147 points

Are ya’ll ready for how fucked we are? None of this shit is getting fixed, considering we’re still living with Reagan’s damages.

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Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m hoping their overreach is so bad that the pendulum aggressively swings back in the other direction.

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I think you underestimate the rippling damage that four years of Trump loyalists running the HHS, FDA, CDC, EPA, DoE, CIA, FBI, etc. can do to the world.

That’s on top of the damage from rapidly repealing regulations by the President.

Even if we replace the whole government with progressives, it’ll take decades to fix, assuming we survive that long.

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45 points

Eventually. It will. How long? That’s impossible to say. As is how bad it will get before a correction occurs. Hitler was in power for twelve years. 70-85 million people died during his reign between slaughters and fighting. And Germany was not the strongest nation in the world (and definitely not the strongest by a wide margin) at that time. Imagine Germany starting off 1933 with the military might to fight two wars at once with the two strongest nations on the planet. And imagine their border was basically impenetrable by any combined force of countries while they fought those two wars. That could easily be where we’re going to be at. No one is coming to save us.

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7 points

Tariffs alone will probably lead to a very bleak outlook for Republicans in the midterm elections.

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11 points

Maybe the opposite. Biden’s policies turned the economy around. All the numbers look good and were poised for growth that Trump will take credit for

How quickly and widely will he actually apply tariffs? If they don’t take widespread effect for two years, they’re home free

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6 points

That’d be nice and I’m sure sentiment will swing but I don’t think they’d go through all this trouble of remaking the government (and essentially the whole country) just to get “voted out” and have to spend billions more regaining power. It’ll be way cheaper just to rig things.

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That’s kind of why I don’t think the RFK stuff is actually going to happen. Trump can sell the economic populism stuff but he lost in 2020 because of anger over public health. Letting RFK be crazy is just going to cause headaches.

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Trump will just take no responsibility. He’ll blame RFK Jr for all the things that go wrong. Maybe he’ll eventually get fired but at that point the damage will already be done. Trump will just say “Ah, he screwed me, I would have done the exact same thing but it would have worked, I’m a smart guy, I’ll fix it or appoint someone else to fix it.” And then it won’t be fixed.

So if RFK Jr. is smart he’ll just do a little bit of damage over time. Alternatively if there is a ton of chaos on day 1, then just add to the chaos. People can only be angry at so many things at one time.

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We’ll still have the same health care as we do now. It’ll just be way more expensive and inaccessible to anyone but the rich or party loyalists. Basically “join us or die… slowly.”

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-12 points

Democrats are not coming to save us… They love neoliberalism

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7 points

Instance domain name checks out.

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34 points

What till you see the Liberty Law School zealots who find their way to SCOTUS for lifetime appointments

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5 points

All talk no action

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5 points

No

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The worst part about this is that it will take 20 years for the damages of this to become really apparent, and the dumb fucks who voted for trump will just blame whoever is currently in charge. Or claim that Democrats have some kind of disease gun.

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I think it will have impact a lot sooner than 20 years. As soon as no one can trace the next listeria or salmonella outbreak, or evenrecognize there is a flu epidemic happening, or whatever. There will be kids dieing from bad ice cream before summer is over.

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12 points

The illegals did it

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2 points

Damn Mexicans!

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5 points

Of course, if you don’t collect any data on it so no one will know. Problem solved.

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2 points

It’s the Russian way. And the US is now a Russian vassal state.

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26 points

What a time to be immunocompromised.

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36 points

Well, we’re boned.

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You’re just NOW realising this? Most of us came to that conclusion right around 1am on election night, when we realized that Harris had no path to victory without PA…and then lost PA.

Now to be fair, SOME people took a little longer to realise this…and by that I mean they’d already went to sleep and realised hours later when they woke up.

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35 points

They never said they just learned this, you just showed up all rude for fun

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Wow, you’re* fun.

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26 points

. . . to be replaced by bloodsucking leeches no doubt

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His brain worm is going to feel so betrayed.

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5 points

Neither are going to like the bleach much.

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