Trump Redux: The Death of Democracy, or Overblown Hyperbole?

[tristan_geoff]

This is sarcasm, right? I hope this is sarcasm. Tell me this is sarcasm.

Nah he was drunkenly rambling about it on discord too, doesn't have a solid platform either was just one upping himself the entire time, conveniently always changing his position to be more right than two trans people living in America.

Anyways sadly it doesn't seem like satire.  Man needs to lay off the bottle though

[jimmy jazz]

😂😂😂

He's a good lad honest. I knew he had probably been drinking. He exploded onto the forum at 5am and randomly started mass posting.

Funny.

Hasn't added me on Discord yet though sort it out @Thelonious Monkey

[DJChameleon]

😂😂😂

He's a good lad honest. I knew he had probably been drinking. He exploded onto the forum at 5am and randomly started mass posting.

Funny.

Hasn't added me on Discord yet though sort it out @Thelonious Monkey

On Discord he said he was looking for you but couldn't find your name so just send him a request. He's Justin on discord

[jimmy jazz]

On Discord he said he was looking for you but couldn't find your name so just send him a request. He's Justin on discord

Don't think he is. Click his username and go to his profile and see what his account name is.

His name in the server is probably something different.

Cheers Big D.

[DJChameleon]

Don't think he is. Click his username and go to his profile and see what his account name is.

His name in the server is probably something different.

Cheers Big D.

theloniousmonkey.

Make sure the period is there

[Trollheart]

While I don't mean to trivialise how scary the coming years are going to be for some of you, we do need to start thinking about the dark day when Trump retakes his throne and starts issuing edicts left, right, and possibly also centre too, who knows? So I'm bumping this thread and add what you want: what do you think his first actions will be on sitting behind that desk again? How is America/the world going to cope with Trump 2.0: This Time It's Personal? What are your fears, or do you even look forward to/support any/some of his promised policies/promises/threats?

Like it or not, it's going to be a Trump New Year. The countdown begins now.

Hell with it: I'm going to sticky this, sure why not? It's certainly going to be relevant for at least the next four years. Done!

[SGR]

My guess is that his 'mass deportation' isn't going to be as massive as some might think. My guess is he will very quickly issue whatever executive orders that his admin believes are necessary (if there even are any that are necessary, as the Biden admin issued similar executive orders five or so months ago to severely curtail the flow), and the deportations will soon begin - but the first to go (and the focus) will be on those who have committed crimes since they've come into the country, and probably those who've crossed over recently (and aren't already working or have family connections).

There's been suggestion, rightly, that given it will be Trump's second term, he will be less bound by norms because he won't need to worry about getting re-elected and as such, there's a risk he could do some crazy stuff that his base might love, but that would alienate moderates and liberals - this is true. There's a flip-side to this coin though: now that it's gonna be his second term, he doesn't need the undying faith and support of his base for re-election, and as such, he is at liberty to do things that his base might view as a serious compromise or even a betrayal (of his message and platform), but that moderates and liberals might actually reticently approve of and can work with. In other words, he is in a position where he could more reasonably play ball with Democrats/moderates (there's a few moderate Republican senators that could dog Trump) to get things in his agenda done (undoubtedly with some bones thrown and compromises had). Whether Trump could actually deftly handle and use this kind of political capital in a way that is productive and useful is probably a bet that I wouldn't take though.

[DJChameleon]

I'm not going to get myself too worried or upset about potentials. He is a known con man and I don't believe most of the things that he says. I'm going to treat his term as just reactionary to what is actually being done as opposed to what we think he's going to do. I rather fight against what's actually happening vs what ifs.

Some people are so worried about the mass deportation that they are willingly deporting themselves ahead of time and I think that's the wrong move but I'm not in their position so it's not my place to say how they should prepare.

Camps are already being built in Texas and Arizona to hold migrants. I feel like our economy is gonna take a huge hit if he's able to pull it off because migrant farmers are gonna be rounded up and our vegetables and fruits are gonna go up in prices because of it. Average Americans don't want to work those type of jobs.

Trump voters are in for a wide awakening where he's gonna fall short on a lot of the empty promises he put out there. He's already started backpedaling about being able to bring down the cost of groceries that he promised and people voted because the price of eggs is too high waaaah.

[SGR]

Probably a good approach @DJChameleon regarding how to handle his second term.

I was thinking, we're like 19 days away from the inauguration and his accompanying inauguration speech. Generally, when presidents give speeches like this (and the state of the union), the press will usually pick a few adjectives to describe the speech, and usually one or two adjectives feature more prominently than others across different outlets. I believe in Trump's 2017 inauguration speech, that adjective was 'dark'. I wonder what the adjective will be this time, and what kind of tone he'll look to have in the speech.

[SGR]

I think one could draw some symbolism out of this.

https://x.com/kaaaassuu/status/1874506594425381133

[Trollheart]

What's a cybertruck??

[SGR]

What's a cybertruck??

It's basically an ugly electric vehicle that looks like a DeLorean and a Hummer had a baby.

[Trollheart]

Thanks. But what's "cyber" about it?

[DJChameleon]

It's just a catchy name for the futuristic looking design. There is nothing cyber about it except for it being an electric truck. Plug it in to charge it up that's about it.

[Buck_Mulligan]

Thanks. But what's "cyber" about it?

Picture in the Wiki page. Time was you couldn't get one for less than $100,000. The shine has gone and now there are deals. The only color is steel gray, but some are doing extra paint jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cybertruck