nope, 400 days in the past you mean. the chance was NOV 5. and its already been more than 1year to this day, since biden dropped out of the election.
the midterms and next presidency is largely less effective, because of the BBB, and the damage and blame would be placed on dems.
Oh I’m pretty sure we’re already too fucked to recover.
Oh yeah 4 more years of him trying to go harder than the “casinos”. Your best chance is to immigrate
nov 5 was the only chance last year, so much damage has been done, and DEMS will likely take the blame with no push back, even if we win some of the elections. plus some of the BBB cuts are set to activate next year.
OK, lemme get this straight. This is a group project for 340M people with a deadline that is more than a year ahead. How do we think this will work out?
- People will do nothing for another at least 10 months or so, then panic and do anything to at least have something to show for.
- Most people won’t participate at all and hope that the rest will hand in something that they can claim ownership of.
- When the deadline arrives, they will try to copy the democracy of neighboring nations, even though it’s far too late to change the outcome.
Well not sure how much babies and toddlers can do, so that shrinks the amount of people involved at least
Dumbass freeloading babies…
People need to get it through their head that there will BE NO MIDTERMS.
Trump has done this much in only 9 months, and he still has another 9 to find a way to never have elections again. He’s already got his Reichstag moment with the Charlie Kirk killing. He’s already declared that democrats are going to be investigated and that “left wing violence” is the enemy. Why the fuck do people think he’s done all of that if not to pre-emptively get some bullshit excuse to “postpone” the midterms?
Get your heads out of your asses, Americans.
He implied this’ll be his last term at the state visit to the UK
he already installed a election denier to head the elections infrastructure nationwide. also there s a subset of people that dont register on purpose, because they dont want to be called for Jury duty, which can be potentially financially devestating for people.
Hold the fuck up. Am I getting this right?
You have to register to be able to vote. If you register, you might have to work in court, losing out on pay. You don’t get any compensation for that. The lost pay can ruin you financially.
What the fuck?
There’s really no reason to not have midterms. Even if there is a blue tsunami, and Congress impeaches Trump, that just empowers him further. It would finally precipitate the Constitutional crisis that solidifies his dictatorship. The Executive is the enforcement arm of the government, and it’s already been purged and filled with cultists. They will not remove him, they will not stop following his orders.
Cancelling the midterms would surely cause a Constitutional crisis, earlier, and there’s no reason to be hasty. The longer that event can be put off, the less likely people will resist violently.
There’s no benefit in ceding ground preemptively. I don’t suspect he’ll actually cancel the election so much as make it even less fair that usual to avoid the risk of losing, but either way, convincing everyone that this is what he will do, before he does it, just means that when it happens people won’t get as mad about it because it’ll be “old news” in their heads anyway.
There’s no benefit in ceding ground preemptively.
There is: If you know there will be no fair elections, you know you need to find another way of resisting fascism. It seems many are banking on a blue wave to come and save the day in the midterms, so the knowledge that this won’t and can’t happen is important.
it will probablay a blue wave, but it will be so weakened by all the cuts, tariffs, that the dems will just take the blame for trumps damage , and then it will be right back where we started. plus the BBB will soon be in effect.
If voting for The Democratic Party was going to fix anything, there wouldn’t have been a second Trump term in the first place.
Just because one doctor doesn’t fix all your issues, doesn’t mean you go home and shoot yourself in the foot.
There’s a distinct difference between not fixing all of one’s problems and making those problems worse.
Trump has done this much in only 9 months, and he still has another 9 to find a way to never have elections again.
Small correction: He still has 14 months before the elections themselves, and another two and a half months before those elected take office, to figure it out. In other words, he’s still got ~65% of his pre-Midterms term to destroy democracy.
The Americans did not get their heads out of their asses
No they fucking don’t. They have zero fucking days. Time is up and they DON’T CARE, they - the country of freedom - demonstrably want this.
They have no fuckign clue what to do. Nobody teaches you how to oppose a fascist dictatorship and there are zero leaders doing so. It’s an entire damn education and skills training regime that people are too desperately poor to afford to figure out individually.
Have you seen how people online react when you float the idea of strikes (or really anything beyond parades masquerading as protests) as a method of resistance? The vast majority of Americans demonstrably don’t care enough about fascism to do something about it. By the way the word isn’t “oppose;” it’s “overthrow.”
The inability, for those who do want to act, to get together is a major hurdle. We’re all surrounded by people who don’t care or can’t care. People wouldn’t feel so helpless if they actually found each other and came together regularly to talk, share info, suggest ideas, teach each other. There’s no reason a portion of the dem party cant self organize and start demanding real action, no party lines, no acceptance of the status quo.
It’s these fucking organizers ISTG, I haven’t seen anything serious planned except a protest at a park every 3 months. We saw how many people showed up to no kings yet the organizers behind no kings cannot be bothered to call for a strike or more frequent protests.
I mean, what makes those organizers special? They’re just people who decided to do a thing; none of what they’re doing can’t be replicated by someone else. If the problem is the organizers, then you or someone you know should be able to organize something better.
They have no fuckign clue what to do. Nobody teaches you how to oppose a fascist dictatorship
France taught us well. Americans love their lumberjacks, you can make a lot of guillotines with that.
I’m sorry you are already so defeated about our chances. Why don’t you just stand aside and collect yourself rather than try to demoralize the rest of us?
America demoralizes every friend and former ally and threatens WWIII.
We are aside, watching America do nothing after decades of bragging about how free you were and how willing you were to stick up for it.
There is no “rest of us” for us outsiders. America is doing this just like Russia invaded Ukraine and Israel is committing genocide, not some of their people.
I wish you wouldn’t generalize the whole nation like this. Yes, roughly 1/3 of people voted for trump. Of those, a smaller number actually knew what they were doing and the ramifications of it, the rest just watch fox news and never leave their house. Not a good excuse but also not exactly willful hate.
Then there about a third who don’t have time, money, or mental energy to drop everything and try to start a resistance full time. They still have too much to lose and just want to wait this out.
Then there’s the rest of us actively trying to improve things as best we can through community organizing, resistance efforts, protesting and counter protesting, etc. We aren’t professionals, we aren’t perfect at it, but we are also not lying down and taking it. Sure, we could all just leave, but I don’t think anyone in the world wants to see what America would be like without ANY resistance to this, even assuming we had the funds to move and would be accepted by any other country.
It is depressing and often feels powerless to live here right now. We hate it and want to fix it however we can, and some of us are ready to sacrifice everything to do it. America is NOT (and never had been) a political monolith, and we extremely all do not support trump (look at his approval ratings if nothing else). The sane people here are largely ignored because our views aren’t really represented by either main party and don’t make the cut of the billionaire controlled news media who wants to keep it that way.
Beyond all of this, no one deserves to be personally blamed for the actions of their countries worst politicians simply for existing in the same physical space. Especially those of us fighting against it however we can
Lets look at the grand opposition to trump:
the democrats
your country is cooked my friend
Demonstrably? Care to demonstrate?
That’s at least 2000 miles away so no.
You’re not helping. You might be worse than the idiots. You have the awareness to see what is happening, and this is how you respond.
TBF, the alternative is to wait a bit more and see how the situation evolves and if the midterm change something.
Everyone’s telling you: react now. The close future/midterm won’t change anything.
The message is more a call to action, rather than anything… Stop waiting.
the call to action, was nov 5, but people refused to vote.
Right. So let’s keep bitching about the past instead of trying to protect what can be protected… /s
Hahaha you think it matters if they care or not
That’s adorable
The whole reason we’re in this is mess is people’s apathy and insisting the only thing they can do is vote for warmongering Democrats. Everyone is just working their jobs and living their life normally, when they should be out in the streets demanding heads on spikes.
It was over the night he won. We traded it for slightly cheaper eggs.
its not even that, trump dropped the issue the moment he found out he coulndt lower them, MSM never followed it up.
Correction: For the obviously false promise of cheaper eggs.
You traded it for tiktok and other shiny things. The last nine months has proven that modern humans as a whole will go out of our way to not do a damn thing about a LOT of bad shit as long as we still have access to our ipads, smartphones and streaming services.
Americans (and yes…Westerners in general) are so addicted to their creature comforts that we’ll excuse almost anything in order to avoid the inconvenience of not having them if we stand up and actually revolt.
It’s utterly disgusting.
It’s funny, because the eggs got more expensive.
Some traded fascism for their own moral certitude.
Because allowing the Nazis to seize unanimous power was apparently better than voting for someone who was vague about one genocide.
Or worse: voting for a woman!
Calling Harris “vague” really does you no favors here, because while she thought she was being vague everyone knew exactly what she was going to do.
well you voted for trump, who was pretty much far worst.
No, but you Trump propagandists likes to pretend you did, then applaud Trump for doing 10 times worse things than you accused her of.
*Russian eggs of poor quality.
(Hint: If you subsidize eggs, you can make them cheaper.)
Why didn’t Biden think of that? /s
More accurate would be “Most Americans will find out that the United States is run by fascists in no earlier than 400 days”
we arnt already, im pretty sure it was clear, the moment doge started cutting, and he was cancelling things left and right.
Correct, look at any dictatorial regime in history, half the population will but the propaganda without an ounce of critical thought, most of the remaining will shrug and keep their head low to survive, and a tiny portion of the population will resist, which makes them easy to target and eliminate.
And nothing will improve until there’s a critical mass of resistance, which the average American has no interest in.
Maybe Trump will outlaw the Democrats by then.
It’s already too late
Democrats are going to force another establishment elite that nobody wants as a leader and fuck it all up again, I bet.
they want NEWSOM, yuck. after seeing ZOHRAN and madhami could do, they arnt taking any chances,. the DNC is pushing newsome quite heavily, newsoms little “social media spat” is so not useful.
More like -740 days.
