Predictions - 2024 Election

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Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:43 pm
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Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:34 pm
I hope that even Republicans will eventually come to realize what a disaster he will prove to be and move to impeach him.
Don't hold your breath.

Republicans are just as corrupt as he is. They got their guy.
You are probably right, but I think it is also true that there are significant number of Republicans who secretly hate him and realize what a danger he is, but are, so far, just too cowardly to speak out against him.
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Gunnar wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:54 pm
Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:43 pm

Don't hold your breath.

Republicans are just as corrupt as he is. They got their guy.
You are probably right, but I think it is also true that there are significant number of Republicans who secretly hate him and realize what a danger he is, but are, so far, just too cowardly to speak out against him.
Probably true, but fecklessness doesn't help us here either.
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Gunnar wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:54 pm
You are probably right, but I think it is also true that there are significant number of Republicans who secretly hate him and realize what a danger he is, but are, so far, just too cowardly to speak out against him.
And, not speaking out, they enable his continuing reign of madness.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
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Some Schmo wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:56 pm
Gunnar wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:54 pm


You are probably right, but I think it is also true that there are significant number of Republicans who secretly hate him and realize what a danger he is, but are, so far, just too cowardly to speak out against him.
Probably true, but fecklessness doesn't help us here either.
Sadly so, I'm afraid. :cry: :cry:
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Kishkumen wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:56 pm
Gunnar wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:54 pm
You are probably right, but I think it is also true that there are significant number of Republicans who secretly hate him and realize what a danger he is, but are, so far, just too cowardly to speak out against him.
And, not speaking out, they enable his continuing reign of madness.
Also true! :cry:
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I am afraid and heart sick.
It matters that Trump won his office in a free and fair election. It matters that free people voluntarily chose to cloak Trump in power he will almost certainly abuse in far-reaching and destructive ways. Our country made the choice to walk down the dark path of Trump’s resentments and conspiracies. We will come to regret it.
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Dr. Sunstoned wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:06 pm
I am afraid and heart sick.
It matters that Trump won his office in a free and fair election. It matters that free people voluntarily chose to cloak Trump in power he will almost certainly abuse in far-reaching and destructive ways. Our country made the choice to walk down the dark path of Trump’s resentments and conspiracies. We will come to regret it.
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Yes, yes, and yes. A resounding vote for fascism, narcissism, conspiracism, hatred, amorality, and unfettered greed. America is gulping down this fecal stew and coming back for seconds.
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drumdude wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:17 pm
One prediction: There’s no way in hell Trump deports 20,000,000 people. It’s a Herculean task and he is one of the laziest presidents ever to inhabit the oval.
I’m thinking the same … (check out the third-to-last paragraph of this post to ajax a few weeks back):

viewtopic.php?p=2878065#p2878065

It’ll be interesting to see how this ‘promise’ pans out.
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canpakes wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:20 pm
drumdude wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 5:17 pm
One prediction: There’s no way in hell Trump deports 20,000,000 people. It’s a Herculean task and he is one of the laziest presidents ever to inhabit the oval.
I’m thinking the same ... (check out the third-to-last paragraph of this post to ajax a few weeks back):

viewtopic.php?p=2878065#p2878065

It’ll be interesting to see how this ‘promise’ pans out.
All he needs to do is allow more energetic underlings to do the job. They sure had no problem putting together a tome known as Project 2025.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
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Kishkumen wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:21 pm
canpakes wrote:
Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:20 pm
I’m thinking the same ... (check out the third-to-last paragraph of this post to ajax a few weeks back):

viewtopic.php?p=2878065#p2878065

It’ll be interesting to see how this ‘promise’ pans out.
All he needs to do is allow more energetic underlings to do the job. They sure had no problem putting together a tome known as Project 2025.
They’ll try, absolutely. Hence my mention of Miller. But with how the courts have tended to delay or strike down a lot of efforts at short-circuiting the immigration system, I’d expect that Trump will run into headwinds and then prefer to abandon the effort while blaming it on any number of other folks/entities. He’s all about minimum work and maximum show while pawning off or abandoning responsibility, and his base (and perhaps even the notable crazies like Laura Loomer) will prefer to make excuses for him than hold him to it.
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