Things likely would not have declined as quickly as they have had been my take. Would the world be better off? Yeah I guess so, just because it would’ve taken longer to get to the point we’re at now
I sorta feel like I’m dying and my barely working remaining synapses are just making random ass connections between things that my dying brain is barely remembering from years and years ago. Like yeah remember /pol/? And Jeffrey Epstein the pedophile? Well actually the guy who created 4chan made /pol/ after meeting Jeffrey Epstein. And Epstein posted on 4chan too and was jerking off to fnaf porn while on the Lolita express. Also Epstein was on Xbox live and may have told one of your friends that he fucked their mom and then called them the n word.
Ah yeah I think I edited it? I realized that and tried to remove the tracking
You know what it’s been a while since I listened to the Otis Redding version and I may have to revise my opinion. But I do really like that Aretha Franklin version
Fantastic song, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke are two absolute greats. But might I say that imo the Aretha Franklin version of this song is my favorite. It was recorded after Sam Cooke died, and she leads off with “there’s an old friend/I once heard say/something that touched my heart/and it began this way…” it makes me tear up every time
Ruben Slikk is an extremely problematic artist, extremely misogynistic lyrics, but goddamn if that first beat doesn’t make me cry every time. I wish so bad it existed outside of this video. This video is also pretty much how the early 2010s felt to me, all the way down to your problematic friends, so it also gets me with the nostalgia
Greenland is also very obviously not a piece of ice. Even in that picture it’s obviously not a piece of ice. The whole reason he wants Greenland is because it’s not a piece of ice I fucking hate hate this hell country ahhhhj!
Idk most urban areas are already blue so it’d be sort of useless. He’d need to worry about those places where a red congressperson was in danger of being replaced by a blue person. Areas that are extremely moderate but lean Republican.
So, as I understand it, it’d be really difficult to actually cancel elections since they’re run down to the county level. “The election” is essentially 50 elections full of a varying number of sub-elections. And of course state and local elections which have nothing to do with the federal govt. I’m no election expert but that’s the election as I understand it. So the president doesn’t really say the election is happening or not happening, it’s really the county.
The two things he could do I guess are have the military go in to enforce his decision or refuse to recognize the elections. I have no idea how refusing to recognize the election would work since it’s not trump but the reps/senators that are being elected. Maybe it’d look like Mike Johnson refusing to swear anybody in, which he did for a while with that rep from Arizona. This probably wouldn’t work for state and local elections though.
The military thing is interesting. I think Trump’s personal gestapo at this point is ice, and I doubt there are enough people in ice to shut down the election in every county, or even just the ones that are competitive. Supposedly the military generals were balking at trumps threats to invade Greenland so they don’t seem to have become his personal military just yet but idk maybe American generals are just that cowed, I don’t have much faith in them. But there’s also the fact that more than even the constitution elections are at the very heart of the American identity. Anyway my point is that actually canceling elections would likely be much more difficult and complex than I think trump has the patience for. You’d also be depending on the complete loyalty of a multitude of individuals far from your inner circle in a way that goes against their American civic religion.
Things likely would not have declined as quickly as they have had been my take. Would the world be better off? Yeah I guess so, just because it would’ve taken longer to get to the point we’re at now