Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term

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The former president has pushed a slew of terrifying proposals, both publicly and privately, that he plans to unleash on America should he take down Biden

Here’s what’s at stake:

  • He will indict Biden and his other political enemies
  • He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants
  • He will send the military to the border
  • He will invade Mexico
  • He will round up the homeless and send the National Guard into cities to fight crime
  • He will bring back the death penalty in a big way
  • He will make stuff more expensive by taxing all imported goods
  • He will reevaluate America’s participation in NATO
  • He will roll back all of Biden’s climate progress and reinvest in fossils fuels
  • He will construct “freedom cities” filled with flying cars
  • He will try to overhaul the education system in the MAGA image
  • He will torch the First Amendment by going after non-MAGA media
  • He will legally delegitimize trans Americans
  • He will pardon the Jan. 6 rioters
  • He will gut the federal government and take unprecedented control of what’s left
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He will construct “freedom cities” filled with flying cars

Is that a joke?

Hilariously, no.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/donald-trump-freedom-cities-flying-cars/index.html

...I hesitate to say I hope these cities happen because Libertarian dreams often crash into reality catastrophically, but....also, I hope it happens because Libertarians dreams will definitely crash into reality catastrophically.

Was the airplane a libertarian dream? A whole bunch of them crashed into reality before air travel developed into what it is today. They still crash, but less often enough that people accept the risk. If it were invented today, I'm not sure the concept would have survived people's handwringing.

The idea of flying car cities as a government initiative is dumb though.

Sounds like Trump has been listening to somebody who idolizes Ayn Rand.

You mean the Ayn Rand that required socialist Medicare at the end of her useless life spent writing the absolute worst fantasy novels?

Which strikes me as odd since Trump didn't gain anything on his own merit.

Those are the exact sort of people who idolize Ayn Rand the most.

Libertarians love to gesture vaguely towards unregulated freedom and even anarchy, as if it's some panacea for society's problems.

Of course, that's usually about as far or deep as their plans go. They think grit and gumption are enough to get us there, somehow, and that we'll all sing kumbaya, if only we'd let capitalism run unfettered and let people use racial slurs and hate speech with impunity.

As an anarchist is hilarious watching right libertarians parrot a bunch of lefty shit they heard from a podcast all while not realizing them and their ideology is one of the first things that would have to go in order to realize their half baked fantasies

Flying cars that are available cost at 10 to 100 times as much as normal cars. Same for flying license. That's one rich city.