dhork,

Worse yet, I am afraid that Trump would die in office, then VP Donald Trump Jr would become President for 2 more terms, then by the time Eric is ready to takeover they will have already held the Constitutional Convention that turns the country into a benevolent Trump oligarchy, in which the title of “President” becomes hereditary, just as the Founders intended.

Blackbeard,
@Blackbeard@lemmy.world avatar

“Yes, yes. Carry on.” - Samuel Alito

“My new TRUMP Motorcoach is really the talk of the town. Please don’t call it an RV.” - Clarence Thomas

“I’ve found some very strange lint in my navel.” - John Roberts

dhork,

“Hold my beer!” - Brett Kavanaugh

billiam0202,

“Why are you forcing me to wear the handmaid’s dress? I voted the right way!” -Justice Ofjesse

draneceusrex,

No no, she wants to wear the dress.

frezik,

She’d be a Wife rather than a Handmaid, and that’s where she wants to be.

Pretzilla,

“The handsmaid’s look is really coming back in style.” - Amy Coney Island

RattlerSix,

The only thing I disagree with is the use of the word benevolent

Fixbeat,

Maybe they meant malevolent.

billiam0202,

“Benevolent” being used in the same sense that China is a People’s Republic, or NK is Democratic.

dhork,

Well, they think they’re beneveolent, at least with regard to the people who they feel deserve it.

Dragomus,

He’s already King of Trump Tower, and ofcourse “the bestest American”, so by rights he IS king of America and will lead “his” people accordingly. “King Trumps President in power” and all that, so he now just needs to cement his family line in the role.

I’d find it immensely funny if he now already declared one of his family members as a running mate for VP position 😅

Already can hear the lame excuse: “it is needed now because they are the only ones to be trusted to do their job, for the better of the country” (Ofcourse it’s convenient in the case ol’ Donald is incapacitated for some reason, the one next in line cements the legacy for the century to come…)

ProIsh,

Maybe the fear is because he’s hinted towards that and also said that?

Really need to look at both sides here. /s

stoicwisesigma,

As an avoid Trump supporter, I’ll give you lads some insight as to why he intended to do this. What few people know is that I actually made a jolly good show of runnin’ for office back around the time The Donald was about to make america great again, but sadly my efforts didn’t fall through because of the uniparty system at the time being the democrats, so my ideas never really fell through.

This is why every girl I date has to be on the alt right of the political scale and why I also join hate groups on the internet for those that do not fall into the correct side of the political spectrum. Sorry kinda lost my train of thought but yeah that’s why trump is beat president IMO.

Daft_ish,
vaultdweller013,

I legit cant tell if youre a troll or not cause you just use words in the entirely wrong places. Hell im not even convinced that you are a native English speaker because both paragraphs are fucking weird.

Ya know what im just gonna embrace my Redneck heritage and say I hope you piss off the wrong person IRL and mysteriously disappear only to be found in the outskirts of some backwater town after twenty years because they are building a new grocery store.

cowfodder,

Going with them not being a troll, just the average intelligence of Trump voters.

vaultdweller013,

Then they need to be strapped to a chair clockwork orange style and forced to watch mid 1990s to early 2000s kids edutainment shows until they cant think of anything else.

disguy_ovahea,

With a bit of the old Ludwig Van.

kromem,

I can’t fathom how you didn’t manage to win a seat in government.

Daft_ish,

Obviously it was stolen. Stop the steal! Get Alito on the line and have him flip his flag.

Sneptaur,
@Sneptaur@pawb.social avatar
massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

So until 2045?

Pretzilla, (edited )

What does that say?

Ed: Thanks and here’s the scoop:

npr.org/…/trump-unified-reich-antisemitism-truth-…

Localhorst86,

“creation of a unified reich”

Sneptaur,
@Sneptaur@pawb.social avatar

Thanks for adding an article link to the replies. It adds context for anyone who sees this later, much appreciated.

Chainweasel,

8 years into this I find it hard to believe there are any “undecided” voters, I’m willing to bet most of these people have already decided who they’re voting for but they won’t publicly admit it for fear of fallout from their peers.
We see it a lot in Bible Belt States where people are very vocally opposed to abortion access, yet still turn out in staggering numbers to vote for it when it’s on the ballot.

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

There kinda are. Very privileged people who don’t need to pay attention to politics because the fascists aren’t ever targeting them. So they can be clueless and just see the biggest soundbites that make it past political TV. If you haven’t been paying attention to the shitshow, it probably looks a lot tamer. =/

DeanFogg,

If they’re attacking trans and gays they might as well be attacking straight people at this point

TexasDrunk,

Undecided doesn’t necessarily mean they haven’t decided who to vote for. It means they haven’t decided if they’re going to go vote.

Alternatively it means they’re scared to say who they want to vote for because either they’re blue in a red area and are used to hiding it so they’re not shot or they know Trump is a piece of shit but are scared the Dems are going to force everyone to change genders and pee in front of each other.

nokturne213,
spizzat2,

Goldar?

nokturne213,
frezik,

One of those times when you don’t know if the creator was for or against Trump.

homesweethomeMrL,

Undecided voters are concerned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’ll never leave.

And . . . yet they’re undecided??

I don’t . . . is this a . . . I mean . . . WHAT.

misterundercoat,

Yeah but Biden is a disappointing centrist, so clearly I don’t know how choose between him and an authoritarian dictator.

JonEFive,

You make a valid point, but the reason people are undecided is that they they have no properly informed opinions. I hate this narrative that Biden is ineffective. Biden has done a lot of good things. And where congress failed, he found a way to get shit done anyway. People don’t know that because media sucks and their echo chambers don’t tell them. Or alternatively, their expectation about what a president can do in one term is completely unreasonable.

And that is all while ignoring that a republican congress will hold back the entire country for years just to make sure their guy looks better. And it works! People complain about shit not getting done but couldn’t tell you how their representatives voted on those things.

So yeah, pretty much what you said. They think the candidates are roughly the same, but they have no clue how what their candidates do actually affects them.

Quetzalcutlass,

And that is all while ignoring that a republican congress will hold back the entire country for years just to make sure their guy looks better. And it works! People complain about shit not getting done but couldn’t tell you how their representatives voted on those things.

And when something does get pushed past the obstructionism and helps people out, Republicans sometimes claim credit for the very thing they voted against.

Passerby6497,

Or they sue the government with some BS argument for standing to have it repealed by activist judges.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

Also, he’s old! Or so the New York Time and other “liberal media” keep telling me! Also, Genocide Joe, etc… /s, obvs

nucleative,

Tribes, man. Fucking tribes.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

We need to go back to Earthsiege.

hperrin,

Undecided voter is a euphemism for “someone who literally does not give one shit about the world beyond their tiny little bubble in it”.

ZombiFrancis,

Pure unadulterated opportunism.

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

Or it means, “Republican who has enough awareness to not want to admit it in public”

kromem,

If you saw Jordan Klepper’s Russia special, John Bolton straight up says he thinks Trump will pretty much end democracy.

And then mentions that he’s going to write in a candidate when he votes.

I don’t get it man. I’m not going to be happy voting for Biden, but I’d vote in Caligula’s horse if it meant avoiding fascism overtaking democracy in the US.

ryathal,

The theory that Trump would somehow be allowed to just stay president indefinitely is an equally absurd conspiracy theory as Trump having actually won in 2016.

Dragomus,

It’s not a question of being allowed, he’s broken so many laws in the past alone and got away with it heck is still doing those same things. Already he is denying legality of any law or prosecution that is currently blocking him and steps past…

It’s a matter of who will dare to stop him once he is at that point: He has judges in his pocket. Part of the armed forces apparently are pro maga. Who or which branch will actually physically stop him once he declares his reign to continue? Ofcourse it will be under a lame excuse that it’s good for the country, it is in unrest or at war right now so elections are bad hmmkay? So generally it’ll be swallowed and shrugged off.

Any PERSON trying, or even complaining, risks being shot by henchmen or at the very least gets their and their family’s lives destroyed.

Here and there there might be committees making a declaration what he’s doing is illegal, but if Trump’s team ignores it all or makes them go away, there is no oversight to stop him because no one single individual dares to stand in front.

As long as he has part of the judiciary system and a good chunk of armed folks to his defense one can sue and complain and he might show up in court to make a circus out of it but meanwhile will sit it all out on his throne.

Bipta,

Oh sweet summer child...

octopus_ink,

an equally absurd conspiracy theory as Trump having actually won in 2016.

Trump did win in 2016. And yes, it’s entirely reasonable and consistent with his behavior and rhetoric to this point that he will try not to leave. He’s already comparing himself to FDR and talking about three terms.

ryathal,

Well I fucked up the year on that… oops

octopus_ink,

Fair, but the point still stands! :)

Tarquinn2049,

And it’s not even just that he won’t leave, since he’s gonna die pretty soon just of “natural” causes, if natural is what we have to wait for. He’ll make changes that permanently affect the role too. Going back to democracy from dictator generally takes extreme violence historically. And generally outside influence. The states becoming a dictatorship is basically setting up world war 3. With a decent chance of the states not being the winner. Especially if Trump is planning on following whatever Putin is feeding him for the changes to make. Cuz we know that would be Putins goal. And all Trump cares about is going down in history, not sure it matters to him what he’s remembered for, or he’s convinced himself, or been convinced this will be seen as a positive move.

treefrog,

Speech to text?

Mine always catches me out on not pronouncing because fully.

KeefChief13,

Everyone dies one day

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Some not soon enough.

ZILtoid1991,

Their death won’t undo all the harm they did during their life…

ObsidianZed,

If he gets back in office, he’ll leave in a body bag.

That’s not a threat, I just don’t see him lasting much longer.

Bipta,

And if he lasts twenty more years?

aniki,

You can be fat.

Or you can be old.

You cannot be both.

eldavi,

kissinger was fat and lived to be 100

Ensign_Crab,

It’ll be proof that Satan doesn’t want him.

massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

The Kissinger Klause.

EvilBit,

Not before establishing a dynastic succession plan though.

frezik,

Historically, those tend not to last. If they take root at all, they last a matter of months. The adult children aren’t able to harness the cult of personality the same way.

NKorea being one big exception. There aren’t a lot of other examples in modern nation states.

John_McMurray,

That’s honestly different. They’re figureheads controlled by the army. Remember how the heir apparent was passed over and killed?

Bipta,

And yet they're undecided?

catsarebadpeople,

Is that because he said that’s exactly what he’ll do?

hperrin,

I mean the guy’s almost eighty years old, fat, and eats like a toddler. He’s gone on record saying he doesn’t exercise. He’s probably not going to last much longer. What I’m worried about is the damage he definitely will do if he’s reelected.

RGB3x3,

It’s not Trump the shitheel being president forever that’s necessarily the problem. It’s that he’ll set things up for Trump the idea being president for life. The next person to take the reigns from him, likely someone more competent, will be that US Emperor because of the damage Trump and the Republicans cause.

hperrin,

Yeah, that’s basically what I said.

CrabAndBroom,

The thing I worry about is him somehow pulling a Kissenger and living to be 100 years old, as evil people seem to have this weird habit of doing. I mean, you hear of some proper villains dying young(ish) because they get murdered, or take themselves out to avoid justice, but you don’t hear of a lot of them dying in their 50s from natural causes for some reason.

FJT,

One can only hope

Cosmos7349,
John_McMurray,

He’s 78 and obese. Dictator for life is like 5 years now.

Peppycito,

I thought he had 5 years left 8 years ago.

nonfuinoncuro,

honestly once you get into your 70s you’ve mostly dodged the usual things that kill unhealthy people if you’re a relatively healthy and mobile person in your 80s then you’ll probably make it into your 90s barring any major accidents

silence7,

Problem is that once you have a dictatorship, you don’t suddenly go back to elections and normal politics once the dictator dies — you get the dictator’s kid or friend running things.

John_McMurray,

Bout half the time since Cromwell

profdc9,

Somehow I don’t think Generalissimo Eric Trump is in the cards. Probably someone more like Elon Musk or Sean Hannity. A celebrity that can rile up enough violence to overcome his or her competitors.

Dagwood222,

This is the point. The Secret Police have files on everyone, and the military isn’t about to hand over their weapons.

The judges on the bench got in because they support The Man; the people collecting taxes; the teachers; everybody in government has to be replaced.

It’s easy to make soup. It’s not so easy to unmake a soup.

orbitz,

Okay so 4 year term then he becomes dictator for a year, you think that system will let go of that power once in place? Well maybe I’m not one to study thing things but it doesn’t seem likely.

John_McMurray,

Maybe you should study things. Start with Franco.

orbitz,

According to Wikipedia the elite tried to continue the dictatorship but due to pressure things transitioned. Thank you for arguing for my point.

Edit. Okay wiki didn’t say they tried to continue the dictatorship technically but that’s the implication if they were pressured to move to a democracy. So maybe my point wasn’t argued.

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