Why do the Republicans and conservatives always act like two things are true:
That, 1) Their ideas are so common sense and just so very overwhelmingly popular with the American people while 2) Try to do speed-runs every time they get any power so they can ram through incredibly unpopular things before anyone can push back while doing everything possible to suppress free and fair elections?
I mean, why the rush to get Donvict’s image and name on so much shit ASAP? Same for implementing Project 2025? If these were so popular, they’d have all the time in the world to do these things?
Their voters are the former, the politicians are the latter. It’s a sick cycle of enabler abuse by authoritarian followers and cluster B sickos
He’s so unpopular nothing he tries to do will matter. He’s going to get a dem congress and senate and we’re going to impeach his ass.
Oh God, why are all y’all still going on about impeachment? Shit like that no longer works.
There are literally no downsides to doing it.
Dems will not win the Senate, get real.
HE WAS ALREADY IMPEACHED THE FIRST TIME, and it didn’t do shit. Does no one else remember that?
Just because it lost in the Senate twice doesn’t mean you should make losing a part of your identity
I doubt it. They’re bought off already. We’ll get stagnation that’s all. Nothing to help citizens thrive.
I’m sure the third time will be different
Dem congress yes. Doing their job? No. Even when they’ve had a supermajority in the last 30 years they still hid behind Republicans to not pass legislation. Need new parties.
I don’t think there’ll be enough to force it through.
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“Donald Trump approved just 23 percent of disaster funding requests from states with Democratic governors and Democratic senators, while at the same time, over roughly the same period, states with Republican governors and Republican senators had their [requests approved] 89 percent of the time.”
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“The people of Michigan are in good hands with Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers, who is running for U.S. Senate, and John James for governor.” “I just spoke with Congressman Tom Tiffany, who has my complete and total endorsement for governor, and informed him that the great state of Wisconsin has been approved to be given $22.6 million in its disaster declaration request.”
Trump is openly framing disaster aid as a political favor tied to his endorsed candidates. He’s exploiting the most vulnerable groups to boost his own campaign and create more power for himself… This creates a new quid pro quo that implies that states or voters should support his candidates in exchange for federal assistance. But this greatly misleads voters, it suggests that candidates (like Tiffany or Rogers) directly secured the aid, when in reality, the decision rests with the federal government, Trump himself… he’s holding disaster aid hostage untill the state does what trump wants so he can make the senator look like the hero…
- “We should be expecting an all-of-government approach in the coming weeks and months. […] What we can expect in the coming weeks is a federal government that is focused exclusively on helping Republicans win elections. Period, full stop.”
So federal agencies (FEMA, ICE, HHS, etc.) will be put to work to influence elections. So we can expect more aid approved to swing states with competitive races (e.g., Michigan, Wisconsin) while denying and withholding it to blue states. They will try potential deployment to manufacture crises (e.g., immigration “surges”) to rally Republican voters, and strategically deploying health resources and programs, announcing new funding, grants and initiatives to boost the image of republican GOP candidates in swing districs (e.g., RFK Jr. campaigning in those same key districts). Even if the programs were already planned or not uniquely tied to Republican efforts, it’s about manufacturing the image of the GOP as the party that “delivers”.
They literally use all government resources to punish democratic states, and reward republican statescall it what it is… a protection racket and red state welfare. Those are blue state dollars trump’s taking to give to the red states who bend the knee
If we ever do get a Democratic President again, he* should do all the same shit to Republican states. Only, he should be transparent about it: “I am only doing this because Donald Trump set the precedent that it can be done. Send me a bill to constrain Presidential powers, and I will sign it. Also, send me a bill to add 4 more justices to the Supreme Court and I will sign that too, so the corrupt fucks there don’t undo it.”
* = Yes, it will be a “he”. If the last three elections have taught me anything, it’s that Americans are too misogynist to elect a woman as President right now. Democrats ran three essentially identical candidates againt Trump after all, and only one won. This is why, if AOC is as smart as I think she is, she will wait 20 years before running for President…
a bill to constrain presidential powers doesbt work in our current system. Trump has broken the law, repeatedly, brazenly, and nobody that could stop him has done so. Passing a new law for the next Republican to break will not make that harder or result in any consequences beyond what we have already seen.
Things that might make a difference: 1 permanently expanding the power of majoritarian democracy/the Democratic party. Adding Puerto Rico and DC as states, passing the interstate national popular vote compact in enough states to neuter the electoral college, making political gerrymandering illegal nationwide.
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Prosecuting the criminals in the current administration, all of them, top to bottom, thousands of cabinet and agency level convictions, harsh sentences, might deter future potential functionaries from cooperating with a future would be dictator
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Arresting the Republican justices on the supreme Court and holding them in guatanemo and appointing a new court. Expanding the supreme Court would just be undone by the next Republican president with a trifecta. #1 might make that less likely, but with our current court so thoroughly corrupting our government from the inside 1 and 2 are unlikely to do anything useful.
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maybe you’re right, but Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were both the wrong candidates for the wrong time, and ran not very good campaigns - I’d rather conclude that this is not the time for an uncharismatic status quo candidate, than that this is not the time for a woman candidate
Agreed. I will not compromise in a primary. I will vote for the best candidate to run and if America wants to goose step off a cliff then you will find me in the camps.
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This was the plan since day 1. Don’t act surprised now or when there are armed guards at polling stations. Stay safe and informed everyone.
When you see armed guards at the polls, call them Nazi Pigs as you pass by.
They are nazi pigs but I’m not trying to piss off a mentally unstable person with a gun
I am.
Thats how you’ll lose your country tho.
Stay hungry, get mad and take back your fucking country! 🔫 💣 🔥 ☠️
…and it won’t cost him a single vote.
“Trump plainly says dumb scheme”
FTFY
The only poll that matters is the one in November. Let’s hope people show up this time.
It was never about showing up. Elon obviously bought last election.
Voting is only one way of civil participation.
But it is the only way that has an actual direct effect. Save maybe for donating to campaigns… But that goes against getting money out of politics doesn’t it …
While I agree with the underlying sentiment, this is actually false.
The primaries NOW for upcoming Senate and Congress seats are just as, if not more important than the inevitable outcome in November.
If you need any proof, just look at the outsized coverage every single DSA-linked candidate has gotten since winning their respective primaries.
Absolutely. I will vote in the primaries, for the furthest left candidate that runs.
I will do the same in November. It’s the ONLY way we move the goalposts to the left. Not voting is not an option
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. We’re not going to get perfect. Human beings are deeply flawed creatures. I’ll settle for less evil.
The primaries are the battle that matters. The Democratic establishment is the enemy.
Yeah, I voted about a month ago.
It’s funny that it’s producing a Barbara Streisand effect, which by the way what story was she trying to bury? It kind of got buried by the South Park nonsense
I’m old enough to remember this happening, it was her attempts to remove a photo from a coastline survey that depicted her home off the Internet:
Oh yeah, I was in middle school so I didn’t really catch the news parts of that story, I just thought South Park was cool because it was a cartoon with bad words and Kenny always died. It’s too bad they became libertarians but at least they take the piss out of Trump
became libertarians? They always were.
The writers of south park are on our side.
No they’re not. They’re uber-wealthy libertarian douchebags
I just watched all the episodes, and they are the good guys.
If you don’t vote, your opinion about politics doesn’t matter
If you don’t vote, you’re voting for the winner.
That’s why 2/3rds of Americans voted for Trump.
Oh yeah? So the democrats refusing to save the country matters then? Fuck all the way off. I do vote, but you are way off base here, the problem is not a lack of shaming, but a lack of populism in the party.
If you choose not to vote rather. I know plenty of people who can’t, mostly because they are young. The others haven’t gotten all of their rights restored after a felony conviction or are noncitizens. But if I use your rule, I get to ignore all of the rest of the world regarding politics because they didn’t vote in my local elections
Ofc only the ones that are able to. What even is this comment.
Nothing will fundamentally change
vote, people…don’t be we the sheeple
That’s right! I only vote so I can bitch about it. In my county not voting red is like throwing a hotdog down a hallway to fill it up.
You still think you’re going to be able to vote in November? Oh, sweet summer child…
Grinding hope to dust is not helping. What you say may or may not be true, you don’t know. Plus the condescension tells me you see yourself as wise but the truly wise would not be condescending. Carry on Mister Smuggy.
Agreed. Shits gerrymandered to high hell, results will be overturned, and those are the nicer things.
Most people don’t realize (or want to ignore) how bad things are right now and they seem to believe “just vote” will fix things - we are so far past that right now.
I am not saying “don’t vote”, absolutely do. But more will need to be done beyond that. And don’t take that as hopeless…just, vote, and then go further.
Most people will be able to vote. It’s a matter of what they do with those ballots.
The people that won’t be able to vote are those they removed from the rolls last minute, or in swing district with high Democrat concentrations. They’ll send in ICE, start arresting people and causing chaos, then either provoke a real response or if that isn’t happening foment a false flag response, to shut down those polling places completely. Anyone slightly brown or tanned ICE is going to bully away from voting. It doesn’t have to be in a ton of places, just in a few dozen key districts.
There was a headline yesterday or so that the FBI was sending 250 agents to “investigate” Fulton County GA (i.e., Atlanta) for nonexistent “voter fraud.” They are definitely gearing up to try to disenfranchise Atlantans.
Adding onto the “preventing people from voting” thing… y’know in the USA anyone can be arrested for up to 72 hours under “Involuntary Psychiatric Holds”, without any standard of probable cause. You have no trial, no recourse and there is not even a bench trial (generally cops have to bring you in front of a judge within 24 hours of being arrested).
I’m not saying that will happen, but it’s a possibility we should keep in mind. These laws exist at the state/local level from what I understand, so it’s something we could have reversed before that election. If anyone has ideas on how to do that, now would be a good time to get that momentum going before November.
I will vote or die trying.
