What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Since, as you pointed out is a thread about trump. So let's discuss the hearings. What are your thoughts on it?

I don't think we can just ignore it.

The two nations with which we have the closest economic and cultural ties are very close to failed democracies. In Trump and Borris the bar has been set so low in terms of who is electable and standards in office.

None of that is accidental. This is best seen with QAnon, which started as a bunch of weirdos on an obscure chat site, which has now taken hold of the GOP. That is all very deliberate and built primarily on a long standing hatred/distrust by a huge number of Americans against the Clintons and fear of the federal government over reach ; which has been made possible by the decline of real journalism and the advent of the social media bubbles now inhabited by many in the western world and elsewhere. This has made huge numbers gullible to manipulation to believe almost anything.

There is effectively close to zero independent media in either countries.

If it can happen in the USA and to a lesser extent the UK it can and probably will happen here and elsewhere.

Ah, now. The UK wouldn't be anywhere near as bad as the U.S. for political discourse at the minute. In the UK, the concept of the PM attending a party during lockdown was almost enough to put him out of office. There would actually be the real possibility of politicians putting some sort of common standard ahead of party affiliation. Cultural similarities between the U.S. and U.K. would only be superficial. There's an extreme crassness that runs through American culture, especially their media, racial fault lines that run back hundreds of years, a huge evangelical protestant population, hyper-consumerism and cult of celebrity. Fertile ground for QAnon and the like. You just wouldn't find that combination of negative cultural aspects in the same critical mass amounts in either the U.K. or Ireland. The idiocy of Brexit was pretty bad, but I still can't currently see it getting to the point in the U.K. where you'd have Boris Johnson openly questioning the results of an election, for example, and calling it illegitimate.

heh

White supremacists packed into a uhaul truck looking for a riot and they were interdicted by police

"Bye?"

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Chairman Raskin is back on the media circuit this Sunday, following his leave for a family tragedy.

Tinseltown is eager to get hard evidence on precisely which (*if any) Republicans sought pardons from Trump.

There's a Hunter Biden thread and a Joe Biden thread each; it's telling when nothing is said actually about Trump in his own thread when MAGA tries do deny deflect and gaslight for the seditionist weasel.

If you want to actually attack either Biden in good faith there are better places to do it. You're not defending Trump, you're evidencing how weak his political movement is these days.

Cheney is catching a fair amount of **** from her own party for pointing out a few unfortunate truths. Being Republican royalty means nothng to the MAGAs.

How likely is it that The Chump could be in jail by 2024?

I hope Trump runs n 2024, so we can see him lose again

The political aspect is even more reason to lock him up. Otherwise the next guy along might try the same thing knowing that there wont be any possibility of real consequences.

I can't imagine that Trump's activities since the last election will have endeared him to the independent swing voters that he needs in order to win an election. Saying that, Biden isn't exactly Mr Popular either. One thing that is certain is that if Trump is re-elected, that's the end of the US as a democracy. He'll purge anyone and everyone that's not devoted to him and would probably just appoint his own successor at that stage.