All he knows or cares about is that people he no longer likes are leaving, and that's fine with him. His extreme narcissism blinds him to any other possible ramifications.

He has already turned the FBI into a force loyal only to him and willing to act as his personal enforcement and terrorizing police force. Hitler had the SS, Putin has the GRU, and Trump is building the same power to order those he chooses to eliminate. The additional $45 billion he just got to build up ICE and new private prisons gives him enormous control of the whole population, not just migrants. Palantir now has a mega-database with all our most private data, and Trump can use it any way he wants to target anyone who offends him.

If Democrats retake control of the House next year, he doesn’t care because he will just ignore Congress. I suspect he would decide to create his own federal budget without Congress, with help from the Project 2025 crazies like Russell Vought. The Heritage Foundation has promoted the unitary executive theory for years with the executive having all power over all of government. It appears they have succeeded in giving Trump such power because Congress and the Supreme Court have rolled over and refused to serve as Constitutional checks and balances.

To make anything happen.

He doesn't give a crap that the rest of the nation will be left holding the bag. He got what he wanted, & that's all that matters to him. The rest of us aren't part of his equation.

and then use the DoJ to freeze their bank accounts during the campaign.

Yes things like this, including freezing bank accounts.

he would instead focus on "endorsing" loyal subjects to run against Democrats who are up in other locations, like what happened here in PA when Bob Casey lost to carpet-bagger McCormick or like how cretins like the one who became his VP, ousted Sherrod Brown.

Jon Ossoff is up in 2026 in GA and I expect they are furiously rubbing their hands together to get at that seat. There will probably be a lot of performance art going on in NH too for Jeane Shaheen's seat, which Scott Brown has been eyeing.

Moreno did.

and we all know Moreno's surefire background.

Jon Husted is in there, who I haven't actually heard a peep out of.

The ice army and concentration camps are funded. At a level far beyond what would be needed even for a cruelly aggressive anti immigrant campaign.

dictator speaks.

::chin stroke::

The bad one: he knows all future elections are rigged and he can do whatever he wants

The good one: he doesn't plan to run again and doesn't care what kind of trash heap he leaves for his party or our country when he goes.

I'm going to choose to be optimistic because I don't think he likes being president, and he only ran again to stay out of jail and get back at us for not electing him in 2020. I think he thinks (rightfully, as we have learned all too well) that no one has the spleen to make him pay for his crimes, so he doesn't have to run again.

the Republicans were going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate but they realized that because Trump was so wildly popular among their authoritarian base they could not win without him. So they chose an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy as their candidate.

They ended the legitimacy of the Republican party as a partner in democracy. This not only has consequences for democracy in the US, it also has consequences internal to the Republican party. A political party cannot have an authoritarian Strong Leader as its head and also be fully democratic.

He's sorely mistaken

favoring the GOP. Please proceed, dimwit.

Or any meaningful dissent if he were to lose allies.

Thats where the new ice funding will come in handy. They know the rest of the bill is a disaster for voters, they made the bet that that will take care of pesky voter issues.

Tragedy and death and heartache are baked into his term already. And those will get worse. Hopefully we will find the bottom where people stop supporting him. Sadly, that's our only hope now.

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I've been considering what would happen if Dems
got majorities, and I can't think of anything they
could do that would help...

Somebody want to talk me down?

I don't think courts will even matter.

They're already getting more and more irrelevant every day.

Of course, I guess it would be nice for the fascists to have a
so-called "court" to rubber stamp everything and make it
look legitimate... though I can't see how anyone would think
it was anyway

that would help.

But their minds are kinda stuck in the cult, so I don't
know if that will happen.

entirely mine but he is a pretty sick guy both mentally and physically.

My biggest fear is that we lose even a fighting chance to recover our democracy, such as it was.

That's one way, declaring martial law would be another. Hitler did it, and we all know Dotard masterbates over Mein Kampf.

he thinks he can still be the Supreme Ruler with no obstruction. Doesn't like a law - sue 'em . The Supreme Court will take care of him.

From Krasnov's speech July 2024 to Christians @ Turning Point

... an off-hand comment he made not long ago, that in the near future, "... you won't even have to vote. We'll take care of it." Or words very close to that effect.
Republicans in Miami recently pulled a stunt that will certainly find its way to the Trump-worshipping Roberts Court: They cancelled elections for next year, with an absurdly fabricated justification. The subsequent judgement will likely favor Trump's evil scheme to assert the power to do the same thing on a national level.
Total dictatorship, here we come!

He isn't going to jail
He has made billions and hidden it so nobody can take it away
He knows that even he can't figure out how to run again and get away with it
He knows dems will take the house an impeach him but he also knows the senate won't convict (again)
He knows he can do whatever he feels like as president even with a dem house and senate he will just veto any bill he doesn't like

He doesn't need to stop any elections to do or avoid any of the above, he will cause chaos by suggesting he's going to do that though just like he keeps suggesting he could runa gain.

Until everyone learns to stop reacting to every idiotic thing that comes out of his mouth he will keep getting what he wants.

The best way to defeat him personally is to IGNORE HIM! He is a publicity whore, he always has been. Do we need to win back the house and the senate, of course we do but IGNORE HIM and we will succeed in so many more ways.