• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Are ya’ll ready for how fucked we are? None of this shit is getting fixed, considering we’re still living with Reagan’s damages.

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      9 days ago

      Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m hoping their overreach is so bad that the pendulum aggressively swings back in the other direction.

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        Eventually. It will. How long? That’s impossible to say. As is how bad it will get before a correction occurs. Hitler was in power for twelve years. 70-85 million people died during his reign between slaughters and fighting. And Germany was not the strongest nation in the world (and definitely not the strongest by a wide margin) at that time. Imagine Germany starting off 1933 with the military might to fight two wars at once with the two strongest nations on the planet. And imagine their border was basically impenetrable by any combined force of countries while they fought those two wars. That could easily be where we’re going to be at. No one is coming to save us.

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        I think you underestimate the rippling damage that four years of Trump loyalists running the HHS, FDA, CDC, EPA, DoE, CIA, FBI, etc. can do to the world.

        That’s on top of the damage from rapidly repealing regulations by the President.

        Even if we replace the whole government with progressives, it’ll take decades to fix, assuming we survive that long.

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        9 days ago

        Tariffs alone will probably lead to a very bleak outlook for Republicans in the midterm elections.

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          Maybe the opposite. Biden’s policies turned the economy around. All the numbers look good and were poised for growth that Trump will take credit for

          How quickly and widely will he actually apply tariffs? If they don’t take widespread effect for two years, they’re home free

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        That’d be nice and I’m sure sentiment will swing but I don’t think they’d go through all this trouble of remaking the government (and essentially the whole country) just to get “voted out” and have to spend billions more regaining power. It’ll be way cheaper just to rig things.

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      What till you see the Liberty Law School zealots who find their way to SCOTUS for lifetime appointments