I was coming more from a “Kissinger was somehow involved in so many war crimes through post ww2 American history” like Forrest was everywhere, not the “he’s not very smart” perspective. Trump is WAY dumber but hasn’t put in nearly as many years as ole Hank

I think that’s still Kissinger but it’s become a much closer race than it used to be

Marx would view Cramers existence as an eldritch abomination beyond nightmares

How… how does the inverse Cramer apply here?

Everyone should be voting anyways, but I agree there will be outright attempts to interfere in the outcome but unless the outcome is a GOP landslide they say it’s illegitimate. Our response is going to be the bellwether of where the future goes

I was actually more shocked by how many people were extremely shocked it happened again, the DNC have run the same playbook in three elections now and the only reason it worked once was covid

9/11 was the single most successful act of war/terrorism in human history, bin Laden succeeded in ways I’m sure he never imagined.

Yes but also it seems kinda foolish to have something like that connected to the internet at all. I can see some use cases for wanting centralized visibility on infrastructure like freezers but what is the situation they would need to be shut off remotely?

From my perspective there’s four broad scenarios that might occur.

The first one assumes

1. midterm elections are legitimate
2. the democrats sweep
3. they then immediately and aggressively use that power to start unfucking everything, prosecute the fascists, expand and stack the Supreme Court, and majorly overhaul the parts of the system that allowed Trump and his backers to gain power in the first place. If that happens I will be shocked and happy to be proven wrong.

The second assumes the first two, but in place of 3 they continue the pattern established by the Biden admin of milquetoast appeasement and “nothing will fundamentally change”. That will just lead to more growing frustration with the democrats and disillusionment with the American system. If trumps alive in 28 he will refuse to step down and no one will stop him, if he croaks and JD takes office hes going to continue degrade the US because he’s Peter Theils puppet even more than Trump is and Theil wants the Fed to collapse so he can be a god king in a corporate city state(for more on that look into Curtis Yarvin and “the dark enlightenment”)

The final two are much more simple and in my opinion more likely than either of the aforementioned. Assuming the elections are not legitimate and it’s a manufactured red wave there’s only two ways that goes, the American electorate decides it’s unacceptable and rises up to stop it, or we just sit back and do nothing.

The worst and best scenarios are the only ones where I think the US stays together. A revolution would require negotiations for where things go from there and to your point California could easily go their own way and be fine, Texas might just want to even if it’s not as good a plan. And there’s also so many factions within the maga that want to carve things up for either religious, racist, or corporate/profit reasons.

I hope I’m just a cynical pessimist but I don’t have much faith in the existence of the United States federal government without major reforms for much longer

I think once the US ultimately ballanizes after the collapse there will be some establishing new diplomatic ties with the entities that emerge to control the countries that emerge from the rubble.

The actual state and how it’s structured is the problem, if the three west coast states decide to form Pacifica or whatever I doubt the EU is gonna spite the new country because of the American empire. Some countries will get along with the new Republic of Texas and other will prefer trade relations with Appalachia or Rustopia(parts of the Midwest)

I dunno how the chips are gonna fall exactly but I doubt the actual land mass and the people living there will be pariahs after the fall happens

Wild that there are two people named David Alan with a last name that rhymes with ear