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Gotta start wondering if Joey and the DMC et al are losing on purpose at this point. It would take nothing to win this presidency against Trump. 8 mean the barest break in the beatings would be enough for us plebs. But i think they kinda liked the open grift not to mention the donation train.
In a perverse way, a Trump presidency would legitimize the Dems (and this false democracy) for that much longer.
Democrats are trying very hard to win while playing by the rules of capital and empire. They can't pivot to winning policies not because they are trying to lose, but because all the people who'd seriously consider those policies are drummed out of the party.
This but also capitalism has reached a very late stage in the US and Bernie-esque policies, while probably still achievable in a practical sense, are probably enough of a threat to the interests of capital that it might have motivated Business Plot reboot or it's possible that it would disturb the fragile balance of the market enough that it might be enough to cause the house of cards to start collapsing.
Think like if the US nationalised healthcare or intervened in the real estate market and started providing public housing - there's a non-zero chance that this would pop a bubble in the market that would cause a ripple effect throughout the other bubbles like in the finance industry such as BlackRock which might just level entire sections of the US economy.
I'm lowkey hoping that Tesla goes belly-up in the near future and this is the catalyst for exactly what I'm describing above.
America dying in a blowing up tesla would be extremely funny. I would be laughing in the bread line.
My lathe prediction is still bitcoin bailout
I hadn't actually considered the poetic aspect of that until you mentioned it lol.
Could you imagine the psychic damage that Elon Musk would sustain if that happened?
The dude was so wounded when he got booed at that surprise appearance at a Dave Chapelle show that his staff nearly called a wellness check on him.
If Tesla not only sinks but it takes down a large part of the economy, or maybe it even levels the US economy, he would absolutely get scapegoated for it. If his reputation took a hit like that I think it would break his brain permanently.
Of course they are
It's easier to do $1000 a plate fundraising dinners about how evil the Trump Republicans are when you're fighting against them, far harder to do that shit when you're in power
Trump might destroy our alliance with Europe and weaken NATO and cause general chaos amongst the imperialists
I had some degree of faith in this before but idk, he seemed to get reined in somewhere along the way after he started to stray too far from obstructing US foreign policy and into actively undermining it (think how he flipped on his position on the DPRK for some indiscernible reason - either he was on a grift and trying to woo the DPRK government and he entered into the following phase of trying to railroad his objectives with them and they said "Lol no" so Trump decided that they were terrible because they weren't willing to play ball in exactly how he demanded they should, or the CIA had had enough of his shenanigans and decided to show him the Zapruder extended cut or they dug up the Epstein Cinematic Universe movies that he was on set for during the recording and they said pull your shit in or we're really going to make you into a star.)
Whatever the truth of the matter is, I feel like his policy on this stuff shifted pretty significantly and kinda out of nowhere. The dude's clearly the most stable genius out there though so it's hard to tell whether there's something behind the scenes directly shaping these changes or if he's just a wrecking ball that's careening between one thing and the next.
Whether it's true or not the liberals believe it is true. They are genuinely scared of that outcome.
Somehow they are oblivious to how much damage Biden has done with the way Israel has been handled though.
God I wish that everything that liberals believed was true. Just think about it:
Communists have infiltrated colleges, and maybe even the entire education system
China is planning an invasion of the US
Trump is going to destroy the US alliance with Europe and break up NATO
Communists are a large and well-organised enough that they can undermine elections and they have enough people influence to sway people's politics
Capitalism is good, actually, and it's going to improve the lives of people in the developing world and things are improving for the people of the US
Voting for the Democrats will stop fascism
The "good guys" are good and the "bad guys" are bad
All we need is to tweak at the dials in order to make things right
The global hegemon is a benevolent force in the world
Shit, don't threaten me with a good time...
You could randomly pick any one of these things and if you wished it into reality I'd be overjoyed at the outcome.
God I know that feeling
Back when I was a radlib I would sometimes think "I don't believe in the American dream but I really wish I could"
I don't think the US president has that much power, the ruling class will probably make sure atlanticism continues unimpeded
Watch as the US takes the europeans with them as they drown
presidents actually have immense amounts of power (on paper) regarding treaties, alliances, war and foreign policy
I also remember during the Trump term a bunch of articles with titles like "the brave people on Trump's cabinet who ignore his stupid ideas."
Clearly it's far from total control since Trump still tore up the Iran deal and raised tensions in Israel, Korea and elsewhere, but I believe the deep state will defend NATO from him if they have to.
Nothing I would love to see more than a chud civil war between the Nat Sec deep state types and the Trump hogs. Heighten those contradictions baby
Love seeing our enemies fighting each other
That civil war would be over in five minutes, it would just be Jan 6 on a bigger scale. A bunch of Trumpers dressed up like Vikings would get drone striked.
The CIA also has immense amounts of power in staging an assassinations of presidents.
I think biden knows he would not have won even if he did not allow any genocide so he is doing whatever he wants to do. I remember his polling sucked even before all of this