If he’s willing to go full Matt Gaetz on us, you know he’ll do the tariffs. And the mass deportations. It’s going to be find out time, as the kids say.
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Optimistic thought: there will be enough elected Republicans that he has no kompromat on, which will allow them to vote on things that benefit the country, not DJT!
I think Gaetz is a ploy and a loyalty test. Trump knows he won’t be confirmed. But every R that votes no for Gaetz will be more likely to vote yes for other horrible picks bc they will feel like they have used up their chits.
I think (hope?) the senate will rein in some of the madness. They set an example by denouncing Rick Scott as leader. I know they won’t stop all the utter nonsense and racism coming our way, but let’s keep our fingers crossed there are more examples like Scott.
The Endlösung der Judenfrage didn’t begin immediately. The Nazi antisemitism campaign paved the way to acceptance starting in 1933 escalating in 38 with Kristallnacht. They did a little at a time. To gauge resistance. Trump isn’t that patient.
Do you think he even realizes eliminating these government employees, raising prices on imported goods and eliminating an entire workforce by deporting them will do the economy?
I also saw a headline that said we should be prepared for Bird Flu? 🤬
He has been saying for 4yrs he is gonig to do it, I've not seen anything from Repubs in the House, Senate or SCOTUS that makes me think they will even bother to try to stop him. They are going ot help him collapse the USA I guess for Russia and China, that is how holds a thumb on Trump.
In the UK. Getting the vibe of "Be Prepared" from The Lion King. When the hyenas celebrate having no king, only for Scar to declare, "IDIOTS, I WILL BE KING!!"
I assume they watch their own sources of information and it probably plays out differently in their minds.
I can only assume that if they are ok with voting for Trump, then they are fine with the rest.
When I hear about the mass deportations and camps it should remind us all of history repeats itself. My daughters german grandparents (95) is in disbelief. We all should be
I’m astonished any of this is surprising people. With the Presidency, House and Senate there’s nothing to stop him enacting the worst of his impulsive brain farts apart from a few Republicans, and they’re being threatened with a withdrawal of party support. It’s going to be scary.
The legality, logistics and cost of mass deportations are huge. The law Trump wants to use doesn't apply, I guess he can go to court for 6 months+ and try. Modelling says to arrest and detain 1 million illegal aliens a year costs 100 billion per year, 30,000 extra ice agents, detention facilities,
Cost of Flights back to home countries. Then of course there is the issue of home countries not wanting them back, so what then, indefinitely detained? How much time effort and resources the find them? Massive economic drain, they pay taxes but don't use social security, they are doing jobs
Hey George, you know better than anybody how white ppl react to perceived threats and their reactionary actions. The past is probably the best indicator of how things will go in the future if the paranoia & fear mongering is allowed to go unchecked. I hope it doesn't happen again.
Sad time to be in biopharma. Even though we make our product in the US, a fair amount of supporting equipment for processing has origins in China simply because they’re such a huge manufacturing hub (we quality test it when it comes in). Going to cost a lot more.
My hot take is that these aren't guaranteed. Once the CEOs come down to mar-a-lardo and kiss the ring and explain grown up things (these are bad for business), he'll do a couple things for show and then move on to other nonsense. But who knows. It'll be a fight between greed and hate.
Yes. One hoped he would just golf more because his main concern, prison, is now 100% off the table.
But it appears he’ll follow through on the retribution and slash and burn.
He has the power. Can’t change it now.
The mass propaganda, brainwashing, lies, disinformation, and distortions of reality in America are warping minds. It's everywhere. Intelligent people mostly see through the fog.
People more vulnerable and inattentive are far easier for Trumpism to manipulate.
I assume he will do all the crazy shit he's been promising, or try to. But I see the mass deportation pledge as this year's "build the wall and make Mexico pay." He wants to do it, but the manpower and physical realities of the task aren't possible without major adjustments he's too dumb to make.
Tariffs will require congressional approval, and when they tried that back in the 1930s, it didn't work out too well. Let's hope Congress has a long memory.
I don’t think that’ll happen. If you let him speedrun through the stupid and easy stuff like the tax cuts and the tariffs, which will kill the economy, he won’t have enough political capital to gut Medicare and the assistance programs. Republicans will be in CYA mode,
distancing themselves.
I’m guessing that George sees reminders of what happened in the past. The thing that scares me the most is this talk from them about camps.
We’ve had that evil once in our nation I really do not want to see it again
you know Georg I’m really disappointed in our fellow Americans that they did not have enough faith in Joe Biden. at least we would have the Biden Harris administration for the next four years
If the Smoot-Hawley Act is any indication, raising tariffs will only spawn retaliatory tariffs and worsen the US economy. So we’ll have higher prices AND a fascist dictatorship. FAFO indeed 👀
No one will trust Trump's agents to treat their family members and neighbors well when targeted for mass "deportation." History warned us.
Imagining scenarios, it's possible people will end up in violent conflict with military across the country, exchanging gunfire and then being massacred.
Find out time for them or for us? I hope to some day get to the find out time but we've been hearing that for ages and these people have f*cked around relentlessly with no consequences.
Personally I'm quite interested to see what happens to a country that deports all the people doing the labor that average Joe American wouldn't even consider doing, basically we should all start building a WW2 victory garden, fresh produce is probably gonna skyrocket in price
He's specifically grievance driven, expect him to try and lock up Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Adam Schiff etc.. People are about to learn what happens when an ignorant buffoon, who is also a sociopathic malignant narcissist gets elected to the highest office in the land.
Which resets our economic clock to 1928 ... Trump may achieve a first, a Depression collapse with high inflation, an insane steroid version of the 1970s stagflation you and I (as older farts) both directly recall.
Jan 20 is the day we open Pandora’s box . Won’t be long and there will be a lot of “ what have I done?” . The right didn’t own the libs but they destroyed a nation.
I'm afraid, for more reasons than one--but when does he start going after those of us that were born in this country, to immigrants? I have spent my whole life as an outsider, will the rest of my life be without a country?
Was there doubt?
Always listen to fascists, and believe the worst they say...
You could have learned from europe. You'll get that lesson now yourself. US edition...
Some friends were saying that they expect this to go down like brexit. Like the policies are just going to be so horrendous that they're going to get thrown out of the government.
Come on George wait for Homan to get his sea legs. He has the final solution to immigration an immigrants. Just wait for the boxcars and the internment camps.
Then we get stuck with President Sofa-fucker, and he will still fold before Miller (the actual threat). There's no hope for us, if they really gut elections.
I'll never forget the story you shared about your family during WW2 in America. I wasn't born yet & they overlooked it when I was going to school. I will always hold on to that and pass that knowledge on. 💙
I am thinking Peter Theil, tech titan who has said publicly we cannot be a democracy, we need to throw out the constitution, and run the country like a big corporation, with him being CEO (aka dictator)
That guy scares me. He has the money, the tech and owns JD Vance...
It's the same thing republicans have wanted to do for decades. They have had complete control before, and have not done it.
They drove the debt sky high, so they could tell us we cannot afford SS and social programs. But when it comes to actually cutting anything, they wooz out.
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N there is a Matt Gaetz here that said hes in trouble.
Whaf is that about?
The 1930s called, they want their timeline back.
Shock and awe is coming
I also saw a headline that said we should be prepared for Bird Flu? 🤬
The thing is that populism isn't interested in governing.
It is only interested in maintaining power. To it, the end will always justify the means.
In Trump's case, the means will end up hurting millions of citizens and that will blow back on republicans in the midterms.
I can only assume that if they are ok with voting for Trump, then they are fine with the rest.
https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/the-holocaust/the-camps/transit-camps/
..disruption & chaos so that every day he shocks & makes the News
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oskar-Schindler
But it appears he’ll follow through on the retribution and slash and burn.
He has the power. Can’t change it now.
People more vulnerable and inattentive are far easier for Trumpism to manipulate.
Don't let this happen anywhere else!
America may be gone, and most of us didn't even know a war against our minds was being waged until it was too late. (Some could see.)
This must be stopped.
People in govt assistance programs will die too
Immigrants will die too
But let him cook
distancing themselves.
Make all those blue state republicans vote to separate children again...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
We’ve had that evil once in our nation I really do not want to see it again
it was the stupidest of times"
Charles Dickens
https://bsky.app/profile/lukecat666.bsky.social/post/3lavs6xy7ck2p
Imagining scenarios, it's possible people will end up in violent conflict with military across the country, exchanging gunfire and then being massacred.
We have made a list of the very inexpensive things we use daily.. to purchase and store for a couple years. “Dollar tree” items.
We are not huge consumers. So this may help as well.
Also buying new tvs, maybe one spare.
If he does impose them, we're screwed.
Always listen to fascists, and believe the worst they say...
You could have learned from europe. You'll get that lesson now yourself. US edition...
Never the janitor cleaning up after the elephant shit . 🐘💩
I'm fairly sure he'll make a golden toilet Secretary of the Interior at this point.
Whether or not he actually succeeds is another question
I'm concerned what the puppet master has planned.
That’s what I’m wondering, as id it’s all a dynasty set up.
That guy scares me. He has the money, the tech and owns JD Vance...
Does have money in media like Rupert?
It's the same thing republicans have wanted to do for decades. They have had complete control before, and have not done it.
They drove the debt sky high, so they could tell us we cannot afford SS and social programs. But when it comes to actually cutting anything, they wooz out.
Being a fascist dictator would do that, and worldwide.
I worry about the puppet master who does his work behind the scenes while trump golfs.
Peter Theil maybe?