Biden wins: liberals pacified. Nothing changes. Fox News calls Biden a Marxist 24/7. Rightist militias kill more people. Four years later, Republicans have a carefully crafted Trump 2.0 ready to go, and shit gets worse.
Trump wins: incoherence for another four years as corporations and defense contractors try to maximize their profiteering before time is up. Rightist militias emboldened and kill more people. Left remains agitated but impotent. More unrest. DNC tries to run Cheaty Pete or Kamala in 2024, and lose.
Romney runs on a platform of Originalism, returning to the ways of the Founding Fathers, revoking the voting rights of the 47% that don't pay enough in taxes.
The only silver lining with Trump is he’s a moron that can’t do war
Don't buy this. He chickened out with Iran, sure, but we tried to overthrow Venezuela's government just a few months later. He was just looking for a softer target.
What do you expect from the last gasps of the American Empire? The military-industrial complex isn't going to fall apart quietly. It certainly doesn't make sense to bet on Trump taking a principled stand against it.
I don't think we will see any functional difference. Neither Trump nor Biden have the mental capacity to deal with the intricacies of this sort of thing first-hand, and while the attempted coup in Venezuela was a farce, the coup in Bolivia was extremely effective. The only thing that will make a difference is the second/third/fourth level political appointees and staffers that get dragged in with the administration, and both parties have a deep well of genuine monsters to draw from.
Chalking up the success or failure of foreign intervention to a single person is a mistake. US foreign policy is a vast machine with thousands of pieces working autonomously. These things don't live or die by the initiative of the President. Economic imperatives drive imperialism in spite of what any individual has to say about it. The CIA, industrialists, and financiers don't take no for an answer. They will go full Iran-Contra before they let a senile old man impact their revenue streams.
The President is just a figurehead for the machine. They have no more influence than Zaphod Beeblebrox.
i think it was matt and brace who were talking about it on an RNC night livestream, but they brought up how uninspiring and unimposing Tom Cotton is and i have to agree. he talks pretty openly about putting down uppity blacks with brute force and people on the far right want to hear that but he’s a pencil necked dweeb and has none of the charisma of trump, even if he’d be better at doing a fascism than trump is
he’s a theory nerd and he will never seen violent or angry or threatening enough to be elected president by the same demographics that sprung trump into power
It's a branching path I wonder about.
Biden wins: liberals pacified. Nothing changes. Fox News calls Biden a Marxist 24/7. Rightist militias kill more people. Four years later, Republicans have a carefully crafted Trump 2.0 ready to go, and shit gets worse.
Trump wins: incoherence for another four years as corporations and defense contractors try to maximize their profiteering before time is up. Rightist militias emboldened and kill more people. Left remains agitated but impotent. More unrest. DNC tries to run Cheaty Pete or Kamala in 2024, and lose.
Yes and it should be mentioned that in this scenario, they run to the right of Mitt Romney
They might run Mitt Romney.
Romney runs on a platform of Originalism, returning to the ways of the Founding Fathers, revoking the voting rights of the 47% that don't pay enough in taxes.
Romney 2024: bring back the active/passive citizen distinction
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Don't buy this. He chickened out with Iran, sure, but we tried to overthrow Venezuela's government just a few months later. He was just looking for a softer target.
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What do you expect from the last gasps of the American Empire? The military-industrial complex isn't going to fall apart quietly. It certainly doesn't make sense to bet on Trump taking a principled stand against it.
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Always were.
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I don't think we will see any functional difference. Neither Trump nor Biden have the mental capacity to deal with the intricacies of this sort of thing first-hand, and while the attempted coup in Venezuela was a farce, the coup in Bolivia was extremely effective. The only thing that will make a difference is the second/third/fourth level political appointees and staffers that get dragged in with the administration, and both parties have a deep well of genuine monsters to draw from.
Chalking up the success or failure of foreign intervention to a single person is a mistake. US foreign policy is a vast machine with thousands of pieces working autonomously. These things don't live or die by the initiative of the President. Economic imperatives drive imperialism in spite of what any individual has to say about it. The CIA, industrialists, and financiers don't take no for an answer. They will go full Iran-Contra before they let a senile old man impact their revenue streams.
The President is just a figurehead for the machine. They have no more influence than Zaphod Beeblebrox.
There's doing war 'normally,' then there's doing war. I'd expect Trump to be encouraged to bomb something by any number of people.
The great thing about war, is you can use it to justify repressions against your own population...
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Does anyone on the right even like him? Feels like they just put up with him.
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Tom Cotton is more realistic. All the fascism, but with more competence this time.
i think it was matt and brace who were talking about it on an RNC night livestream, but they brought up how uninspiring and unimposing Tom Cotton is and i have to agree. he talks pretty openly about putting down uppity blacks with brute force and people on the far right want to hear that but he’s a pencil necked dweeb and has none of the charisma of trump, even if he’d be better at doing a fascism than trump is
he’s a theory nerd and he will never seen violent or angry or threatening enough to be elected president by the same demographics that sprung trump into power
Dan Crenshaw seems like their answer to Pete Buttigieg, but did anyone even ask the question?
Wouldn’t be surprised if the party tries to push him, but the voters reject him and go for like Sean Hannity or something instead.