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arrests-yet-but targeted legal harassment, a creeping message to anyone thinking about resistance: Sit down, shut up, or you're next. 5. The Military Will Be Used as a Distraction The gears of war will start turning, because nothing rallies a discontented populace like a new enemy abroad. Maybe it'll be Ukraine. Maybe Iran. Maybe China. Either way, expect military posturing, expect rhetoric about "stronger leadership," expect headlines engineered to keep you scared, keep you obedient. Expect just enough saber-rattling to make foreign leaders nervous, but not enough to topple the house of cards-because that would hurt the markets, and we can't have that. 6. The Crackdown on Dissent Will Begin in Earnest Protests will grow, and so will the response. Heavier police crackdowns. Increased surveillance. New laws expanding what counts as "unlawful assembly." The federal government won't need to send in troops-local police, bloated with military gear and emboldened by new protections, will do the work for them. Social media platforms will start enforcing "new security measures" that conveniently happen to suppress anti-government organizing. At first, it'll be high-profile arrests: a prominent activist here, a union leader there. Just enough to send a message. Then it'll be the everyday people (Most has been placed in the previous screenshot) It's about what kind of country you want to live in. And whether you're willing to fight for it. Because if you wait too long, you won't get the chance.
February 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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A time frame of the collapse of democracy:
None of this is overreacting or paranoia. No more talk--we must make change. Saltser Salt Box Yesterday at 6:58 AM Hey. Yes, you. I know you don't want to hear this. And I also hate to tell you this. Really. But this is an emergency and a dire warning. For the love of everything and everyone you care about please take one minute and read this timeline. If the current trajectory holds, one month from now, America won't have collapsed-not in the way Hollywood would script it. No explosions in the streets, no tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. No, it'll be something quieter, more insidious. The kind of unraveling that happens in plain sight, with a shrug, a sigh, a collective "What can we do?" as the last line of resistance buckles under the weight of exhaustion. So here's the future, laid bare: 1. A Government in Freefall-Or, More Accurately, a Controlled Demolition The resignations won't just continue; they'll accelerate like rats from a sinking ship, except this isn't a ship-it's a tower being purposefully wired with explosives. Every week, another high-profile departure. Not fired. Not forced out. Just... gone. Vanished, like they saw the iceberg ahead and decided to take the last lifeboat. The vacancies will pile up, and the replacements? Cronies, loyalists, corporate fixers-people whose sole qualification is their willingness to say "Yes, sir" and never, ever ask willingness to say "Yes, sir" and never, ever ask questions. Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE, because they never tire of the joke) will push through sweeping measures to "streamline" agencies. Read: strip them down to their skeletons so they can be puppeteered more easily. Federal oversight? Neutered. Watchdogs? Defanged. The last embers of resistance within the state will flicker and die. 2. The Media Will Be a Hall of Mirrors The war on the press will shift gears. No overt shutdowns-that would be too obvious. Instead, it'll be subtler. More journalists blacklisted, more access revoked. More lawsuits designed to bankrupt independent outlets that refuse to play along. Federal funding for NPR and PBS? Slashed to nothing. The FCC? Remade in Trump's image, chipping away at what little remains of media independence. Meanwhile, Wikipedia, that last democratic bastion of collective knowledge, will be under relentless assault. Expect high-profile editor bans. Expect bot swarms rewriting history in real time, scrubbing records clean like a digital Ministry of Truth. You'll wake up one morning and realize your news options are state propaganda or private-sector propaganda, and the line between them is a smudged, greasy fingerprint. 3. The Economy Won't Crash-But It'll Start to Rot 3. The Economy Won't Crash-But It'll Start to Rot Markets will wobble but won't immediately collapse. Investors will throw their weight behind Musk, believing his stranglehold over Washington means fewer regulations, fewer restrictions, a golden age for robber barons. But international investors? They'll start hedging their bets. Quietly, subtly, money will begin leaking out. Allies will start questioning whether America is still a safe bet, a stable partner. The shift will be slow-imperceptible at first-but the cracks will be there. The kind that start small before the dam bursts. And while the rich find ways to profit, the average American will be hit with price hikes, wage freezes, "temporary" cutbacks that never reverse. The rot will be slow, but it will be everywhere. 4. The Justice System Will Be Rewired for Revenge Trump's cronies in the judiciary will move at lightning speed. More federal benches stacked with Trump-aligned judges. Ongoing investigations into Trump's past? Dismissed, slow-walked, buried under procedural nonsense. Instead, the legal machine will pivot to punishing political enemies. Expect activists, whistleblowers, and progressive lawmakers to suddenly find themselves under investigation. Expect left-wing protesters facing charges they would have walked away from a year ago. Not mass arrests-yet-but targeted legal harassment, a creeping message to anyone thinking about resistance: Sit down, shut up, or you're next. 5. The Military Will Be Used as a Distraction The gears of war will start turning, because nothing rallies a discontented populace like a new enemy abroad. Maybe it'll be Ukraine. Maybe Iran. Maybe China. Either way, expect military posturing, expect rhetoric about "stronger leadership," expect headlines engineered to keep you scared, keep you obedient. Expect just enough saber-rattling to make foreign leaders nervous, but not enough to topple the house of cards-because that would hurt the markets, and we can't have that. 6. The Crackdown on Dissent Will Begin in Earnest Protests will grow, and so will the response. Heavier police crackdowns. Increased surveillance. New laws expanding what counts as "unlawful assembly." The federal government won't need to send in troops-local police, bloated with military gear and emboldened by new protections, will do the work for them. Social media platforms will start enforcing "new security measures" that conveniently happen to suppress anti-government organizing. At first, it'll be high-profile arrests: a prominent activist here, a union leader there. Just enough to send a message. Then it'll be the everyday people
February 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM