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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
And how many more months until then?
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.
If they do the same thing as the Biden administration - literally NOTHING - to deal with the serious national security threat that MAGA represents, then yeah, they will come roaring back even worse.
The American people have it in them to do ONE MORE flip of power to Democratic hands, and this time, the Dems better deal with the MAGA threat decisively, or it will be the end of America once and for all.
They need to charge and prosecute every MAGA for EVERY SINGLE crime they've committed. The election fraud of the 2024 election needs to be comprehensively investigated, and Trump's presidency invalidated, along with every single thing his administration did. All of his pardons are invalid, and all the Jan 6 Traitors go back to prison, along with the Honduran president, and all those crooked financial predators he released. All legislation is undone, and even Supreme Court decisions are invalid. The Supreme Court should also be expanded to 13 seats, AFTER Alito and Thomas are impeached, and Thomas and his bulldog wife are prosecuted for corruption and treason.
Every single business deal that Trump and his family made while he was president is invalid, and his entire fortune should be confiscated by the government. They won't need it, the entire family will be in jail, with the possible exception Barron and Tiffany. Tiff will be okay, since she's a gold-digging whore who married a billionaire, but Barron will be just another poor kid from an organized crime family all of whom are serving life sentences.
It should be against the law to name anything in America after Trump, or any other traitor, including Confederate War traitors.
MAGA is a domestic terrorist organization, and should be prohibited from existing.
These are the kinds of things we need the Democrats to do to take our nation back. After that, we can make sure that people get good educations with Critical Thinking Skills, health care, healthy workplaces, decent wages, affordable housing, etc., and are safe from predatory corporations and Sociopathic Oligarchs.
We need Democrats who are WARRIORS, not weakling appeasers.
None of this is going to happen
We have to FORCE them to do it. It starts by directly telling them what we expect from them, and then only voting for candidates who are enthusiastic about going on the offense against MAGA. Any nonsense like the Michelle Obama Doctrine ("When they go low, we go high"), is a sure path to losing elections. We will only vote for candidates who show strength, courage, and righteous indignation toward MAGA treason and corruption.
The people we elect in 2026 and 2028, including the President, need to be outspoken, angry, courageous warriors, that want to crush MAGA, ruthlessly and mercilessly. Nothing less is acceptable. If those are the kinds of candidates we elect, them we will get most, if not all of those things.
We don't need democrats to do all that, we just need citizens. It really just takes all our little communities to come together with a common goal. We need to elect people to the government who are willing to do what you just stated. The democrats are gonna have to have plenty of their own going where the republicans are. Hopefully we can figure out how to fill up the Congress with people who have (I) next to their name. We don't need anymore political hacks, we need proper leadership.
Of course it takes Democrats, who else is going to do it? MAGA?
My happy future where nobody can get elected with a (D) or (R) next to their name because partisanship has become so toxic it was renounced..... is INFINITELY more likely than the democrats saving your ass in November. I'm still gonna vote for them but c'mon man, put this clown make-up on with me.
You're preaching to the choir, Brother, I've been an Unafilliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977. So forgive me if after decades of trying other paths (I voted for Ross Perot, twice, although I wouldn't do that today), I've long given up on some sort of a reconfiguration of our election system. At least until we can get total control, and have the will to make bold changes in the direction of this nation, we will have to work within the system and hack it, game it, hijack it, push it, cajole it, market it into getting what this country needs.
The best way to get what we want is to hijack the Democratic Party, the same way MAGA hijacked the Republican Party. In the case of the MAGAs, they just forced the Republicans out of their larval stage, and into their inevitable final form - MAGA.
The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party of the people, and the workers, and it has been tempted to stray from it's mission by many of the same toxins of The Right. It's time to force the Dems from their larval stage, and into their final form as a true representative of the vast majority of Americans, and not just a tiny group of extremely mentally ill financial hoarders.
Yea I just don't see it happening under the current leadership. Like can you really imagine the democrats respecting democracy again? Sitting at the table with all their donors and piles of money like...
"Do you think we should allow more local candidates to primary for important seats? Should we allow our congress to become a bunch of people who act and vote on behalf of their constituents interests instead of their party. Should the age of our leadership reflect the age of voting base? Should we be fostering more young leaders and replacing sitting congress people before they shit themselves to death in a seat of power?"
We'll get to see what policy platforms they push this fall, and the bar for my expectations is in hell.
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.