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We’re only ~1/7 of the way through this administration. There is so much more time left on the clock for shenanigans. It’s hard to imagine three summers from n

We’re only ~1/7 of the way through this administration. There is so much more time left on the clock for shenanigans. It’s hard to imagine three summers from now being anything other than a hellscape. I hope to God I’m wrong.

toomuchtodo 1y ago
Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
penguin_booze 1y ago
https://www.project2025.observer/en https://www.project2025.observer/en
- dpkirchner 1y ago
  I remember when people here on HN were telling us Trump had no relation to Project 2025.
duxup 1y ago
Meanwhile SCOTUS has opted out of doing their job allowing the executive branch to do what it likes (as long as it’s their guy…)
- softwaredoug 1y ago
  It’s really the administration of whatever SCOTUS lets him get away with. Trump - by pressure testing the law - lets SCOTUS reimagine the constitutional order.
  - FireBeyond 1y ago
    The administration has said they will not feel compelled to follow federal court orders. Who is to say they won't ignore orders from SCOTUS either, and go the Andrew Jackson route?
    - gottorf 1y ago
      Forget who said they will do this or that; federal judges have been actually defying SCOTUS[0] because they disagree politically with the administration. Sometimes the call comes from inside the house... [0]: https://archive.is/PkRaM https://archive.is/PkRaM
      - jacquesm 1y ago
        They have been defying SCOTUS because they disagree with the administration. 'Politically' doesn't enter into it, when the administration starts to do blatantly illegal stuff some people will just not accept that, no matter what the politics of the ruling party nominally are.
        lenkite 1y ago
        > when the administration starts to do blatantly illegal stuff some people will just not accept that What is this "blatantly illegal stuff" ?
        jacquesm 1y ago
        I hate comments like this, so I hate making them myself as well, but are you trolling? If so, forgive me for not responding. If you are not trolling, and well intentioned: why don't you go and read some of that main-stream-news that everybody loves to piss on these days and use that to get to at least a moderately up-to-date state of mind before engaging in threads like these. It would save a lot of time. If you are of the mindset that you are in fact informed and that Trump's administration has not yet performed any acts that are blatantly illegal then you're entirely on your own, or at least, I would hope you are (unfortunately, you probably would not be).
        throwawayqqq11 1y ago
        Cults need isolation from former environments and values, thats a key element in any cult initialization. Resulting in internalized ignorance so strong, not even a speaking burning bush could convince them otherwise, let alone main stream media.
gamma42 1y ago
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- fc417fc802 1y ago
  If you're going to make that sort of claim you need to provide a source (or three).
  - pjc50 1y ago
    You can just google it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-white-house-gift-shop-with-maga-merch-exposed-but-it-s-darker-than-you-think/ar-AA1KehNZ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-white-house-...
  - ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
    I wanted to see it too... o_O Can someone figure the other hats? Gulf of America, USA, 4 More Years, Make America Great Again, but the one top center is hard to read, something with Everything? Trump Will Fight About Everything? The black one top right is even harder. https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2093383/trump-unveils-new-white-house-merchandise-hinting-potential-third-term https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2093383/trump-unveils-new-... https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/11/white-house-gift-shop-of-trump-2028-merchandise-fuels-backlash/ https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/11/white-house-gift-sho... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-white-house-gift-shop-with-maga-merch-exposed-but-its-darker-than-you-think/ar-AA1KehNZ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-white-house-g... https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/4167017264079-trump-flaunts-2028-merch-in-white-house-gift-shop-sparks-speculation-of-a-third-term-comeback https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/416701726407... https://www.thepoke.com/2025/08/11/trump-and-his-dictator-guest-laugh-about-merch-for-an-illegal-2028-u-s-presidential-run/ https://www.thepoke.com/2025/08/11/trump-and-his-dictator-gu... White House should be painted with vertical white & red stripes. Blue flag at the top and some gold trim. Elephants already in.
xeornet 1y ago
This was the same doomsday message in the last Trump term. Nothing happened.
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  The old guard of nonfascist Republicans wasn't purged until late in the last Trump term and into the period between Trump terms, and was particularly strong in the first half of the last term, the second half of last term, the Democrats controlled the House, limiting. There was not a trifecta under a fully Trump-aligned Republican Party until the current term. That makes a difference in outcomes, and has already made obvious differences in outcomes in exactly the direction discussed.
- pjc50 1y ago
  Apart from January 6th. Which was dissipated once a Capitol guard decided he finally had enough cause to shoot someone.
  - xeornet 1y ago
    My comment still stands relevant in response to the country turning into a “hellscape” because of the current administration.
- const_cast 1y ago
  ... except for all the stuff that happened. You know, an attempted coup, Covid and the half a million Americans it left dead.
  - ben_w 1y ago
    > Covid and the half a million Americans it left dead. 1,168,021 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_the_COVID-19_pan... But — unlike the attempted coup which was totally his fault — I'm not sure you can blame even half of that death toll on Trump, given all the other countries that also did badly.
tstrimple 1y ago
Too much of the focus is on Trump and not nearly enough on the people who are willing to vote for such an obviously corrupt conman. Trump will be dead within a decade, but these voters who actually want a dictator as long as he hurts the people they think should be hurt will be voting for generations. Trump is a symptom of the cancer of conservatism. He’s the inevitable result of conservative politics and positioning over the last 40+ years. The GOP wanted to make an environment where their guy could never be punished for watergate levels of blatant criminal offense and they fucking succeeded.

toomuchtodo 1y ago

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

penguin_booze 1y ago

https://www.project2025.observer/en https://www.project2025.observer/en

dpkirchner 1y ago
I remember when people here on HN were telling us Trump had no relation to Project 2025.

duxup 1y ago

Meanwhile SCOTUS has opted out of doing their job allowing the executive branch to do what it likes (as long as it’s their guy…)

softwaredoug 1y ago
It’s really the administration of whatever SCOTUS lets him get away with. Trump - by pressure testing the law - lets SCOTUS reimagine the constitutional order.
- FireBeyond 1y ago
  The administration has said they will not feel compelled to follow federal court orders. Who is to say they won't ignore orders from SCOTUS either, and go the Andrew Jackson route?
  - gottorf 1y ago
    Forget who said they will do this or that; federal judges have been actually defying SCOTUS[0] because they disagree politically with the administration. Sometimes the call comes from inside the house... [0]: https://archive.is/PkRaM https://archive.is/PkRaM
    - jacquesm 1y ago
      They have been defying SCOTUS because they disagree with the administration. 'Politically' doesn't enter into it, when the administration starts to do blatantly illegal stuff some people will just not accept that, no matter what the politics of the ruling party nominally are.
      - lenkite 1y ago
        > when the administration starts to do blatantly illegal stuff some people will just not accept that What is this "blatantly illegal stuff" ?
        jacquesm 1y ago
        I hate comments like this, so I hate making them myself as well, but are you trolling? If so, forgive me for not responding. If you are not trolling, and well intentioned: why don't you go and read some of that main-stream-news that everybody loves to piss on these days and use that to get to at least a moderately up-to-date state of mind before engaging in threads like these. It would save a lot of time. If you are of the mindset that you are in fact informed and that Trump's administration has not yet performed any acts that are blatantly illegal then you're entirely on your own, or at least, I would hope you are (unfortunately, you probably would not be).
        throwawayqqq11 1y ago
        Cults need isolation from former environments and values, thats a key element in any cult initialization. Resulting in internalized ignorance so strong, not even a speaking burning bush could convince them otherwise, let alone main stream media.

gamma42 1y ago

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fc417fc802 1y ago
If you're going to make that sort of claim you need to provide a source (or three).
- pjc50 1y ago
  You can just google it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-white-house-gift-shop-with-maga-merch-exposed-but-it-s-darker-than-you-think/ar-AA1KehNZ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-white-house-...
- ElectroBuffoon 1y ago
  I wanted to see it too... o_O Can someone figure the other hats? Gulf of America, USA, 4 More Years, Make America Great Again, but the one top center is hard to read, something with Everything? Trump Will Fight About Everything? The black one top right is even harder. https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2093383/trump-unveils-new-white-house-merchandise-hinting-potential-third-term https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2093383/trump-unveils-new-... https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/11/white-house-gift-shop-of-trump-2028-merchandise-fuels-backlash/ https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/11/white-house-gift-sho... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-white-house-gift-shop-with-maga-merch-exposed-but-its-darker-than-you-think/ar-AA1KehNZ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-white-house-g... https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/4167017264079-trump-flaunts-2028-merch-in-white-house-gift-shop-sparks-speculation-of-a-third-term-comeback https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/416701726407... https://www.thepoke.com/2025/08/11/trump-and-his-dictator-guest-laugh-about-merch-for-an-illegal-2028-u-s-presidential-run/ https://www.thepoke.com/2025/08/11/trump-and-his-dictator-gu... White House should be painted with vertical white & red stripes. Blue flag at the top and some gold trim. Elephants already in.

xeornet 1y ago

This was the same doomsday message in the last Trump term. Nothing happened.

dragonwriter 1y ago
The old guard of nonfascist Republicans wasn't purged until late in the last Trump term and into the period between Trump terms, and was particularly strong in the first half of the last term, the second half of last term, the Democrats controlled the House, limiting. There was not a trifecta under a fully Trump-aligned Republican Party until the current term. That makes a difference in outcomes, and has already made obvious differences in outcomes in exactly the direction discussed.
pjc50 1y ago
Apart from January 6th. Which was dissipated once a Capitol guard decided he finally had enough cause to shoot someone.
- xeornet 1y ago
  My comment still stands relevant in response to the country turning into a “hellscape” because of the current administration.
const_cast 1y ago
... except for all the stuff that happened. You know, an attempted coup, Covid and the half a million Americans it left dead.
- ben_w 1y ago
  > Covid and the half a million Americans it left dead. 1,168,021 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_the_COVID-19_pan... But — unlike the attempted coup which was totally his fault — I'm not sure you can blame even half of that death toll on Trump, given all the other countries that also did badly.

tstrimple 1y ago

Too much of the focus is on Trump and not nearly enough on the people who are willing to vote for such an obviously corrupt conman. Trump will be dead within a decade, but these voters who actually want a dictator as long as he hurts the people they think should be hurt will be voting for generations. Trump is a symptom of the cancer of conservatism. He’s the inevitable result of conservative politics and positioning over the last 40+ years. The GOP wanted to make an environment where their guy could never be punished for watergate levels of blatant criminal offense and they fucking succeeded.