• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    The idea that the US government would fall and that the “good guys” would end up in control of what followed is ridiculous.

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      3 months ago

      Exactly, the country is finished. When trump dies of natural causes there’s going to be a big competition to see who can be the biggest piece of shit in america and that person will be the successor. It’s just completely fucked and it will stay fucked for decades if not centuries. American experiment is over.

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        3 months ago

        Pax Americana is over. I expect America to stumble on. There are still a lot of capable and well educated Americans, and a lot of resources. It will take generations to heal though, and the rot that got us here will not be easily addressed.

        What the rest of the world is going to have to deal with is that when America becomes less attractive to dominate, our oligarchs are going to turn their eyes elsewhere. They still have their assets, and no real loyalty to America. It already looks like the process is well underway.

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          3 months ago

          I guess im seeing it as generations of getting a lot worse before the healing begins. Yes there are plenty of good people and they’re all getting marginalized in our country.

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            3 months ago

            I see three serious contenders for the next Presidency. Pritzker, Jon Stewart, and Tucker Carlson. That’s three very different paths, and we’ll know a lot more after that election.

            The Republican nomination is Carlson’s if he wants it, and he would roll right over another Zionist Democrat. Pritzker has the best chance of any traditional Democrat of satisfying (barely) both the establishment and progressive wings, and would dominate any Republican but maybe Tucker. Stewart would steamroll anyone dumb enough to debate him. He’s still way too “enlightened centrist” for my liking, but he seems to be learning.

            Vance has a chance if Carlson doesn’t run and the Democrats nominate an establishment clown. Speaking of which, I think Newsom is going to flip-flop himself into oblivion early in the race.