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by Mc_Big_G 2822 days ago
Let's say you're a liberal, you hate Trump and everything he stands for as well as the Republican party. You post a lot of anti-Trump and anti-Republican content on social media and discuss it even more candidly with friends through IMs and email.

The mid-terms come and it turns out that Russia has perfected their hacking of our voting machines to the point that even when analyzing the data, it can't be proven. Republicans maintain control and therefore Trump as well. Congrats, you not live in a completely fascist state!

Whatever reigns were left holding Trump back are now gone as well as any kind of checks and balance braking system. Trump leverages NSA data and powers to root out and purge any liberals in federal agencies and replaces them with alt-right Republicans. The justice department becomes the revenge department. Laws are passed giving the government complete access to all private company data (as if they don't already have it).

Trump can now leverage the full power of the deathstar. i.e. full access to the data, tools and power of the NSA, FBI, CIA, ICE, ETC... It's just a matter of time before one particularly enterprising alt-right official run the "SELECT * from citizens WHERE has_criticized_trump = true;" query. Congrats, you're now a political prisoner! I hope they treat you better than ICE treats immigrant children!

2 comments

what is this, Man in the High Castle?
Sounds more like the Clinton/Obama administration and Democrat loyalists in the FBI like Strzok, Page, et al thinking it's their civic duty to stop Trump from being elected. But I suppose when you've spent several decades interfering with other countries' elections like the FBI & CIA have, it's only natural that you believe it's right to interfere at home too.