I mean, basically the whole family is going to jail the moment their dad is out of office. We know it, and they know it. Trump himself has been sowing seeds to declare a loss illegitimate, and for years now he's occasionally joked that it'd be super cool for America to have a president for life like all the dictators he looks up to. So does anybody really think that in the event of a Biden win, Trump's gonna just give up the office without a fight and wait for the noose to tighten around his, and his children's, necks? There's gonna be a huge electoral fracas at the very least. There could be a lot of fash violence too. I don't really think it'll spark Civil War 2 by itself but it could certainly help. It seems to me like a lot of folks here talking about a Biden presidency are ignoring the minor hurdle of getting Trump to cede power in the first place.

  • kennystrife [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Consequences happen all the time for powerful people who piss off other powerful people. Look at Martin Shkreli. I'm not talking about justice being done at all.

    • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Not sure I agree on that one, Martin Shkreli wasn't imprisoned because the broke the law and hurt poor people, he was jailed because he defrauded rich investors (the billionaire class) promising returns he could never deliver. He was not a powerfull person, he was a small time grifter that got destroyed when he tried to play in the big league.

      • kennystrife [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Trump spent most of his life grifting rich people in NYC until they stopped investing in his businesses or giving him loans. Then he went from two-bit con artist nobody cared about to US president and his dirty laundry was suddenly very interesting to a lot of rich folk. If poor people benefit it's not because that was the intention.