cakes wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:40 pm

Lu Zwei wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:23 pm So, an honest question...

If he does not call for the next elections or really does not step down after a loss? And if there is a new election in US, he will lose.

What then?

Good question. We're so far into uncharted waters, I would guess that another insurrection would happen. Except, they'd probably be successful, because literally no one is stopping the Administration from doing anything, even when they lose in court.

I don't think it will happen.

My prediction is that he's going to spend the last 1-2 years of his final term planning as many monuments to himself across the country, assuming that he doesn't have an untimely death.

I was in Beijing last year and, while looking around Tiananmen Square, I thought: THIS is what Trump wants for himself.

jfv wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:43 pm I was in Beijing last year and, while looking around Tiananmen Square, I thought: THIS is what Trump wants for himself.

I would not compare the two. The history and the culture is a bit different. The person cult is a bit over the top, but we had this with TITO after the WW2. It was reasonable for that time, after the "liberation". But it looks good, it's a nice monument.

Although, you think that your liberties are much greater, I would not take China as a consolation price. I went to China some 17 or so years ago, and I would not say that I felt any differently than in Europe, no one looked at me the wrong way or impeded my "liberties". Actually, no one cared I was there.

jfv wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:43 pm

cakes wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:40 pm

Lu Zwei wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:23 pm So, an honest question...

If he does not call for the next elections or really does not step down after a loss? And if there is a new election in US, he will lose.

What then?

Good question. We're so far into uncharted waters, I would guess that another insurrection would happen. Except, they'd probably be successful, because literally no one is stopping the Administration from doing anything, even when they lose in court.

I don't think it will happen.

My prediction is that he's going to spend the last 1-2 years of his final term planning as many monuments to himself across the country, assuming that he doesn't have an untimely death.

I was in Beijing last year and, while looking around Tiananmen Square, I thought: THIS is what Trump wants for himself.

Oh and definitely in gold. Has to be gold, just like his toilet.

Krev wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 11:02 am Please strike me dead if he's living to 100. The other ghouls in his orbit lack charisma and are likely pedophiles.

He's got a lot working against his longevity (shit diet, pushing 80, heavy stimulants habit, direct sun gazing). A sudden health catastrophe would not be surprising, but he might survive terribly long.

Once in a while I see fringe takes on Threads pointing out photo/video evidence of IV tracks, a catheter in his trousers, a dragging foot, a shakey hand. These are usually next to conspiratorial analysis of his very in tact ear with false shooter theories. Perfectly fine for entertainment but not a productive deep end for me to jump into.

jfv wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:43 pm I was in Beijing last year and, while looking around Tiananmen Square, I thought: THIS is what Trump wants for himself.

I don’t get the China comparison either. Ever been to Washington DC?

If this jerk outlives me I’m gonna be pissed

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 1:48 pm

jfv wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:43 pm I was in Beijing last year and, while looking around Tiananmen Square, I thought: THIS is what Trump wants for himself.

I don’t get the China comparison either. Ever been to Washington DC?

It wasn't so much a China comparison as it was a Mao comparison.

Are any of our presidents entombed in a giant fucking mausoleum in Washington DC for all of the country's citizens to come back and visit?

The sheer magnitude of everything dedicated to Mao is SO MUCH BIGGER than anything dedicated to any one president in DC.

Trump wants his to be so much bigger than anyone else. Hence, Mao comparison.

cakes wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 1:35 pm

jfv wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:43 pm

cakes wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:40 pm

Good question. We're so far into uncharted waters, I would guess that another insurrection would happen. Except, they'd probably be successful, because literally no one is stopping the Administration from doing anything, even when they lose in court.

I don't think it will happen.

My prediction is that he's going to spend the last 1-2 years of his final term planning as many monuments to himself across the country, assuming that he doesn't have an untimely death.

I was in Beijing last year and, while looking around Tiananmen Square, I thought: THIS is what Trump wants for himself.

Oh and definitely in gold. Has to be gold, just like his toilet.

I was talking about this during his first term. How weird it is that there are skyscrapers in the US with GIGANTIC golden signs that say "TRUMP".

I think everybody already saw the Gaz-a-Lago AI tourism footage....so the gold statue has already been electronically realized. But if he had any sense of humor he would erect his to-scale head next to this...mouth agape.

twelvepoint wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 3:27 pm If this jerk outlives me I’m gonna be pissed

The super rich literally have better health care simply by being super rich. Better insurance access, better coverage, different risk pools. Better treatments since they can afford them, etc.

If Trump ate and exercised exactly the same, we just gave him regular, normal ass, american worker health care his whole life other than what he's received, he'd be much worse off today if not already dead.

Trump withholds $70 million in K-12 school funding from Colorado https://share.google/VZRiz5IPEJJlCFeWy

Well shit. It looks like Trump has endangered my job- definitely some of my colleagues' jobs- and fucked up my kids' school's funding.