The last time was awful, but now that seems a mere dress rehearsal. From a public health crisis to the end of Nato, the threats are clear, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
Yep, it will be up to 5 republicans in the house to save anything, ACA, IRA, Medicaid, etc. Our only hope is that they remember the blue wave rebuke of Trump in 2018 and choose to be moderate. But they can easily flip the coin the other way and know this is the end times and they need to ram through all the terrible shit fast.
Well, yes, of course this is assuming he is stopped from going full dictator. That could easily happen, but it would be terrible for the economy so…and I never thought I’d say this…but thankfully deep pocketed lobbyists will mostly be trying to keep the current state of democracy intact. If we go full monarchy, it’s not great for business…
But again, coin flip, end times, and we’re all super fucked anyway so the ACA is the least of our concerns.
I mean, if the shareholders can pull a pump and dump before the economy hits the fan…then that’s absolutely what’s going to happen. Thinking about anything beyond the next quarter is not standard corporate practice.
very likely imo. the black guy enacted it, and the republicans are supine bitches who will do as commanded.
Yep, it will be up to 5 republicans in the house to save anything, ACA, IRA, Medicaid, etc. Our only hope is that they remember the blue wave rebuke of Trump in 2018 and choose to be moderate. But they can easily flip the coin the other way and know this is the end times and they need to ram through all the terrible shit fast.
midterms are not guaranteed to happen. the traitors own us. at least for now.
So he’s gonna adopt the entire dictator playbook, but leave out the one single page about “purges”?
Well, yes, of course this is assuming he is stopped from going full dictator. That could easily happen, but it would be terrible for the economy so…and I never thought I’d say this…but thankfully deep pocketed lobbyists will mostly be trying to keep the current state of democracy intact. If we go full monarchy, it’s not great for business…
But again, coin flip, end times, and we’re all super fucked anyway so the ACA is the least of our concerns.
I mean, if the shareholders can pull a pump and dump before the economy hits the fan…then that’s absolutely what’s going to happen. Thinking about anything beyond the next quarter is not standard corporate practice.