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      I mean… he already said it about Ukraine, it is entirely possible he’d say this about Poland.

      The problem is any mental thing people can make up is something he could easily have said.

      If this was true, I’d just say yup. Sounds like something he’d say.

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      incidentally (or not) this underlines a deliberate function of trump’s negotiation strategy-- to promote uncertainty which protects his position from precise scrutiny. this comes up in hypernormalisation a british docu as a deliberate part of putin’s strategy- to keep your opponents always guessing… its a form of obfuscation that we see in every day life when it comes to news media, social media, and so on- its a very common trick today and i think its as important as ever to get a handle on the material realities of the world under the cover of all this smoke.

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      I also ate it. Was just about to scroll by when I say the community. 100% plausible thing for him to say.

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    We need to start calling it Maga America, in the same way we say Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy.

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        That’s sounds too much like a fun little vacation where someone takes all your money. This is more like a nightmare of destruction that will take all your money

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    This feels like it could have actually been something he said. I feel like if you showed this article to his followers, without showing the site, they would nod their heads and agree that it’s sage wisdom.

    How fucked up is this timeline?

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      That would require him knowing about history a bit, and that might be a stretch.
      I am pretty sure in his mind WWII was that time when America, Hitler, and Putin won against hords of gay black people.

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          We’d need to retake the house and have 2 successful assassinations in a short enough period that a VP can’t be confirmed, making the Speaker of the House POTUS.

          It would be easier to just get a veto-proof majority in the 2026 elections, which is mathematically (if not realistically) possible in 2026, since 22 Republican senators are up for election.

          Veto-proof majority would also be enough to remove Trump and Vance from office in January 2027.

          The best we can realistically hope for is taking the House and Senate in 2026 and defunding anything Trump tries to do, followed by a massive recruitment drive in 2029 to rehire competent federal workers.

          Long-term, we’ve established a need for a Constitutional Amendment to bring some level of plurality in the executive branch, with career secretaries and elected commissioners for each agency that are independent of and protected from the President.

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            At that point we might as well give up on the union. There is no way the right won’t just double down. Might be for the best though

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            Given his age and physical condition, Trump could plausibly keel over on his own before his term is up.

            It’s also possible that the Dems could retake the House and/or Senate, and even without a veto proof majority, simply refuse to confirm any replacement VP nominee. Doesn’t even have to be related to some desire to see the line of succession get invoked again, there would almost certainly be ample grounds to object to any nominee that Trump or Vance would pick.

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    I genuinely didn’t think it was satire when I saw the headline. Trump coming out and saying something like that is literally just par for course.

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    The funniest part of this is that he still blames the Central Park 5 for making a deal when the police coerced them into confessing. So even when someone does make a deal and suffers for something that wasn’t their fault, he still blames them.

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    How about this for a deal? Countries keep their shit out of other countries where they’re not welcome?