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Initech

(103,113 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:33 PM Tuesday

What point is too far? What point does he cross a line that should not be crossed?

One week in and he's been acting like a bull in a china shop and taking a flame thrower to everything that makes the United States what it is. The news just gets worse by the minute.

Right now it seems like there's nothing sacred anymore. There's no line he won't cross. No low is low enough. And his supporters love this shit. It's going to affect them too at some point.

At some point, he's going to break and collapse society. When do we say that enough is enough?

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BOSSHOG

(40,782 posts)
1. My Amateur but sincere Opinion
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:39 PM
Tuesday

When a healthy handful of Republican Senators realize they have spines and don’t need him nor does the country, spearhead the confrontation. With Dems n the Senate strength in numbers

Republicans in the House are hopeless, worthless, spineless.

Skittles

(161,204 posts)
2. that time is LONG PAST
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:40 PM
Tuesday

I'd say refusing to accept the legitimate results of an election and then trying to OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT were LINES THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN CROSSED.

Silent Type

(7,880 posts)
4. When GOPers feel mid-terms are in jeopardy and recession is close, they'll do something quietly.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 10:51 PM
Tuesday

hannah

(184 posts)
5. Already there
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 11:09 PM
Tuesday

It has already gone to

far. People need to get mad, AT TRUMP and REPUBLICANS, instead of bashing Democrats.

This site seems to be infiltrated by a lot of Republicans


Sailingfish

(47 posts)
6. Their "big beautiful reconciliation bill" they try and ram through will set the line
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 11:19 PM
Tuesday

They destroy Medicaid and the ACA expansion in that bill and they will get trounced in the midterms and 2028 like never seen before. A lot of what you're seeing now is designed distraction, because the main focus for these barbarians in those trillions in tax cuts for the ruling class. It's doubtful they can pull it off on the back of Medicaid. There's already deep rumblings from the small moderate faction that remains in the Republican Party that it's a no go. They might try tinkering around the edges with their bullshit "work requirements" again but that's an administrative nightmare that will cost them more than it's worth. If they fuck with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in a big way on the receiving side, rather than the administrative side, these fuckers won't win another election for decades. And any sane Republican that remains in Congress knows it. These programs are inviolate to the majority of the American people despite the dumbasses that voted for the authoritarian clown. It's a major line in the sand if they want to survive as a Party.

Initech

(103,113 posts)
8. We are going to see people dying in the streets because of this monster.
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 11:30 PM
Tuesday

The systematic gutting of Medicaid and Medicare is next, the overturning of Roe V Wade, the gutting of trans care, and RFK Jr's conspiracy theory bullshit, is going to overload our hospitals worse than COVID.

Of course, as we saw in India during Omicron, people dying in the streets wasn't a deal breaker for Modi voters. At some point, society has to break the fascist spell.

Sailingfish

(47 posts)
9. Their existence as a Party overrides the worst case scenario.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:05 AM
Yesterday

I don't fault you your fears, but people need to keep sane and rational. People throw Fascist and Nazi labels around these days without much thought. I'm guilty of it myself, but I understand those kind of polemics are not necessarily the reality. Lets not minimize the realities of Nazi Germany. Trump is a money sucking capitalist opportunist first and foremost. He's also an authoritarian prick, but he's neither a Fascist or a Nazi in the historical sense. He's also a gullible moron who believes everything he reads if it fits his opportunist narrative. Trump sells economic nationalism to his followers while the slippery eel has his Trump Brand tentacles all over the global economy. He's a fraud and a weasel of the worst kind.

iemanja

(55,306 posts)
7. When he irrevocably crosses his base
Tue Jan 28, 2025, 11:21 PM
Tuesday

If they ever muster the courage or desire to oppose him. Until that point, he'll do anything he can get away with.

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