So, place your bets! What's going to be that one announcement that suddenly makes your neighbours go all quiet?

• Repeal of the 19th amendment
• Mandatory military service
• Military sent to Ukraine
• Military sent to Gaza
• Additional protections to police
• The pardon of all January 6th rioters
• The relaxation of maximum presidential terms
• Repeal of Affordable Care Act
• Repeal of Social Security
• Increase in taxes of lowest and middle incomes
• Reduction in the minimum wage
• Shutdown of major news outlets of "reporting lies"
• Ban of reporting "bad news"
• New ability to farmers to hire for no wage
• New protections to reject hiring/customers/schooling based on colour
• Collapse of NOAA
• Atheists targeted as terrorists
• Democrats imprisoned for Socialist ties
• Mysterious disappearances of democrats
• Random deportation of American citizens for being first/second generation
• Removal of all laws related to carbon output

Yes, some of these are fearmongering but he's made all sorts of promises and debts are due! The sky is the limit!

Its a buffet for the leopards. They'll coast on Biden's policies for a bit, when Trump plans take affect we'll see.

My one takeaway from this is that primaries are important. Republicans held a primary, nominated an incomprehensibly stupid candidate, and managed to win. ~~Dems held no primary~~, Biden strong armed his way into the de-facto nomination for a second term, and was replaced by his VP when he imploded on the campaign trail. At no point did Dem voters ever get to have a say in their candidate this year. Not that Kamala or Joe are bad candidates, but clearly, they're lacking something if Trump was able to win again after changing nothing from 2020.

So, the DNC fucked us again and we got Trump a second time in exactly the same way.

We have always known why Hitler rose to power, and we know why Trump was reelected. When people are economically depressed and a man comes to you and tells you “This isn’t your fault, I will persecute those who are responsible and personally make things better for you.” It’s human nature, out of fear, frustration, or desperation to grasp that hand. We as a people are not ready to trust the guy who says “This is our fault, and it will be hard, but we have to fix this together”. Take everything you know about Hitler and Trump and OUR world out of it, take out your reasoning and tap into your monkey brain for a second and simply ruminate on those two propositions. Which one would you rather be true? You can’t honestly tell me the latter. You may know the latter is true, but it would be so much easier on you if the first was true.

Like it or not, we aren’t as evolved as we like to think, and those of us who consider ourselves enlightened are vulnerable to our lizard brains at one point or another.

Is it because woman? Like holy shit, Biden was an old fuck and still won last time. Hillary didn't win. Wtf, is it really because woman!?

Jesus Christ, I just realized Jimmy Carted lived to see his country die.

We need a solution to this, because honestly the US just lost its democracy.

It's 1933.

Any ideas on ways out of this?

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Well the entire multiplatform astroturfing campaign from people who call themselves leftists worked! Democrats stayed home instead of voting.

Now Palestine will be completely flattened with 0 resistance at all, and redoubled support and bombs for Israel! Way to go! You really showed your support for Palestine by helping this happen!

They will probably come back saying "it wasn't our fault, we just pointed out the truth" while they shouted that a vote for Harris was a vote for genocide [so don't vote for harris] from every platform that they used.

Pour one out for America and Ukraine, and the Middle East in general. And Taiwan.

Europe and Asia, you guys better get your shit together, we might be out of this one permanently. Or we might have a very long recovery time spanning decades. Such fucking bullshit.

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives any more.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”

I'm tired. I want out.

I would be more concerned if he were less stupid. Going by his last presidency he'll spend half his time golfing and the rest driving through ineffective "red meat" policies to get attention from his base. Ultimately he's just a pathetic man who craves attention.

What concerns me more is that his destruction of political norms means that someone who is similarly evil - but actually capable - might be able to use him as a template to take power in the future and make America into a dictatorship. Someone like Xi Jinping as opposed to an aging B-list celebrity.

Are you kidding? Watching it happen in real time, it makes less sense than it ever did.

Fuck, this his hard. As a father of a gay child, and a trans child, our immediate plans are passports.

I never questioned.

I just hoped.

In vain.

Germany, Jan 1933 = USA, Jan 2025

The ones who voted against him understand well how it happened. The ones who voted for him never questioned how, because it never entered their minds to care.