How do you end a presidency by electing 1/3 of your senators and the rest of the house?
That’s the fun part
You don’t!
impeachment, if they actually stood for something
But they stand for nothing
Which is why Kamala is already out there saying we can’t impeach him
Its an exaggeration but losing control of one or both would slow his ability to cause harm significantly. Certainly not stop it sadly.
Because the harm he causes is most legislative? Really? Nearly everything he has done that has been harmful has been completely executive - arms approvals, acts of war, enforcement priorities, deployments, etc.
Did you not feel there was room for this in what I said there, or did you just read the first part and already have this response boiling up.
I can appreciate that its a frustrating topic.
I just don’t think it would slow him down significantly at all. I think it could maybe slow down the RNC’s agenda, but Trump isn’t generally acting through Congress except in a few notable cases. It’s not like Ds have ever really stopped the Rs from getting their nominations through, either, so I’m really not sure how even getting Ds in office is going to help anyone except by reducing their moral injury
I’m really not sure how even getting Ds in office is going to help anyone except by reducing their moral injury
This is really the important bit, I think. The problem with thinking that a wave of Democratic Party wins in the midterms will impede the harm Trump does is that most of the harm he does has bipartisan support. If it were a wave of genuine anti-Israel Democrats then we might be onto something worth celebrating, but as it is most Democrats are all for sending more money to the Entity so it can wipe out Palestinians. How many of the candidates have expressed that they want to put a stop to the current genocidal policy of starving Cuba to death? (Some of them may well have expressed that, I honestly don’t know and would be glad to hear if some did). Even with the candidates who purport to be against sending more “aid” to Israel, for me it is a “believe it when I see it” situation, and even if they were truly and actively anti-genocide, their presence, while a net positive, still doesn’t erase the majority pro-genocide ghouls in their party.
With respect to solely domestic issues, Democrats rarely if ever do more than give lip service to progressive policies while standing as a shield against actual grassroots efforts attempting to improve the lives of working people. There is no mechanism in place within the US political system that can actually curtail the kind of harm that president after president after president has inflicted on the world and on most people, working class people, in the US itself.
It makes little to no difference for foreign policy, war and genocide.
They know elections in those other countries work differently right? Also like in Serbia is wasn’t the fucking elections that did it, it was the protests. And they weren’t meek protests like No Kings.
Even in Brazil and Hungary the elections were won by groundwork and in the case of Hungary lots of NGO funding and covert EU support.
My predictions for the yank midterms:
- Democrats will win a landslide
- They will learn all the wrong lessons from this (“we won because we moved to the right!”)
- Very little will change materially at home or abroad.
You can’t say it’s a prediction and then describe every election for the past 10 years
see the attacks on trans people works! - another thing they’ll learn
Seeing fucking Yankee libs trying to take credit for this has been a thing
the CIA are the epitome of yankee libs though
Hungary did it (elected a slightly less far right president).
He also had an interesting answer to the have you stopped beating your wife question.
well, even that’s somewhat debatable. this new one seems to hate cubans more than even orban, and also likes ukronazis more than orban. so y’know.
That’s all the liberals wanted really
not true, they also wanted the capitalist theft to happen with decorum and a proper legal paper trail.
“they”, this sounds like russiagate bullshit. kinda goes hand-in-hand with european politicians blaming everything on russia and every liberal user calling us russian bots. it’s just the 21st century version of judeo-bolshevism and asiatic hordes, detached from nazism to make fascism more palatable for modern audiences.
I’ll give the Dems a cookie if after winning they deescalate with Iran, defund/abolish ICE, and stop all arms shipments to Israel.
I don’t think they’ll do any of these things. They’ll probably open an investigation into the hiring process for the contractors Trump got to work on the reflecting pool
Best they can do is the investigation into the reflecting pool and give ICE police training.
So wasting even more money
You’re just gonna have to bear with the fact that this is written out in Tumblr tags, but I thought this post from a Brazilian, about gringos thinking the lesson is to just vote, was really good.
3/3 had US agencies and the only one that went against the US was Brazil because of grassroots organizing that made voting relevant only because of the grassroots organizing. So who is trying to stop whom from voting exactly? Lol. Who is the they? Because voting has been pretty useful for the they [US empire] I can think of
Not saying people shouldn’t vote of course (people should decide for themselves). I just find this message completely incorrect
If another “vote blue no matter who” democrat ever compares themself to Lula I will enter never foreseen depths of my downward spiral
I wish I didn’t have to live every day of my life with these kinds of people.
Along with no plan to deal with wave of right wing wage when evidence emerges the election was rigged. In the EU countries there are clear signs of interference already.
I have received 50 text messages and phone calls in the past week
Shit, and I thought mine was bad with like 10ish.
It’s literally like one every hour on the hour from 9 to 5
I donated to Bernie once in 2015 and that was enough apparently…
Yeah they did it, b/c the people were sick of dictators shit and willing to vote them out. Americans haven’t hit that point yet.
Dictators, famously vulnerable to the requests of the working class
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This is just not how the voting system even works. A single rural person with a bunch of land has more voting power then everyone in a appartment complex in a city.
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If you look at the people who stay home, it tells a different story. The democrats keep giving us Trump Great Value Brand, and surprise, surprise, people don’t want to play that game.
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Voting is actually pretty hard if you are poor. In many states, there is no assistance with getting to the polls, and you don’t get the day off. If someone is burnt out on top of issue number 2, they are not going to get out and vote. And just because your boss is supposed to let you go vote doesn’t mean they will. It’s not like they will face any repercussions.
All of this and more makes me very tired when I see the whole “Americans keep voting in a dictator” when in reality, the choice is a illusion. Harris would of done nothing for Palestinians, and had a track record of going against minorities when she was head cop in California. She would not protect trans people and anyone who was telling you that was trying to sell you something.
The real issue, is that people are not yet ready and have not reached the point of doing other things.
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