Election Time Capsule (come back for midterms)

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

This thread is a time capsule for 2025 posts discussing the end of democracy as we know it in America. Forums, social media, news reports, anything goes as long as it's doomin'!

Let's revisit this thread in 2 to 4 years to see if these predictions turn out to be correct.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mike-johnson-confirmed-today-that-trump-and-vance-are-quickly-working-on-a-full-nationwide-abortion-and-ivf-ban-and-other-forms-of-birth-control.1091541/page-3#post-134834706

What does what even mean. Did you not read project 2025?
It's game fucking over.
I dont understand why people think we will be able to stop any of this with the tools we had to prevent it from happening in the first place. This was an existential test of our country and we failed. Political dissidents will just simply be jailed if they need to, voting rights will be stripped, voter ID laws will be used.
If anyone thinks for a second we will vote these problems away they haven't been paying attention.

[HaughtyFrank]

Next week I wouldn't be surprised to see democrat senators taken out into the streets and shot. But at least people got to enjoy some self righteous no voting joy.

https://www.thebore.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=336&pid=110976#pid110976

dudes gonna cost the country many millions of dollars when they sue for wrongful termination. not like he cares as he won't be paying and they get rid of the agents as a show of force to make anyone at the fbi too afraid to go against anything trump says or orders. not gonna be surprised if a ton of people speaking out against trump suddenly get disappeared and tortured by the fbi

https://www.thebore.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=336&pid=110966#pid110966

[Potato]

Why do you think this is about you? Why can't canadian be pissed off at Americans for a starting move to forcibly annex them? Do you hear yourself?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-signs-25-across-the-board-tariffs-on-canada-and-mexico-with-a-lower-10-rate-on-oil-energy-10-tariff-on-china-and-a-%E2%80%9Cretaliation-clause%E2%80%9D.1097988/page-21#post-135197052

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-america-a-dictatorship.1302171/

This is honestly madness as American. I don't know at what point we become a dictatorship or if that point is long passed. It's like trying to watch your kids or pets grow when you are with them every day. You don't notice them grow daily, but after a number of months or years, you wonder how they grew so much, and you barely noticed it. You're locked into daily life and can't step outside of your perspective.
It's the same with Trump. I can't believe how FAST everything is happening. Even if you realize it's over a decade since Trump got elected, I would have never thought when Obama was president and things were relatively calm, that America would soon become a dictatorship or very close to one. Moreover, I never would have thought that Trump would be the guy to pull if off. He was a joke and tabloid fodder for most of my life. I didn't take him seriously either even with his Apprentice comeback. And I thought he was done for good after 2020 and January 6th, but here we are. He's stronger and more evil than ever.
Tl:dr. I don't know the answer to the question other than to feel stunned, confused, and like I'm living in a dream, but maybe you do. Is America a dictatorship?

Shit is bad but come on 

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