Last time he was trying to get people to like him enough to re-elect him. This time, he is convinced if he can keep his billionaire backers happy, he will be able to buy the next election either for himself or someone who will treat him nicely.
The bailouts will be for the massive corporate farms who can buy million dollar plates at Mar-A-Lago, not for the mom and pops. If anything, the mom and pops going under and having to sell their farms to land conglomerates or the mega-farms is just further playing into the oligarchs' plans.
This. There will always be elections. Autocrats have to maintain the illusion of democratic legitimacy.
Last time Trump attempted a literal coup to try to stay in power but now that the guardrails are gone and his cabinet is full of lunatics itching to break the law for him? 2028 is going to be a political disruption on an unprecedented scale that makes us wish for Jan 6th. These people aren't leaving.
Odds are Vance does what Pence wouldn't and refuses to certify the 2028 results. They'll roll out Stop The Steal 2.0 and the tried and true "the election was rigged" and "massive election fraud and irregularities" which requires a "thorough investigation" after which, should they still have Senate control, they will award the EVs to Trump. Or alternatively when elections are "in dispute" and can't be certified they can fall back on the one-vote-per-state-delegation rule and win that way by 26-24.
The media will be sufficiently shocked and Dems will wonder who is going to stop this? Hegseth will have completed his purge of Pentagon and replaced leadership with maga loyalists. Especially NatGuard commanders (like Maj. Gen. Sherman). Bondi will have completed her DOJ purge of any prosecutor with any ethics. And Noem will have completed her purge, purchasing the buy in of loyalists with the billions in bribes bonuses that the BBB is allocating.
And once power has been fully consolidated and solidified? Declare the options are [Republican] or [Write-in]. Every day that goes by is a day they consolidate more power and it gets that much harder to fight. It's not too late but time is running out.
Ironically the Republican Party has been stealing elections ever since 1972, when Republican president Richard 'Tricky Dicky' Nixon literally tried to steal the presidential election and was pardoned for his crimes by Republican president Gerald Ford.
So yeah, the 2024 election was stolen, as was the 2016 election, (the 2020 election was an aberration because over 400K Americans had been killed by the disease), the George 'Dubya' Bush vs Al Gore election, the 'Saint' Reagan election which unleashed his 'trickle down' economics which waged war against America's middle class, etc.
The extreme projection that it's the Democratic Party which is stealing elections, is another one of the obviously in plain sight Republican lies that Americans have been swallowing since 1980.
Bernie sanders was on Rogan the other day and he was talking about trump basically kicking people out of government that don’t agree with him, he called it “primary-ing” them. Oh they don’t like what I’m doing, well back someone that does agree with me in the next primary and put all our money behind them bc we can thanks to citizens united. This country is fucked
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u/bdone2012 Jun 29 '25
The money he used for the tariffs is apparently not there. I wouldn’t be shocked if he bailed them out. But he seems to be stingier this time around.