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Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term
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What the fuck is supposed to be cryptic about this? He's making it perfectly clear that he wants to overthrow democracy in the US. And everybody who votes for him is OK with that.
People asked the question before. It went something like:
"You do realize that he'll be a dictator, right?"
" We don't care. He'll be our dictator and that's all that matters."
And then they'll say they do it for freedom and democracy.
Or the more common answer:
"He misspoke and the media is taking out of context."
Even though he has said it thirty different ways and this just happens to line up with the narrative.
And he kept a running mate who keeps saying it.
Both groups exist and both ignore that the other exists. Just like every "anti-woke" comment is made. Half of them say it's about some made up nuanced take, while the other half say "no it's really just racism/sexism/homophobia". Which pretty much sums up what Hillary said back in 2016.
There's another angle to the dictator thing-
A lot of people essentially think the president already is a dictator. That's why even people on the left say things like, "why doesn't Biden raise the minimum wage?!" when that requires an act of congress.
We need to bring back Schoolhouse Rock.
Considering how little help the English songs have been, I doubt that they were paying attention to I'm Just a Bill either.
It's really not hard. The GOP wants as close to laissez-faire capitalism as they can get. This is not a popular position. To enact it anyway they need to go through deeply convoluted steps to retain support despite their primary demographic of religious voters being in steady decline. This pushes all the more sane types into the dem coalition, where we have to deal with progressive vs more modern neo-lib battles over the course of the nation, exacerbated by progressives in the base often refusing to recognize the moderates have a slim majority in overall population.
I'm not so good at the music side, so someone else can handle that part.
Hmmm, could either go with four or five standard pop chords, or a few different rock power chords and pull it off. Won’t be too hard.
Get it done, world ender.
Edit: I would upcote, but the digits...
Ohhhh
🎶 Weee 🎶 areee 🎶 FUCKED, we're fucked 🎶
My favorite is "Why did Biden make shit so expensive!?" And all I can do is laugh, because my brain plays on a loop Biden sneaking around to all the stores swaping price tags and chuckling maniacally.
And then I get sad because these were people I once respected as "intelligent"...
I think it's less "they think the position is already a dictator" and more "the general public has absolutely no idea how the office of the president works, or how the powers and limitations on various branches work in general" which is a failing of their education, and a poor reflection on the country as a whole.
Of course that's exactly the way the republicunts like it, "keep the population dumb and they won't even question why you're oppressing them"
If your only experience with the president and their powers comes from (for millennial anyway) various crises (manufactured and non) where the president says "I'm signing this thing to do this" and because the vast majority of congress is behind them, as well as the regular) rest of the population, and it gets done (I'm thinking of things like Iraq), I can see someone thinking "well the president signed a paper, so it MUST happen"
Which is sad funny since I hear the minimum wage comment a lot, but like... How well do you think that will go? It will go just like the student loan bullshit.
And republicunts are such fucking insecure losers, they will happily drag the entire planet down into their bullshit to prevent even one single other person from getting help that they believe they're entitled to the entirety of.
You know. Like Toddlers.
Where did you get any indication from what I said that I thought it was okay? I'm talking about why people aren't more concerned about it like they should be.
So many people are so het up, they come sprinting in, gagging to fight someone.
They need to just deep breathe twice and think a little, please.
Trump's always been banking on everybody giving him the benefit of the doubt, and they do, but he thinks it's because he's so very clever that he's tricking his opponents with his thinly veiled veneer of plausible deniability. In actuality they just do it because he's rich.
To be fair, if they are doing it because he is rich, then he is indeed tricking them. Even with all the reasons why he should be rich; owning a bunch of buildings, rarely paying anyone that does anything for him, being born rich... he actually still isn't. He's so bad with money that despite all that, he's overall in the hole most of the time. Which is why he so vehemently defends any financial info coming out about him. It's a point of pride to him that people think he is rich.
Those fuckers should be deported to some authoritarian shithole with Sharia law like Iran so they can appreciate what they're throwing away because they're terrified of "the gays".
Same with the "migrants out" thing. If immigrants actually left, farmers and business would be desperate within days because all their hardest and/or cheapest workers just vanished and now there are no more truck drivers, no more field workers so crops left rotting on the field, no more waiters, ... Prices of stuff would shoot up. UK tried this recently and that's what happened.
"We want our dictator for... what are the good words again?"
"You mean freedom and democracy?"
"Yeah, whatever, for those!"
Many don’t think he can pull it off, which is the scary part that might let him do it.
“Oh, that’s all talk. He can say what he wants but can’t do shit without the House and Congress, and if he wanted to change things to get more terms? With states majority agreement that’s required? Not in his lifetime. You worry for nothing, PassingThrough, it’s all showmanship, as it always has been. And no, the Army wouldn’t help such an obvious fool overthrow the government either.”
It's crazy.
"Oh, your drunk uncle Mike who has three arson convictions, thinks you turned the family against him, and is in your attached garage with gas and a lighter threatening to burn it down? Don't worry about him, he's harmless!"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)
Trump said it in a way that he could have meant that you won’t have to vote for him again. He kept saying “vote for me now and in 4 years you won’t have to vote again”. I’m sure if you made this criticism to Trump’s face he would act like you’re being unreasonable and pretend that of course he meant that he can only do 1 more 4 year term. Trump’s supporters would respond similarly. But that’s why it’s called a dog whistle, the message gets to the people he wants it to while it forces his detractors to debate what’s going on inside Trump’s head.
Also anyone who doesn’t go vote because of edgelord reasons or laziness is guilty. If the US becomes Russia v2.0, we’ll all die in WW3 guaranteed.
I’m guessing it’s cryptic because he can just say that he meant “for me” and not “in general.”
"In four years, you don’t have to vote again."
Yikes.