They might have to eschew morals and start gaslighting the populace to regain influence.
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That's how long it will take to rebuild US foreign policy, 60 years. I hope Rand is correct, fuck the GOP.
I question if the intent isn't to make magats and basic Republicans fear a downfall in hopes they double down on support.
Regardless, NOBODY will trust another country for its own defense.
"Fuck the people this will harm, what about my political party!?
We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years.
I sure fucking hope so, you piece of shit.
What's really happened is we've had our global dominance thrown away. We took the lead because of WW1 and WW2. It's not because we're great. It's not because we manifested our destiny to become the leader of the world. It's because factories in Europe were bombed to smithereens. That's what allowed the U.S to achieve financial dominance. Now we're in the fall.
And the U.S. got all the money to build up their industrial base by the fact that they were they only country able to give out loans to the European nations fighting in the First World War since every european country spent everything they had and then some fighting each other.
World War One represented the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. It was bigger than the economic exploitation by the British Empire of Africa, India and Asia combined. In four years, the U.S. basically held all the cards and (I know this is controversial) only ended up getting involved militarily when it seemed possible that the allies would lose and therefore be unable to pay off their loans.
And you know what...all credit to the Americans; they took that new found wealth and built up the strongest, most powerful industrial base the world had ever seen; an industrial base that, without which, the second world war would have been nearly impossible to win (Russian blood, British Strategy, American Industry...isn't that the saying?)
It's what they proceeded to do with that industrial base afterwards that lead us to where we are now.
And the Soviets were the main opposition in ww2 so they were also destroyed.
America swooped in at the end, took the credit and used their position of barely having taken any damage to assert global dominance.
True. But I'm going to give America some credit here. When they came in, they came in hard. Two of the hardest beaches in Normandy with the highest losses of any allied force during the landings. Front line in pretty much every major engagement from the moment they entered. I am anti-american in general, and no...I don't think Germany would have won if they hadn't gotten involved (the soviets bought our victory at the cost of 11,000,000 casualties...)
They committed more troops than any other country except the soviet union and germany itself. I'll criticise a LOT of what the United States has become, but I would never ever in a million years claim that they had "barely taken any damage", and in fact kind of take offence to the statement even though I'm not American.
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Hopefully! The world would be a far better place. Globally and domestically.
Conservative policies just have their own heads up their asses sucking Trump's rich spoiled cock
Trump has a concept of a cock
Nah.
The civil war resulted in the horribly and completely evil south being knocked out of national political dominance for decades.
That led to the rise of the US as a global super power, including the transcontinental railroad and the progressive movement of Teddy Roosevelt.
Their return to political prominence is accompanied by the fall of America as the greatest hyperpower in human history.
Good. Fucking good. Also fuck with Social Security while you are at it and secure your fucking grave permanently.
What will probably happen is a one or two term slump. What's different between then and now is the internet and social media, which fills most people's brains with a deluge of noise. In addition to the effects of misinformation daily telling people that the moon is the sun, most algorithms prioritize novelty, and nothing's more novel than the most stupidly wrong-headed take. We constantly hear the opinions of people who should be laughed out of the room! We sit and chuckle, but there's tens of millions of people who have poor media skills who it can actually influence.
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First time ever that I hope Rand Paul is correct. Don't threaten me with a good time Rand Paul!
I hope this leads into demolishing republican party and moving on from the clearly faulty two party nonsense of a system. You can't keep functioning if you're on the verge of becoming authoritarian regime with oligarchs.
From your mouth to Satan’s ears!
These MAGA will just move to their Republican overlords after Trump has died. The real hope would be a split GOP. MAGA/GOP and Dems.
There's no splitting the fascists, they are in it to the bitter end. Getting everyone else to defeat their 20%-30% at best of the population is the only move.
We can only hope.
Oh no!
.... Anyway.
I used to be a swing voter before Trump, after this admin, I will never vote for a Republican again. Especially since most support him.
I will go to my grave before I support a Republican for anything. I wouldn't vote for a Republican for street sweeper.
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Guess who is using data illegally gathered from social security to prevent legal voters from voting? If you guessed the king in orange you'd be right.
They have been purging voter rolls all over the country for a long time now. But their methods have vastly improved recently. In the swing states last year they purged 3.5 million voters. In the midterms next year they want to challenge the eligibility of everyone.
Only voters with a passport or original birth certificate would be allowed to vote.
The administration also just enacted task force teams to supposedly ensure election security
Which basically means the people who did election fraud just recently and staged a coup against the government, are now in charge of ensuring that the elections are securely done
... That is the things of dictatorships
I hope we get rid of all these bastards once and for all. Their entire party and platform is and always has been a giant fucking sham that preys on the gullible.
So things aren't necessarily all bad.
Rand Paul is educated but not smart. But he's right here, and now there is nothing he or anyone can do about it. I do hope this is the beginning of the comeuppance the GOP so desperately, desperately needs.
So they get power and do a bunch of shitty things. Then no one wants them in power anymore. Seems the country was doing quite well without them at the helm. Now....not so much.
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The Republican party deserves to die for allowing Donald Trump to rise to power. The Democrat party deserves to die for being useless to stop them. America needs a whole new fresh start with new parties
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I don't think they need to worry, the dems like losing a lot more.
Republicans should be wiped out. Fools, monsters, and traitors. They've done incalculable damage to the world and all those who live here.
Every Republican that dies should be cause for celebration.
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Really? I don't think your idiot voters will remember for longer than 5 years. And with an opposition like the Dems it'll be easy for you to get back into power. Don't overestimate the Americans. We all made that mistake once.
Good. You nazi fucks deserve all the pain that comes to you.
Lets hope!
Don't threaten us with a good time...
It would be too soon, if we got rid of them and these Corpo Dems. We could remove citizens United and few other worthless pieces of legislation. That and stop this fucking election tampering in the name "stopping fraud" fucking clowns making voting a single day during the work week and these Red hatted goons cheer for this shit like the mouth breathing inbred ghouls they are because they hate everyone else is beyond annoying.
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Of course that’s all he cares about. Fuck him, I hope he loses everything he holds dear.
Hopefully the republicans can go the way of the whigs, the democratic party can become the conservative party they so desperately want to be, and we can create an actual party on the left.
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