@Remittancegirl @logomancer @jzillw
Trump could die of a heart attack tomorrow, J D Vance could fall off a ladder fellating a duck, and Mike Johnson could choke on a cucumber while wearing a bondage harness, and and the USA would still be toast afterwards.
The USA's credibility as a trading/diplomatic partner has been trashed for a generation. Nobody will trust y'all for a VERY long time to come.
The US system of checks and balances failed entirely because Trump ignores lane markings.
@cstross @Remittancegirl @logomancer For the record "Trumps gets assassinated by tescreals after mid-terms and they try to blame it on DSA" is on my bingo card.
@jzillw @Remittancegirl @logomancer
I hear you and counter with "Trump assassination ATTEMPT by tescreals; they try to blame it on Roko's Basilisk (Curtis Yarvin gets the electric chair even though it was actually Peter Thiel lurking in the Oval Office with a poisoned Happy Meal)".
@cstross @jzillw @Remittancegirl @logomancer
What's on MY bingo card is we start seeing deep fakes of Trump speeches coming out of the White House at some point.
@Phosphenes @jzillw @Remittancegirl @logomancer It's possible that after he declares himself president-for-life in 2029 he'll gradually stop attending live rallies in person or only be seen through a back-projected glass screen and heard over a PA system, and then go into seclusion "for health reasons", and be replaced by a peculiarly obtuse LLM ...
Around the time 2124 rolls round, the last surviving MAGA descendants will begin questioning his 188 year lifespan …
@cstross @Phosphenes @jzillw @Remittancegirl @logomancer Performing to an audience of bots that hang on every word to coordinate an elaborate dance of cryptocurrency trades, the whole sustained by a priesthood maintaining a decrepit nearby powerplant by force of ritual and rote learning.
@cstross @Phosphenes @jzillw @Remittancegirl @logomancer
In lieu of questioning they'll prolly go "see !!!! - shooting up clorox makes you live to 200"