Not terribly much, actually. At least if it kicks the bucket relatively soon.
In that case, JD Vance will automatically become the president, which is a horrible thing itself, but since he won’t be able to consolidate power very efficiently, there’s a good chance there will be presidential elections around when the 2025 presidential term ends, and then a president gets voted in, just as always.
Of course, that will either mean that a lot of Republicans will end up in jail. And if that does not happen, the whole political system will lose its credibility and all of USA gets massively destabilised.
But there are rules and if the new leadership bothers following them, things will roll as well or badly as they were rolling until 2024.
A smaller one has. But the bigger one is still moored.
There are still a lot of people in USA who believe that USA can remain one country. Democrats seem to believe that there’s hope that things will start getting better again, once Democrats are back in power.
I think things could get better, if the democrats take back power, and then display a level of virtue and resolve they we have never seen from them in the history of ever.
I think it more likely that we become the Ottoman Empire.
In this case, I’m referring to the description it had during and before WW1, “the sick man of Europe.” I’m not 100% clear on what happened, but it was collapsing on itself, and wound up fracturing.
And I see your point, since I didn’t specify a time period. For a while, they were serous badasses.
Not terribly much, actually. At least if it kicks the bucket relatively soon.
In that case, JD Vance will automatically become the president, which is a horrible thing itself, but since he won’t be able to consolidate power very efficiently, there’s a good chance there will be presidential elections around when the 2025 presidential term ends, and then a president gets voted in, just as always.
Of course, that will either mean that a lot of Republicans will end up in jail. And if that does not happen, the whole political system will lose its credibility and all of USA gets massively destabilised.
But there are rules and if the new leadership bothers following them, things will roll as well or badly as they were rolling until 2024.
I think that ship has sailed.
A smaller one has. But the bigger one is still moored.
There are still a lot of people in USA who believe that USA can remain one country. Democrats seem to believe that there’s hope that things will start getting better again, once Democrats are back in power.
I think things could get better, if the democrats take back power, and then display a level of virtue and resolve they we have never seen from them in the history of ever.
I think it more likely that we become the Ottoman Empire.
I’d be very curious about what “we become the Ottoman Empire” means when used by you!
That sounds like a phrase that can have fifteen different meanings depending on who’s saying it.
In this case, I’m referring to the description it had during and before WW1, “the sick man of Europe.” I’m not 100% clear on what happened, but it was collapsing on itself, and wound up fracturing.
And I see your point, since I didn’t specify a time period. For a while, they were serous badasses.