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In reply to the discussion: When TSF "took office", did you think it would get this bad this fast? (Poll) [View all]
BlueTsunami2018
(4,880 posts)30. Yes, I actually read Project 2025.
But this is where the country has been headed since they backdoored Henry Wallace out of the VP slot and then FDR died.
The capitalists immediately began tearing down the New Deal, which was just a temporary buy off of the white working class to stave off a full on socialist revolution, started the Red Scare and continued the imperialism that had paused during WWII.
They brought Nazis into the government and gave them positions of power, they copied everything they could from their tactics.
They killed Kennedy, Malcolm X, MLK, RFK, Fred Hampton and so many others who wanted to change things for the betterment of all.
We were going here with or without Piss. He just accelerated the timeline by ten to fifteen years.
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When TSF "took office", did you think it would get this bad this fast? (Poll) [View all]
orangecrush
16 hrs ago
OP
I believed in the separation of powers, and honestly thought Congress and the Courts could rein him in.
sop
15 hrs ago
#5
I didn't expect instutitions like universities, large companies and media and news organizations to be so fucking
In It to Win It
13 hrs ago
#31
Where were the predictions of masked ICE thugs? Of people being deported to prisons in other
highplainsdem
13 hrs ago
#32
extrapolation of acts from a malignant narcissistic lunatic. Sadly, none of this surprises me -
NewHendoLib
13 hrs ago
#33
We all hated Trump and expected it to be bloody hell. Without specifics, though, I don't know how we can compare
highplainsdem
11 hrs ago
#48
There's nothing in your prediction there about violent masked federal agents, or people they capture being
highplainsdem
12 hrs ago
#41
We all expected ICE to be a problem. All of us. We didn't expect masked thugs doing what they're
highplainsdem
11 hrs ago
#49
It's spiraling out of control, and getting crazier by the minute.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
15 hrs ago
#13
I thought it would be more of a repeat of the first term. Trump 2.0 is much worse
In It to Win It
13 hrs ago
#23
I'll admit it. I did not. They gutted the agencies to instill fear and compliance
Maru Kitteh
13 hrs ago
#24
Yea he has been planning this for the 4 years he was out of office in his floridah mar a Lago white power house.
kimbutgar
13 hrs ago
#27
I don't recall anyone here predicting masked thugs employed by the government behaving like ICE. Or the
highplainsdem
13 hrs ago
#29
You said both that you "thought it would get this bad faster" and "it's way worse" than you could have imagined.
highplainsdem
11 hrs ago
#44
OK. That sort of agrees with something I mentioned in a reply above. We all expected it to get bad
highplainsdem
11 hrs ago
#50
Did anyone think he would tear down the entire East Wing of the White House in the dark of night?
sop
2 hrs ago
#59
No. See my reply 50 above for what I think is going on with the replies we're seeing here.
highplainsdem
59 min ago
#61