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the GOP is on track to retain the senate and has a supreme court majority - in theory these are things that would help trump but you’re also seeing GOP leadership coming to the conclusion they don’t necessarily need trump (or at least trump-in-power) to harness his populism or to completely hamstring an incoming biden administration that is already playing the suck-up “bipartisan” game for them anyway. like, are any of them really ready to balkanize the US over donald trump (or more specifically to stop joe fucking biden? of course not).
and even from trump’s perspective - this is a guy who is dumb as fuck and his reputation for taking his ball and going at the slightest sign of adversity is legendary - when the rubber hits the road, what do you think is more attractive to him? risking life and limb and an actual military action for 4 more years? or negotiating some immunity/pardon as a goodwill measure and then fucking off to make tons of money running Trump TV for 10 years or more?
i genuinely thought shit might pop off on election day and it didn’t - in fact the opposite happened and despite both sides converging during a tense moment Philadelphia ended up turning into a mini-dance party. it’s hard to visualize anything that could be incendiary enough to generate enough popular support (even among chuds) to galvanize a coup. i guess if i’m wrong you can screenshot this and be like “lol u thought” but - nah.
No lol, he’s just throwing a temper tantrum. Trump is too stupid to actually pull off a coup.
he fell into it ass-backwards because he’s a savant at being famous, but it won’t help him pull off a coup
Trump getting elected was somewhat a miracle. 2016 should have been an easy win for Hillary, but she somehow managed to lose to Donald fucking Trump.
2016 should have been an easy win for the democrat, there could never have been an easy win for Hillary because almost everyone who doesn’t live in New York, DC or San Francisco hates her fucking guts.
So did Bush 2. I don’t think you need to be smart to do that. You just need someone smart to run shit. Bush had Rove and Trump had Conway.
Trump is such a wild card that its really hard to tell how much is just “show and spectacle” and what might be an honest attempt at a coup.
I’ve never given Trump much credit for actually wanting anything beyond attention and adulation, so like, how much work would he want to have to do to get a coup going?
It doesn’t really seem like there is a block of behind the scenes power brokers wanting him to stay as a figurehead either. The long game right wingers already got more Tax Cuts and the Supreme Court packed so they don’t really need him any more. Biden is a calm conservative which might be better for the stock market and business deregulation projects.
He’ll be removed from the White House but spend the next four years insisting to his supporters that he’s the legitimate President in exile after the Deep State performed a coup for Joe Biden, and the hogs are going to become even more like Mad Max characters. He’ll have his own cabinet of loyalists, probably a lot of Q anon supporters, and like others said he’ll basically be the anti-President.
Capital wants Biden
It wants a retrenched empire for the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie whereas Trump represents the local booj. They seem him as a liability
However if Trumps coup gains traction they will switch quite quickly to supporting Trump because if Trump absolutely hunkers down they won’t want Biden pushing “too far” to discredit bourgeois democracy
In all honesty I’m excited :sicko-yes:
Yeah can’t wait for people to die over which braindead boomer oversees the last days of the worlds largest pyramid scheme. Real exciting.
Revolution ain’t a tea party
Under Heaven there is chaos - the situation is perfect
Revolutions are the locomotive of history
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves
etc. etc. ad infinitum
And honestly, if you end up dying for either Biden or Trump who cares
This isn’t a revolution, there will be no change in who holds power in the United States over this.
You can keyboard warrior all you want, and quote whatever revolutionaries you want while you’re checking your phone on the toilet but even though you may not be actual people are affected by this.
And honestly, if you end up dying for either Biden or Trump who cares
Yeah who cares about innocent people caught in the crossfire. Fuck them, right?
Capital wants Biden.
Trump sends in a team of marines to beat a single digit billionaire to death.
Capital is fine with Trump.
You are surprised to find me so calm in the midst of crime? Let me then say a few words apropos. I fain would have you become as apathetic as I—and I think you soon shall. I noticed yesterday that you were struck, even startled, by my equanimity in the thick of the horrors we were committing and I seem to remember that you accused me of lacking pity for the men our debauchery sacrificed.
Oh, Juliette, banish all doubt thereof: Nature has arranged everything, informed everything, hers is the responsibility for all you see and all there is. Has she given equal strength, equal beauty, equal grace to all the creatures wrought by her hand? Of course not. Since she desires that each particular thing or constitution have its particular contour or hue, so also she wills that fates and fortunes be not alike. The luckless ones chance puts in our clutches, or who excite our passions, have their place in Nature’s scheme as do the stars in the firmament and the sun that gives us light; and ’tis as certain an evil one commits in meddling with this wise economy as ’twould be were one to confound cosmic operations, were that crime within the scope of our possibilities…
