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ItLivesInTheWind 1 point ago +1 / -0

The online consensus of high reputation reviews are that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a 10/10 masterpiece. As time goes on, the transcripts of tuber videos will become part of that consensus, as well as social media buzz around it, and user reviews. It will be recategorized.

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ItLivesInTheWind 1 point ago +1 / -0

Their nearly insurmountable challenge will be convincing the American public that it's playing out as expected and that things will get better after the course correction. Assuming that cranking up natural resource industries can't be done quickly enough to offset the issue. Mining and Oil & Gas can take years to inch through the courts. They're often frustrated by foreign funded legal teams that sue through non-government organization proxies.

Trump is going to have to bring the Army Corp of Engineers to heel. They're usually the ones resource companies have to call on to do environmental impact studies to push through court proceedings. It's just that the Hawaiian contingent of the Army Corp of Engineers started hijacking the process midway through Trump's first term and they're extremely biased toward giving activists in the Environmental Protection Agency the conclusion they're looking for.

The first years are going to be a slog even if the MAGA movement is sincere and things pan out.

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ItLivesInTheWind 3 points ago +3 / -0

An argument against is that they're a long term investment and that the cost will not be worth it if the electorate is impatient. The inflation is an upfront cost. Potentially offset by dropping fuel prices, but still a cost. The payoff is that more people have more opportunity to earn domestically and, so long as that doesn't all end up in unproductive real estate speculation - offset by deportation and stabilization of the adult population, the rising tide will float all boats. Generally, widespread prosperity will decrease the costs of law enforcement, prisons, and social programs.

"Progressives" will make a ton of noise to try and fan impatience. So will NGOs and foreign agitators.

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ItLivesInTheWind 1 point ago +1 / -0

In general, everything depends on whether or not California manages to steal congress for the democrats. An obstructionist congress gives them options.

A republican trifecta backed by a sympathetic court could shakedown their entire side. They could end up with sympathetic bureaucrats excised and their fiefdoms gutted. That takes generations to set up and it could be gone, with license, in a few short years.

There's also wildcards in RFK and Musk. Vance hasn't been on the reservation all that long either and he's either a born again Christian or a spit against the wind existentialist who made an absurd leap of faith. None of that is safe to slide into the presidency through a national trauma.