• draneceusrex@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well, I’m hoping we are a little closer to Franco’s Spain, and things just peeter out once Trump dies.

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        Trump gonna die ( kill by it’s masters ) so Vance can get promoted as the perfect puppet to push the US even more into dictatorship using the coup for more violent repression of everyone they dont like

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          2 months ago

          My bet is Trump gets the 25th amendment treatment just after he passes the 2-year mark of his term. That way, the back half of the term won’t start the timer on Vance’s 2-term limit and the fascists can keep Americans sleepwalking for the next 12 years before we collectively wake up and realize we’re in a dictatorship. I hope I’m wrong but I could easily imagine this plan already having been drawn up.

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        Franco’s a worst case, and there are still lingering problems in Spain due to the compromises made in order to restore democracy.

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          2 months ago

          Ummm…are you forgetting WWII? No one is coming into the country to help us drag them to the Hegue. Of course there will be compromise. The only other scenario is WWIII.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, but that was more a case of the government collapsing due to Germans fleeing through Hungary and Austria.

        Besides, I don’t really want to wait 50 years for the GOP to finally wither away.

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          2 months ago

          40 years and while that was definitely an important part of it, it was mainly half a million people protesting on the streets of every major city.

      • Grapho@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        Just gotta get yourself a foreign sponsor to start sabotaging the US and get the rest of the world to stop selling you food, oil, or consumer goods like the US did to the DDR.

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      2 months ago

      Haven’t seen many people asking, but aren’t an awful lot of votes being counted by ES&S?

      Who even says we voted this one in?