Donald Trump has made a slew of promises related to the economy, immigration, climate change, and more should he win the 2024 election.

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
      • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
        71·
        10 months ago

        Fuck off fascist.

        The protests for racial justice had literally no chance of toppling the government. Whereas the coup attempt was the closest our democracy has come to destruction since the civil war (I’m sure you were cool with the slavers in that one, eh?).

        The insurrectionists are an antidemocratic force that go against everything this country stands for whereas the George Floyd protests were demand our government live up to its ideals that “all men are created equal” and deserve full rights under the constitution.

    • massive_bereavement@kbin.social
      640·
      10 months ago

      They were kind of pretty lame as insurrectionists, I mean they were let in, they had inside tours and were given specific instructions.

      God’s gracious their two neurons didn’t meet each other on that day.

        • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
          17·
          10 months ago

          And I love how the fact that they weren’t immediately mowed down with gunfire somehow implies they were permitted to be there. No they weren’t, it wasn’t a tour, it was an armed insurrection. Cops showing restraint doesn’t make you any less culpable for the crime.

        • massive_bereavement@kbin.social
          6·
          10 months ago

          I’m rather grateful. Oddly thinking they resemble the baddies in 80s Saturday morning cartoons.

          That said, this year I’m loosing sleep over the thought that someone competent might give it a try.

  • LavaPlanet@lemmy.world
    54·
    10 months ago

    He wants to indict Biden, whilst simultaneously creating / wanting freedom to never be charged with anything when you’re president. Which has to happen before he’s able to become president again.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
      29·
      10 months ago

      Which would mean that Biden could simply direct SEAL Team 6 to execute Trump with impunity, solving the problem.

      • Bwaz@lemmy.world
        12·
        10 months ago

        But the ruling won’t happen till AFTER T gets re-elected (or cheats his way in), when Biden wouldnt be pres anymore. Delay, delay, delay is the game.

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          Trump is already insisting all this is above board - I’ve gotta say, I’m a little tired of calling out all his/their bullshit.

          …but yeah - reelection is his only ticket out at this point, it seems. Even general Dem refusal to rock the boat seems to be wearing thin, and that won’t count for much in court.

      • nexusband@lemmy.world
        8·
        10 months ago

        Isn’t there something in the rule book that the president can avert dangers against the U.S. by force…?

        • derphurr@lemmy.world
          8·
          10 months ago

          Biden should file Amicus brief with SCOTUS presidential immunity case saying if they are so ok with what Trump’s lawyers are saying, he has Seal Team 6 standing by awaiting their ruling.

          • Mjpasta710@midwest.social
            1·
            10 months ago

            Why stop at Trump? If they’re willing to create a dictatorship out of one party, it’s only fair that the other party takes the reins when the opportunity arises. /s

            Democrats should clear the senate, house and courts of any dissenters upon the ruling.

            Keep seal team 6 on standby to really get the political machine straightened out.

            That’s where this goes.

          • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
            4·
            10 months ago

            I would question trolley probably at depth, as national stability and prosperity are a presidents job and they have multiple organizations and forces at their disposal to accomplish this.

            We as individual citizens do not have that authority and power.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
    47·
    10 months ago

    He will round up, intern, and deport undocumented immigrants

    A few months later, farmers are surprised there are no cheap workers anymore to help in the fields. Farmers get in (more) financial problems, prices start to rise in the supermarket as supply shrinks. Trump blames Democrats for his actions. Rural voters get more angry.

    • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
      27·
      10 months ago

      This sort of played out in Australia where everyone also hates the scary immigrants, except it was when backpackers stopped coming during the height of covid. Once the farms ran out of people to exploit and realised there weren’t many Australians willing to go live in a shed in the middle of nowhere and get paid a criminally low wage they all started freaking out. They even started ‘importing’ labour lol. And of course the response is ‘nobody wants to work anymore.’

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
        17·
        10 months ago

        UK had the same with Brexit. Kick out all the scary foreigners, found out there were a lot less people willing to harvest, wait tables or drive trucks for the wages being offered. Last I heard, there are still no people to do those jobs, just less business.

        • HerrBeter@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          Food is simply too cheap, no one can raise prices because it’s a controlled system. Besides, people will buy less stuff it prices go up.

          And paying an honest wage for the work? Cuts into profit margins…

    • KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl
      6·
      10 months ago

      Have you seen the amounts of chaos farmers are able to cause?

      Examples in France, the Netherlands and recently Germany?

      You do not want that shit in the USA, because your farmers are not only equipped with heavy machinery but firearms as well. If they start blockading critical interstate or transit roads just to make a point, I think it is likely to end in deaths.

      We’ve had one situation where a moment of panic resulted in a police officer opening fire on a kid driving a tractor. No one got hurt but because of how our law works, every time a firearm is used by regular law enforcement, a criminal investigation is opened. And the officer was charged with attempted manslaughter.

      Would this have happened in the states, I’d have expected a different outcome.

    • elvith@feddit.de
      3·
      10 months ago

      Cue him trying to funnel their anger towards his (next) political opponents

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        That’s how fascists go about their business. By the time it becomes evident that their actions against the current entry on the “then they came for” list aren’t going to solve solve the problems they claimed they would, they have already started ramping up their hatred for the next entry on the list.

  • ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 months ago

    Trump pulls pages out of other people’s handbooks. His MAGA bullshit was Reagan’s. Now in 2024 he’s walking in Hitler’s footsteps. I’m not saying ”Hitler” as a buzz word. I’m saying it, because he’s literally doing it. His whole schtick is Hitler’s and his* base are lapping it up like mindless fools. Open your eyes and reject authoritarian assholes like Trump. It’s all fun and games until the things you believe in are eventually taken from you. I might not agree with everything others do, but I sure as fuck believe in people’s rights to determine what’s right for themselves. Trump and all his cronies believe they know what’s right for others — they don’t. They know what’s right for themselves. If you want to vote for Trump, vote for him. But don’t think that something you hold dear won’t eventually be attacked by him or people like him.

    Edit: a word*

  • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
    24·
    10 months ago

    The only thing I’m sure he will do is ensure that he keeps the power for the rest of his life. USA will have his first dictator!!

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      I was gonna say, isn’t that like 5 more years? But I remembered that evil never dies (and Regan lived to 93).

      • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
        4·
        10 months ago

        Well he has children so you can expect the Trumps to control the country for decades if gets elected. I firmly believe his election would mean the end of us democracy and the begining of autoritarian era all over the world.

  • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
    243·
    10 months ago

    The problem is that this sounds like a very sexy shopping list to people on the other side. Some of these are enticing even to a lot of democrats, especially the ones about crime in cities. We know it’s a bullshit promise that would fail spectacularly, but the idea of it is scintillating to some. I fear for their votes.

    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      361·
      10 months ago

      “Cracking down on crime in cities” is code for cracking down on minorities.

      Cities are huge, so there’s a lot of crime in aggregate, but if you calculate an average crime rate per x number of people, you find that small towns are often way worse.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        212·
        10 months ago

        Yes, but it’s easier for Republican mouth breathers to understand “Chicago had 12,000 murder last year” than “The per capita murder rate in Chicago is 5.2 compared to 15.7 in East Cousin-sister-fucking-menage-a-troi, Arkansas.”

      • massive_bereavement@kbin.social
        8·
        10 months ago

        If we put a cost on crime, I’m pretty sure the national guard should go instead to Wall Street. Hell, even some police stations might be costing more in comparison.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          The biggest form of property crime in the US – by far – is wage theft.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      This is the similar problem to the election where he won. He pushed a shopping list of utter insanity, but to many, it was change. When you feel that you are on the fringe of society, and that the world doesn’t recognise/respect you, you’re going to go for the candidate that says “I’ll make it different” - even if that difference is categorically worse.

      It’s how the right wing wins everywhere, from Brexit, to the Netherlands, to the US.

  • psud@lemmy.world
    194·
    10 months ago

    I try really hard to believe that assassination is not a solution

    You know, it makes the guy a martyr, and riles up his followers.

    But they seem pretty riled up already.

    And they and he are really, really wanting to make America a totalitarian state

    And if they did, America would break up.

    It would be a generally bad result, maybe good for California.

    Actually I hear a lot about liberals with guns, I guess the left lacks armed idiots

    • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      If SCOTUS says the Seal Team Six theory is perfectly legal…

      Then Biden should execute Trump as an official act. With plans for Harris to covertly off him. Appoint someone new as VP. Harris resigns. Everybody is happy. Right? Right??

    • beebers@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Yeah I’m still hung up on that even though I shouldn’t be. That is so far fetched while the other ideas are much more realistic but much scarier. It feels like a distraction.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        No the others I get, he’s a dictator and we’re all going to die… but that’s…

        Imagine you’ve got a sadistic psycho who has tied you to a chair, and he’s getting out a scalpel, a cat of nine tails, vicegrips, and a bottle of Vitamin C tablets

        …Your focus is gonna be on the Bottle because the other stuff makes contextual sense and your brain is trying to piece together the part it doesn’t get.