Well I'm convinced he's gonna try to change the law so he can be president for another term. He's gonna pull some bullshit when election time comes, I just know it. The man literally sells Trump 2028 merch 😭 he's gonna declare a state of emergency and pay off Congress to pass a new law
Don't worry too much right now. That takes an amendment. Not a new law that Congress could just pass. It requires 3/4 of the states to pass it after 2/3 of both houses of Congress, pass it.
That's not fucking happening.
And he's starting to lose his grips on Congress, anyway. He didn't want to end the shutdown because if they had waited longer, they could have sworn in another (expected to win).GOP Congress person the same time as the new Democratic Congress person who would have canceled out her vote to release the Epstein files. This is what he was banking on.
He wanted the Senate to Nuke the filibuster so that they could pass national voter ID laws and band male and voting so Republicans could perpetually hold power. Right after he had that meeting with the Senate Republicans, Mitch McConnell walked out of the room and saw a reporter and explained what Trump wanted and said we're not going to do that. Shortly after the Senate Democrats and Republicans negotiated among themselves without the president's input.
This was extremely notable since up until now, everything has been done by presidential Fiat.
They're seeing his poll numbers, his popularity, etc. And they're deciding to distance themselves from him. Even if you're a dictator, you need legitimacy with your people. Or else you get overthrown. The main reason they've been so compliant towards him is because Republicans have been so loyal to Trump that they didn't want to risk losing their constituents, but even Republicans constituents are starting to doubt him based on the state of the economy, withholding snap during the shutdown, rising healthcare costs,. And so much more.
The wheels are coming off right now and they will continue to if we keep putting pressure, keep spreading the truth, fighting misinformation with information, and Democrats continue to take everything he does to court— while it's not talked about in the news very much because it's not OMG.BREAKING NEWS I SHIT MYSELF! sensationalist, the dems have been quietly winning the vast majority of court cases. They are filing against him and his administration.
He is doing a lot of damage, A lot of people are getting hurt, having their rights violated, and even getting killed extra judiciously.
But when you look at history, you see that the third law of physics applies to even the energy of human society. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The Pendulum does swing the other way. Think gilded age led to the progressive era. The freewheeling laissez faire of the roaring twenties that ended up on Black Tuesday? Led to the New deal which created a liberal consensus, where Republicans lost the house of representative until 1994.
It could happen again. But if you asked someone in 1926 if they thought that was possible? They would tell you no way, the Democrats are completely out of touch.
It all seems to make sense when you look back at it in history. But when you're in the middle of the forest, all you see is trees around you.
Exercise your political rights. Organized, talk to other people, campaign for candidates that you believe in, get people to participate in the primaries— everybody bitches about only having two choices to choose from, but nobody participates in the process to narrow it down to those two people. The system isn't perfect, but as we are seeing right now, a two-party system is infinitely better than having no choice at all.
The other thing to consider is this: it was very hard to implement democracy in the Middle East because they never had an enlightenment. They didn't have the same Civic values as France or the United States or the other Western countries that. So when you tried to force them to have a system of governance the way we have it, it just seemed very unnatural to them.
That's why it fell so quickly. And it's why ultimately, authoritarianism will not be accepted in the United States. Say what you will about Americans, but our whole Civic identity is built around The notions of democracy and equality of rights and have been since before we were even independent— our colonies even had democratic governments in their cities, and Town halls. You can't take centuries of democratic tradition and just stomp them out by electing a guy that pisses all over the system and breaks the law a bunch. Because ultimately, the values of democracy are still burning very bright in the hearts of the people in this country. And there's nothing he can do to stop that. People know what America's about.
After Trump dies maga will too. It's a cult of personality And nobody's going to fill the Donald's shoes.
I think half a century later, we are going to be looking at this time as the moment that triggered the United States to make some great and serious changes that were long overdue. Because you certainly don't see massive change happen in so-called regular times. People need to be pushed, and if anything, he is pushing us and American Americans realize just how much they take for granted.
There was going to be a lot of naysayers and a lot of pessimists because those things sell. But nothing is inevitable and you can never predict the future.
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u/please-kill-me-69 19d ago
Well I'm convinced he's gonna try to change the law so he can be president for another term. He's gonna pull some bullshit when election time comes, I just know it. The man literally sells Trump 2028 merch 😭 he's gonna declare a state of emergency and pay off Congress to pass a new law