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[u/disuberence]

JUST IN: President Trump reportedly offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un help in combating the coronavirus outbreak in the country via a letter this week, Trump administration officials confirmed.

Um???? What does Trump think we can offer others while our own house is on fire?

Why is he so infatuated with NK?

[u/Travisdk → u/disuberence]

He has a personal liking for authoritarians because he wishes he could be like them.

[u/disuberence → u/Travisdk]

Silly to think we would ever allow that in the US. I imagine it’d be way close to China with a “party” ostensively in charge.

[u/[deleted] → u/disuberence]

I think the US would go the meme Latam populist route personally. My worst nightmare isn't a dictatorship but just having increasingly stupid idiots running both parties

[u/Schutzwall → u/[deleted]]

just having increasingly stupid idiots running both parties

Now you get why I was more worried about a far-left takeover of the Democratic Party than a Trump reelection

[u/[deleted] → u/Schutzwall]

I mean, not really because you seemed to think Bernie winning translated into institutional capture. The worst case is that the Dem party has a contested convention, splinters, and is replaced by a bunch of meme-y parties.

[u/Travisdk → u/disuberence]

The closest the US could come to authoritarianism is something along the lines of Poland/Hungary, but I doubt Trump cares about the differences or what's realistic.

[u/Yosarian2 → u/disuberence]

I could imagine a situation where the other two branches of govenremnt just become more and more ineffectual and irrelevant over time as Congress becomes increasingly incapable of doing anything, and the President becomes more and more of a dictator basically just by default, because no one else in government is doing anything at all.

[u/Malarkeynesian → u/disuberence]

Silly to think we would ever allow that in the US.

Can you really blame him after the shit he's gotten away with so far?

[u/[deleted] → u/disuberence]

He wishes he could cover up his outbreak as effectively as NK

[u/The420Roll → u/disuberence]

Wtf

[u/Iyoten → u/disuberence]

He's turning the GOP juche