The argument that Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him is really fucking boring

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@Ann_Hedonia

I think we’re basically on the same side here, but you seem to think acknowledging just how bad Trump 2.0 is - and it’s greatly exceeded even the worst predictions…….is surrender, that it’s something that’s going to paralyze us all instead of spurring us to action.

Has it “greatly exceeded the worst predictions”? Because the predictions I recall seeing on this board were that being LGBT would be criminalized nationwide, that within a month of his taking office this board would be shut down and it would be illegal to criticize Trump, that Democrats would be getting rounded up en masse, and that nuclear war would have broken out.

Pretending that Trump is unstoppable is preemptive surrender, because he can and has been stopped multiple times already. You’re telling yourself there’s nothing you can do about it, so why bother trying?

@RitterSport

He’s doing whatever he wants and no one is stopping him.

So has Hillary been locked up yet?

@RickJay

Had anyone suggested last November that what was happening now was happening, you’d have said THEN “that would be the crisis point but it won’t happen.”

What’s happening right now is roughly in line with what I was expecting, as opposed to those who were predicting martial law and civilians being gunned down in the streets en masse.

@RickJay

And in three months we’ll be way, way past this. Will you accept what’s happening then? Where do you think the USA will be in July… less of a functioning republic, or more?

If Trump is even still president three months from now I’ll be greatly surprised.