• @Captainvaqina
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    85 months ago

    I’d imagine in a dark and dystopian future, the dictatorial and dysfunctional trump dynasty will simply imprison any challengers to the throne, like their daddy Putin does.

    • El Barto
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      55 months ago

      This ain’t gonna happen. Trump couldn’t run for two terms in a row. Do you know why? Because the majority of Americans don’t want him.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        In a democratic country that would indeed be the result, but he became president while the majority of American voters didn’t vote for him in 2016.

        So that is no guarentee at all, because the US political system is archaic and rotten to the core.

        • El Barto
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          15 months ago

          Yes, sure. But Biden won in the end, didn’t he? If what you said were true (though I agree with you to an extent), Trump would be president right now. The GOP had the majority in both the Senate and the House. And there you go. The people voted and Trump lost. So the system, flaws and all, can work if the American people really want it to work.

          I think Trump needed to happen to wake up the majority of Americans. We got waaaay too complacent back in 2015/2106, thinking that Clinton was a sure score.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      It’s an interesting and terrifying thought experiment. Hopefully we’re not actually going to run it IRL.

      For whatever it’s worth, I don’t think it would fly in a country as massive and habitually fractious as the US, but I’ve been wrong about a lot of things in the past --never imagined that an unlettered buffoonish corndog conman like Trump could even come within sniffing distance of the presidency for example-- so who the fuck knows?

      I don’t have a lot of faith in my fellow Americans. I probably never should have, but hindsight is always 20-20 or whatever.