Republicans in Texas attempted to push through a mid-decade redistricting map
Past tense? I thought this was going ahead.
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It's good knowing the leader of the most influential and powerful nation on the planet is easier to manipulate than a child.
So, basically, like all conservatives.
If you haven't already, make sure to grift your local conservatives. Get them in on a pyramid scheme. Tell them you're a Nigerian prince and need a small donation that you'll return with interest once you've retaken your kingdom. Swindle them in any way you can. They're stupid and they will fall for it. These are traitors to our nation and the less money they have, the less financial support they can provide to their favorite felon rapist pedophile.
They're not all dumb, unfortunately. Some of them are just amoral.
And many are immoral.
easier to manipulate than a child.
Putin sure knows it.
Bully the bully into submission!
I know it’s gonna sound like beating a dead horse but this is what the democrats should have been doing since 2016. We all know how thin skinned and stupid trump and the GOP are and that they will always fall for meme and troll posts. Idk if it will help but this needs to be adopted by everyone who thinks they have a chance of winning against this republican regime.
They tried that with the "weird" thing until they abandoned it in favor of their usual tactic of attempting to defeat an army of shit-smeared fascist memelords by appealing to suburban wine moms who think Jimmy Fallon clips are bleeding edge humor.
They should have stuck with it. It drove conservative fucking batshit when they couldn't frame themselves as the "normal" ones.
They would've lost either way. People were blaming democrats for covid-related inflation and ignored any positive thing biden admin might have done.
If Biden had done any-fucking-thing we wouldn’t be here. That’s what happens when you reap what the neoliberals sow.
What do you mean? He wrote a strongly worded letter! /s
this is what the democrats should have been doing since 2016
I kinda thought they should have prosecuted Trump and his known associates for their litany of criminal actions.
But I guess making fun of them online from the office of the largest and most influential state in the country is also cool.
Fwiw i agree, however also: why not both?
Im a little tired of the high horse shit, and see the democrats as enablers of facism (doesn't matter if it's intentional or not really, the result is the same)
why not both?
Can't hurt. But one's treating the symptom and the other is treating the disease.
Non zero chance you are controlled opposition by choice or being led like a reactionary
Wasn't he impeached him twice but the Senate didn't convict? How else should prosecution have been done?
I'm a non-USian, so I'm genuinely curious what the actions you feel should have been taken instead.
He should have been cuffed and arrested as he stepped out of the Whitehouse when his first term ended. Instead Biden called him a legitimate threat to democracy while doing absolutely jack shit to protect his citizens from said threat. And guess what? HE TURNED OUT TO BE A LEGITIMATE THREAT TO OUR MOTHERFUCKING DEMOCRACY. WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED.
How else should prosecution have been done?
Merrick Garland's DOJ had four full years to build a case and prosecute it. Instead, he let Alvin Bragg do all the heavy lifting from the NYC DA's office, in a case that couldn't even wrap up before the election was over.
I’m genuinely curious what the actions you feel should have been taken instead.
There are people in Guantanamo Bay who have been imprisoned for over twenty years without a trial. People who have been cooling their heels through five different Presidential Administrations. If Joe Biden had seriously wanted to flex the muscles of the police state, if he truly believed Donald Trump was an existential threat operating on behalf of a foreign power on par with Muhammad Rahim or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, he'd have been tried in a military court for treasonous acts in cooperation with a hostile military power.
I got over eight fucking years of people saying he was in league with everyone from the FSB to the Italian Mafia and they all had a Steele Dossier full of evidence to prove it. That's before you even get on the Epstein stuff (and Epstein's ties to Mossad, which we all know Biden wasn't going to touch).
The least you could do was nail him the way we did Martha fucking Stewart and lock him up on insider trading while in office.
The sky was the fucking limit with this guy. He stunk to high heaven with the sheer volume of crimes. High Treason, Espionage Act, any number of white collar crimes, take your fucking pick. The FEC took Sam Bankman-Fried from free man to locked up inside nine months. Don't tell me that same agency couldn't have had Trump as quickly.
By the criminal justice system. For his actual crimes. Congress need not be involved. Alternatively, Biden could have "Whatever the president does is legal as long as it's an official act"ed him.
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it’s like watching a 5 yr slapping everyone and then gets a slap back and goes ‘ouch that hurts!!’
ANYWAYS: EPSTEIN FILES. WHERE THEY AT?
Im not a huge fan of Newsome but you got to give it to him. It took too long but someone is finally hitting Trump where it hurts. That is all anyone wanted to begin with. Had Kamala done this she would have won the election.
Mocking Fascists; Making them look foolish and ridiculing them, works. It's even more effective than just holding their feet to flame like Kamala.
This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running. Someone like him or Jordan Klepper is the worst case scenario.
The best strategy the democrats had was calling republicans weird, but then it just got cut off as it was gaining traction.
It’s been telling seeing how quickly many news sources abandoned any semblance of honesty when their owners tightened up on the reins.
In the last two years I completely changed which sources I get news from, now I’m paying for more smaller sources and completely avoiding aggregators like Google or Apple news.
It was too successful, and their oligarch handlers wanted fascism.
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This is probably why Jon Stewart is looking at running.
Is he? I thought it was just other people saying he should
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The Newsom hype is a bit weird tbh. Like anything is better than Trump. But please America do better than business as usual...
I don't idolize Newsom, but he's doing something. No one else is. Credit where credit is due.
No matter what, he's orders of magnitude better than Trump. He's also white, male, and straight and America has a big problem voting for anyone that doesn't meet that criteria.
It's because he's the only one actually doing anything. It sucks that he's the one who is doing it, but we should be encouraging the behavior instead of shitting on the only person giving Trump the middle finger.
Is he perfect? Hell no. But don't let perfect stand in the way of good. Well, maybe not good, but not a genocidal fascist.
This. He's not a progressive dem, and he won't win me over against mostother candidates. However, how he is getting under Trump's skin should be a blueprint for every other D out there if they want a fighting chance in the midterms and forward.
My one hope there is that Dems will pick up on the fact that the only people getting noticed in their party are the people who are at least fucking trying.
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It's also likely because all of the billionaires running media companies want him as the next Dem choice, so his headlines stick around.
Plenty of Progressives make noise, too, but they're never given any screen time.
I bet a lot of people would love to get back to business as usual as a pit stop on the way towards progress.
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Its hilarious that rump did not realize how long people have been laughing at him for this.
Hallmark of the troglodyte republican. All caps rants and conspiracies, then when questioned and present contradictory fact, FOLLOWS WITH THREATS AND INSULTS FOLLOWED BY A SIMLEY FACE 😁.
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Trump is dismantling the country and here we are nitpicking about him using CAPS LOCK. My fellow Americans, you will have much to answer for when this is over.
you will have much to answer for when this is over.
Sure, come on over and start pulling people out of the shanties in our warring factions of techno-feudalism and asking them all kinds of questions about why their grandparents chose to vote based on caps-lock use and memes.
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I'm not even surprised that "cyber bulling the president" is in this timeline. Cards Against Humanity needs to be taking notes.
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