Remember 2016 when the media gave Trump an absurd amount of free publicity by covering every stupid thing he said and did then he won? It wasn’t the only reason, but it clearly didn’t help.
2016? Shit the press gave him all the free press when he was doing the birther shit with Obama.
He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile.
Honestly think he'd be safer in North Korea. Kim Jong Un could at least see him as an ally of "the world is against us."
Putin already views Trump as a puppy that makes messes on the carpet... while running a dog fighting ring.
Personally I hope so. They're burning the world, it'll at least be fun to watch them flounder in the process.
Hell, I think my biggest problem is I can't think of anything dumb enough before they've already got it
I used to think I was a pessimist. But now after multiple "There's no way people are that dumb" and being wrong I must be an absolute optimist.
Or how about the part where all their chicken’s bland as shit. “Spicy” my ass.
Popeyes is the superior chicken fast food. I'll fight anyone on this hill.
I've had practice eating at Popeyes.
Boy howdy I'm just imagining HIPAA with this.
I have one for those that worked at Disney World. "What time is the 3 o'clock parade?"
I believe the response is in the territory of just because it's bad now doesn't mean it won't get so much worse.
I mean, I'm amazed we're not 1st in incarceration... and Project 2025 thinks that's losers numbers.
I mean... worse is different.
ACLU didn't say we're going from a shining world to bad... they're saying "OH BOY IF YOU THINK THINGS ARE BAD NOW!"
I'm going to assume this isn't "lottery" ultra-wealthy where you can spend it all and suddenly be back to destitute. So you say you wouldn't live that differently, and immediately begin with "quitting work." That's the first step, because being wildly wealthy does change you incrementally because in this situation you've just bought yourself a commodity that once spent can't be bought back, time.
You now have 40 hours a week that you were giving to someone else. Add on 5-10 hours for commute time (.5 to hour commute) that can get up to 50 hours for whatever the hell you want to do.
Buying a new car just a quick glance at Carmax and you're looking at around $13,000 for a standard sedan. Not many have that pocket change going around, much less to buy the house that at low end houses cost $100,000 so you're done, no worries, no muss, no fuss and you didn't give some company your money in interest because you bought for cash. And on buying houses, as competitive as the market is, buying with cash right now at least in my region is about the only way to do it.
So lets assume you're working from home right now, you gained back 40 hours. Hey, I want to have a party/trip/etc! Well, your buddies are all working, possibly can't afford to go on trip, night out to eat. Offer to pay, but it's still the getting the time off. They've got bills to worry about, the ones you're not even thinking about. Sometimes they'll show up, other times, not so much. So either you're out fishing and working on your hobbies during that 40, or working to a new project job wise which really by this point is how the wealthy keep getting more and more money because build up a new thing, hire someone else to run it, passive income. But you don't have your friends to hang out with, travel and the like, you'll run into the others that don't have those concerns because you can buy your way around inconveniences (airport seats are uncomfortable, but those lounges are nice. Why have to take connecting flights? etc) those are also going to be the ultra wealthy. And they have a standard of living that will look more and more "normal" to you. Little bit of peer pressure, little bit of "take a ride in my Lambo" and finding it fun, it's a frog in the pot situation, you'll go back to your roots and go "How did I live like this?"
Gee... wonder if this ever could have been predicted when Patriot Act was brought out.
I disagree with this. It'll take some revolution, but can be avoided bloody.
On revolution I do say vote. The 2022 election was a turnout of 52% of the voting age population. Just barely over half, and that's the second highest turnout to a nonpresidential election year since 2000. All the oxygen always goes to the Presidency but what OP is dealing with comes up in local elections, and the local and state shit deals far more with your day to day than the national. Hell, when national laws even come up, weed is still schedule 1 "more dangerous than cocaine" to the federal government but just about every state has legalized it.
It's not a quick solution, and it's not as simple anymore as "go out and vote" but gotta kick everyone up who hasn't given a shit (if they're not voting, think they'll back you in a revolution?). It's a fucking slow ass slog that takes daily fighting, like I've got a group that I'm the one who posts the ballots, the dates, the links, honestly do everything but bang on their doors and drag them to the polls but it's a little bit that helps. As I saw "A vote is not a valentine. You're not professing your love for the candidate. It's a chess move for the world you want to live in."
The Republicans have been doing that for years, they've never let a single dem run even for superintendent across the country uncontested. They worked slow and methodically to get the supreme court. Their revolution can be argued to have started as far back as Nixon. We're arguably at their end game, but it seems like they've overreached this time, it's time to start clawing back territory.
The reason though I'm against a bloody revolution is, yes it's useful as a last resort, but it honestly is at that in the chess analogy above picking up the table, throwing it in the room and starting a riot. You hope you come out okay but at that point it's really up in the air who comes out on top. Guillotines come up a lot, and France is doing pretty well right now. But remember between modern France and the guillotines was a messy time post revolution that was stabilized by someone who declared himself Emperor and attempted to conquer all of Europe.