is the only democracy in the middle east, America’s best friend will continue to bring genocide to the region without Epstein/Mossad kompromat on the US President. Subservience to Israel will seem completely normal again!

      • Undoing some of Trump’s most direct destructions of America, will lead oligarchy to fund complaints for not obtaining maximal supremacism and other Zionist goals, and so sure, election 4 years after will be rigged against DNC rulership, but on the bright side, DNC poltical donations will reach a new record anyway. Make DNC rich again.

      So, unlike what you said, America will be saved. A new, never before seen, Zionist warmongering, temporary DNC regime that reaches across the aisle for ZIonist harmony in its warmongering will be greated throughout the world with flowers for their liberation bombing.

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    Trump has already caused decades of harm, some probably permanent. When people warned of irrevocable damage should Temp be elected, this is what they referred to.

    A single example: Iran. If they still exist when Trump leaves office or dies, they’re not going to jump back into the Iran Nuclear Deal. If we don’t want them to have nuclear weapons, Trump shouldn’t have withdrew us from the agreement that was working in 2018 just because it was an Obama success! Shit like that is why we’re fucked…

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    That’s a good fantasy but, youve shown how easily you can alienate your allies and trust will not be rebuilt immediately.

    You will have to show that as a country youve all collectively grown.

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    Its times like this when the line fron 28 Days later pops into my head for no reason in particular; “This motherfucker’s waiting for Marks and Spencers to reopen”

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    Yep. Guaranteed.

    Also, billionaires are going to be embarrassed and start giving away their money. The pedophiles that were all in charge will demand to be put in prison for their crimes out of pure guilt.

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    This viewpoint is flawed and dangerously naive.

    The damage is not as superficial as a name or a building. The USA allowed this to happen. The checks and balances that were supposed to be built into the system have failed. The United States of America, it’s government, and it’s whole social structure is no longer reliable. It does not end with the removal from power or even the death of Trump.

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      In 2016 the world got to know Donald Trump. In 2024 the world got to know the American people.

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        In 2024 the first world got to know the American people.

        FTFY. Places that had to live with the consequences of US bombs and CIA regime change already knew what the American people were like.

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          The thing that the whole word has learned is that there’s NO limit to what the American people will shrug off and do nothing about, whether they like it or not. None whatsoever.

          You’re right that others have previously found themselves on the wrong side of that, apparently nonexistent, limit, and already learned that their lives didn’t matter a bit to any Americans. But the attack on Venezuela and economic war against Cuba – formally unsanctiones acts of wanton destruction, carried out for the lulz in the name of all Americans – were very much not believed to be in the cards, even by those countries.

          Earlier this year, Denmark – fucking DENMARK – a vassal state of ~5 million people – prepared for a fight with the US to the point of sending blood bags to Greenland. But the very idea of that doesn’t even give Americans pause, Trump voters or not.

          At least people in Nazi Germany feigned ignorance, Americans straight up don’t give a fuck.

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            Greenland might be an anomaly to US but Venezuela, Cuba, Iran is par for the course for US. A war monger will war monger no matter the leadership not the consequences. Europe will still be the vassal at least the leadership, the populace will forget it the moment the new iphone launches.

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          the first world

          Places that had to live with the consequences of US bombs and CIA regime change

          Aside from one or two exceptions there is no overlap between these two groups

          Edit: nvm, i did read ftfy but not the comment you responded to and believed you quoted the original comment.

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      Flawed? It’s schizophrenic and a sign that there is no hope to be found in the US people.

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      the checks and balances are working pretty well but there’s obviously not enough wrt the president

      the DOJ, CDC and other departments going back to normal will do an enormous amount for the country

      that and a nuremburg trials for trump and all of the others. laws will have to be changed and be applied retroactively

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        The most important check is that congress and SCOTUS wields their power against the president. They are not supposed to be sharing power right now and encouraging each other to break the constitution.

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        You’re fucking dreaming, bud.

        The checks and balances have failed. He owns the supreme court. They’ve already handed him victories against hard fought progress that America worked for decades to get.

        The religious nut cases are in charge. They’ve already own the media and they’re taking the internet. They are coming to take away your computer and make you pay to talk to their AI machine. You don’t own anything anymore, it’s all rented, it’s all locked down from being repaired. They want to jail nonconformists. They’re a demonizing food safety and vaccine practices, and motherfuckers are buying it.

        The climate is changing and they know it and they refuse to stop doing the things they are doing in order to try and stop it. Instead, they stock up on oil and bombs so they can invade territory they know will be available to try and grow food. And notherfuckers are cheering it on.

        Why’s the US want Canada? why’s the US want Greenland? Because in 50 years, in 30 years…in 20 years? It’ll be the fucking bread basket. And motherfuckers don’t even realize why they the cheering it on.

        Why’s the US want Venezuela? Why’s the US want Iran? Because we need oil all our machines run on oil and we can’t power our wars and our oppression without them. And motherfuckers love their “Hemi’s” and they’re cheering it on.

        Why’s the US pushing so hard for AI? Why’s the US pushing so hard for online ID verification? They want to track us all. Make us confirm like good little brainwashed Godly worker bees. Find and root out the “rot” of dissent, and motherfuckers are cheering them on.

        This doesn’t go all away with Gavin Newsom.

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        There’s obviously not enough WRT the Supreme Court or Congress, either.

        Whoops, that’s all three branches.