Trump will make history as the 45th and now 47th president, NBC News projects, saying he will fix an ailing country and despite warnings he will rule as an authoritarian.
  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    130·
    2 months ago

    oh yea, it’ll be all “we need to come together” and “we’re going to help everybody” for the next 2 months

    then, the instant he steps into office, freedom of speech: gone. freedom of the press: gone. EPA: gone. dept. of education: gone. SEC: gone. consumer protections, civil rights, equality, accountability, justice-- all. fucking. gone.

    expect mass imprisonments, assassinations, and other removals

    “that can’t happen in this country!!” you might be saying. why not? because of “checks and balances”? LOL

    you have about 2 months to prepare your asshole

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        and we’re leaving out implications at the local level. why would a trumper sheriff bother going after someone for murdering marginalized peoples? why would any lawyer take up any case against a trump appointed judge (spoiler alert: it’ll be all of them, soon)?

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          2 months ago

          Abbott already pardoned some shitbag for murder because he was a conservative who murdered a liberal.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      25·
      2 months ago

      Also, remember that this follows HOT on the heels of SCOTUS saying “basically anything a President does is legal”. This theoretically means Trump and his admin could sidestep Congress entirely, on anything. Trump was already ruling by EO last term, but I suspect we haven’t seen anything yet.

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 months ago

        Kinda makes you wonder why Joe Biden didn’t take advantage of that at any point over the last several months when so much is at stake.

    • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      There’s actually so much at stake that I lost track of it all. Absolutely mind blowing that a single American could vote for him let alone the majority. I do not understand why Americans hate America.

    • zante@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Is this what he did in previous term ?

      Mass imprisonment and assassinations?

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    75·
    2 months ago

    So glad the community is getting indundated with a bunch of people who never post here celebrating the win of the fascist that is going to put people in concentration camps.

    • orclev@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I’m making sure to tag all of them for future tracking. Learned that lesson with the NAZIs, if this is ever over not going to let them quietly slink away. When this inevitably starts going south and these same assholes are bitching and whining about how the economy is a trash fire and their rights are being shit all over I’ll be there to remind them they wanted this.

        • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
          22·
          2 months ago

          I’m pissed that Biden didn’t drop out way sooner. I’m pissed the Dems didn’t let the people actually pick the nominee. I’m pissed Harris shifted to the right and paraded around with a Cheney.

          Well, on the bright side Kamala will get her wish of a Republican in the presidential cabinet. /s

          • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
            13·
            2 months ago

            I mean, at a certain point we all already know that trump is vindictive, he’s racist, he’s a rapist. I will blame his supporters, and u will blame third party voters. They know who he is and still let him in. Our institutions are still weak from the last time. I hope democracy survives

          • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
            8·
            2 months ago

            I’m pissed that morons voted for him and other morons didn’t vote against him.

            The Dems should have done better. But it’s the people who voted for this.

            • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
              4·
              2 months ago

              Yes, let’s blame the voters for losing the election…

              Not the Democratic party or their candidate, because clearly only voters can fail them, they can’t fail us.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            42·
            2 months ago

            R2O spent months posting “don’t vote for Biden” articles and then a short time posting “don’t vote for Harris” articles until changing their mind.

            Please do not try to rewrite recent history.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    44·
    2 months ago

    In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

  • htrayl@lemmy.world
    43·
    2 months ago

    There is going to be an assload of fingerpointing.

    Here is my take: even if Kamala won, there is a deep rot that we would be in denial about. Trump should have broken the Republican party but did not and instead galvanized support through misinformation, lies, and hatred. That would not have been cured if Kamala won. At least now we have to be honest with the state of the US.

    Still, we can hope he dies of a heart attack.

    • VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca
      12·
      2 months ago

      The people who will be in power around him might well get rid of him themselves for all the use they want. He’s getting them to power. Vance and Musk and Thiel and whoever the fuck else don’t care about Trump. They want power.

    • WhyFlip@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Trump dying of a heart attack (or whatever) is even more frightening with Vance in the mix.

  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
    34·
    2 months ago

    I hope this fucker has a massive stroke, or his dementia goes on overdrive and he undresses at his inauguration. Fuck this asshole

  • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    Compared to 4 years ago, his popular vote hasn’t changed much, but over 10m blue voters didn’t come back. That made all the difference. Joe Biden I did that sticker

    • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      Americans… maybe… at least those stupid enough to vote for this guy again.
      I feel bad for the Americans who knew what Trump stood for and voted Harris to at least prevent that.

      The rest of the world doesn’t deserve this though… And Trump will still affect them and their lives in many ways.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Secretary of State if he gets an actual office. You could do a lot worse than Rex Tillerson.

      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Rex Tillerson was a legitimate good conservative pick for the position and made me think maybe Trump would surround himself with competent people. Well, on Rogan’s podcast he said his biggest regret was not picking loyal people. We won’t have to worry about accidental competency this go round.