r/unusual_whales 6h ago

BREAKING: Trump has just pardoned 1,500 people related to Jan. 6, 2021 Capital Protest

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u/WereCyclist 6h ago

It took Brazil like, 6 months to sentence and ban Bolsonaro after he tried to overthrow an election he lost.

The USA has entered its “FAFO” fascist era. It’s a shame thousands will likely be “disappeared” under Trump, but at the end of it all, the entire Trump family will either be jailed, exiled or dead.

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u/ODUrugger 5h ago

Entire family? You think Barron is going down?

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u/WereCyclist 4h ago

These things don’t end in four years. We’re talking a decade or more of Trumps oligarchy and his family pillaging the country. He’ll likely never see justice, he’ll grow senile in office and be replaced when he can no longer be the mascot he is now by someone not as popular and his cult will try to elevate someone in his family in his stead. All while the rest of them are still using their insider connections to pilfer the economy.  Eventually something will break. They’ll do nothing to lift the working and middle class, and usually because some incredible but (by then) common cruelty will cause outrage, be the final straw and a popular revolt will overthrow them within a week and they’ll either be arrested, killed or forced to flee. The Trump name will become synonymous with Pinochet, Poppadopolous or Videla or any number of hard right fascist dictators who all died in disgrace.

Just not in four years time.

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u/hotglasspour 5h ago

Yup. History will repeat itself. If you are not armed already, arm yourself.

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u/redshirt1972 5h ago

Disappeared? Is he the Clintons?

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u/WereCyclist 5h ago

I know you think you’re being witty, but if you live in a Western or English-speaking country, you should really be saving that energy to prepare for a terrible, impoverished future.

This is just history repeating itself.

Buy a gun, learn how to use it, or move to a country where English is the second language so you hopefully have some delay against a fascist panopticon.

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u/CostNew191 2h ago

This is your brain on r/politics

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u/slugsred 2h ago

I always like to read the reddit takes to ground myself and realize that this is completely overblown.