I'm not into soothsaying but I'll do some anyway.

[NNadir]

I predict that in two to three years you won't be able to find a single person who'll confess to having voted for Trump.

Of course by then the country will be in economic, social, and ethical ruins, possibly physically so.

[LiberalArkie]

1. I thought that after his first term with the covid and all, but nope they are still bling and not-see.

and still red as stalinism

[NNadir]

2. He was somewhat restrained in the first term

He surrounded himself with sane people. Now he's going full bore nuts.

The White House cabinet room will be an insane asylum with no doctors, no meds, looney festival gone wild.

[Ponietz]

4. Plenty of recreational meds from the White House pharmacy

[NNadir]

6. Gaetz of course can bring the coke and offer it while...

...showing pictures of the girls he rapes.

[rubbersole]

15. Rape will be legal.

[NEOH]

26. And Donnie Jr. will be at the ready to partake.

[Johonny]

7. I dont think members of a cult are easily

Going to give up their cult beliefs. The RW media still going to blow smoke up their ass that the shit sandwich they're eating tastes great. They've believed it for 30 years now. If they haven't woke up yet, I don't see even Trump failing again being the catalyst for changing minds of MAGA. The GOPers that could wake up, did already. But there just weren't enough of them to matter.

[kerouac2]

3. Won't matter as much as I would hope

There was only one trump sign on my street this year vs 4 last time. I know those other three are trumpers. They were simply too embarrassed to admit it.

Even worse, it's 3 teachers and a cop.

Talk about voting against those who support you and your livelihood. Sheesh.

[MiHale]

5. Already seeing it happening...

Overhear people in the local grocery store…known trumpers…saying that they’re glad they didn’t vote for him this year. It’s all a crock…whereas I honestly don’t know/care how they voted apparently they see they made a mistake.
We don’t have trash pickup in our township, we take our refuse to the dump ourselves. The pure amount of trump/vance signs in the recycling dumpster is amazing. After the last election most kept their signs up till spring cleanup.

We will see…FAFO.

[crazylikafox]

8. They just don't want to be blamed when the raids and deportations start

They think liberals will seek retribution, just like them. They’re not sorry … yet. They still think this horror won’t affect them.

[wnylib]

20. OTOH, there are devoted Trump fans who are

stuck with their merchandise.

A small store in my neighborhood still has a stack of "F*** Biden" signs in its window that it can't sell.

[LiberalArkie]

9. And our oligarchs are still trying to move us to the Thailand way of government. You would need to follow a little

to see what I mean. Mainly about the 2023 election where a party won, but was banned and another group put in power by the courts and the oligarchy.

[S/V Loner]

10. The GOP is incompetent when it comes to governing...

Besides the chaos that they will purposely bring to the nation just wait until the climate disasters start piling up.

[Probatim]

14. Their incompetence is by design.

Their goal is to show their voters that government is broken. Their committees either weaponize government or investigate issues that have no bearing on reality. Their goals are privatization and tax cuts.

When things go horribly wrong, as they've done in previous republican administrations and will again under this one, the compliant media will blame Democrats.

It'll take some strong dissonance to accept that Democrats are to blame when republicans have control over the entirety of Washington DC but I'm sure they'll manage.

[Wiz Imp]

11. Nope. This is a cult. No matter how bad he make things, the cult will have some justification

for why it's actually good. Anything that must be admitted to being bad will be blamed on Democrats (even if it makes no logical sense). I agree that the non-cult members who voted for him will no longer admit to it (Hell, many are already regretting their vote), but the cult is all in on Trump until the end.

[ananda]

12. I'll take that bet, forsooth.

They are going to be so sorry.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. They don't understand

How the Cloud works.

[mahina]

19. I know I don't. Can you summarize please? Thank you.

As it relates to this. I really appreciate it. I think there’s something important for me to know in that. 🤙🏼🤙🏼

[JustAnotherGen]

28. So i worked

At a Big Data Rack Manufacturer (Compute and Storage) manufacturer for 5 years before I moved to this Patriot Missile firm.

Our customers included, Microsoft, Amazon, Cern, etc etc

These Racks for data storage are designed to keep data forever.

This is why I joked during Covid that in 100 years my descendants are going to be able to pull down my FB (another customer) and see that their great, great, great Aunt spent Covid posting naughty memes in her private women's fun club group.

It never goes away.

[RainCaster]

16. They already forgot that 500,000+ died of COVID

They forgot about all the freezer trucks used to store the rapid mass of dead bodies. I don't think the vast majority of Americans will care because this regime change has allowed their hate to be normalized.

[jaxexpat]

24. Actually, they never believed that ever happened. Fake News, you know.

[themaguffin]

17. I couldn't disagree more. It's been a decade. It's been after 2020 & 1/6. They. will. not. leave. him. Period.

[NNadir]

21. For many people, 2020 and 1/6 didn't have personal consequences.

Look, after 1945, Hitler still had admirers, even with the result of Germany's great cities in smoldering ruins, the country dismembered, it's women subject to one of the greatest mass rapes in history, and the brutality of the holocaust open for all to see.

Still there were Nazis.

So yes, there will still be some.

I predict though, that were a lot more "former" Nazis who swore to anyone who asked that they never were Nazis.

[themaguffin]

22. We've been through massive events where reflection is possible. I just don't see it. The only voters he will lose will b

be the casual voters who didn't pay attention much and are not MAGA, they just voted against who was in office because of inflation.

But we aren't talking about them, we are talking about MAGA and I don't see it happening.

[NNadir]

25. We'll find out, won't we? It's soothsaying on my part...

...and I'm not claiming clairvoyance. It's just based on my reading of history.

[multigraincracker]

27. Nearly ever Germane soldier claim to have been on the Russian front after the war.

I expect something like that here.

[LymphocyteLover]

33. what does that mean exactly? They didn't know about the concentration camps? Or just they had it bad?

[multigraincracker]

34. The farmers supported him and got him elected.

They were the first to be sent to freeze and die in Russia. Their reward for their support.

[multigraincracker]

35. That was before those camps and gas chambers.

[LymphocyteLover]

36. Sorry but I'm confused with the analogy to his voters.

[multigraincracker]

38. Like the magas they'll be the first to suffer.

[LymphocyteLover]

39. OK, I see

[multigraincracker]

40. Sorry, my ADHD gets ahead of me.

[patphil]

18. Never underestimate the power of stupid, angry, hate-filled people.

He'll still have millions of followers; loyal minions who'd follow him right off a cliff, cheering for him all the way down.
I agree, he'll poison his image with his fascist, dictatorial words and actions, but there is a hard core out there that will never abandon him, no matter what he does to the country and the people.
This is the price the nation will pay for electing a monster, rather than an intelligent, capable, compassionate woman.
I agree that a lot of people will have buyer's remorse, and won't want to let it be known that they voted for him, but you'll still see a lot of MAGA hats on the heads of those stupid, angry, hate-filled people who simply don't care how bad things get under Trump.

[jaxexpat]

23. But for the time being, "we'll note our place with bookmarks and measure what we've lost*", eh?

* I wish I'd said it but, alas, it's a line from Simon and Garfunkel's poetry/song, "The Dangling Conversation".

[harumph]

29. When you have a sizable number of people

that are magical thinkers, this happens. I'm not sure how we could have innoculated ourselves against this.
The rise of the evangelical movement alone has done a lot of damage to people's minds. The Russian
brainwashing of bro culture has done its fair share of damage as well. But we were always uniquely
positioned to believe nonsensical things. Everybody should read the seminal Anti-intellectualism in American Life by
Hofstadter (1963) where he discursively tries to explain why.

[NNadir]

30. Im so overloaded with good stuff to read, but your recommendation...

...will end up on my "must get to reading it" list.

[NNadir]

41. I ordered it from the library. It should be an important read at this time. n/t.

[Vogon_Glory]

31. The God Emperor will be able to say that he's greater than Jesus

St. Peter only denied knowing Jesus of Nazareth only three times before the latter’s execution. Erstwhile Republican presidential voters will deny voting for what’s-his-name in the tens of millions.

[LymphocyteLover]

32. definitely in 4 years-- just like with GW Bush

[kerry-is-my-prez]

37. My doctor said they did the same w/George W. - everyone was denying they voted for him.

[TomSlick]

42. Before my time but the story goes that you couldn't find anyone in Arkansas who voted for Faubus

and yet he continued to be elected.