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Trump Won’t Last Until 2028, And No Kings II Proves It
The clock is ticking.
Dan Greaney is a legendary Simpsons writer and apparently a clairvoyant able to predict the future with painful accuracy. He famously penned the episode ‘Bart to the Future’, which predicted Trump’s damaging presidency all the way back in 2000. Well, Greaney has obviously been staring into his crystal ball again, because this September, he predicted that “The end is near for the Trump presidency. It will happen in spectacular fashion. His fall will be unambiguous and universally acknowledged. He’ll be removed from office.” While many saw this as a beacon of hope for democracy, civil rights and human rights, few took this foresight seriously and instead saw it more as a desperately hopeful meme. But the second No Kings Protest, and the cogs it has set in motion, have shown that Greaney’s prophecy is coming true once again.
The No Kings II protest was gigantic, with seven million protestors filling the streets of cities all over the US, and MAGA reacted in possibly the worst way possible. There was the typical smearing, such as baselessly claiming protestors were paid, despite having absolutely zero evidence and refusing to self-reflect on the fact that Trump’s main PR guy tried to buy an election with a lottery, which is way worse than paying protestors. But this sort of crap is par for the…
