Yeah, let’s not forget that Trump learned his negotiating skills, partially, from the Mafia. I’d definitely do a double take on my principled stance if the guy who’s been calling for my head since I started is taking supreme executive power, and will likely have a bullet with my name on it if I don’t get out quick.
Yeah, but all that won’t matter. I’m sure that Trump will simply eliminate large swathes of the DoD, purely because he wants himself to be closest to the actual command structure. All that squad-level command, the “organized chaos” that gives us a lot of tactical flexibility? I’m fairly sure that’ll be gone, because Trump doesn’t trust anyone but him giving orders now. He’s deeply upset he couldn’t simply order the military into cities to break up the 2020 protests, so he wants to be the first and only important link in the command chain, with everyone below selected for loyalty, not competence.
Or they, themselves, might wind up getting deported or killed. We’ve successfully eroded class and even group consciousness.
Not unless they keep the regulation that ACA established where you need to be covered at a certain level. That way insurance companies can literally just collect money and not actually have to pay for anything.
“Official act.” That’s all it’ll take, I’m calling it now.
Most of the regret rate, when looked at alongside reasons for de-transitioning, usually winds up being FAR more on the side of “it’s fucking easier for me to live as my assigned gender and deal with the dysphoria, than dealing with rednecks threatening to turn me into their latest lynching victim every Tuesday.”
She’ll do whatever Trump asks, and has little to no moral qualms about potentially illegal acts.
A lot of them won’t. They’ll keep blaming whichever minority they think of, or simply be mad at higher prices without actually ever analyzing where those higher prices came from. We saw it in 08, we saw it after COVID, and we’ll see it now.
Part of the crew, part of the ship…
Because like the recession in 08, everyone’s hoping they can buy the dip and sell before everything goes kaboom.
I envy their optimism at claiming they’ll end up in prison over a grave.
See: Ohio basically trying everything it could to avoid enacting legal marijuana.
This is the same guy who, earlier in the week, tweeted that he wanted to drag Democrat politician’s “bloody, beaten bodies” through the street.
The CIA has good reason to believe Trump gave information, because in the span of several weeks after a private meeting with Putin while Trump was president, a whole pile of their Russian and Eastern European intelligence agents and assets dropped off the face of the Earth or wound up dead.
“But Trump will stop me having to hear about all these wars.”
Fixed for you. I heard the same from my mom - that it was a REAL SHAME Biden wasn’t trying to force Russia and Ukraine to peace.
I see you have met my stepfather.
Bah, I don’t think there’s a chance in hell any of this doesn’t get some form of implementation. Remember, Trump didn’t actually do a lot of anything in his first admin. Most of his day-to-day, most of the actual decision making was left to the Cabinet. Which is gonna be stacked with Heritage Foundation picks and the people who actually want this shit.
As far as “government action resulting in mass violence”, one of his campaign speeches was him talking about unleashing the military and the police for “one really bad, really rough day”, which sounds an awful lot like a government action resulting in mass violence.
And that’s if you were lucky and your Mom or Dad didn’t just either give you up for adoption or leave you in the fields one night and wash their hands of you.
Basically this. They’re all neofeudalists with a thin coat of “but it’s business and not a divine mandate” on top. Thiel specifically has made no secrets of his desire to destroy federal power, and effectively just reimagine the country as a bunch of feudal city-states, loosely linked by something resembling a monarch (who isn’t Thiel because he’s actually terrified of being in the public eye for anything).
An efficiency department that apparently needs two leaders, as well. Sounds…inefficient.