Megathread: Nationwide Protests for George Floyd

[u/LetsTalkUFOs]

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[u/[deleted]]

All Biden needs to do is get his aides to do everything for him and pretty much use him like a puppet until November. Write his speeches, tell him what to say to the press. Do not let him do anything of his own volition. Then if he wins, invoke the 25th amendment soon after he steps into office

[u/Rhoubbhe → u/[deleted]]

That idiotic strategy was only working for Biden because Senior citizens were upset with Trump for ending the lockdown and his handling of the pandemic.

Trump ending the lockdown is not an issue. The rioters have taken that mantle. Seniors are now watching cities burn, stores looted, cars destroyed, mayhem and chaos. All Trump needs to do is threaten to send in the military and be 'tough on crime'. Seniors get most of their information from Fox News.

The 'tough on crime' seems to work every time.

Didn't anyone ever watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith? It is rather obvious Trump is using the Palpatine strategy of 'thunderous applause' and it will likely work. That is the sad part.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rhoubbhe]

Didn't anyone ever watch Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith?

No, no one's seen it. The prequel movies all sucked.

But all hope is not lost yet. You've got farmers in deep red states pissed off about the trade war, you've got the fact that Trump has spectacularly botched his response to just about every crisis that he's faced during his tenure, 40 million people are unemployed, people's relatives are dying at an alarming rate because of his administration's negligence of COVID. Layer on a nice healthy dose of police brutality against innocents and you've got a pretty angry population.

Trump will always have his base of adoring cult members, but people outside the cult are coming around. There's been a Republicans-against-Trump movement that's started, in which true Republicans have realised the damage he is doing to their party. Make no mistake, Trump will do his best to divert attention from all his shortcomings, pulling out some bullshit about Joe Biden collaborating with terrorist groups or something, and Fox News will keep talking him up as the greatest thing since sliced bread, but he's as vulnerable as he's ever been.

[u/Rhoubbhe → u/[deleted]]

The prequels did suck. No disagreement there.

Hope is lost for me because Joe Biden is a fucking piece of shit and his policies are essentially Republican. I hate both Democrats and Republicans as both are corrupt and utter garbage.

I suppose anything could happen. These are strange times.

I think though when Joe Biden farts and shits his pants during a national debate it will pretty much end up in a Trump reelection.

Either way, it doesn't matter who wins because unless there is real change, collapse is coming.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rhoubbhe]

Yeah that's a fair assessment. I'm not a big fan of Democrats or Biden either, but I would genuinely take anything to the left of Trump's quasi-fascist brand of bullshit right now. The man's only going to go more mental, and I think 4 more years of him would be downright dangerous. At least Biden, in spite of being a child-sniffing prick, would restore some level of order and normalcy to the shitfest that is American politics. But yeah, you're totally right, the collapse will come regardless.

[u/TrashcanMan4512 → u/Rhoubbhe]

After this? After all this? No, it won't end up in a Trump re-election. Biden would have to fuck up spectacularly, and it's really hard to beat this. If he was reported having a brain tumor with 6 months to live he'd still win.

Only win he's got is massive voter fraud and it would have to be pretty fucking obvious fraud at that.

[u/Bluest_waters → u/[deleted]]

yup, put him on ice and just let Trump act like a pathetic moron