• @Rapidcreek
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      436 months ago

      The thing to remember about Project 2025 is that it has a 180 day execution window. This stuff will happen so fast it’ll make your head spin.

      • @[email protected]
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        106 months ago

        Honestly, that 180 day window thing is nominal. The execution of all of that will take way longer with all of the litigation that would happen, and it’ll take a couple of years to get it all enacted (slow at first then accelerating as more gets enacted).

        Personally, I’d prefer if it were fast. The sudden change would wake people up, and cause way more civil unrest. If it’s slow, we end up as frogs slowly boiling. Fewer people will protest or cause issues if things unfold slowly. It’s the idea of the frog in the boiling water. If the changes are swift, there’s a higher chance of ordinary people taking notice and fighting to reverse them.

        • @[email protected]
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          86 months ago

          It’s the idea of the frog in the boiling water.

          The water is already 208 degrees man. This country is the montage in the opening scenes of a dystopian film as it is.

          Crumbling infrastructure. Natural disasters. Civil unrest. Disease. Tense international relations. Food costs escalating, and only to get worse due to changing climate.

          Except in the experiment that coined the phrase, the frogs jumped out. We ain’t jumping. We’re acting more like crabs in a bucket.

      • @Maggoty
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        16 months ago

        Hah, there’s no way they get all that done in 180 days. I believe they would want to do it, but someone’s been hitting Hitler’s party drugs if they think Washington can move that fast.

        • LustyArgonian
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          46 months ago

          With a Supreme Court in your pocket, literally whats stopping the new president from being a dictator?

          • @Maggoty
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            16 months ago

            Congress isn’t captured and they do still need to actually amend the law on all of this. Or else the lower courts will tie it up for years. SCOTUS would have to abandon all procedure and decorum to get stuff moved quicker. And at that point the legitimacy is just gone.

            • LustyArgonian
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              26 months ago

              Idk that they care about appearing legitimate

              • @Maggoty
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                06 months ago

                Well they should. Even Hitler cared about that. If you don’t maintain that veneer you tend to get tarred and feathered.

                • LustyArgonian
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                  6 months ago

                  Sure, that’s assuming this is an internal attack. However, if the goal is to cause our entire country to collapse as an attack from an external enemy, then making the Supreme Court appear blatantly illegitimate is a perfect way to do that.

                  Aren’t you guys noticing how this Republican takeover emulates right-wing takeovers done by the CIA everywhere? The CIA didn’t just do this to attack leftwing stuff, they also did this so we could take resources from those countries. Aka there’s another country (or group of super wealthy leaders) trying to destabilize us and extract our resources/wealth here.

                  Stop getting mad at the chess pieces and look at the chess player.

                  • @Maggoty
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                    16 months ago

                    Uhh. The CIA was considerably less subtle. They didn’t cause lost elections, they caused coups.

                    And when the mob reacts to a loss of legitimacy you get Ukraine, not Argentina.