He will run again. He's making billions in bribes.

He will get the nomination. Republican primary voters think he's the second coming and the GOP has no bench because nobody wants to challenge Trump except DeSantis and people hate him.

The Supreme Court will let him run, because they're corrupt as hell.

Our entire media is owned by billionaires who won't allow anything bad to be said about hair fuhrer. I watched a dozen or so journalists dog walked for going against King Trump.

Overwhelming propaganda + sane washing will get him to 47% and voter suppression will make up the last.

Trump gets a 3rd term and our Republic dies.

The only ones that can stop it are the left wing & centrists.

The Centrists don't believe it's gonna happen because they trust voters (I'll wait for you to stop laughing).

The lefties hate the centrists too much to do anything about voter suppression. They hate centrists more than fascists.

So we're doomed. Trump probably won't die, he's got too much medical care and his parents lived into their 90s.

The only question now is which Trump will succeed him on the throne. My money's on Barron.

The 1% are trying to shift their tax burden on to you and it's working.

Is wrecking our economy. It takes a while for the damage to really show up. But when it's this extreme we're not even going to make it through to the midterms.

The last time Trump was in charge he had a few relatively sane people holding him back and the heritage foundation didn't think they were in a position to do all the really crazy batshit stuff that they are doing now with wanton abandon.

I suspect most people here will be able to weather it for about 3 or 4 years. But within the first year of Trump's third term people are going to start losing their houses to Banks.

It's not hard. They'll jack up the prices on the medicine that keeps you alive and you'll have to pay it or you will die and then they get your property anyway.

Eventually you'll run out of money and your mortgage your house to pay for the medicine or the surgery you need to live. I know half a dozen people who are only alive today because of a combination of stents and statins.

It'll take a little while because the old farts around here have a lot of money left over relatively speaking but 4 and 1/2 to 5 years of this crap is all it'll really take.

Some of the older people will die before they have everything sucked out of them but if you're under 65 you've got homelessness in your future. If you're lucky one of your kids might let you crash in their apartment.

But like how the dmca works they can still be ordered to take down illegal content. They just aren't going to be punished for having it hosted in the first place

The problem is as a matter of practicality there's too much illegal content to be taken down that way bit by bit.

And I am not personally willing to give up s230 in order to get at deepfakes by holding platform holders legally liable for hosting them. Section 230 along with net neutrality are the two pillars that make a free internet work in the first place.

Now I think there is one way that you can overstep s230 and get in trouble. If your algorithm is actively promoting the content then you are now exercising direct editorial control. You're essentially publishing it at that point.

But that is so gray area because of how those algorithms work that I would be extremely hesitant to see that applied here. Again section 230 is something we shouldn't risk giving up lightly. Or hell forget lightly at all. Especially when we know it's under active attack because the right wing extremists and billionaires have basically taken control of all other media besides a handful of internet sites now.

As a result I do not know how to deal with deep fakes when the platform holders are owned by billionaires who are actively out to get us all. Zuckerberg and musk are not your friends. Their interests are not your interests. No matter what lies they tell you

We have a market cap measured in trillions. Go ahead and sue will buy off the Supreme Court and win.

Our legal system is now less about the letter of the law and more about who can outbid who on bribes.

Of what they can get away with and seeing how much they can get you used to sucking down.

In 6 months they have implemented 47% of project 2025.

If you aren't panicking you should be.

So that means we're all just going to ignore it right? Maybe call somebody woke if they mention it?

The reason for that idiot post is because the poster knows this website has limited mod points and he's trying to absorb some mod points in order to keep my post-modded down.

By extension I replied to him because I knew that my reply would remain visible and therefore that would keep the entire thread visible and eventually the points I made would get modded up.

It's a silly little game. Of course we are playing a silly little game to see whether or not a pedophile gets to decide how we all live our lives... So I guess the game isn't really all that silly.

Honestly I've said it before but at this point I'm screaming into the void. I don't think there's any hope for a country that gives a guy with 34 felony convictions and 26 credible rape accusations, and a rape conviction excuse me adjudicated sexual battery conviction... The office of White House again.

I don't think we're going to get out of this one alive.

You'll hate watch it. And I'll make a bunch of money off of you when you do.

Social media and the internet has completely broken our brains. Honestly they weren't in very good shape to begin with. I mean I've been living in a constant state of mild terror over the economic situation for the last 15 years waiting for the next foot to drop.

At some point in your life you figure out what a cyclic downturn is and you realize the economy and the world is fundamentally rigged against you.

User hostile algorithms in all of our media and having all of our media owned by a handful of billionaires is just another way the world is rigged against you.

PBS just shut down.

But there are different levels and gradations of stupid.

So I don't think anyone here is so incredibly dumb that they think Trump is going to be good for the economy.

But I do think there is a ton of dipshits here who think that the damage Trump does is only going to apply to people they don't like.

There's a famous line from somebody who got screwed over by a trump policy and knew it. She said "he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting"

That along with I got mine fuck you sums up your average slashdot Trump voter in a nutshell.

Especially in such a transparent way. Like how the person in charge of job numbers just got shit canned. Or how we are literally taking down satellites because they keep churning out inconvenient data.

I am so sick and tired of being lied to. Maybe if I had 50 fewer IQ points it wouldn't be so transparent. I sometimes wonder if it would be better to be dumber. I mean if I was a lot smarter that would be fine because I could use that intelligence to overcome the current mess but if I can't be smarter I kind of wish I was dumber so I would have no idea how bad things are.

It sucks being just smart enough to know we are all fucked but not smart enough to do anything about it.

And TV is already telling them that Ghislain Maxwell is innocent.

Their entire media diet is 120% right wing propaganda on par with anything Vlad Putin puts out.

And they can't go anywhere because they've burned so many bridges with their family to obsess over Trump.

I just saw yet another story about some dumb Boomer type who was going on to her daughter about how Trump is going to make family great again so that she can have grandchildren only for her daughter the rip into her because her daughter was unable to get an abortion and was forced to deal with an ectopic pregnancy through miscarriage and it basically ripped through her body leaving her sterile.

No grandchildren for you lady. But she is still hard maga and the father called the daughter and told the daughter to apologize to the mother.

That is some weapons grade obsession and some pedophilia isn't going to change that in anybody's mind that's that far gone.

Finishing up these old crypto cases that you know are just going to end in a pardon after a few million bucks changes hands with the Donald.

All that work for basically nothing.

Eventually this shit's going to bite us all in the ass too. If you think 2008 was bad wait till we get the same kind of crash but with phony baloney internet money instead of houses backing it all.

I just wish I'd died before these idiots put somebody back corrupt in charge.

I would love to have a superpower that forces people to honestly answer why they support Donald Trump and the Republican party. I get the really dumb ones like my old neighbor who thought they were patriotic. Propaganda is a hell of a thing. But I don't believe for a second anyone left here on this forum is that stupid. You guys don't get off the hook that easy.

Then you can make all the baseless accusations against our side you want. Keep it up this only hurts you. Keep engaging with us. We're not going to let Epstein go away no matter how much control of the news media you have.

I have noticed that the Reddit conservative forms have stopped talking about Epstein entirely. Amazing how good your mods are on your own turf. Funny to watch you self-censoring.

You guys are all Trump's bitches. Which is appropriate because you act like 12-year-olds

So I think we can probably mind wipe his attempts to install himself as El presidente.