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Republicans are an enemy of democracy and the constitution
“A wake-up call for America”, just like when the same exact thing happened a few years ago.
That fucker had been working as hard as he can to get us into a war so that he can cancel the elections. His eyes lit up here: https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/donald-trump-election-2028-war-zelensky-ukraine
Personally, I would like MAGATs to be dragged down by gravity. Then swing a long while.
There will be a very convenient outbreak of extreme violence. Even though there's no legal provision to do so, Congress will allow Clownstick to "suspend" the Constitution. No election means Republicans hold power permanently.
They enabled this president
I mean, it's still win for them, huge win. A lot of the government is destroyed forever, a lot of the elements that were holding the democracy together are now gone, a lot of suffering was inflicted, many people dead. That's all what they wanted and they got it in spades. No matter what, there will be more of that for a foreseeable future.
yup. this all could have been avoided. all it would have taken is a few republicans with a moral backbone. but what the punks been saying since the 70s is true: no republicans have a moral backbone, if they did they wouldn't be republicans and most of the democrats don't have moral backbones either
Trump surrounded by MAGAt loyalists:
Farquaad is such an apt comparison.
Brace all you want you piece of shit, you're still gonna burn.
Can't wait for the DNC to give us the most mediocre selections possible, for 60% of the country to not vote, and for the fascist to once again have a majority.
(Optimistic, I know)
They already have. Susan Collins VS Janet Mills in Maine. Unpopular governor running in an unpopular district, against a 40 year incumbent. Pretty sure we're gonna need an independent to steal that seat away, and no good looking candidates with 11 months left to go. Not looking good. Can't wait for the radio commercials.
DNC: we can't allow extremists. Also these conservatives make some great points.
DNC: We are sick and tired of MAGA walking over us! We'll only give them half of what they want, and then the other half later.
And how many more months until then?
Just don't have elections, then. Or just say the GOP won and contest everywhere, losing GOP reps refuse to leave until the election is 'fair'. Never admit it's fair and never leave. Then the takeover is complete as they never have to give up their positions.
I'm not confident at all, that if Trump and the GOP tried to refuse to leave, the mechanisms intended to remove them, will be allowed to function. The GOP controls everything right now, which means all the mechanisms of power, and with it the authority of those positions within the functioning of government. They can just all agree to act as if they won, just like Trump already tried to do by refusing to concede in 2016. He didn't have enough loyalists in power that time. This time around they control everything and are ensuring loyalists hold those positions so when Trump demands to stay president, all those positions** of government act like he is. That's when civil disobedience of bureaucrats and military starts happening, or civil war erupts, or America is a completely fascist state.
Yea they don't even need to try to steal the election this time, it's already stolen. These people aren't leaving they are entrenched by the crimes they are committing. They can't let law and order come back or they risk losing everything.
Remember when the vote was between an old, richbitch, white, fat, senile narcissist preying on girls and women and with no clue about business or government; and a younger, black woman with experience in government and a career built on prosecuting predators? That was a slam dunk, wasn't it?
There should have been a primary, Biden promised that he would be a one time president
YOU WILL VOTE FOR OUR CORPORATE STOOGE AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!
I would have been happy with as little as "not voting for a convicted felon and sex offender", but here we are. I naively believed the US want that full of shitty hateful people. Boy was I wrong.
I'd have voted for a felon and sex offender - if they were honest, owned up to their shit, did their time, made amends if possible, and made genuine and necessary changes and worked on not being a pos.
I would trust that 100x more than almost any politician.
But that is so far from trump who is just a piece of shit.
And many young democrats didn't vote for her because she wasn't saying the right things about Palestinians. That worked out well for them.
I have yet to actually see any numbers giving this statement any sort of credibility.
Kamala got more votes than any democratic candidate has ever gotten, how does play into the whole "they didn't vote"? The reality is though, that Trump was much better at getting people to vote, both by number, but also by location. Trump spent 4 years terrifying people into thinking if they didn't vote for him, the democrats would murder babies everywhere and unleash millions of rapists upon the country. Obviously none of that was true, but enough people thought it was to terrify them into voting, because they've spent the past 18-50 years being brainwashed by fascists.
People voted, but fascist propaganda won.
Having 2017 deja vu with this one.. Dems will get one term reeling from the fallout, then blamed for every horrible trailing effect and it's back to voting for Eric Trump or whatever other neanderthal GOP craps out.
The Democrats will find a way to completely mess up this opportunity.
Frankly that party needs to go. We'd be better off if there was another dramatic party shift- send the Dems to the way of the Whigs.
I hate to say it but Obama and Obamacare was the last time I actually felt a president was doing a net positive for Americans.
Biden’s IRA was an amazing recovery for the country after trump completely fucked the economy. Way better than the watered-down nothingburger that ACA is. Note that it’s not Obama’s fault that the ACA turned to shit, that’s all McConnell being objectively evil and petty.
Maybe at the start but not in the watered down, Republican created bill they passedwith zero Republican support. It just further cemented the private healthcare model into law and ensured nobody would revisit it for at least a generation.