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Politics And Aphrodisiacs's avatar

A lot of the Trump loving southern states are filled with people living in serious poverty. There’s not a lot of economic prosperity in the hollers of Appalachia. Surely Jennings knows this.Trump took advantage of the despair and like a good snake oil salesman reeled them in while also fueling the resentment and jealousy in them of those who have more. He always using the term “we” as if he’s one of them. What a joke. These people are going to be the most severely hurt by everything Trump is doing and sadly it’s going to take more personal pain for them to face who Trump really is.

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Kenneth Newman's avatar

You're right about who will be hurt the most. Sadly, tRump will blame everything on Biden, and the faithful will obediently believe him.

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SteveF's avatar

Your article is spot on. MAGA has gone full POT (Party of Trump) even inthe face of overwhelming evidence. Your last comment is so vitally important right now, but I'm not seeing any concrete strategies to corral a fairly wide spectrum of Americans to achieve that sustainability. All I see so far is "let's get the working class back" or "the pendulum is swinging back left". Marginal at best, losing strategies at worst. Leaders, please build a new big tent, welcome and nurture independents and disaffected Republicans, and give us a consensus platform and solid action to better our lives.

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Kenneth Newman's avatar

I wonder what would happen if KY voters built a Golden Calf in the form of electing a D senator in 2024? Would tRump hurl a tablet of racehorse taxes at them?

And speaking of backtracking on "NO TAX INCREASE" (remember the last time a R said "No New Taxes!"?), Rumps Cast-in-Stone FOREVER 145% China tariff has just gone down to 80. I wonder if bookies are taking bets on how low it will eventually be as China beats him to our knees.

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Rikhard Ravindra Tanskanen's avatar

The situation the author describes of making "the world more dangerous" than it is would only occur in early January 2026, since by then the goods for 2025 will not have been exported or imported, but even then Trump will wriggle out of it by using the Federal Reserve to lower rates. Of course, Trump wants to abolish the Federal Reserve, but he won't do that until he gets the U.S to default on its debt, which he won't dare do until the 2026 exports and imports have been delivered. It would also take a year to default, and Trump wants to get rid of the deficit first, so I think by early January 2027 he would have introduced a total war economy akin to the World Wars, and by early January 2028 policy of states' rights but with federal micromanagement that Jefferson Davis had. In late 2025 Trump would have sued the United Nations over the 2020 election, and Putin, Xi, Maduro, and their allies would have granted Trump an unelected third term, backed by the Socialist International and any governments who are members of it, and Trump in early January 2029 will ask for massive loans from the Federal Reserve like what China did to avoid recession in 2008.

In early January 2045 the economic growth would have stopped and I think the Democrats will be in power then, but I have no doubt by then the world would have just finished a total WMD war and thus the growth and the total war economy would merely result in a scenario akin to the Booming Twenties in France (which was affluent in the 1920s but still devastated by the First World War). Also, given the rehabilitation of Stupublicans and the fact the Trump family will one day be replaced by Mike Cernovich, I would think we will have Ivanka as Democratic leader and due to Stupublican president Nick Fuentes (who will oust Richard Spencer, Richard Spencer having ousted Mike Cernovich) the U.S would have become a corporate republic with the Cabinet becoming a Board of Directors and the President answering to a CEO, presumably Peter Thiel: the only good news is that it would run as a credit union based on New Monetary Theory, due to the Bernie Bros, hard greens, and the socialistic movement. Thus Ivanka will default on the debt in late 2046 (since presidential inaugurations would have been changed by the alt-lite) but due to economic recovery the result will not be the 1929 Weimar Republic (which was the same as 1990s Russia) but the 2007 recession, with Ivanka saying the recovery will be slow but allow the United States to become financially independent.

By then Donald Trump will have long since abolished the Federal Reserve, instead relying on state banks like Andrew Jackson: this will have prevented any rates from needing to be repaid, thus resulting in greater economic growth, thus meaning the late 2046 recession will be 2007 rather than 2008. Judging by the late 2001 recession, it will only last a few months but it will result in mass unemployment (unlike the late 2001 recession) because of the default on the debt. This will result Ivanka and Peter Thiel being ousted by Messianic Christians in late 2047, who will finish the job of turning the United States - by now a Byzantine style monarchial republic thanks to Richard Spencer, Nick Fuentes, and Peter Thiel - into a theocratic monarchy by reorganizing the state in late 2048.

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