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I've mentioned before what the GOP could look like in a decade or two after Trump's influence is removed. I hold the belief that each Republican president will push further until one of them drops a nuke. Like, if Trump pulled his J6th stunt in 1993 to overthrow Clinton and install Bush Sr. for a 2nd term, Bush Sr. would've been onboard with tossing Trump in jail, right? And even Bush Jr. wasn't stupid enough to attack Iran. So with that in mind...
It might take a GOP president or two, but I think that a 764 (or equivalent) president is coming - a president so awful that Trump looks like a perfect guardian for your child in comparison. You know, a president who wants the destruction of order and society because he doesn't just see the US as corrupt and evil, but all human societies as corrupt and evil, and in need of immediate destruction. The rich would support this president's rise because the president would support the destruction of China, along all other competitors to American business, and would show some results during the campaign by adopting 764-tier tactics to murder innocent people abroad.
This president would view Trump's tendency to TACO as a sign of a Democrat plant in the Republican Party, and would promise to exterminate every living thing in Iran as revenge when elected. Then this president would nuke Iran and laugh when the rest of the world is horrified. And then nuke anyone who tries to retaliate, because killing anyone this president doesn't like in horrible ways is this president's goal.
Only way to prevent presidents like this from appearing is to make the US a better place to live. 764-esque organizations prey on the mentally ill and desperate, so making the US a great place to live will stifle their recruitment.
Mate, stop getting high and watching Captain Planet reruns. It's unhealthy.
You are talking about folks who are profoundly mentally ill and radiate malice. They might become a Steven Miller, but they could never get elected. It's like the same dill holes who think they are going to get elected ina platform of fascism and then suddenly unmask like muahaha! I've been a secret socialist all along!
And the James Bond villains that would need to support them are fucking morons. Musk is the closest we can come and look at how fucking stupid he is. And useless. He blew half a billion dollars and accomplished nothing.
If these fucking minty-fresh suppositories destroy civilization, it'll be by accident, not part of some Machiavellian plot. Someone will invent a way to transmute oxygen to Bitcoin and it's all over. That's the worst they can do.
The current tech bros and Trump all legit seem like Captain Planet villains.
But I ENJOY the Captain Planet reruns! The Season 2 finale is amazing.
Why do you think conservatives fight so hard against things like science, education and universal healthcare?
Conservatives don't want a well-educated and happy populace. They want people miserable and stupid enough to buy into the kinds of narratives Faux pushes on those ignorant and desperate enough to fall into that spiral.
Yeah, and making people miserable and stupid just feeds into 764's numbers. It's awful.
Literal fearwanking but this sounds pretty cool to me if it actually happened. Humanity is a blight. Nuke the whole world, just don't do it for the wrong reasons (petty appeal-to-god racism).