People are seemingly waiting for “the thing” not realizing that there’s never “the thing” in a successive authoritarian takeover.

I admire your baseless optimism.

Is it? There have barely been any protests on the streets. People are infinitely far away from violently rising up against this regime.

Bro have you not been paying attention? The new administration is governing without any respect for the law, they just do things and say they’re all powerful. And so far, nobody is stopping them. Nobody really has the power to, anyway.

This transition will not take 10 years. It has barely been a month since the new administration took over and they’re well on their way to fundamentally changing the USA for the foreseeable future.

The only cut to federal spending I’m willing to accept.

What strategic planning? Trump has an admiration for Putin, it’s not any deeper than that.

Europe basically going for the Ent storyline from LOTR is pretty much the only chance Ukraine has left at this point. The new USA will be an ally to Russia.

Let’s see if there’ll be another chance.

It’s also braindead because on the one hand you have the richest man in the world backed by the most powerful man in the world. And on the other you have pretty much a very popular influencer.

New here but so far it feels like Reddit used to feel 10 years ago - a bit less populated maybe.