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Well, based on Trump's actions so far and he's not even in office yet, I would say hope ain't gonna cut it.

Translation: People dedicated to the constitution and rule of law instead of loyalty to one very insane American dictator. Yes, Trump will be without such guardrails. The shallow ignoramuses that argued that Trump 2.0 will be the same as Trump 1.0 will be eating crow and it won't take much time for that either.

You're wrong. Real GOP heads too. Maga cultists not.

Gaetz is probably the worst of this stinky bunch, but don't forget how horribly bad Tulsi Gabbard is. Put her in and western allies will stop sharing all or most of their intelligence secrets with the U.S. because with good grounds, they will see Gabbard as a Putin toady. The security of the U.S. will be greatly weakened if she's installed.

I'm not suggesting that my posts here are going to help save American democracy from the Trumpist autocratic takeover. This is a discussion forum. Very important things are happening and will be happening after the election. I find the attacks that we shouldn't talk any more just because the election is over and we have a clear winner to be completely ridiculous. One thing that will be interesting to watch and has already started -- Trump Voter Regret. Trump voters saying stuff like we didn't vote for this or that even though they really have no excuse this time as Trump has made it very clear what he's about to anyone giving the tiniest effort to have found out. I expect as the pain of his policies hit, that phenom to become very significant and if there are real midterms, hopefully be reflected in those results. As far as a potential civil war, I wouldn't go there yet worrying about it. The divisions are certainly as deep as they were in the last one but it isn't the same geographical situation. Take a state like Georgia. Voted red but it's population centers very blue. There are things that might spark something though. Miller has talked about sending in state national guards from red states into blue states to enforce mass deportations. That's definitely skating on thin ice.

I see this as a more grey area. On the one hand I think the maga voting public will need to personally experience the pain Trump 2.0 will definitely bring but on the other hand the history of autocratic regime shows earlier rather than later engagement gives better chances of reducing the severity and hope of reversal.

Bizarre post. I never said a small percentage. Trump indeed won by a modest margin. Yes British. Why deny? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/341833/the-origin-of-knickers-in-a-knot-and-knickers-in-a-twist#341900 I can see dummy spit is Aussie/NZ origin but not American. https://crossidiomas.com/dummy-spit/

Most Senators didn't stand for election. All house members did.

If you you use youtube a lot you know how they have made skipping ads much less viable and sometimes you need to wait a really really long time. Other times weirdly a one hour video will play without interruption. Well they finally got to me! I resisted for a long time but the thousands of cuts (waits) finally did the trick. The cost in Thailand is 179 baht a month after one month free. My understanding is that it's much more expensive in the U.S. and other countries, so that's an incentive. I signed up using a Thai debit card for online shopping for the first time because I figured using a US card would make the Thai rate questionable. Unfortunately that proved to be a bit of problem trying two different cards. The first attempt signed me out of youtube and first tried to force me to do a Thai language verification process. Google sent me a security red alter. Somehow dodged that not sure how and finally got it sorted.

Push come to shove the republican senators will have no backbone as usual. Maybe Gaetz and one other will be stopped but that's it.

The election is done. What Trump 2.0 is doing has just begun. If you find that boring, you may just not read about it. Sorted.

Some will call this fear mongering. I call it another attempt at a wake up call. Obviously it would have been much much easier to beat Trump at the polls. But that didn't happen. So Americans hoping to stop this autocratic creeping now dramatically accellerated, we are where we are now. There is still hope but the earlier the actions the better.

Did you personally get cataract surgery by Dr. Santa?

This was surprisingly good. A sophisticated coming of age / sex comedy set in 1970's East Bay (San Francisco area). Both the 1970's and the Bay area were portrayed authentically.

I assume you posted that number in sarcasm. The majority of Russians do think there is no alternative to him in his fake elections because he murders any real opposition. I'm quite aware that many Russian people are wonderful and that there is a lot to be experienced by traveling there, but I think this is a case where Americans should listen to the state department's advice not to go there.

Enough of the denialism already. I will speak if I wish. Don't bother trying to shut me up just because you don't like the message. Perhaps you can put me on ignore if it upsets you so much.

Not what I'm saying as you well know. As I've said, I've no time for blatant disingenuousness. BYE.

What's stopping him? The supreme court? Nope. They corruptly gave him immunity for anything done in office, including murdering opponents, including things clearly unconstitutional. Non maga federal judges? For a while until the cases get bumped to Trump's supreme court. Democratic governors? They can help but only at the state level. Senators who aren't maga? History shows sooner or later they always cave to the bully Trump. Word is they are actually afraid of violence on their family from maga types. Does this sound like America to you? It happened.

Agreed. But it sure doesn't feel democratic to be an opponent of Trumpist autocracy that got over 48 percent of the vote almost half and the majority for the house and to control absolutely NOTHING in the federal government. That's a gaping hole of a flaw especially that we now will soon have a basically insane felonous chief executive that seeks to rule as a kind of Dictator King. Whether American democracy survives this remains to be seen.

That map is presented to intentionally mislead. People vote. Empty fields and wilderness doesn't. Next ...

What he's usually telling us. That's he's insane and trying to sane wash his chaotic nonsense is absurd. But this is what America chose. It's not 2016. This time we knew exactly what he is and chose him anyway. Some of us at least hoped we were better than that. Nah. 'Fraid not.

His reason to be in Russia was I assume the reason he travels anywhere. To do his travel videos. I'm not saying they're all great, but many of them are quite good indeed. He does try to give context and background about the destinations along with the somewhat random encounters with locals. I particularly liked his videos done in Eritrea. If you're blaming him for what the Russian government did to him, well based on what I know about him and the Russian government, I seriously doubt it was his fault. But the video he releases later about what happened will certainly be interesting.

Brit slang so apt here. I never cried about this. I know a large percentage of maga voters will live to regret their choice to bring the USA to autocracy led by a criminally corrupt demagogue who only cares about himself and his billionaire buddys. It will take time. But it will happen.

I never said the U.S. did. I was merely pointing out a quirk in the U.S. system where a quite modest majority can potentially give total power.

As long as we're talking the war, in my opinion a very important motivation of Trump is to win the Nobel Peace Prize which he's consumed by jealously about Obama getting that (albeit definitely undeserved). In my view, I would be happy to see Trump win that prize IF he's able to negotiate a settlement agreed by both parties whereby Ukraine actually gets REAL security guarantees. Otherwise, it will be BS as it will just give Russia a pause until they can rebuild their military for the next phase, which likely would be years later, but in no way can be called a PEACE deal. I seriously doubt he can pull off such a real peace deal, and I also doubt that's even his goal. But if it's a BS deal, he certainly shouldn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.