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flying_wahini

(8,248 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:33 AM Nov 2024

Our world is in deep, deep trouble. Not only America, but every single person on the planet.

Putin will devour us, once and for all with no one to stop him.
JD Vance will take Project 2025 and decimate our Constitution.
Trump will pardon all of his friends. No more Jack Smith investigation.
I will probably grow to hate every family member I have because these are the people responsible for the coming deluge. I will finally say out loud to them, I told you so!
No global warming anymore. FEMA will be a pipe dream.
ACA will vanish. No more FDA and EPA.

I wonder if I need to move some money around and leave this country forever.

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Our world is in deep, deep trouble. Not only America, but every single person on the planet. (Original Post) flying_wahini Nov 2024 OP
For once I'm glad to be old. Ocelot II Nov 2024 #1
Ditto. roamer65 Nov 2024 #2
There will be the form of elections in 2028 Vogon_Glory Nov 2024 #4
Yep. I'm lucky that most of my years were under "normal circumstances" kerry-is-my-prez Nov 2024 #7
This is truly a global catastrophe. n/t Coventina Nov 2024 #3
The 4 year whiner sad, loserman won. Labels do not stick to shit. GreenWave Nov 2024 #5
Exactly. The entire world B.See Nov 2024 #6
My guess BannonsLiver Nov 2024 #9
Exactly. B.See Nov 2024 #10
I think from now on I will refer to our country as Dumbfuckistan. flying_wahini Nov 2024 #8
Pretty sure he will rename us officially as Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2024 #11

Ocelot II

(129,012 posts)
1. For once I'm glad to be old.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:40 AM
Nov 2024

I can expect to live through the next four years, but who knows if there will be an election at all in 2028? If there isn't, and everything goes all to shit, I'll probably be put out on an ice floe to die because I am no longer able to reproduce and I have no grandchildren to babysit. And maybe that will be OK; at least I wouldn't have to die of a preventable disease because there are no more vaccines or from overheating resulting from uncontrolled climate change.

Vogon_Glory

(10,193 posts)
4. There will be the form of elections in 2028
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:47 AM
Nov 2024

if not the substance. That’s the way most dictatorships are structured these days: pseudo-republics with no real choices. I’m sure that the Republican Party will have candidates, but whether the Democrats will be allowed to field candidates or hold office will be up in the air.

My guess is Democrats won’t be allowed either option.

kerry-is-my-prez

(10,207 posts)
7. Yep. I'm lucky that most of my years were under "normal circumstances"
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:59 AM
Nov 2024

The rest of my years will be living in crazy town.

GreenWave

(12,316 posts)
5. The 4 year whiner sad, loserman won. Labels do not stick to shit.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:47 AM
Nov 2024

Our environment will collapse, but let's blame the magnetic pole shift on him. Protect us from gamma rays. Restore oxygen now!

B.See

(7,751 posts)
6. Exactly. The entire world
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 03:55 AM
Nov 2024

now at risk of expanding fascism and authoritarian rule. Taiwan in trouble (Putin's pal Musk had already disabled Taiwan Starlink, at Putin's request), NATO will be hobbled or abandoned, Ukraine, the EU, even Europe under threat... The world's last great hope for democracy, no more.

BannonsLiver

(20,257 posts)
9. My guess
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:07 AM
Nov 2024

Ukraine is forced to accept some shitty ceasefire deal. Putin will take a step back and re arm through mass conscription. He’ll get the parts he needs to build the jets and tanks and other hardware from China and India, who will be emboldened by our election results.
At some point he’ll annex Belarus. It’s already a vassal state. And then sometime in the next 2 years he’ll make a play for Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. I believe all 3 are NATO members. Trump will do nothing. At that point Putin will decide if he wants to tangle with the Poles as well.

Then you have XI, China and Taiwan. Also potentially very grim.

B.See

(7,751 posts)
10. Exactly.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:13 AM
Nov 2024

And maybe even Kim's aggressions on S. Korea. And that's not even mentioning Syria, Russian involvement in certain S. American interests, and in Africa as well.

flying_wahini

(8,248 posts)
8. I think from now on I will refer to our country as Dumbfuckistan.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:01 AM
Nov 2024

I can’t believe we have this many stupid people in America?!?

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,480 posts)
11. Pretty sure he will rename us officially as
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:41 AM
Nov 2024

Trumpland. We will no longer be Americans, but Trumplandians. Gag.

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