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[–] Mouselemming 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You can outlive this. There's a good chance he can't. Be strong, and look out for those more vulnerable than yourself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

My concern is that the train is still running at full speed even if the driver has died of a heart attack.

[–] jballs 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I've been looking for silver linings. The two I've found are:

  1. Trump probably won't live to see the end of his term. Dude is old and not exactly healthy. One could argue Vance taking his place would be worse, but I'm choosing to focus on the positives here.

  2. Trump winning very likely prevented a civil war. I know a ton of people who had been stocking up on supplies and weapons. Again, one could argue giving these people the keys to the kingdom probably wasn't the smartest move, but again I'm trying to focus on the positives.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think he's the devil and he'll never die. I wouldn't count on him dying. In my experience really poisonous people live a long time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He is basically line for line the biblical antichrist. That's infinitely funny to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is honestly the thing that's getting me to question my atheism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I mean the Antichrist loses so you go that going for you I guess

[–] jballs 8 points 1 month ago

Hey, quit shitting on my silver lining. I choose to believe he'll die soon due to Macdonald's induced heart failure and you can't take that hope away from me!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's not like there was an assassination attempt during his rise to power and he survived with a headwound or anything like that, right?

[–] Mouselemming 16 points 1 month ago

Agreed on both points. The second means today is safer although Project 2025 spells danger ahead.

As for Trump, his physical deterioration and dementia and just general chaos of intentions are more of a check on him accomplishing evil than anything legal or political. When he runs the economy completely off the rails will it spark anything in the midterms? Will his Cabinet change every week? How long until he "never met" Elon?

So we draw breath, and persevere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe the left will start the civil war. Then again, they wouldn’t even get out to vote, so.

[–] explodicle 6 points 1 month ago

The right was unified behind their belief that the election was stolen from Trump, and wanted him put back in power.

The left can't agree on leadership at all, and doesn't think this election was any more stolen than it was in 2000/2016.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ROFL

Trump didn't prevent civil war. Think back to what happened after the Jan 6 insurrection. When they failed to stop Biden's certification by valiantly committing minor vandalism and taking selfies, MAGA ominously promised that vague "actions" would occur in state capitals on his inauguration day. That day came and went, and the few "actions" that even happened had attendance in the dozens - mostly pathetic loners holding cardboard signs in the rain. The fired-up revolutionaries saw their freedom-fighting heroes methodically tracked down by the FBI and arrested, so instead of a civil war uprising they stayed home and posted angy tirades on Parler.

Contrast this with any real cause, like the BLM marches, which saw thousands of people show up week after week, in city after city, in spite of police beatdowns, arrests, and even some deaths. The difference is personal commitment. MAGAs are great at making loud noises, but when they're faced with the prospect of individual risk, most of them just hide in their freedom bunkers and shake their tiny fists at the TV. That bunch of blowhards will stock up on survival rations and tactical desert boots, but they couldn't civil war their way out of a Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wow. Chamberlin's ghost is shocked at that level of appeasement and cowardice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Oh boy, President JD 'couch enthusiast' Vance!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's just it, I'm a white male, I know I'll be comparatively fine. It's not really me I'm worried about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you for this. It’s more helpful than you know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Because J.D. Vance is going yo improve things?

Good joke.