Severe and thorough retribution.
Republicans MUST pay.
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Remember maga chanting lock her up with Hilary? Time to return the favor.
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New Nuremberg trials for all in, and allies propping up, the former regime
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Transparent audit of everything trump broke and real-time checklist of process to restore critical needs, prioritizing human lives.
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A lasting and appropriate punishment for trump himself
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Recovering the funds to do all of the above from trump and complicit billionaires in the private sector - starting with musk for his own crimes against humanity.
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A job corp to employ all of the AI layoffs, similar to the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. Needs a healthy vetting to avoid left over trump chuds
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Expand the Supreme Court
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End Citizens United
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All trump appointees, in all positions, are removed from offices immediately. If not convicted in new Nuremberg trials, they can still reapply for positions and be consists as any other
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The demolished east wing will be rebuilt as a simple building and used as a museum to the attrocities that trump committed and the people and institutions that enabled him. An artist will be commissioned to design a pitch black facade, perhaps in the shape of the old building. It should look out of place and awkward, and stand forever as a sort of black eye on America. To show how the nation was injured and not cover it up. There will be legislation to perpetually fund the museum and make admission free to all.
The future will require a simple understanding - there was not an equivalency here, no two valid sides. The was objective wrong and right. No more pretending
Trump-appointed Supreme Court judges can be removed by a single person. They need to be at the right place at the right time and have a good kit and aim. While this could physically undo the appointments, it would decrease the trust in the country's safety, as all assasinations do.
US has always acted like a villain. CIA overthrowing governments, NSA spying on EU companies/politicians with US admitting they did for "US interests" (maximizing US companies' profits by cheating the rest of us); arming terrorist groups and just causing chaos around the world or if self-interest while we have to pretend we're OK with it or they will cut of trade. They are the only western country that uses torture as official policy, doesn't think food and shelter are you human rights etc etc.
And people mostly don't care or forget very quickly. Next time elect someone who can speak full sentences and is not so blatantly corrupt, show some goodwill, and people will forget within months.
Good or evil in this case doesnt really matter. The key was consistency. America had been a world stabilizer for almost 100 years(even if the world stabilization was achived by destabilizing other nations). The world relied on that concept for global trade and the markets that brought with it.
That illusion is now shattered. The world knows its always a 4 year election cycle away from complete chaos. The trust to be earned back will take as long as it takes for humanity to forget. And it would also require us to be stable for that ammount of time. This means a minimum of the lifetimes of the people currently alive and possibly never.
But i am betting it never recovers to the same degree. America isnt the same power today as it was when it gained its place in the world. And China / europe are more powerful now than they were in the 50's. We are no longer a world leader in education, manufacturing etc. Its possible we could speed up the recovery with some political changes to the system, but i dont have much hope for it. It would require the people in power doing things agaisnt their own interests.
Start by IMPRISONING those that let this happen. Every single complicit PoS politician who willingly went along with the Pedo Party in order to make money. Disgusting vile filth deserve to be on prison for the rest of their lives.
All of them jailed and all of their ill-gotten gains taken from them.
Reverse all the damage and throw every pedophile in jail and sieze their assets, throw every grifter oligarch in jail and sieze their assets, every Israeli backed politician in jail for treason and sieze their assets, abolish the electoral college, install universal healthcare, install free college, abolish private equity and execute the entire trump administration for treason and crimes against humanity. This is the bare minimum
if you look at simpsons, trump was the last person that ruined the country in that What if episode, and lisa has a hard time fixing it. what turmp has done cant be fixed by the next president, biden barely did it, but he was not unscathed. Only someone with potential another "obama, sanders" can hope for something else. DNC is currently trying to push Newsom into the role, and you all know who he supports already. Kelly maybe considering, but i havnt seen him actually saying it offiicially,.
schumer, slotkin, fetterman and like a dozen other SENATORS are all Aipac money recipients. hakeem and like the same amount are also supporting israel. also the way a GOP ruins the economy to set up for the blame of the next dem and they get be re-elected next presidency over, plus there are DNC members that are totally complicit via(purposely losing elections).
and the refusal to release details on'24 election tampering investigation. if they had continued thier attack on zohran in the media, they likely wouldve lost seats in both houses, they lay off the attack in the hopes people will forget that transgression existed. people need remember this, likewise with the Luigi's capture in 2024 which resulted in the same thing.
Even if a completely sane, smart, and wonderful president were elected, and every country loved them, why would they trust us? We are always one crazy election away from... well, this.
Arrest every single notable trump cabinet member and media dicksuck. Then investigate everything trump touched and prosecute it all. Investigate all the tech companies. I would need to see multiple CEO level people being put in a jail cell to even begin to regain some trust. They need to regulate their fucking monopolies and enforce some anti trust and clean up their broadcast regulation. It cannot be the case that these people can go online and spread the most insane lies over and over without punishment.
Clarify their position on the world stage and if Trumps actions were contrary to that then they need to diplomatically bridge that gap. Rejoin the climate accords, rejoin nato and apologize to the world.
Then I would be open to eventually re trusting them.
first they need to break up ellisons monopolys on media companies.
Just execute the oligarchy. It would help a LOT
IMHO it depends a lot on:
- how he became this next Prez
- and what exactly has happened to this one then.
Gaining trust starts with accountability. People who have abused their position of power need appropriate punishment and be made to pay for the damage they have done.
We have taken a "let's just move on" strategy too often in the past. The American people aren't going to buy it this time.
As far as trust for America the country is concerned, holding guilty parties accountable will help that too, but mostly what it will take is time.
So... no, trust will never be gained back. /S
I'm not expecting that it will. American politicians don't have a great record in that area.
Probably not a lot. I remember 2009 well enough that if the events of that year are any indication, the next US president will just get a Nobel Peace Price for the achievement of not being Donald Trump.
Lol, yep. It's hilarious reading the replies here, as if every government outside of US is some ultra liberal paradise that cares a ton about what the US fascists been doing. Lula was championed for not being Bolsonaro, Magyar is championed for not being Orban. As long as the next owner of russia is not putin, stops the war and returns to the status quo of mostly terrorizing their own people - everyone will restore relations with them as if everything is perfect. It would take much less effort for the likes of US.
Lula was championed for not being Bolsonaro
At least Bolsonaro didn't break the Internet with an "online safety" law that includes age verification. So much for authoritarianism being a trait of conservatism...
A complete rewrite of the constitution. The 'American Experiment' is a failure. Start again.
Unrealistic, I know, but Trump has revealed the massive fundamental flaws in your system that was born from racism and genocide.
It's not so much your constitution, but the fact it's not enforced. Or your Supreme Court makes up shit that's not in it, like immunity for the president. The executive needs a complete redesign. In parliamentary democracies the executive is held by a group rather than an an individual, and can be overthrown at any point in time if parliament decides it. You should look into something like that.
If only they had some sort of vote of no confidence mechanism...
US citizen living abroad. Not going to happen in one presidential term and the US has probably permanently fucked itself in terms of special currency/status/soft power ever getting back to the level it was.
Have the US join the EU as non-voting member.
Can't be done by the next us president.
This is gonna be decades.
I doubt we’ll ever recover from this.
Depends. I'm sure Cascadia and ColonialUSA will make and keep friends, but the central states far less so.
It all depends how they re-organize after the country is split in 4.
Unless, things get so fucked that it results in multiple landslide elections for the opposing party. If they had a supermajority in every branch, they could practically rewrite it all from scratch.
That's still not enough. Even if you rewrite the rules, you need to show that the opposing side also supports the same rules.
Hence the end of rules-based order.
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Yeah the next president would have to come from a new party is literally the first thing on my long list of what would need to be done
No, the age of America is over.
The Trump preaidencies aren't a radical break from the past, he's just an unveiling of it's darkest, ugliest, impulses and the logical conclusion of its ideals.
Maybe European mainstream leaders can convince themselves to get back into bed with US imperialism, as we benefit from it so much, but US in the eyes of the people never recovered post Iraq II, and across the whole world the US is now primarily seen as the demagogic bully that it is.
The US must learn to get along with its neighbours and treat other nations and people with respect.
It's going to have to be a decades long process. Which is probably why it won't happen, because we'll need a consistent restraint and level headedness over multiple presidencies. Which won't happen, best case scenario is a Democrat wins the next two and then the replaced by Republican who is just going to be Trump part 2. It will never recover.
A complete overhaul of the electoral process that allowed fascists to gain complete control.
A complete overhaul of the society that became so sick that they willingly put the fascists there. Twice.
A complete overhaul of the elittest pedophile bi/trillionaire class that has unfettered control over every branch of state and federal government and meddles in foreign affairs across the globe.
In short: The USA would need to be torn down and rebuilt.
you left out a complete overhaul of the "justice" system that allowed a convicted fucking felon to not only avoid any consequence whatsoever, but attain to the most powerful position in the world. it's absolutely mind-boggling
The silver(ish) lining is that he is actively reducing how much power that position actually has in the world. Our soft power has been demolished.
Only speaking for myself, the following are necessary, but not sufficient:
- Hand him over to the International Court of Justice, along with his entire regime. *...including Schumer and Fetterman.
- Initiate prosecution of the actual criminals without fear or favor: ICE, cops, Musk, DOGE, wage-thieving employers, et cetera.
- Lock up the billionaires. Don't be a lawless dictator, though, there is 110% some good, legal reason that can be found. (But shoot 'em if they resist.)
- Bomb the IDF out of existence and round up illegal foreign agents (AIPAC, et al.)
I have suggestions if they want to get serious on Day 2, as well.
To fix it quickly you are going to have to abuse your power immediately like Republicans have. But you are also going to need at minimum a majority in the house and Senate, preferably a supermajority which I doubt that happens.
Prosecute traitors immediately.
Immediately expand the supreme court
Help install safeguards so this never happens again. Like for presidential nominess for secretary of defense or education. Only select people who work in that field and with knowledge of the job can nominate people for consideration and the president can only hire those nominated
the problem is the abuse of power. you won't gain back trust by abusing power. this thinking is the reason it won't happen
Start by rolling back every shit executive order Trump made.
Make it safe for us Canadian to go on vacation in the USA again.
Prosecute Trump's entire cabinet.
No, they’ve lost it. Europe will turn to themselves and everyone else will turn to China. America’s never getting this back.
The next president will be JD Vance, and he will regain a lot of trust by implementing the 25th amendment.
dont think jd vance by himself will be electable, they want TRUMP, or a trump clone.
He won't be elected. The 25th Amendment allows for him to initiate a coup and finish Trump's term.
He won't do that until the end of January 2027 so he can be president for 10 years.
Head down to the Winchester, have a pint and let it all blow over.
In all seriousness, this is irreparable damage that will take more than a few terms to put right, that's even if you have an administration that is willing to make amends. The entirety of this administration needs purging. Every single one, from the supreme court, to the FBI, CIA...anyone with any links or support for the current leeches in power.
- proportional representation
- modern constitution
- direct presidential election
- apolitical judiciary
- apolitical law enforcement
... would be a good start.
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