The part the most astonishing isn’t the fact that he said it, but the numerous ways his dumbfuck supporters have performed mental gymnastics to downplay concerns about it as dogwhistling.
I have heard stupid shit ranging from “he meant votes will be cast automatically” to “he’s just trolling” to “good, it’s leveling the playing field after Biden rigged 2020.”
Just maybe… the simplest answer is the correct one, and the guy who claimed he would be a dictator on day 1 and is sending an armed militia to provoke protesters in an attempt justify a violent response intended to crush dissent by making people fear for their safety is, in fact, a dictator that wants to eliminate the democratic process?
But would that be enough, considering how unhinged Republicans have become? Would it just be a “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” situation until the wider problem of the radicalisation of the right is somehow dealt with?
True, I guess i just what said what would have another election, not a real election.
I should have said “he and the systems of power supporting him” would need to be forcibly removed. All the shadow donors, project 2025, the dark enlightenment ancap accelerationists, all the other Russian agents, the dems unwilling to stop the corporatacracy and fascism, etc, etc, etc. It’s a pretty tall order
Yeah exactly – and this isn’t just a US problem either, but a global one. Conservatives everywhere seem to have gone off the deep end, while being totally convinced that it’s everybody else who’s gotten radicalised.
Feels like we need a global civil war. I think we called the previous one where we tried (unsuccessfully) to get rid of fascists “World War II” or something like that. Maybe a sequel to that, then?
Trump literally said “you’ll never have to vote again.” The only way there will be another election is if he’s forcibly removed from power
The part the most astonishing isn’t the fact that he said it, but the numerous ways his dumbfuck supporters have performed mental gymnastics to downplay concerns about it as dogwhistling.
I have heard stupid shit ranging from “he meant votes will be cast automatically” to “he’s just trolling” to “good, it’s leveling the playing field after Biden rigged 2020.”
Just maybe… the simplest answer is the correct one, and the guy who claimed he would be a dictator on day 1 and is sending an armed militia to provoke protesters in an attempt justify a violent response intended to crush dissent by making people fear for their safety is, in fact, a dictator that wants to eliminate the democratic process?
But would that be enough, considering how unhinged Republicans have become? Would it just be a “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” situation until the wider problem of the radicalisation of the right is somehow dealt with?
True, I guess i just what said what would have another election, not a real election.
I should have said “he and the systems of power supporting him” would need to be forcibly removed. All the shadow donors, project 2025, the dark enlightenment ancap accelerationists, all the other Russian agents, the dems unwilling to stop the corporatacracy and fascism, etc, etc, etc. It’s a pretty tall order
Yeah exactly – and this isn’t just a US problem either, but a global one. Conservatives everywhere seem to have gone off the deep end, while being totally convinced that it’s everybody else who’s gotten radicalised.
Feels like we need a global civil war. I think we called the previous one where we tried (unsuccessfully) to get rid of fascists “World War II” or something like that. Maybe a sequel to that, then?