• darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Liberals will be very angry and distraught. There will be a lot of crying and disbelief and impotent liberal rage and promises and demands and bargaining. They'll call it illegitimate. Over time that will die down. They'll insist the left is to blame (naturally) and that Bernie cost them the election but also it was Russia and also somehow China who got Trump re-elected. America's decline in the estimation of the EU and other allies will continue, her reputation will be damaged very badly for re-electing him. The CIA will have a lot of displeased people drinking themselves into liver trouble.

    Trump will probably be somewhat surprised himself. Who knows how he acts during his second term but he's probably going to continue being a racist but not terribly effective imperialist who makes life generally miserable for those in the US. The Dems may retake the Senate if not they probably will in 2022. At any rate they won't capture the House so Trump will continue ruling by executive orders, some of which the courts toss (because lol you can't infringe private property rights of the bourgeoisie even if it suits your racist, nativist crusade and you appointed the judge). The division of the US will increase. There will be sporadic incidents of reactionary terrorism and violence throughout his term but no massively deadly amount of them around the election as most will be soothed by his re-election into thinking they can calm down a bit.

    The cold war with China will continue (with Democratic support). The poor will continue to get poor while the rich gets rich. America will continue being imperialist but her reputation will be in tatters for some time. In other words nothing that major.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      At any rate they won’t capture the House

      but the dems have the house now?

  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Good question, though I think the answer from many right now will be 'more of the same'.

    Trump probably fires Fauci from the white house. That's been hinted to several times already.

    COVID will continue to rage out of control. Depending on how the senate turns out, they probably don't push for another COVID relief bill until next year and if Republicans have more say in it, we are looking at even less breadcrumbs passed our way.

    Liberals will quickly latch onto another Russiagate style conspiracy theory and will be screaming at the left for how Biden lost, that will be a given from the beginning if Trump wins.

    • RedCoat [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Liberals will quickly latch onto another Russiagate style conspiracy theory and will be screaming at the left for how Biden lost, that will be a given from the beginning if Trump wins.

      This time the left needs to use it, even if it's demonstrably not true as like 95% of you libs will have have voted for Biden anyways, make it clear that they need to earn votes from the left with actual compromises and policies we want like they think they need to earn them from the right.

    • CommieGirl69 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      it will be if biden wins too

      actually the internet is already insufferable

      except for chapo dot chat :hexbear:

  • Spike [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I think if Trump were to win it would be with an even larger disparity in the popular vote. So the libs will go nuclear on twitter against the electoral college, protest about it for a day, then go back to having brunch. Afterwards we all go back to hellworld.

    • kimilsungist [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      the best part about the " we could be at brunch right now " protesters is that you know they have not missed a single brunch since DT was elected

      • Spike [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        They skipped brunch once in insane numbers for that Women's March the day after his inauguration to achieve nothing and feel validated about it

        • Parysian [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Americans are so housebroken. People deadass think that protests work like The Secret, where you just will it into being instead of, you know, creating and using leverage.

          • Not_irony [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Thats how we ended racism, don't cha know? That nice man, Dr. King, was like, gosh, racism is bad and nobody knows it, I better tell'em. (don't know why I'm do an accent)

        • Not_irony [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          one of my radicalization moments. specially when weeks later Trump put in Justice Brett, who couldn't have been more comically perfect for the womens march / #metoo crowd to take down.

  • fluorescentlights [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    It's a futile waste to predict the future even in the short term. Just prepare for the worst.

    • Not_irony [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This person I'm dating asked what my 5 year plan is :deeper-sadness: