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We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do
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this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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Ok everyone chill. Yeah, it sucks. But we kinda foresaw this ever since Biden decided to run again. Take a deep breath, think about it more later. The worst thing is to be angry instead of smart. Remember George Floyd. Remember specifically how everyone got angry and did dumb things about it, and today efforts at police reform are actually in a worse place than they were before he was murdered on video.
Think about ways to counter Trump that will be more effective and less just expressions of rage. I think the biggest problem is the media that really plays to Trump's reality TV-style politics. It's not enough to wine that the voters are too stupid, but what do we do about it?
Every federal judge and probably the supreme Court for the rest of our lives is going to be wholly owned by the dictatorship. Checks and balances are essentially broken at this point in the president can do whatever he wants with impunity. What about to hit a massive recession. What smart thing do you think were going to do about it?
What we often call "the government" is actually many separate systems each with several moving parts. One man doesn't control it, no matter what sentences are written on what pieces of paper. Trump has all the corruption he needs, but he's not smart enough to know what he's doing.
So to act like there's no hope is just way too defeatist. Trump is gonna fail, and we can exploit those failures. But the last time we didn't react to his failures correctly, because of course he just won again after what most historians consider the worst presidency in American history. So the first smart thing we can do is ask where the anti Trump messaging and media failed. And actually try to answer that question.
Because we did such a good job of that in his last presidency and he wasn't a god king yet. /s