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Well, Trump was adversarial to certain media outlets. Others, like FOX News, were All-But-State TV. They'd parrot whatever he said as the god given truth and he'd parrot whatever they said as truth. If Trump said that the election was stolen and COVID was no big deal, that's how FOX reported it. If they said that vaccines were dangerous and that immigrants were replacing "real Americans" (read: white people), he'd parrot that right back.

Also, adversarial relationships are good to a point. Biden is asking the media to cover things honestly. Trump was calling the media "The Enemy Of The People" and threatening to go after them (or encouraged his supporters to go after them) unless they fell in line. There's a huge difference between those two adversarial relationships.

My best case scenario for the parties (assuming we keep the two party system and don't get something like Ranked Choice or Approval Voting in place) is that the Republican party vanishes. Then, the Democrats can split into Progressives and Centrists.

Same here. He could have retired after 9/11 and would have been seen as a hero and "America's Mayor." Granted, the accolades wouldn't have been earned, but few weeks have looked deep underneath the glowing reputation.

Instead, he hitched his wagon to a narcissistic wannabe dictator. He tried to overthrow the election results. He repeatedly defamed two election workers. He destroyed every shred of his good reputation multiple times over and he has nobody to blame but himself. No, not even Trump. Rudy could have cut away from Trump at any point but chose not to. This is all on Rudy.

They all keep claiming that they've got iron-clad proof that the election was stolen and that it will all be proven in the next court case or will be released in 2 weeks. Then the iron-clad proof fails to show up. Then, they claim that the judge is part of the conspiracy and refused to allow it or that Those Evil Liberals somehow prevented them from showing the evidence. But don't worry because they'll show it in the next trial/in two weeks. Repeat again and again and again.

There are quite a few on the right already saying this. "We're a republic, not a democracy!"

Now, now, now. Trump is way more than a 30 year career criminal!

Also, the President has no official role in the elections process. At most, the Justice Department might investigate violations of the Voting Rights Act (what little remains), but the President wouldn't be involved in this at all.

And instructing an armed crowd to march on Congress to stop the certification of the vote of DEFINITELY not in his official duties. So even if we accept that Presidents are immune while doing official duties (which they aren't), then he's still not immune.

Like in our dreams?

My job was in person until the pandemic hit. I was sure I'd hate remote working, but it turns out that I love it and I'm way more productive than I was in the office. (No coworkers stopping by to chat for one thing.) My job has now moved to the parent company which is about 10 hours away from me so I now permanently work from home. No expectation that I ever come into the office. (There's no way I'd do that commute!)

A few times, I was unsure of my job's future stability and looked around. Being a web developer shifting technologies while at 48 can feel really unstable. You're too old for many people. You don't have deep experience with specific technologies. It's frightening to think that I could age out of my job two decades before retirement.

My local job market isn't great, but work from home means that I can look nationwide (or further if I want) if need be. It gives me a lot more options and doesn't mean I have to uproot my family and travel halfway around the country just to have a job. (Something that I couldn't do for various reasons.)

My job was in person until the pandemic hit. I was sure I'd hate remote working, but it turns out that I love it and I'm way more productive than I was in the office. (No coworkers stopping by to chat for one thing.) My job has now moved to the parent company which is about 10 hours away from me so I now permanently work from home. No expectation that I ever come into the office. (There's no way I'd do that commute!)

A few times, I was unsure of my job's future stability and looked around. Being a web developer shifting technologies while at 48 can feel really unstable. You're too old for many people. You don't have deep experience with specific technologies. It's frightening to think that I could age out of my job two decades before retirement.

My local job market isn't great, but work from home means that I can look nationwide (or further if I want) if need be. It gives me a lot more options and doesn't mean I have to uproot my family and travel halfway around the country just to have a job. (Something that I couldn't do for various reasons.)

To be fair, there seem to be many on the left that don't get this either. I've seen people insisting that they won't vote for Biden again because he didn't enact a long list of Progressive desires.

They completely ignore that Biden can't just singlehandedly declare new laws. He needs things to get through Congress. Then, he can pass them, but they can be overturned by the Supreme Court. With the 50-50 split Senate and the Republican controlled House, it's difficult to get much passed. With the conservative Supreme Court, it's hard to keep things from getting overturned.

If Biden had large Democratic majorities in the House/Senate/Supreme Court, then perhaps there would be a valid criticism, but even then blame wouldn't be focused on Biden alone.

That's always my first thought as well. If the President has criminal immunity, then Biden could order the FBI to arrest Trump and send him to Guantanamo without notifying any courts/lawyers/family members. He could then have prominent Republicans/right wing figures killed in "accidents."

Not that Biden would do any of that stuff, but he theoretically could. Do any right wingers really want to give Biden that much power?

And that's assuming that the rape is reported. Many rapes go unreported for various reasons. And requirements that the woman has to report the rape before she might be allowed to have an abortion are meant to force women into public shaming/threatening situations. ("How dare she accuse POPULAR COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER of raping her! Look at what she was wearing. She was asking for it! Why was she drinking at all? The second a woman takes a drink of alcohol, she consents to have sex.")

And people could have Southeast Asian Santas while others have black Santas and still others have white Santas. Nobody (except the racists) is saying that Santa has to be ONE ethnicity and can't be any others. Just because one family has a black Santa doesn't mean EVERY Santa needs to be black.

I agree that it would be stupid of Marvel to change Blade to a white guy (and that Marvel would never do it), but it would be theoretically possible given that he's a fictional character - just like Santa Claus. Making black Santas hurts nobody. Well, except racists who see any black representation as injurious to their fragile white ego.

Just look at the "life of the mother exceptions." There was a recent case where the fetus was all but dead and the woman's life was in danger. She actually wanted the child, but carrying it to term and delivering it could have killed her.

Seems like an ideal life of the mother situation, right? Except the doctors said she wasn't close enough to death. So she sued in court to get the law overturned. She won the right to have an abortion, but then the AG threatened the hospitals/doctors. Then the Texas Supreme Court ruled that she was at risk of dying, but she wasn't CLOSE ENOUGH to death to qualify. So basically she had to be actively dying to get an abortion and even then it might not be good enough.

It's ridiculous.

And since he runs the state propaganda/news stations, nothing would stop him from claiming that they successfully killed all the Nazis in Ukraine. "We went in and killed all the Nazis so we're pulling all our troops out."

Of course, they would need to give back the territories that they annexed as well as all the children that they stole. Not to mention pay reparations for all the damage that they did/suffering they caused. Again, though, Putin could spin this to his people. "We only temporarily annexed those areas to denazify them and always planned on returning them to Ukraine. Same with the kids. And since we accidentally destroyed some infrastructure in 'helping' Ukraine rid itself of Nazis, we're generously helping them rebuild."

Of course, nobody but those who buy Russian propaganda will believe this, but Putin just needs the appearance of everything going according to his plans.

Either that or they'll punt it. "We looked at the case and decided that it's up to the states to decide who goes on the ballots and who doesn't."

This would let Colorado and other states kick Trump off the ballot, but it would also open the door to red states kicking Biden off the ballot for "all his crimes which we still have no evidence of."

Then the Supreme Court will eventually need to hear a case on WHAT REASON is good enough to kick someone off the ballot. Is "they fail to meet the requirements" good enough? What about "we don't like this guy and don't want him to win?"

And, quite frankly, I think Biden has a better chance of beating Trump than Nikki Haley. Don't get me wrong, Haley isn't much better than Trump. I don't want her in the White House either, but she has a better "facade of reasonableness." People know KNOW how bad she is and could assume she's not as bad as Trump. The Biden campaign would need to work hard to prove to everyone that she's bad. Meanwhile, everyone outside of MAGA knows Trump is bad.

So while Trump being booted from the election might be bad for Biden's reelection chances, it would be good for the country.

1/3 are the world-burner outcasts who don't care or are simply too stupid to understand the longterm consequences of their actions.

This group concerns me. I saw them in 2016 saying that they were voting for Trump in the hopes that the chaos he brought would change the system. Maybe you could have been fooled once into thinking this, but one would think seeing the result would make people realize that Trump's chaos wouldn't bring positive change.

Unfortunately, I'm now seeing people saying they'll vote for Trump in 2024 in order to somehow change the Democratic party. A vote for Trump won't change the Democratic party to make them better, though.

If Trump gets elected, he'll target the heads of the Democratic party and imprison them. He might allow the Democrats to continue to exist as an "other" to blame all bad things on. (Why did the economy just crash? It's those Democrats again!) But Trump won't allow the Democratic party to be an actual threat to his power, though.

It will be like opposition parties in Russia. They exist, but if they gain any traction, their leaders are suddenly arrested or have "accidents."

Voting for Trump in 2024 won't mean you get better options from the Democrats in 2028. It would mean you don't get any options but Vote Trump Again or Prison.