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[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 13 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

..and Republicans will certainly crash the economy.

The only question left is whether or not there will be elections in 2026.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

There will be elections in 2026. The question is how fair they will be.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Actually, to be quite honest... we've been looking at a pretty much inevitable recession in 2025 for about nine months now.

The slight upside is that this will happen in the onset of Trump's term and likely lead to widespread discontent instead of hitting a Harris administration right out the gate.

For poetic justice this whole cycle of greed-flation into recession seems to have been mostly triggered by Trump royally fucking up his pandemic response on the first place.

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[–] dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Another way of saying “Americans have absolutely no spine”

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Around 2/3 of us, yes. The 1/3 who voted red, and the 1/3 who did not vote.

But not all of us.

[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

Americans do have a spine. The problem is that too many of them are no longer connected by functioning brains. Those spines are what elected Trump.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

They needed to remind people how they had to scramble for toilet paper when Trump was in office. That was on his watch, not Biden's.

Was Biden's economy bad? Yeah, but not "buying bootleg toilet paper" bad.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Elections?

If Republicans pull the house there will be no elections.

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Assuming Democrats are still around to campaign expect the same milquetoast, center-right bullshit platform of getting things "back to normal" to kill any kind of enthusiasm from their base. Don't get me wrong I voted for Harris but I'm getting really tired of voting against having evil men in power over someone I actually like. I want Bernie Sanders, not Margaret Thatcher Lite.

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[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 6 hours ago

this is so naive

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago

We’re not having another election. Accept that right now. At most they will be Putin style “elections”.

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

that's a very bold assumption. we'd be very lucky to have another election at all.

I don’t think they will, because I don’t think they’ll be allowed to win.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

What if the economy doesn't tank?

The President doesn't have that much control over the economy. That's a fundamental truth.

There will be awful policies but there's no guarantee of an economic collapse here.

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