The good and bad of this is that he tends to interfere with others' attempts to dominate--except for Putin--so to whatever extent Putin owns him or decides to jettison him, that is the danger. If he can be enough of a big mouth and rat out those trying to control him as he tends to do, some hope.
He’s the puppet who sits atop the Trojan Horse he rode in on that’s filled with Musk-eteers, Russians and the American MAGA Congress who want a white Christian nation full of oligarchs.
Trump is also mostly lazy and his main goal is staying out of jail to continue the grifting. If something doesn’t directly generate money for him, I don’t think he’s going to be all that motivated to work on it. Our only hope
I'm more in the "he's old, might die at any time, and they don't have a bench" camp. Probably pretty similar thinking but I'm just hoping for a short lifetime.
Its policies may be about making itself permanent, but the ever more minority control of fascism means fascists will fight amongst themselves as surely as they attack their scapegoats.
Hard to find any glimmer for me personally. I suppose midterms. But I fear they’ve found their secret sauce in terms of the electorate, their infrastructure is coalesced in place, and they have their pocket SCOTUS. I will likely spend the remainder of my life under an extremist right wing SCOTUS.
Right there with you. I'm in the last chapter of my life, and this isn't how I saw it going. Fear has replaced peace of mind...about everything. Our safety as a country, healthcare, grandchildren, and their future and so much more.
Wish I could be that optimistic. But I think he'd like to have his offspring succeed him. Certainly Musk expects to continue his "influence " beyond Trump's term.
If the techbros who bought the presidency don’t get what they want quickly enough they’ll purchase a 25th amendment push to get their puppet Vance in if anyone can find him
While you're watching the movie, they're cultivating candidates and drafting legislative and constitutional rewrites. This is a long game and extremely well-funded.
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Trump is only interested in Trump.
The PARTY is the real enemy.
The PARTY'S handler is worse.
My concern though is dementia is not quick. He could last 4 years. They’ll do a “weekend at Bernie’s” style presidency (like his campaign was)
It's a long shot.
Don't fall for the shiny distractions.
He just wants endless handjobs, everything else be damned
But then we get jd