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    For many people, the prospect of what might happen if Donald Trump wins a second term is too awful to contemplate. But, as we are witnessing with the coronavirus, not contemplating scenarios that have at least some chance of happening is a grave mistake. Indeed, it’s a mistake that helped elect Trump in the first place.

    Ideally, the press corps would be hard at work exploring this question. Alas, it is not. In the thousands of presidential campaign stories that have been published this year, you will be hard pressed to find much reporting or informed speculation about what policies Trump might pursue if he’s reelected, or what the consequences might be if he were successful in enacting them. That’s not because such things aren’t knowable in advance. If that were the problem, political reporters wouldn’t have spent the last six months gaming out which candidates were, say, likely to win which primaries. The real reason campaign journalists don’t do this kind of work is that it’s not what they’re trained to do—and, perhaps, it’s not what most people want to read.

    We think our readers are different. So we gathered a distinguished group of area experts and beat reporters. We told them to imagine that, come November of 2020, Trump wins the Electoral College and the balance of power in Congress remains unchanged; Republicans hold the Senate and Democrats hold the House. Then, we asked them to think through the hitherto unthinkable: What will Trump aim to do, and what could he realistically get away with, if given another four years in power? —The Editors

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazi...if-trump-wins/

    I will support secession if Trump* supposedly wins. I won't live under a cult of morons who worship a criminal. It will be like the Jewish people fleeing Nazi Germany.

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    Who or what would be seceding if Trump wins?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    For many people, the prospect of what might happen if Donald Trump wins a second term is too awful to contemplate. But, as we are witnessing with the coronavirus, not contemplating scenarios that have at least some chance of happening is a grave mistake. Indeed, it’s a mistake that helped elect Trump in the first place.

    Ideally, the press corps would be hard at work exploring this question. Alas, it is not. In the thousands of presidential campaign stories that have been published this year, you will be hard pressed to find much reporting or informed speculation about what policies Trump might pursue if he’s reelected, or what the consequences might be if he were successful in enacting them. That’s not because such things aren’t knowable in advance. If that were the problem, political reporters wouldn’t have spent the last six months gaming out which candidates were, say, likely to win which primaries. The real reason campaign journalists don’t do this kind of work is that it’s not what they’re trained to do—and, perhaps, it’s not what most people want to read.

    We think our readers are different. So we gathered a distinguished group of area experts and beat reporters. We told them to imagine that, come November of 2020, Trump wins the Electoral College and the balance of power in Congress remains unchanged; Republicans hold the Senate and Democrats hold the House. Then, we asked them to think through the hitherto unthinkable: What will Trump aim to do, and what could he realistically get away with, if given another four years in power? —The Editors

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazi...if-trump-wins/

    I will support secession if Trump* supposedly wins. I won't live under a cult of morons who worship a criminal. It will be like the Jewish people fleeing Nazi Germany.
    BYE. YOU "FLEEING" IS NOT "SECESSION". BUY A DICTIONARY.
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mcslobber* View Post
    I will support secession if Trump* supposedly wins. I won't live under a cult of morons who worship a criminal.
    I hear this kind of bullshit every time it looks like a Republican might win the White House.

    Remember what happened last time a pack of DEMOCRAT sore losers tried to secede because they didn't like the outcome of an election?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mcslobber* View Post
    It will be like the Jewish people fleeing Nazi Germany.
    The ones FDR turned away? Does the MS St. Louis mean anything to you?

    BTW, the Jews feeling Nazi Germany didn't secede. They emigrated, if they could. But Roosevelt, a DEMOCRAT, refused to give them asylum. Suck on that a while.

    You're always free to renounce the citizenship that apparently means so little to you and find another country to infest.

    Of course, I'll understand if you don't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    For many people, the prospect of what might happen if Donald Trump wins a second term is too awful to contemplate. But, as we are witnessing with the coronavirus, not contemplating scenarios that have at least some chance of happening is a grave mistake. Indeed, it’s a mistake that helped elect Trump in the first place.

    Ideally, the press corps would be hard at work exploring this question. Alas, it is not. In the thousands of presidential campaign stories that have been published this year, you will be hard pressed to find much reporting or informed speculation about what policies Trump might pursue if he’s reelected, or what the consequences might be if he were successful in enacting them. That’s not because such things aren’t knowable in advance. If that were the problem, political reporters wouldn’t have spent the last six months gaming out which candidates were, say, likely to win which primaries. The real reason campaign journalists don’t do this kind of work is that it’s not what they’re trained to do—and, perhaps, it’s not what most people want to read.

    We think our readers are different. So we gathered a distinguished group of area experts and beat reporters. We told them to imagine that, come November of 2020, Trump wins the Electoral College and the balance of power in Congress remains unchanged; Republicans hold the Senate and Democrats hold the House. Then, we asked them to think through the hitherto unthinkable: What will Trump aim to do, and what could he realistically get away with, if given another four years in power? —The Editors

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazi...if-trump-wins/

    I will support secession if Trump* supposedly wins. I won't live under a cult of morons who worship a criminal. It will be like the Jewish people fleeing Nazi Germany.
    Just move. As a matter of fact avoid the rush and do it now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    For many people, the prospect of what might happen if Donald Trump wins a second term is too awful to contemplate. But, as we are witnessing with the coronavirus, not contemplating scenarios that have at least some chance of happening is a grave mistake. Indeed, it’s a mistake that helped elect Trump in the first place.

    Ideally, the press corps would be hard at work exploring this question. Alas, it is not. In the thousands of presidential campaign stories that have been published this year, you will be hard pressed to find much reporting or informed speculation about what policies Trump might pursue if he’s reelected, or what the consequences might be if he were successful in enacting them. That’s not because such things aren’t knowable in advance. If that were the problem, political reporters wouldn’t have spent the last six months gaming out which candidates were, say, likely to win which primaries. The real reason campaign journalists don’t do this kind of work is that it’s not what they’re trained to do—and, perhaps, it’s not what most people want to read.

    We think our readers are different. So we gathered a distinguished group of area experts and beat reporters. We told them to imagine that, come November of 2020, Trump wins the Electoral College and the balance of power in Congress remains unchanged; Republicans hold the Senate and Democrats hold the House. Then, we asked them to think through the hitherto unthinkable: What will Trump aim to do, and what could he realistically get away with, if given another four years in power? —The Editors

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazi...if-trump-wins/

    I will support secession if Trump* supposedly wins. I won't live under a cult of morons who worship a criminal. It will be like the Jewish people fleeing Nazi Germany.
    I hope every one of you miserable fucking leftist cockroaches moves some place and can leave the decent people to live their life's. Please fucking go. Need help moving? Take the the hollyweird freaks with you and the lame brain media too. But heres the thing you fuckers are too miserable to actually follow through. How many of those hollyweird twats have promosed l to leave if some random repub is elected? The duplicitous fucks just never do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    BYE. YOU "FLEEING" IS NOT "SECESSION". BUY A DICTIONARY.
    Lets see... how many Hollywood types still here after threatening to leave? Yeah, all of them.
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    You won't do shit but bitch and vote (D) again like you have for the last 50 years. And then in 2024 you'll act all high and mighty when the party you like wins, only to make a bunch of excuses and look the other way at stuff you don't like, but no so much that you'll openly speak in opposition or *GASP* vote for someone other than a milquetoast democrat again. When things don't go your way it'll still be the Enemys fault, never yours, you'll never think for a single solitary second that maybe the politicians whose dick you thirst for aren't actually going to help you or benefit you in any way. You're too stupid for that. Instead you'll just bitch and cry and still live under the system that fucks you and me and everyone else from cradle to the grave, all the while legitimizing it with every sction you take. Don't worry though, I'm sure you can vote your way out of it! Just vote harder!
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    It is possible that the United States will break apart, I would have to move because Florida would be a part of a new country that I would not be comfortable living in. The south would be to the rest of America what Albania is to Europe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    For many people, the prospect of what might happen if Donald Trump wins a second term is too awful to contemplate. But, as we are witnessing with the coronavirus, not contemplating scenarios that have at least some chance of happening is a grave mistake. Indeed, it’s a mistake that helped elect Trump in the first place.

    Ideally, the press corps would be hard at work exploring this question. Alas, it is not. In the thousands of presidential campaign stories that have been published this year, you will be hard pressed to find much reporting or informed speculation about what policies Trump might pursue if he’s reelected, or what the consequences might be if he were successful in enacting them. That’s not because such things aren’t knowable in advance. If that were the problem, political reporters wouldn’t have spent the last six months gaming out which candidates were, say, likely to win which primaries. The real reason campaign journalists don’t do this kind of work is that it’s not what they’re trained to do—and, perhaps, it’s not what most people want to read.

    We think our readers are different. So we gathered a distinguished group of area experts and beat reporters. We told them to imagine that, come November of 2020, Trump wins the Electoral College and the balance of power in Congress remains unchanged; Republicans hold the Senate and Democrats hold the House. Then, we asked them to think through the hitherto unthinkable: What will Trump aim to do, and what could he realistically get away with, if given another four years in power? —The Editors

    https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazi...if-trump-wins/

    I will support secession if Trump* supposedly wins. I won't live under a cult of morons who worship a criminal. It will be like the Jewish people fleeing Nazi Germany.
    Take as many of your kind as you can with you. The more we can MAGA the better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    It is possible that the United States will break apart, I would have to move because Florida would be a part of a new country that I would not be comfortable living in. The south would be to the rest of America what Albania is to Europe.
    Would all the blacks that choose to stay on the Democratic plantation move, too? There are a lot of them in the South. If they go, imagine how much more wonderful it will be living here.

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    Let cali go. No treaties. We can live without lettuce until the mexicans finish sucking it dry.
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    Let cali go. No treaties. We can live without lettuce until the mexicans finish sucking it dry.
    California contributes way more than its share to the federal government. Good luck without them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    California contributes way more than its share to the federal government. Good luck without them.
    Not when you factor out fixed facilities like military bases, national parks and lands, etc. You see, studies that cite what you are saying dilute the return by including everything not variable and fixed in the funding.

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