• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    I’m really hoping Harris wins, and we can make politics boring again. I know that if Trump wins, we’ll hear about all the insanity he will put in place for the next four years.

    Sure, if he loses, Trump will cry foul, but that doesn’t have the same legs as it would if he wins.

    I just want Trump to be some washed out TV “celebrity” and politics to be as entertaining as it always is: not very.

    I’m not American and all I hear about right now is American politics. Y’all need to figure your shit out.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      5 hours ago

      If Trump loses, that dissolves the Trump cult and the next Trump that comes along will just be compared to Trump

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        3 hours ago

        I wouldn’t count on that. These are cultists who are ready to deify Trump and start sending people to the camps. I don’t think losing an election will change the fundamental cult dynamic, or the hatred and anger that has been organized within the cult. We are stuck with this bullshit probably for the rest of our lives, one way or the other.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Trump is not the problem. Trump is the symptom. The problem is a somewhat powerful minority faction in the US actively pushing to dismantle our democracy. Project 2025 wasn’t written by Trump and didn’t write itself.

      Harris’ win is step 1. We then need to push to shore up our democracy and prevent a more cunning trump replacement.

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        4 hours ago

        Plus he’s proven that having a cult of personality works, and caused a notable shift in the US Republican party.

        For all we know, that might be a permanent change, rather than a temporary one.

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          3 hours ago

          I’m just hoping that there’s no one with his “charisma.” Thankfully everyone else scummy enough to be in the GOP is a wet rag in comparison to him so far. He may be a piece of shit, but a con man “confidence man” he most definitely is.

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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        3 hours ago

        Watch the movie “Bad Faith”. It lays it all out.

        Tl;Dr: It’s pretty much entirely the fault of Evangelicals.

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      9 hours ago

      If Trump wins, the world will become a way less hospitable place even faster. This is literally the fight for the last resources, and the 1% wants it all. Trump is a Billionaire enabler… nothing else.