Well, a number of them in Montana flipped to block an anti-trans bill: https://thepulp.org/montana-republicans-flip-to-defeat-anti-trans-bills/ (just a semi-random link to the story, there are many other sources). Some of them can be persuaded to change their minds. Perhaps not many, or by much, but it is possible.
Nothing? At least, so long as he’s bankrolling his pet they will look the other way.
I suspect that is some sort of sunk cost falacy combined with a narative that says only he can get the bad things to stop; once it get’s to the point that your cities are being destroyed, you probably wont, and certainly wont have the opportunity to, change leader. It’s critical that as many minds as possible are changed before getting to that stage.
This seems like the most straightforward scenario. Nothing prevents trump running, or being elected, as Vice President, on the understanding that the duely elected President will step down on day 1. When they wrote the constitution, they didn’t bank on a populist fascist, so the language assumes everyone plays fair.
Whether trump is in any state to do anything by then is a different question. If they find someone more useful they may simply shuffle him out of the game by declaring him mentally incompetant.
The absolute best case scenario is that they’re just saying this because they know it outrages non-magas, and they love doing that. I’ve not seen much to support that as the probable outcome though.
Hey babe… wanna bang (nails into wood)?
I’m interested in what the sequel would be called, “Helldivers2 2: dive hellier”?
That’s how it’s going to have to be until the US administration starts to act reasonably, sorts out it’s agricutural system and generally shows that it’s a beneficial member of the global community for a good long time. I think the rest of us will have moved on by then, realigning alliances and generally making things better without them. The US and Russia will fight that with every dirty trick they have, and as a global community, we’ll have to be ready for that.
I don’t think it’s entirely crazy talk, I can also see how this could end up makibg other countries work better together, but the path there is narrow and trump, his adherents, and puppetmasters will be doing everything in their power to stop it happening. At least, everything short of not destroying their allegences and friendships.
Cloudflare don’t hoat sites, but they do end up being a ‘man in the middle’ attack on any site they proxy for, regardless of where that site is nominally hosted. That ends up exposing all traffic on those sites to a US corporation, and ultimately the US government. Considering that Cloudflare proxy somewhere between 19% and 40% of all websites, I think that’s pretty alarming.
The US IP address is for Cloudflare, who are acting as a front end for things like DDoS protection. A lot of lemmy servers use them, which is unfortunate, but there don’t seem to be any viable European alternatives.
You can check the details with the whois command. The relevant bit when querying for one of their addresses is:
NetRange: 104.16.0.0 - 104.31.255.255
CIDR: 104.16.0.0/12
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
NetHandle: NET-104-16-0-0-1
Parent: NET104 (NET-104-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS13335
Organization: Cloudflare, Inc. (CLOUD14)
RegDate: 2014-03-28
Updated: 2024-09-04
Comment: All Cloudflare abuse reporting can be
done via https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse
Comment: Geofeed: https://api.cloudflare.com/local-ip-ranges.csv
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/104.16.0.0
Currently Vexed Soul - having to deal with customers, especially ones like that! :)