What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

It's a celebration of ignorance.

I don't care what those egg-heads say, it's raining outside right now so there is no such thing as Climate Change.

I didn't go to college, I'm grassroots. Can't trust some poindexter.

Look, I put my spirit-level on the ground. Those nerds are saying the earth is a globe.

Take bleach and shine lights inside to get rid of Covid

So you vilify education. You belittle and even threaten scientists and scientific experts. And anyone who DOESN'T do this is one of the "Elite". One of "Them". And that's how you get and rule your cult "Oh that poindexter? What does he know?" It's not limited to the US. You had Michael Gove during Brexit period: "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong".... How did that work out?

But it is a consistent trait that the educated are amongst the first targeted because cult leaders do not want people who question. And ironically they market this to their cult as being informed. How many times have you heard some flat earther or anti vaxxer or trumpist call someone sheep because they believe a proven fact? People willing to question can review a situation, analyze facts and even change their opinion based upon new evidence. I'm sure many non-cultists here have believed a situation, liked person/celebrity/whatever only for new facts to emerge which changes their entire opinion on such a situation or person.

However with cultists, this is not possible: There is a person on the political "humour" thread who posts NOTHING but anti-Biden images. Usually with comment such as "Democrat scum" or something. Almost daily. Sometimes many a day. Then they post an image with: "Oh trump still hasn't been convicted. He's living in your head rent-free". And posting images about people having concerns with trump as being deranged... All without irony. There are many other posting on that thread, from many here, unrelated to trump or biden or the US at all. But not so with this poster.

We all get it: trump was the protest vote against Clinton and the perception that there was an entrenchment or the same old same old in US politics. And, it must be said, it wasn't 100% wrong. 300 million people in the US and it was going to be another Clinton in office? Then what? Another Bush? Another Obama after that?

But anyone with an ounce of critical thought is rightly horrified by what trump and his cultists represent and accept.

• Celebrating serial sexual assault
• Support of White Supremacist groups
• Support of insurrectionists
• Support of dictatorships and nations hostile to the US
• Hatred of the American Prisoners of War
• Support of assassination of political rival
• Election tampering

ALL of the above from his own mouth. In addition to below which are still pending or which didn't come from his own mouth

• Conviction of sexual assault
• Theft and exposure of top secret documents
• Fraud
• Additional sexual assault

But his cultists will not accept anything above. Even the stuff from his own mouth they consider "Fake News". They are now limited to "But hunter's Laptop" (How's that going, anyway?). We even had some here celebrating that he was "only" convicted of sexual assault and not rape. Imagine the mind of such a person. Someone who thinks that being found guilty of Sexual Assault instead of Rape is somehow a good thing.

Being found guilty of Sexual Assault is NOT A GOOD THING

But harping on about it is "Fake News".... It is no coincidence that trump mouthpieces invented the term "Alternative Facts"

Edit: Fixed a typo.

The similarities between MAGA and the Confederacy are striking. Although there were earlier factors leading to the Southern States wanting to secede from the US, the election of Lincoln ultimately pushed the Southern extremists to try to break away in order to preserve white-power in their states. The election of Biden did trigger another attempt to take power from the Union Government (and an almost similar timeframe too, many states seceded in the weeks before Lincoln took office).

I fully suspect that many of those flying a flag with the letters “TRUMP” emblazoned upon it would happily also fly the Stars and Bars or any other variant of the Confederate flag.

One positive comparison however is that while the Confederate movement had the resources of their states to work with against a Union who didn’t have much of a standing professional army, these days the MAGA cultist are at least still marginal enough to not control a state outright, and that any new attempt to take on the Union would face a large, professional and heavily armed US Military.

That’s not to say that they wouldn’t want to try, and that many of them are too dimwitted to understand the horrors of an actual war (or even the horrors of the Civil War they romanticise about), that some might take a second loss by Trump as the call they wanted to try and raise militia and storm state capitals. The result would be quite bloody….for them.

Jailing Trump might actually be enough to trigger something, I’d agree there.

I somewhat suspect that the reason they haven’t jailed him yet is due to practical issues. Basically, how do you jail someone with a Secret Service detail?:

• Do you jail the Secret Service people *with him* so they can protect him? (Which wouldn’t be very fair to those agents).
• Do you get the Secret Service to jail him at one of their places? (If so, there’s probably a jurisdictional headache to fix there)
• Do you jail him in a Federal facility where the Secret Service can be part of the staff (Likely same jurisdiction issues unless a Federal case)
• Do you allow the Secret Service to be part of the jailing staff where they don’t officially have jurisdiction? (Might be likely solution, but will create a chain-of-command headache.)

Until they can create a practical framework where Trump can be jailed, but still has his Secret Service detail, I suspect they’ll kick this down the road with fines. Once they find a solution, then (hopefully) they’ll jail him if he is in contempt again.