I swear I’m not Jessica

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  • Absolutely not. They were systematically shaped into cowardly yesmen before Trump reascended to the presidency. It’s why he drove out Kevin McCarthy out despite his loyalty, and why he chose JD Vance as his VP. It’s why billionaires and capitalists feel “politically homeless” right now; Trump is the party and no independent power is allowed. If they seriously threaten him, he has the full violence of a dictator with his own personal police force. He’s burning through America’s imperial power to solidify his own position, and that well is far too deep to soon run dry.

    Assassination or more likely death from old age are the only way this nightmare ends.












  • Literally nobody. Even an alliance of Russia+China+EU+help from Canada and South America would lose. The US is geographically impossible to invade, and this can only change if the US breaks apart.

    As the federal government gets fucked and our influence on the world stage plummets, it’s in the best interest of every empire on earth to stoke regional division in the long run. It won’t be hard to convince the future rulers; all you need is to promise oligarchs and warlords a kingdom of their own to run so long as they dismantle the federal government. This will be an absolutely awful experience and things will not settle down or become less violent.

    The US military will take a while to deconstruct and I’m not sure how long it will take, but it won’t happen under Trump’s rule. I have no doubts that he can maintain control until he dies, so we better count ourselves lucky that he’s already so old. If he had more than a decade left on the clock, we’d be even more fucked than we are now.