Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

It's not that simple. The system that created the mess will endure unchanged. All it will take for a repeat is the same cocktail of poisonous ingredients to be mixed together once again.

What will happen? Nothing.

There will be the talking heads on some channels claiming this isn't America, or something needs to be done. But the likes of Fox News et al will flood the airwaves with whatever talking point Trump has decided give him justification. House leader Johnson will do nothing, blame the democrats maybe, and the courts will be unable to act swiftly enough (if they are minded or able to act at all) to do anything.

Trump will announce that the elections won't be held because of (insert made-up reason), and most people will say that it hasn't actually happened yet, and surely Trump is only messing and surely didn't he say once that he loved democracy.

As the time gets closer, more and more justification will be trotted out and the narrative will become muddied. You only have to look at how the WH, Trump, the GOP and the likes of Fox News are openly peddling lies and disinformation regarding the government shut down to see exactly how they will do it.

Finally, not one other world leader will even raise a concern about it. They will sit on their hands and continue to hope that if they play along Trump will be nice to them.

It's one thing to follow orders, it's another to open fire on your fellow countrymen. Which is where MAGA are wanting the US to be heading towards.

You'd wonder when placed in that situation, what they'll do.

You'd like to think some semblance of conscience would kick in and they realise "this has gone too far" and back away before they cross that line, and with it the end of all that crap .

You'd like to think.

With MAGA though, it's just as likely it's their wet dream come through, and they get their fantasy of 'Civil War Part II; The Purification', and just start shooting anything they think isn't MAGA.

This is so true and so crucial a point to make. The facts are even when this regime is gone the US political system remains as it is an utterly corrupt and broken 2 party system that at best is only partially democratic. Add in the fact that one of the 2 parties is now openly anti democratic and openly authoritarian and the other party while not authoritarian is quite happy with the system as is and you can see that the future looks bleak for the US regardless.

Yesterday, Rep. Madaliene Dean confronted Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, saying that Trump was unhinged and unwell. Johnson responded that 'A lot on your side are too'.

Finally admitting it

Harris is right again.

She said he would use the army against Americans.

She said he would use the DOJ to go after his enemies.

KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024: What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that Trump plans to implement.

TRUMP IN 2024: I have nothing to do with Project 2025.

TRUMP IN 2025: I’m meeting today with the architect of Project 2025 to implement it.

When the adults return the only way they can start a return to normality is to initially fire everyone hired by the trump administration. They would have to fire everyone currently employed by Ice and start re hiring them from the pre trump era. Like trump they would have to have people ready to fill the roles trump destroyed. They would have to restore the dept of education, the CDC, the DOJ, the DOD. It will be an enormous undertaking. It could easily take two presidential terms to get back to some sort of normality. It is probable that some of the International relationships will never be resolved, for example China might never buy soya beans from US again.

In other news, WTAF?!

This is beyond petty. Scientists all over the world rely on PubMed. It's absolutely the best there is at what it does.

China's not buying Soybeans from the US

Turns out it's all Bidens fault!

Who would have thought

I'll put $500 on "this didn't happen".

But it's not just when the Dems win back the White House. When Trump is gone, America will have to prove to the world that it won't regress into chaotic madness every time the GOP wins the presidency. Business, international trade and diplomacy cannot plan long term if there is a risk that every four years there will be an idiot crackpot in the Oval Office. The only way that can happen is for the moderate republicans to push out the MAGA lunatics and zealots and rebuild it as the type of party that used to be lead by relatively normal conservatives like Romney and McCain. I'm hoping the MAGA movement will die along with its leader. For the sake of the country, Trump needs to be the only MAGA candidate to win a presidential election.

The Americans, especially the MAGA need to feel enough pain that they are traumatised for a generation into rejecting anyone talking about radical left, socialism and other right wing tropes. Hopefully they become real pariahs in the rest of the world and the economy sinks enough they are ciured of their arrogance and any republican associated with the admin has to go on the run for their lives.

I wonder how much respect for the office people had when Obama or Biden was POTUS.

Certainly Trump has no respect for the office by dint of his complete disrespect if those in the office.

Trump demands respect for the office, but never gives it.