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19. never been as afraid of cotton candy

Reply to kentuck (Reply #16)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 04:33 PM

Jan 14

...as I am worried about leaving my home.

Ultimately, we have a shot at prevailing IF we can hold a free and fair election.

At my most pessimistic, though, I can easily envision Trump disrupting it so far out of any credibility or outcome that we'd need a new one to counter it.

The fear is that he'll be so unpopular and realize it, to the point that he'll do anything to keep it from playing all the way out. I'm not encouraged by the responses to him so far, and this is a reversal of opinion about the state of our democracy for me.

All he needs to do is turn the elections into shit that can't be reconciled, and I think he has a good shot at it; at least as good a shot as we have avoiding that outcome

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Are we being realistic about being able to restrain Trump? [View all] bigtree Jan 14 OP

What's the alternative? NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 14 #1

none bigtree Jan 14 #3

Do something to resist the sonofabitch. Kid Berwyn Jan 14 #8

Let them govern without our votes. mr715 Jan 14 #2

I remember the old pendulum at the Smithsonian that demonstrated the world was turning bigtree Jan 14 #4

There is one in the UN Secretariat as well mr715 Jan 14 #5

Thank you for asking these questions and making these points. RockCreek Jan 14 #6

The economic collapse won't be popular bucolic_frolic Jan 14 #7

How was Mitch McConnell able to wield so much 'power' when the 'pukes were in the minority? RT Atlanta Jan 14 #9

he had a compromising number of Democrats who would bend to conservative initiatives bigtree Jan 14 #11

Thanks for this Just_Vote_Dem Jan 14 #15

this is how the NAACP was successful RT Atlanta Jan 14 #17

Republicans won a 54 seat Senate majority in the 2014 election so not in the minority during the Garland thing. betsuni Jan 14 #20

Dems need to shutdown the govt again leftstreet Jan 14 #10

I'd like to see that bigtree Jan 14 #13

The rest of the world is not waiting to see, they are already moving on without US. Bev54 Jan 14 #21

"... we're basically just waiting to see ..." mahatmakanejeeves Jan 14 #12

a majority of Americans weren't in the streets bigtree Jan 14 #14

They want you to think you have no power. kentuck Jan 14 #16

never been as afraid of cotton candy bigtree Jan 14 #19

The mid-term election is a critical point in our history thought crime Jan 14 #18

National boycotts will hurt them where they live..... BigmanPigman Jan 14 #22

So we're willing to fight to the death in a futile attempt to defend Garland who was incompetent. BannonsLiver Jan 14 #23