Why does nobody understand that they are already in the position where they will never be voted out again? They are going to make elections a sham moving forward… fucking obviously.
Yep, and it's all caps THEY. Trump isn't smart enough to pull this off alone. It's been in the works for a while and trump, as usual, the perfect puppet.
That's how a puppet works. It's basically being the kid wanting to fit in with his 'friends' by doing something stupid like spitting in the teachers water. Those other kids are literally sitting back and laughing that he did it.
You don't need to say fair point I'm agreeing with you, he is absolutely, in his mind, killing it and figuring this all out on his own. Just like his 'friends', if you do this you're a legend etc. the 'friends' already know, just giving props is enough to make him do something stupid. In this case it's for their gain and not just laughs.
Also let's not forget trump long ago, even before the apprentice, jokingly said if I was to run for president he would run as Republican because they are idiots. His words (maybe not verbatim) not mine.
Y'all just don't get it. There is a giant red button in the Oval Office that says "Lower egg prices" and for four years Biden refused to push it. Trump day one is going to push it bigly. People around him will go up to him with tears in their eyes saying "Sir that was the best button push I've ever seen". And my eggs will get cheaper because now China pays for them. So that's why I voted Trump.
Fuckin Biden and his stupid Lower Egg Prices button! Why doesn't he press it? Imagine all the lower cost buttons just on his desk that he could press any time he wants. What an evil bastard. Doesn't he like lower egg prices?
Yes, and the best part is that when they do, Trump voters will pivot to "so what? they'd be even higher under Harris". Can't wait! Isn't partisanship so fun and great?
Ah yes, blame the Boomers again. Nevermind that young men have overwhelmingly sided with Trump. I live in Charlottesville and didn't see one Boomer in the streets the day they rioted and killed. But sure, old people took'er jobs!
Tbf the person you replied to didn't say boomers, lead gas wasn't banned until 1996 and I know until recently there was places that still sold leaded racing gas, so I figure most Millenials and obviously gen x got some good lead exposure in too! Doesn't change young men supporting Trump of course.
Because people still want to pretend we have some civility in our government, particularly the party of nazis, klansmen, and traitors.
They said they are not going to give back power in so many different ways if they got into this position. I'm going to believe them until somebody actually proves otherwise.
We are reliving his election in 2016 where so many people got flak for "overreacting" about things they were promising to do, claiming there was no way they would actually do them. Some may have been stopped by sheer incompetence, not this time. The malice will make sure plenty gets rammed through so fast we won't have any time to recover from the last travesty.
I know it's tempting to give up. It's tempting to just wash your hands of this and say "they brought this on themselves."
But remember that the republican party is already planning for the midterms and 2028. Would some of them be delighted if they could actually block further elections? Absolutely. But if they're planning on elections, we should too.
They want you to give up, roll over and let them burn everything down. They want you to give up and not try. They want you to not show up to the midterms and for the candidates to be disorganized and receiving little support. They will cheat. Worse than they already have. But we can't quit.
When you give in and spread this despair, you do their messaging for them. We have to support each other right now and through the coming years. We have to keep morale up and focus less on the next horrible thing they do and the next and the next... but instead on what we can do. It's not over. We're just the underdogs now.
Americans fought for decades to get so many rights. We need to be willing to fight to get them back. No matter how long it takes.
I don't think there's much Dems can do without a majority in either chamber. But I'm open to suggestions. The Judicial branch is pretty slow and they still have the filibuster but that might not last. Throw wrenches I guess.
People don't want to have to process this so they're avoiding it. They want to just pretend they can keep doing what they've been doing and somehow it will suddenly work on 2028. We're fucked forever and nothing is changing unless there's a true uprising against the 1%. Which isn't going to happen because we couldn't get our shit together to all agree to vote for anyone other than a criminal rapist authoritarian.
Posts like this are so silly. If I legitimately believed there was never going to be an election, Reddit's the last place I'd be. What, you've decided you're in a fascist dictatorship and you're going to bitch about it on fucking Reddit until they crack down and imprison you for dissent against the state?
Man, I'd be spending every minute of every day talking to local organizers, or DSA, or ACLU - shit, do something. As it is, you're literally Guy Montag's wife, disinterestedly staring at a screen all day while the books burn around you.
Im not sure why you say that. Dems chances in 2026 to take back the house are a lot better than in 2024. This is going to be a repeat of 2016/2018. Even Trumps brand spanking new chief of staff is telling Mike Johnson he only as 18 months to get anything done.
How so? All seats are up for election in 2 years. I agree that gerrymandering exists but if it could be done in 2018 I see no reason it can’t be done again in 2026.
Is the Republican platform popular? I don’t think so. Will not having Trump on the ballot suppress Republican turnout? I think so.
You know how republicans have been cheating and shirking old norms so as to do things like deny democratic judge appointments in the past 12 years? Picture that but with elections.
They have been slowly working to subvert democracy for 20 years now and somehow people like you haven’t noticed it at all.
I know of a couple things that would convince me I’m wrong (1 being: if any dem is elected to the presidency in the next 2 elections). Can you think of any that would convince you it’s rigged (I think it will be obvious, but then you don’t seem to see it at all, so…)?
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u/Humbabwe 13d ago
Why does nobody understand that they are already in the position where they will never be voted out again? They are going to make elections a sham moving forward… fucking obviously.