Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "" video.

@PariahTheMassiah Stop giving him oxygen. Ignore him. He doesn’t deserve an answer. He’s trying to railroad this thread.
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Well, some of us who have been reading about this sort of thing for decades saw it coming. Let’s see whether there are elections in 2026 and whether Trump accepts the result, assuming it goes against him. Leaving is simply a form of protest.
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@h.s.lafever3277 So is repeating everything you heard on Fox verbatim without understanding a word of it. Trump will turn on you eventually. You may depend on it.
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@rickicoughlan Nah, unfortunately Australia historically hasn’t been kind to refugees.
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A few points I’d like to add if I may. I’m Australian so I have no direct connection with any of this, though I have an American work colleague who is planning to return to the United States in the next year. First of all, it seems to me that there is a historical context through which this could be viewed. During the period between the implementation of the constitution and the bill of rights, there was considerable debate about how the bill would work and there was a lot of horse trading between the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Federalists. Jefferson wanted a weak Union of strong states (so he and others could keep their slaves) and Madison wanted a strong Union of weak states (to maintain a stronger trade position). In the end, the Jeffersonian Republicans won more than the Federalists did (ironically, the second amendment was one of the bargaining chips). So the question becomes one of states rights. If Trump is going to impose these conditions on all Americans, at what point do blue states — who would presumably be opposed to such measures — start to resist? Where, for example, is the cutoff point between what ICE, a federal agency, can do and what a state can do to stop them? Secondly, there is a nasty rumour afoot that Trump may impose martial law as early as this week. Whether or not that will actually happen or whether it even has any truth in it remains to be seen but at some point, there will be some kind of resistance from some blue states. That’s when federal troops come up against the state’s national guard. This would surely be a trigger for civil war and split the country into two major parts: the wealthy, blue, east and west coast states and the red states of the Midwest and the south.
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@todd92371 Religion is part of the problem. Sorry.
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@j.heilig7239 Adorable? Never heard of the word. I don’t think I committed to any one possible outcome, did I? There are lots of potential scenarios. Will there be another election? Would Trump accept the result if it goes against him (I think we can discount that)? The decades I’ve spent reading about these sorts of governments definitely suggest that an election, much less a free and fair one, is pretty unlikely. But I can say this based on the consistencies I see, compared with what I’ve read, rather than on unjustified hubris.
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@j.heilig7239 Adorable? Never heard of the word. Sarcasm. Now that's a word. That's what I think, is it? I don't recall being wedded to any particular opinion. I have been reading about this stuff (fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism) for a couple of decades and the signs at this stage are not good. But I'm not going to shackle myself to believing one way or the other until something definitive happens.
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