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I just can't imagine him having a role like that where he's not always the centre of attention but has to listen to other people.

dumbest possible timeline

Just remember: when you think a MAGAt has hit rock bottom... they own lots of heavy mining equipment and don't give a fuck about the environment.

That's ok, none of the Republican congressmen know how to read, so silly things like "rules" won't get in their way.

They'd need to pick a speaker before they can change the rules, right? I thought the speaker pro tempore can't hold votes on anything but a new speaker.

You spelled knob wrong.

Oof

The fallout that proceeded the presidential election in 2016. Will be regarded as one of the most significant turning points in American history and political culture. Combine a narcissistic sociopath (Trump) and a global communication platform (insert SV social media company/service). The result is a base of unremarkable individuals who lives revolve around them and their entitled "rights", and anyone that disagrees is automatically the enemy.

Like the game you play with your friends around fortune cookies, where you add "in bed" at the end, any metaphor about America needs to end in "with a gun".

Drama queen with a gun feels about right.

As much as I'd love that, I hope the Democrats just keep nominating "HAKEEEEEEM JEFFERIES!"

Dictatorship run by MAGA Republicans. First by Trump, until he "graciously decides to give up the office." (Read: drops dead on the throne.)

No education is allowed unless the MAGAs approve of it. In addition, science is distrusted. Companies flee the country as all scientific progress not only grinds to a halt, but reverses.

Kids are essentially taught "white Christian men are better than anyone else." Using coded language at first until they get bolder. Slavery? That was just A job opportunity program for Black people.

Anyone who isn't deemed MAGA enough doesn't get to vote until they go to a re-education camp. There you'll learn that been LGBTQ is a mental illness, believing in any religion other than Christianity sends you to hell, and a woman that gets raped must have been dressed wrong.

Opposing parties would be allowed to exist at much reduced levels. They wouldn't have any political power, but would be handy scapegoats. Any opposition leader who gained too much of a following would get arrested on some obviously made up charge.

In short, it would be a Christian Theocracy mixed with Russian Authoritarianism.

There is no fascist utopia. It's not a promise for a better world, but one of constant struggle.

From Orwell's 1940 review of Mein Kampf: https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/

Suppose that Hitler’s programme could be put into effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of ‘living room’ (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts), a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder . . . Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all ‘progressive’ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain . . . Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

He's not even the greatest president of anyone's lifetime, including, theoretically, vampires, Highlanders and elves.

he wasn't a good president at all that's really the truth of it