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Short of civil war, nuclear war, or a twenty-point election blow-out, no.



Trump just pardoned the core of an army of thugs that will be legally allowed to stow election chaos in every swing district in the country.

Watch. In the mid-terms there will be violence. Then possibly martial law. Then the end of our constitution.

Then Trump will have us all spying on each other to see who's loyal and people will just get murdered without consequence.

He will do everything in his power to become a dictator.


And with the immunity decision he doesn't even have to worry about going to jail for it. I hope we are wrong. I hope people come out of the woodwork to tell that fool where to shove it. But I am afraid the tech oligarchy + right wing media has such a hold on information sources for a majority that half the country won't even know what's happening.


The one thing we know is that voters are transactional.

Eggs, Chicken, Beef, and Rent will either stay horrible or get worse and with so many Federal jobs being wiped out, unemployment will go up.

They needed to get past the mid-terms to do the most damage, but they are not heading in that direction.

And if he tries to use the military on U.S. citizens, we should expect a serious push back. Our military is drilled with "all enemies foreign and domestic".


There are a number of paths forward wherein voting won't matter.

Here's a simple, and bloodless one - when you lose, do the same thing that happened in 2020 - come up with a billion different lies - that you know are lies - about how the election was fraudulent - except this time, Congress and the VP will actually fail to certify the results, it'll go to SCOTUS, which will decide 6-3.

There are also bloodier alternatives.

The system only works when everyone believes that it works, and that they'll be punished for defecting. It's just been made very clear that there will be no punishments for treason.




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