• echo@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    You say that like you expect Trump is going to leave and that there will be a next (duly elected) President…

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        13 hours ago

        Just like when Gore lost? Let’s get real, the system is fully rigged, now. The orange asshole isn’t leaving that office until his body is quite dead and cold.

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          7 hours ago

          Gore lost because the election was close enough that it could be ratfucked by guys in suits. If the election isnt close, then it can’t be ratfucked.

          Now, it’s possible that he won’t leave his bunker alive. Hitler didn’t, either.

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          9 hours ago

          The orange asshole isn’t leaving that office until his body is quite dead and cold.

          And even then…

          See: Mitch McConnell

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            12 hours ago

            Nobody should be stating anything online that can be used against them in the aftermath. It doesn’t even matter if they do absolutely nothing… anything said can and will be used against you.

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              12 hours ago

              I’m not from USA. May the Trump admin fuck up a false flag striking themselves, scattering the remains for the wind

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        14 hours ago

        Trump is clearly doing everything he can to ensure that doesn’t happen. I think it’s pretty likely he declares a state of emergency for whatever reason and says “sorry, no election this year!”, or uses ICE to intimidate people at the polls and who knows what other batshit nonsense he’ll cook up.

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          13 hours ago

          The same military who he is denying wartime death payouts to “because the department of War isn’t in a war, it’s just a prolonged military conflict that is only legal to continue if congress declares it a war”

          The same military with friends aboard the ship that Trump won’t allow to be recalled for resupply, rotations, etc

          If he tries I hope he ends up with the weapons pointed his way

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            5 hours ago

            Don’t forget to factor in whatever rat fuckery he is doing to benefits and the VA. Frankly from the outside looking in on that one I’m pretty sure the cost benefit analysis is looking pretty fucken shit.

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          12 hours ago

          So we should just accept that it’s over and the GOP has already won? That’s defeatism.

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            12 hours ago

            No. The choice is not binary. We can rationally acknowledge that there is an objective risk and then work to address that risk.

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        13 hours ago

        There is a huge difference between defeatism and stating an objectively real risk.

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          12 hours ago

          There is, and what you said is defeatism. Your comment leaves no room for success, just acceptance that Trump will be the next president. There absolutely is a risk that the GOP will be successful in there election fuckery, but comments like yours are like propaganda that can lead to apathy whether that’s your intent or not. It’s not a warning, it’s accepting that it’s a foregone conclusion

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            12 hours ago

            You say that like you expect

            You’re the only one being an absolutist. I called out that the article makes the foregone conclusion that there will be another president. It’s not a foregone that won’t. It’s also not a forgone conclusion that we will.

            If we want to face a risk, we must first admit that there is a risk.

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              12 hours ago

              Not sure what you quoted there, but I never said those words.

              I never said there wasn’t risk. My reply to your initial comment is pointing out that what you said is defeatist. Per my other reply, you can see that I literally said that the GOP could be successful.

              You’re misquoting me and claiming I’m and absolutist when I never once said anything is certain, and I fact said the opposite.

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                12 hours ago

                I quoted my words so that you could see that I didn’t say anything absolute nor defeatist…