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bucolic_frolic

(55,278 posts)
Sun Jun 23, 2024, 06:42 PM Jun 2024

If the worst case happens, are we aware of what's ahead? [View all]

Basically, and I've been on this track about 2 months, MAGA are abused psychologically. When you tell people reality is not what it is, and they come to believe you, you are erasing their sense of reality, logic, and self-esteem. They become rooted in emotion spouted by dear leader and will believe and follow anything he says. Q-Anon, pizza parlors, Jewish space lasers, election denials ... it's all the same script from an emotional perspective.

So if TSF regains office, aren't we in for more of the same? Would sadism be, for all intents and purposes, legal? People will be told to empty their assets and send them to Washington or MAL? Where could you see this going?

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Stock market CRASH (the LEAST of our problems.) elleng Jun 2024 #1
Please get a grip ..... LenaBaby61 Jun 2024 #2
OP is asking a legit and good question. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #3
That was mean!!!!! usedtobedemgurl Jun 2024 #9
Okay ..... LenaBaby61 Jun 2024 #24
If you don't think this is a reasonable line of questioning... Think. Again. Jun 2024 #10
...considering the facts of recent hstory, you may be engaging in denialism. LenaBaby61 Jun 2024 #42
Excellent response sunnybrook Jun 2024 #54
No, It's Not RobinA Jun 2024 #59
OP is valid. I expect the worst if he gets elected. LuckyCharms Jun 2024 #11
It is going to be really bad win or lose Cosmocat Jun 2024 #48
Climate change will take care of a lot of this Kaleva Jun 2024 #4
It will be way worse gab13by13 Jun 2024 #5
Trump getting back into the WH, will be like giving a heroin addict unlimited drugs. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #6
That makes sense, a sort of friendly fascist blitzkrieg bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #13
The only mitigating factor will be the dementia. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #17
Right Cosmocat Jun 2024 #49
Exactly. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #53
The French Resistance. Wednesdays Jun 2024 #18
Piss on the handshakes; I have ammunition. Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2024 #29
and that heroin addict is your nuclear-weapons-ready nation's dictator 0rganism Jun 2024 #15
I am thinking the military may have some agreement about taking Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #20
When the dictator orders his military to nuke a hurricane, they're gonna nuke the hurricane 0rganism Jun 2024 #22
I think there had been discussion among the Joint Chiefs. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #23
I would like to introduce you to the Honorable,... magicarpet Jun 2024 #31
Yes but it would have to be more than the Secty of Def. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #33
I know people are trying to grasp at straws Cosmocat Jun 2024 #51
I cannot disagree with this possibility at all. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #55
I was just commenting Cosmocat Jun 2024 #58
I Used To Think RobinA Jun 2024 #60
My opinion is, if he gets back in office bluestarone Jun 2024 #7
As per the first reply above, I too think Market Crash bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #14
Lots of people's lives will be getting getting destroyed. bluestarone Jun 2024 #19
If TSF wins gab13by13 Jun 2024 #8
And they will be really surprised when the first thing their new overlords do Bettie Jun 2024 #27
Bingo, Butterflylady Jun 2024 #39
If trump retakes the Whitehouse... Think. Again. Jun 2024 #12
Learn Russian Dave says Jun 2024 #16
Da! /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #26
Instead of a 6-3 Supreme Court, it will be 9-0. Wednesdays Jun 2024 #21
They'll do it anyway WHEN Joe Biden wins. usonian Jun 2024 #25
Not thinking evil enough gab13by13 Jun 2024 #28
If he tried to take the money of US billionaires wnylib Jun 2024 #46
Just repeating what I heard Michael Cohen say. gab13by13 Jun 2024 #52
We survived him once, we can again if it comes to that. Groundhawg Jun 2024 #30
This next time if djt gets his foot back in the White House it will be,... magicarpet Jun 2024 #35
A Trump victory means, at best, things will be chaotic. At worst, things will be catastrophic. Yavin4 Jun 2024 #32
If tfg gets back in office, we are in for some very dark days liberal N proud Jun 2024 #34
My concern with the worst case is not with what happens but with what I can or will do. hay rick Jun 2024 #36
Read Sinclair Lewis "It Can't Happen Here". Arthur_Frain Jun 2024 #37
I am hoping for "Seven Days in May" Codifer Jun 2024 #44
Heh. Getting ready to watch "Elmer Gantry" Arthur_Frain Jun 2024 #45
You will love it. Codifer Jun 2024 #57
this is exactly where it is going.......... Takket Jun 2024 #38
Project 2025 should all be locked up for centuries. /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #47
I'd like to see the Senate introducing some bills to block and ban this Takket Jun 2024 #56
All the guardrails of democracy will come off. Efilroft Sul Jun 2024 #40
They're such a bunch of incompetent loons GenThePerservering Jun 2024 #41
If Donald Trump is elected, I have a pre-written letter for David Hinkley DemocraticPatriot Jun 2024 #43
Yellow Coded Curfew is now in effect? JanMichael Jun 2024 #50
Yes, Many Are Aware RobinA Jun 2024 #61
In a way covid saved us Tree Lady Jun 2024 #62
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