The current second Trump administration: a compendium of horrors

[Smapti]

This would perhaps be a good time to remind people that this same variety of “AMERICA IS OVER, ALL HOPE IS LOST” posting was also happening eight years ago.

@silenus

We’re all fucked, that’s what. I predict an immediate recession, followed by a depression that makes the 30s look like boom times.

@BigAppleBucky

We’ve elected Hitler2. There is no sugar coating it.

@scr4

There is no sane path for the US to move forward.

@Ulfreida

The US will be a fascist state, with the largest arsenal the world has ever seen. What do you imagine is going to happen?

I believe the Great American Experiment has run its course, and there is nothing left to do but run for cover like rats.

@DSeid

To my future grandkids - I am sorry.

@foolsguinea

The USA may well be a one-party state shortly. Nazis don’t tolerate dissident parties. We can transfer power to Herr Hitler in “orderly” fashion, but he won’t leave in such a fashion.

@Amateur_Barbarian

This is not “Aw, shit, the left lost this round.” This is “Holy shit, we’ve handed administration of the country to someone who is proudly ignorant of what his very job represents and means.” If not “Holy Motherfuckin’ Shitballs, we’ve just cheerfully elected the next name in the list of destructive tyrants that includes Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot and others.”

@foolsguinea

Oh, and he can’t deport 2 million persons in two weeks. He may not be able to do so in two years. But he can kill 'em. That’s doable. Do you understand how Germany got to the “Final Solution” from “Send the Jews to Palestine”? There were years of deliberate removal & concentration of unwanted persons beforehand.

There were, of course, naysayers who were mocked for their optimism.

@Smapti

I’m willing to predict that Trump is not going to establish concentration camps, commit ethnic cleansing, or declare martial law and suspend the Constitution, yes.