Reggie_Perrin No one knows. They need to get their shit together though. Be interesting to see who the republicans put forward to succeed Trump.
What has the ridiculous Orange Cunt done today?
Reggie_Perrin Who are the potential candidates for Dems next time out?
I don't think it matters. DOGE will be targeting election oversight at some point in the next three years and judges will be in El Salvadorian jails. They have to go full coup otherwise they'll be jailed eventually. The GOP is stuck in a one way street now and there is no coming back from this.
Jon Wait until people have to pay more for cars and replacement parts. Americans love their cars. The Trumpers next door to me drive a Honda and a Kia. They haven’t connected the dots yet.
They'll get the idea when they next have to insure their cars. The cost increase on parts will change the threshold where cars are judged to be economically unrepairable after an accident so expect premiums to shoot up.
space smart insight.
space and they've known this all along. Trump might have hoped the judges would be partisan but the Project 25 crew will have had an alternative path mapped for this outcome.
So is this sending in the National Guard (when uncle Sam is the one who belongs in the exercise yard - never thought 10cc would be prophetic) and Marines a pretext to declaring martial law so that he can bin the constitution, declare a national socialist republic and run for a third term? The cunt.
Djpekingman in the election campaign he said "you will never need to vote again".
Foxy_Dread Exactamundo. But he does talk an awful lot of utter shite.
space Fingers crossed. They deserve everything that's coming to them.
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Foxy_Dread the election campaign he said "you will never need to vote again".
I remember that and being pretty shocked by it. I cant see him pulling it off although I think he’ll try.
Cant see how the army could subdue the population though. The ethinicity and background of its members is not reflective of the trump supporting population I would guess, same for the Police.
If anything the coutry’s schism based on Trumpian Neo Con nonsense is heading toward a civil split but its hard to imagine. Its not regional, its almost city vs non city based on voting lines. Our US Correspondant might have more insight.
Trump would need the backing and of capitulation of Law, Political, Armed Forces and Police to invoke Dictatorial rule. Despite people being quiet in the Republic party rn that will change when he starts that ICE shit in New York and Chicago.
Im in New York right now, staying in a Domincan, Equadorian neighbourhood in Brooklyn. And it feels like Im actually in Central or South America at times. Every other face is that of somone who looks partly indingenious to South America.. Other faces are US hipsters (of all ethincities but mostly white or black). No tourists here apart from us idiots.
Anyway… ICE dont have enough manpower to deport all the unofficial workers in this place. Id imagine its a pretty high ratio in Brooklyn. Let them role through Brownsville see how they get.
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Placid He's already started that ICE shit in LA to little or no reaction what I can see.
Djpekingman He's already started that ICE shit in LA to little or no reaction what I can see.
Think he's testing the waters tbh, which is pretty worrying. I just hope it not to drive the country towards some sort of martial law which he could suspend voting in. I dont know the laws etc
I just cant see it going wholesale. Imagine how many millions of people that would be to deport. Every kitchen in every bar, pub, restaurant and diner in New York would close. The illegal workforce are literaly the backbone of the country.
Placid Think he's testing the waters tbh, which is pretty worrying. I just hope it not to drive the country towards some sort of martial law which he could suspend voting in. I dont know the laws etc
I just cant see it going wholesale. Imagine how many millions of people that would be to deport. Every kitchen in every bar, pub, restaurant and diner in New York would close. The illegal workforce are literaly the backbone of the country.
Germany got rid of quite a few in a short period of time. Currently Trump and his nazi chums are at the "Penultimate" solution phase.
Placid It wouldn't be the first time - they rounded thousands up, mostly chinese and japanese, but as Americans just saw all orientals as little yellow men folk from all of east asia were lifted and interred them in work or detention camps in WW2. A shameful episode, largely glossed over by american historians. They're very good at that.
As i said a few post earlier, it looks like he's manufacturing a situation whereby he can declare martial law and suspend the constitution which is effectively what Roosevelt did in WW2. Difference was that Roosevelt didn't manufacture the crisis - the invasion by Japan sorted that for him.
It’s interesting that he’s apparently going to give the farm and hospitality industries a pass. It’s pretty much an admission that those sectors would collapse without cheap immigrant labour.
I can see this pissing off the more hardline republicans.
My memory is fucked these days but I thought his campaign promise was to round up all the gang members and criminals. Whilst working off the books is technically a crime, I don’t think many imagine the guys shaping up for a days work outside Home Depot are what most of his supporters had in mind.
If I was so inclined, I reckon I could go to the nearest Home Depot and film F-150s with Trump bumper stickers picking up day labourers pretty much any morning. Some people just don’t join the dots.
@placid if you think New York would be more energised than LA I respectfully disagree.
Placid I worry that it wouldn't be the army the opposition to Trump would have to contend with. Serious opposition to Trump and the loons would be out armed to the teeth, living out their fantasies. Then it's a question of which way the army jump?
Remember words along the lines of, there will be no violence if the opposition accept change.
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Foxy_Dread There’s definitely some capable and scary dudes out there but there’s many, many more, fat, dumb fantasists who’d be more likely to shoot their own foot off then any one else at the first ring of trouble.
I don’t know what to think about it all or how it ends. I try be optimistic.