Honestly the best example I use for Trump in particular is Trump in the 90s or 00s vs now. He was still stupid and probably insane but he was also decently quick witted, same thing with 2016 or fuck even 2020 vs now. The degeneration seems to have hit the point where it’s exponential, my great great aunt went from generally being quick witted and strong willed to a broken mess within a year, mind you she was also being ravaged by cancer but still. I couldn’t bear to see her towards the end, the image in my head and what I was seeing didn’t match up.

I don’t see no damned flowers or trees. I personally prefer Oak, Ash, Thorn, and Yucca.

Honestly you line up with how some old Nam GIs I grew up around got caught, though for them it was weed and ended with that officer getting sent back in a box. Not even by them, he pissed off some other unit on his way to go snitch.

I’m pretty sure they would also lock up someone who is pro-capitalist but anti-stock market as well.

Feed him to the Joshua Trees. They are thirsty.

Or if you are Prussian or Napoleon, but I don’t anyone is questioning the Brandenburg Gate or the Arche de Triumph. Also I feel like Bolivar built one but I can’t source that right now, just kinda a vibe about him in particular.

The mail order slagan doth protest too much. If she wants to absolve herself or at least deliver retribution Trump’s liquefying ass is right there, just a solid hit would probably rupture his skin.

I think the reason he keeps getting elected is because a lot of older people in the Inland Empire overall are pretty conservative, which wouldn’t be a problem necessarily but then you have the overall more conservative and bougie assholes out towards Coachella Valley which tips the scales conservative on a county level. Unlike say San Bernardino where the desert has a population of approximately fuck all still and the more conservative elements are slowly losing ground by the fact we don’t really have a large wealthy urban center, like sure East Highland and Redlands have rich assholes but they are handily countered by fucken Colton and Yucaipa.

It broke on my phone. I don’t think they put their resolution parameters in right.

The sheriffs have a lot of leeway due to being what amounts to a leftover from the 1800s, some are relatively chill others are openly corrupt. Pretty sure half their power is written in the state constitution which just makes stripping them of it all the more annoying.

Hey look it’s my CK2 Beta Israel to Israel game. That is not fucking good.

Basically the constitution was amended back in the 1940s to limit the number of terms a president can have. One of the weirder things put in is that if a president dies or is impeached after they are halfway through their term their VP can run through the rest of the term and run for two more afterwards, if the president dies or is impeached before they are halfway through their term it counts as a full term for the VP.

It kinda reminds me of light side sith in SWTOR, like yes you do serve the evil empire but you aren’t an asshole nor are you crazy.

The SAVE act is too much of a wild card variable to accurately predict, too wide reaching with too much general fuckery. Most Republican fuckery requires precision so as to prevent back firing, slow well tested and generally easy to control. This is the equivalent of calling an arty bombardment on yourself, sure you may just kill your enemies or you just blow yourself up.

Wouldn’t factor too much of it before it passes, which I suspect it never will simply because the Republicans with brain cells probably want it to stay in limbo. It’s basically a no lose situation for them if it stays just a bill they support openly even if backrooms deals have effectively killed it.

Righteous hatred vs fear based hatred. It’s the difference between a John Brown and a Klansman, both hated but the type of hate was different.

Diminishing influence doesn’t mean no influence nor the potential for collapse of said influence. The influence of Rome was diminishing by Constantine but the last holdout of Rome did not fall till the 1400s. Regardless we live in interesting and ever changing times, meaning any view of the future is basically just guess work based on current events.

I think they’ve been trying to phase out the damned things but who knows whats going on with the back end shit. Wouldn’t even be surprised if kegsbreth specifically kept them in commission because the look kool.

AIPAC has diminishing influence, while it isn’t gone by far there a solid chance they may be ignored by 2028. Assuming the US doesn’t go into total economic collapse due to Trump before then since at this point I’m pretty sure that’d be the nail in coffin of the US continued existence.

China does it ever couple hundred years, the Roman Empire by its end in the 1400s had been effectively reorganized dozens of times and could hardly be considered the same state, Britain and France more or less collapsed to their core territories by the 60s, the Spanish and Portuguese Empires imploded economically before being picked apart by the Dutch and newly independent colonies. I could go on but those are the big ones where the empires in question had notable territory loss or effectively reorganized in totality, there’s a couple smaller examples like with Sweden becoming Insular or how Islam transitioned from an imperial institution in a lot of ways into a religious one, but those examples rarely are as impressive or went on for centuries without any real turning points.

There’d still be a five or so yeah buffer on it, and who’s to say that won’t be worse. Fun fact I read a pre fall of the eldar fanfic with this basis, it just kept getting worse until Slaanesh was murder fucked into existence.